- Today we're talking about Skylum Luminar 4
which uses AI technology to edit photos.
I am out of focus, Sam you are doing,
how about you do your frickin' job?
- I am sorry.
What are we talking about today, Gene?
- First heard of it when Sam
was playing around with photos and look at this.
- You mean these works of art, Gene?
Is that you mean? - Yes, exactly.
Look at this.
With the moon what?
This was a very cloudy day, why is there a sun
here all of a sudden?
Rainbow? - I had fun with it, Gene.
- And a giraffe. - Okay quick question,
if a giraffe wore a tie where would he wear it?
Up here, or down here?
- Sam we gotta stay focused here.
Nice edit of the motorcycle, an eagle.
And these were pretty easy to do?
- Yeah it took me like three minutes at most.
- I was like oh that's fun, that's cool
but now a few months later it's honestly
become my primary way to edit photos.
And good news they're a sponsor of today's video
so we are doing a giveaway
with a few licenses to Luminar 4.
Now the reason why I'm lovin' this
is because it feels kind of like
editing software from the future.
It uses a lot of the same tools
that we're already familiar with
but they're powered by AI.
Now before you even start editing,
Luminar analyzes each image and it detects
certain things like the sky,
faces, where your eyes are, nose, mouth, lips, teeth.
And this AI was actually trained by watching
many professional photographers
go through an editing workflow.
It studies them and basically tries
to condense that complicated
workflow into as few clicks as possible.
For example structure, I like to add structure
into a lot of my photos but I usually
don't like what it does to skin tones.
It makes it look really gritty,
but Luminar has AI structure
so you can still add that structure
but it avoids adding it to skin tones.
- Wow, tell me more Gene.
(Gene laughs)
- Why do you look like an infomercial?
Your face just looks like an infomercial right now.
- I don't know what you're talking about, Gene
please continue.
- This is gonna be a long day, guys.
- Order in the next five minutes
and you'll receive this beautiful hand cloth.
- No yeah, advertise that.
We don't have hand cloths, what?
Tell you what, how about we just go out
on a mini photo shoot
and let me just show you some of these tools.
Let's go. - I'm ready for my close up.
- Not pictures of you, Sam, pictures of me.
He's always trying to steal my limelight.
- There's no limes here.
- This is why I have the big light,
and you have that little light.
- But this one looks way cooler than that light.
I look like I have an idea all the time.
- [Gene] But look how big my light is.
- It's the not the size of the light that matters, Gene.
- One thing to keep in mind is that
I am not a professional photographer,
I am a video guy
but this man is right here.
He's a professional wedding photographer in Los Angeles.
Put a nice title here.
(yells)
You have to do a pose and then
we'll put in dope music and it'll be like (yells)
and we'll block out the background.
(rock guitar music)
No, that's kind of, no that's
we need a different pose.
Just do one of these.
(upbeat rock music)
I think we could work with that,
I think that was a pretty good graphic there.
Okay so the real reason why I brought you out here.
Have you heard of this software called Luminar 4?
- Yes, I have my friend.
- Yeah, you have?
- I just bought it probably about a month ago.
- You already bought it?
- Yes, is that why we're here?
- For Luminar 4?
- Basically I was supposed to be like
you gotta check out this software Luminar 4
you'd be like, "what is Luminar 4?"
And then I show you to it.
- Tell me more. - And then you're like,
"whoa this is awesome."
But you already bought it?
- Yes, I bought it.
- Okay guys.
- Will you make me look beautiful?
- Yeah, especially with Luminar 4.
- Photo shoot time.
You have to jump at the same time and make a graphic, ready.
(intense rock music)
(laughter)
- Okay, location number one we're gonna use
this sphere looking thing.
Mr. Gene, what's your good side?
- Everything, right.
- Life is great and here we go, one two three.
- My foot here, yes sir. - Up here.
- Up here.
Look at this guy, now put your leg here
and do the splits and do that with your hair.
Eyes eyes, do some stuff with your eyes.
And do the thing with your ear where you flare it
and just (groans).
- Location number two, this huge anchor right here.
Just like that, just chillin'
One two.
Okay you're leaning in. - Hey Frank, be honest.
Am I the best model you've ever had?
(Frank laughs)
- We're gonna be using some of this
as a reflector that's kind of lighting
up his face over here.
So look at me.
Fantastic, next location.
- [Sam] You're used to shooting these beautiful women
but now you have a dorky ass Gene.
How are you gonna make him look good?
- That's the secret of Luminar 4 right there.
- What do you mean, you don't need no secrets.
How long do you think it'll be before
security kicks us outta here?
- I say 20 minutes. - I'm gonna say two minutes.
- [Sam] I love your forced smile, Gene.
- I know, it's so hard.
How do you people smile for this for so long.
(sirens blare)
Let's go ahead and load some stuff in.
You've never done the batch processing.
- No no no, I didn't even know you could do that.
- Oh man, okay I'm glad that I can
at least show you something on this app.
Let me just see what you would do.
- So-- - In this software here.
- Here we go, face light.
So this is pretty cool 'cause it can
brighten up your face some right here.
Let's zoom in a little bit
so we can see exactly what we're doing.
- Why'd you just slim my face, you think I need?
What's wrong with my face?
- We're slimming the background,
we're slimming the background.
