This lens over here,
it's called the king of the bokeh and it's called that way for a reason.
It's a F 1.4 it's 105 millimeters prime lens from Sigma.
And it's my favorite portrait lens. It's incredible.
But the problem with it is that it's very expensive. So guys,
for those who don't know,
bokeh is this creamy and buttery effect you can get on your pictures when you
shoot at a very shallow, depth of field with prime lenses normally,
but there is other lenses as well, that have a very shallow depth of field.
So to get this, you need those lenses.
And I highly recommend you to get bokeh naturally with lenses like these,
but because they are very expensive,
I bring you today as software that does this bokeh effect in one click
and super easy. So this software is Luminar AI. If you follow my channel,
you know that I always promote Adobe and Luminar because I use both for years
and Luminar works as a plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop.
So it's how I use it by it works as a standalone software.
So you if don't want to pay a subscription,
you pay once Luminar AI and you own it forever.
And it's very good because it's very cheap and I reached out to them before
having an audience for them to give me an affiliate link and offer a discount to
my future audience. And now I have it. So I have a discount link below,
and a free trial. And I highly recommend you to do the free trial first,
because this Software is very powerful. And it requires memory.
I think it requires 16GB of memory, but sometimes it can work well with less.
So that's why try it out with your computer.
And then if it works perfectly and you're happy with it,
come back to the video and grab it through the link below.
I'm going to edit four pictures, very different ones.
They are portraits but quite different for you to see how good it works this
software.
This one is the first picture from a business photo shoot I had in London.
This one I took during one of my solo trips to the surf champion of Ecuador.
This one is a fashion shoot in London,
and this one is a travel shot in Indonesia in Bali. So as you can see,
they're all portraits because I love portrait photography,
but they are very different ones.
So you're going to see how this all works amazingly in all of them.
So let's start for this one.
The first thing I do in Lightroom is the basic corrections which you can do in
Luminar as well. So don't worry if you don't have Adobe.
What I would do in Lightroom is to apply one of my presets,
you have my preset packs on my website.
You can check them out later if you want. I'm going to put them below.
Clean and Bright, Faded Browns, Editorial Master, Moody, Blacks,
Editorial Neutral.
I'm going to apply this one because it's the one I use the most actually for my
portrait work and my fashion work.
And I'm going to put a bit more exposure on him because I like moody pictures.
So I don't want to brighten, all the picture,
a tiny bit there lift the shadows...
And in Lightroom, that would be it. This is the retouch in Lightroom.
Before and with the preset I have available on my website.
So now, because it works as a plugin, right click, edit in,
Luminar AI, Edit.
And it launch the software. And there is a lot guys to play with.
Even if you are a beginner, there is so much going on in this software,
but I'm going to save it for more tutorials because I really, really love it.
And I'm sure you guys will as well. And there is so much going on.
So I'm going to divide it in different tutorials on my channel.
Today we're going to focus in the Bokeh feature. So let's go here.
And the Bokeh feature is in edit.
Here's where you can edit the picture in many ways. So we would go lower here,
creative side... Portrait... There you go. Portrait Bokeh,
and you will see how easy it is to apply Bokeh to a picture.
100%. That's it!
This is the before. Look the background before all focused,
which looks good as well. But if you want Bokeh, this is the after.
I'm gonna zoom in a bit...
Before after It looks incredible.
And as you can see by AI,
it creates a mask and it's perfect this mask guys. It's super,
super perfect to be done by AI. But for example,
here it missed a part, that is selected and it shouldn't.
So that's why it's very clever from them that they added the brush control.
So you can focus, defocus or restore the mask. So here,
because you see it's red, it means it's focused.
So you will have to go here to defocus.
Then you change the brush size. You make it a bit harder here,
a bit tinier, and you just have to go to the mask, and,
paint it. There you go.
And I'm being very picky because you couldn't even tell that.
And that's it before and after.
And then there is so many things I want to tell you about this software,
but I'm going to add just one feature more today, which is this one.
