- Bonjour, mesdames and messieurs.
In this episode I want to talk to you about
a really nice update on Luminar.
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Bonjour, mesdames and messieurs.
My name is Serge Ramelli, I'm a French Photographer
from the amazing cities of Paris, France.
Right now in New York, working on my New York color book.
And, I want to talk to you about Luminar.
They just had a new, really cool feature,
The Sky Enhancer, let me show you.
Alright guys, so there is a major update on Luminar 2018,
with the Sky Enhancer,
and they also improved different various bugs.
It's a free update.
In case you don't know what Luminar 2018 is,
it's really something you can use if you don't want
to be a Creative Cloud member,
and you don't want to have Lightroom,
or like me, you use Lightroom but you wanna use it
because they've got special filters that only Luminar has.
I wouldn't even know how to create that in Photoshop.
Let me show you a couple of examples.
So, I'm gonna click, open image,
and I'm going to take this Florence photo.
It's a DNG file, it's a RAW file,
I'm open it up here in Luminar,
and I'm going to retouch this photo.
So, you know, by default when you open Luminar,
you got different workspace.
The one by default is, Professional, which is really cool.
Because it's very similar to Lightroom,
you can, you know, open a shadows, bring on the highlights.
I'm gonna do the white.
I'm gonna do the black.
On this one, I think is, I wanna go to
the white balance of shade, and maybe add a bit of magenta.
Something like this, and a bit of contrast.
So that's the basic retouching you can do anywhere.
Now, they have this new option called, Sky Enhancer.
I'm gonna use it all the way, so you can see what it does.
Basically, it actually mask out the sky,
and just makes it more awesome.
The thing about it is, there's no halo effect,
there's nothing.
I mean, on this one, there's not so much going on.
I'll show you on a newer photo.
You can see that their auto masking feature is amazing.
I used to have to do a lot of things.
Just like, the way that technology works is really cool.
I'm gonna use also the intelligent filter, the Boost.
That's something you don't have in Lightroom.
So, don't use it too much,
because that's gonna give you a halos.
I just use it a little bit.
The other thing I really love about this one is
the Advanced Contrast.
So, Advanced Contrast is one of my hidden feature.
I don't know what it does, but I've not been
able to really even do that with Curve in Photoshop.
I just usually Boost a highlighted.
Adds contrast in the highlights,
to midtones, and the shadows.
And, since this was taken right after golden hour,
I like to add another filter to it,
called the Golden Earth filter.
So, you can just search.
It's one of the feature I love.
It just adds this sort of, golden hour things.
And, all you have to do is Boost it.
Voila, It makes like,
look at the sky how it makes different.
But, this works really well with the Sky Enhancer.
They work really well together.
So, check it out.
That's the before,
and that's the after.
Pretty cool.
What a powerful software.
If you don't have Luminar, check out the link below.
It's really, really worth the money,
because it has a lot of filters,
and I've done lots of tutorials about it,
that neither Lightroom or Photoshop has.
If you don't want to be a Creative Cloud member,
you can do everything with Luminar.
So, I'm going to open another image,
which is the one I actually shot last night,
here in New York.
I was doing a photo walk with some friends
and fellow photographers.
That's the long-exposure we got, classic Manhattan view.
So same thing here.
I'm gonna open up the shadows.
Bring on the highlights a little bit.
Gonna do my black point.
I'm gonna do my white point.
The white balance is completely off on this one.
I think I wanna really add a lot of magenta to this one.
'cause there's a lotta greens.
For some reason in Luminar,
I have to add even more magenta than to Lightroom,
just to kill the greens.
Maybe add a little more yellowish.
And now, check this out.
Check that new feature of the Sky Enhancer.
If I go right, you see how it adds, it makes the sky darker,
except on the buildings, it automatically mask that.
Which, I find it really cool, 'cause you know,
sky is everything in the photo.
And something on this one, I would go to the
famous, Advanced Contrast, that you find nowhere else.
One of my favorite tool.
And something here, I'm gonna add a little goldener, golden.
Oops, sorry.
Golden, golden.
Our filter.
And just, you know, give it a little Boost here.
Just to make things a little tan, not much.
And again, this is a before, and the after.
It's really a great, very simple and very fast, software.
Okay, let's do one more.
This is a daylight photo.
I usually don't take daylight photos,
but this one was kinda cool.
Same thing, I'm gonna open up the shadows a little bit,
so we can see better.
Bring on the highlights.
I'm gonna do my black point, my white point.
The sky is really washed out on this one.
So, come to the rescue the Sky Enhancer.
It's gonna make a lot more contrast in the sky.
I'm gonna use a bit of AI filter.
Maybe add a little contrast, lower the exposure.
I'm gonna add a little more magenta,
'cause magenta goes a long way.
Maybe Boost the whites a little bit here.
Voila.
Let me show you again without the Sky Enhancer.
Before, after, before.
It's a small thing, but I love how the auto mask
the thing is.
This software is just getting better,
and better, and better.
A bit of highlight, midtone, shadows.
My favorite, check it out, before, after, before, after.
Maybe on this one I'm gonna add, like on the daylight,
sometime you get a little too much halos.
I like to add, for example, an Image Radiance.
Image Radiance is kinda cool.
It's for soften the image a little bit, you go all the way.
It's crazy.
But that's something, you don't have,
you could do in Photoshop with a few filters
if you know what you're doing.
But, I love what it does.
Just gives like a little, glow to the image, you know?
You can, if I warm this, only on the sky,
I can just go here and, you know, take a brush,
and paint the radiance only on the sky.
This way I have a little more diffused sky.
But look at that sky, how it came out really cool.
So again, this is the before, and after.
So, you know, minor update, it's a free update.
If you don't have Luminar, grab a copy.
You got a special deal under this video,
and I will see you in another video.