Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What?s nice about Luminar is its usefulness as a plug-in for both Lightroom and Photoshop. For me it?s not a Lightroom replacement because it doesn?t do keywords or ratings. There?s word that those features will be added sometime in 2020. At this point I don?t think I could give up keywording. Adam Bridge > On 2019 Nov 22, at 8:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > I have been fiddling along with Luminar 4 the past few days, seeing it as a > valid replacement for the Nik Suite, thanks to DXO making no improvements > in the latter since they took over, and just making it more expensive and > cumbersome. Luminar is also developed by the same group who developed Nik, > and started this for the MAC initially, but for Windows as well since, > after selling Nik out to Google. > > They have a wonderful sky replacement tool, called AI Sky Enhancer, which > almost perfectly figures out where the sky ends and land/water begins in a > photograph, and adds a sky of our choice. There are canned skies, but we > can add our own to the library as well, with a menu of adjustments that can > be done, including colour temperature and defocus, for a natural feel. > > For example, I captured this unusual shot of a Black-browed Albatross and > Giant Petrel flying in tandem on the Southern Atlantic Ocean last month, > but had a horrible plain background: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812.jpg.html > > After tweaking it a bit in AI Sky Enhancer, I ended up with this: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812sky.jpg.html > > All in all, all the tools in Luminar 4 work very well, especially the AI > ones (there are many more), and it is well worth giving it a trial run! > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information