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What’s more, it’s feasible for this scene to have clouds of this nature, so I don’t consider this to be a change that misrepresents the area – it just misrepresents my luck with the clouds this day.

In retrospect, I think both are believable if you don’t know of the original image. My wife was watching me do this and she encouraged me to use the Blue Sky 6 preset for leading lines that pull your eyes into the mountains:Ĭhanges like these are subjective so I polled my Facebook friends and most found Blue Sky 6 to be the best choice, while some aligned with me found Blue Sky 4 to be more believable. However, I like to tinker so I kept experimenting with skies.

In less than a minute I got improvements that were good enough for me to call this one done. This set me up for what I think is one of the biggest improvements – the AI Sky Replacement – where I used the Blue Sky 4 preset for a subtle but believable improvement: Lastly, I used the Landscape Enhancer to Dehaze and boost the foliage a bit. I then used the Color and Details Enhancer filters to make the image feel a bit more crisp. To address this, I used the AI Enhance feature with an auto generated luminosity mask with the AI Accent light filter to enhance the details and overall color of the image. This unedited version isn’t bad, but it’s a little hazy and lacks the impact of what it felt like when I saw it in real life: Here’s an example of a photo of a beautiful valley in Switzerland that I took this last October. While this isn’t far from the only new feature in Luminar 4, it’s the one that is worth talking about first as this really is breakthrough technology that makes me excited for Luminar now and in the future.

Luminar 4 addresses this with what it is calling Artificial Intelligence masking and it nothing demonstrates this better than its new sky replacement feature. While Photoshop and Luminar offer masks to help with this, they are cumbersome to create especially along the edges of the mask against complex subjects like tree branches with leaves or hair. This is important because often times you want to make local edits to specific features of your photo, but not globally across the entire photo. Luminar is definitely one of those products that has a lot of great photo editing features, but it’s always lacked my beloved U-Point controls in the Nik Collection (now by DxO). I’ve been following Skylum Software since its MacPhun days and along the way they have made many products that I’d put into the camp of “good, but still not there yet”.

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