If you want an application that will fix your travel photography images quickly and efficiently then we would strongly recommend you order Luminar 4 by clicking here. Naturally, not everything is perfect in the first iteration of this new feature but we’re confident that future updates will get better and better. We have had a few images that really challenged the software however most images worked perfectly. If the overlay is not perfect on your image then you also have tools to Edit the mask by painting back in areas that should not have been affected.

For those shots where your background sky is out of focus, there’s even a Sky Defocus slider. Fortunately, the software allows you to easily fix this by using the Horizon Blending slider. One of the most frustrating things about replacing skies has been the area closest to the horizon, as this area usually needs to be lighter, otherwise, the sky can look unnatural. The only caveat is that your skies should contain a horizon. The version of the software that we have been supplied comes with 26 different sky presets, however, there is also the option to use your own skies. However, we can show you the before-and-after results we have been able to obtain using the software.īelow is a short video to whet your appetite. Many shots that have been unusable in the past have now been given life with only one click.Īt this stage, we are unable to show you any images of the software’s interface until the release of the final product.

We have been testing the software over the last week and it is nothing short of amazing. There are many new features with this version, notably the AI Sky Replacement, AI Skin Enhancer, and Portrait Enhancer. Well, it looks like that is all likely to change with the upcoming release of Skylum’s Luminar 4.

We’ve usually been able to improve the skies in Photoshop or occasionally replace them altogether, however, this is time-consuming. Quite often we license stock images where the only image of a destination is one with less than an ideal sky. In high dynamic scenes where there are extremely bright sky highlights and dark foregrounds, it is impossible to get a well-balanced image without bracketing shots and combining them in software.įor us, it is even more frustrating, as we are photographers as well as publishers. Days with washed-out skies or even cloudless days can make images boring and bland. A Travel Photographer’s nemesis is the weather.

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