Let me go up here. Sunrays.
Place sun center. This will be the sun. I'm going to put it here. Amount.
And I can put a flare. You can do it bigger...
I'm not gonna explain too much this today because it's very intuitive actually.
I'm going to put it warmer. Overall look,
and as you can see, this is the before, and this is the after.
So what it does:
It changes the lighting of the whole picture guessing how it would be for
real with the sun there. So this is very good, but if you feel it's too dark,
you just have to go here, enhance by AI and you can enhance the picture.
And I'm going to take this tool for you to see. This is the before.
And this is the after.
How much it improved the picture with the Bokeh and the sun over there.
So this was just a little feature. There is many of them.
So let's go with the next picture. This one will be the next one.
I'm going to apply one of my presets as well.
This one will be one. If you like clean and bright pictures... Faded Browns...
This one I love, I really, really love! This one.. And let's apply this one,
Editorial Master. This one is one of my favorite presets.
I'm just gonna put the exposure a bit higher.
Give it a bit more saturation. I like to desaturate pictures.
And I'm going to bring a bit up the warmth. There you go. Just with the preset.
This is the before, and this is the after.
It looks like an advertising campaign. I love it.
So here you press the right click, edit in, Luminar AI, Again, Edit.
And super, super quick let's go to edit. Let's go down here...
Portrait Bokeh... A hundred percent and that's it!
Before and after! It's incredible. Look the background.
And after. You can also obviously reduce it,
I'm doing it like a hundred percent for you to see. But it's incredible.
Then you remove it here. Let's go for the next one.
This one is going to be super quick as well. Let's apply...
I know this one is very good. Moody film.
Actually, this preset is free for the ones who belong to my private community.
So if you are a member, go check it out because you can download it for free.
And for those who are not a member,
you can check it out underneath as well in the description below.
So I'm going to apply Moody Film as you see, this is the before and the after.
It's like a bit more vintagy and it adds grain,
but I'm gonna remove it for this tutorial. Right click, edit in Luminar AI.
Here it is. Edit.
Super quick again. Let's go here. Portrait Bokeh, a hundred percent,
and that's it! This is the before. Look the background. And the after. Before,
after.
And you will have Bokeh right away. And, the last one.
This one is a travel shot. It's a travel picture. I really love it.
I love travel photography. So I'm going to apply for this one, Moody Greens.
This is my best selling preset on my website. You all love it.
It's very moody as the name says it. And it's very,
very nice for travel photography. So this one is Moody Greens.
I'm going to apply it here and I'm going to illuminate a bit the face because
it's too dark. Tiny bit there... Less obviously...
Lift the shadows a bit. That's it.
And this is the before and the after preset. It looks incredible. I mean,
I like moody pictures, so I love this preset.
You check it out on my website because it's available as well for mobile.
So even if you don't own Adobe,
what you can do is download the Lightroom App on your phone,
and you can use still this preset! Even if you don't own Adobe.
So this is very good if you use Instagram and you apply these kind of presets.
So! Let's go to it! Edit in,
Luminar AI, Edit. Again, super-quick. Edit, Portrait Bokeh,
amount, a hundred. And look, the mask.
It's perfect. It's absolutely perfect.
You don't have to mask absolutely anything. This is the before.
Look the background again, and this is the after.
And there's way many more features. For example, if you go to face,
it detects where the face is and you can give light to the face.
There you go. Before and after.
You don't have to mask anything.
Slim face, make it like slimmer.
I'm going to do it more for you to see what it does. Before. and after.
This is just another feature but it's just to show you how many possibilities
you have with this Software. And guys,
I do have more tutorials on my channel about Luminar 4,
but Luminar 4 is already gone. It's Luminar AI.
So you can take a look to all the tutorials about Luminar 4,
because all those features Luminar 4 has,
Luminar AI has them but way better.
So go to check those videos because I have one with landscape photography that
you're going to love as well, and I will see you soon again, guys!