We can improve your eyebrows some pretty cool.
- Now I know you really feel about me.
- Look at that, all the way at 100%
that's too high. - Let's not do that.
Let's not do that. - No we're not gonna do that.
And here we go here, you like teeth whitening.
- Oh yeah. - Bum bum bum.
- [Gene] So you're saying
I need to go get my teeth whitened.
- Just a little bit. - Is what you're saying.
- Only 53%.
- I don't want this lip redness okay.
- You don't need it, you don't need it.
- I look too pretty.
Okay so this is a simple pass of before and after.
Everything that has AI in front of it so AI
portrait enhancer, AI skin enhancer.
A lot of the stuff that we did,
even things like contrast, there's smart contrast,
these edits are relative.
So for example when you do the face light
it's not like a definite just make everything
brighter or darker, it's only make the face
brighter right, so what's cool is you could just
hit this photo that we're working on.
Command C to copy, and we're gonna go ahead
and select all of these photos
in that location right.
When we copy and paste that effect
it applies face light to all of them.
It's not like you have to manually go in
and find where the face is and expose
that differently right.
It makes these same smart adjustments to all these photos.
So you you know making my face
a little skinner which I don't think is necessary
but sure you went ahead and did it
by 53% that's fine, I'm not gonna
cry myself to sleep tonight, don't worry about it.
See this is a photo that we haven't even seen yet
and it already has all that work done.
- This changes the game completely.
If I like this, because it's almost the same settings,
I can apply it to that one picture.
Yeah I can definitely use this for weddings big time.
- And also you use it with Photoshop and Light Room?
- Yes. - Right so is it
like a plugin? - It's like a plugin yeah.
- Okay cool, nice.
- So export it out from Light Room
directly into Luminar 4
and then when I save it it saves it
back into Light Room itself
with the settings applied.
I also give them props on their interface.
This interface, this whole menu
all this, very simple.
- They were saying that was one of the things
that they were focused on is making sure
that even if you're an expert or a beginner
you can look at this interface
and go oh okay, I enhance and then a slider.
So, anyone can just kind of look and go,
okay I want this much.
A post eye enhancing in a more
traditional manual method, it's not hard
once you know how but it can be a little
tedious if you're trying to do that to 25 photos.
- Well I got it really for the portrait enhancer
and I've been using it a lot and I love it, man.
The portrait enhancer really does work.
I still haven't experimented with sky replacement
and anything else but when it comes
to enhancing the faces,
I've been living in Luminar 4 with that.
- One of the things I thought was cool
was like skin enhancer, it doesn't just
smoothen out your skin
to make it look like plastic. - No, it doesn't.
- It actually maintains that texture
but then it still detects the blemishes.
- And you can brush it in as well.
- [Gene] You know I have this chipped tooth right there.
Is there a chipped tooth filter?
- I don't think so. - Luminar, get on that please.
- That's another program.
- On Luminar 5 you're gonna see
a chipped tooth slider.
(laughter)
So did I end up actually teaching you something?
- Oh yeah, big time.
- Yeah, I taught Frank something.
- I'm gonna buy this program again.
(laughter)
- Alright thanks Frank, you can find Frank on what?
- Nuclear Photo 64, no no no hold on.
- Oh my god so you just, he just
I'll just put it on the screen right here.
Boom, you need to get better at
plugging yourself man. - Oh man.
- You just blew it, you messed it up.
(light lo-fi music)
- Now the pictures are coming out good
because now we're using this lens right here.
- 28 to 70 F2 all the way. - All the way.
- F2 though, what?
You guys just sitting there
it's magic, I'm creating magic right now
so shot up and look that way
and just let me do my thing. - Cool.
- Sam, it's epic except for you have to
point the camera this way.
- [Sam] Alright fine.
(light lo-fi music)
- So we've gone ahead, loaded up a few more
photos that we need to edit.
Personally my favorite thing about Luminar
is how fast you can get a photo to look pretty dang good.
Usually when I start I'll either go into looks,
you can go ahead and just sample a couple
different looks here.
Day at the beach.
Oh that actually looks pretty decent,
that was one click.
Off, and on and if that's too much
you could always tone it down,
bring it down to maybe 50% or whatever
but that looks pretty decent right there.
Fashionable, oh that looks kinda cool.
Let's go ahead and reset they adjustments
and we'll just quickly go through
and edit so you can see how fast
we can actually get an image looking pretty good.
I'll just go through a couple tools
that I like using.
AI enhance is generally a pretty decent spot to start
and it generally gets your image to the ballpark
of what the AI thinks it should be
and it's lookin' pretty cool actually
so you could leave that there
and AI sky enhancer.
That brings in a lot of the details in the sky.
Clouds back here just kinda brings that in
without affecting the rest of the image.
So already pretty useful.
And then AI structure, we already
talked about that a little bit earlier
but it's affecting the image, the house,
his skin a little bit but not as much
as it usually would.
So it's really good at detecting what it should
and should not add structure to, love that.
Something as simple as vignette
if you're into that we can go ahead
and let's add a little bit there.
Of course you could adjust your size
and you can also go into your advanced settings
and you could also add a little bit of inner light
which is kinda cool.
Now we can hop over to the creative tab
where you can get creative.
Now dramatic is kind of cool.
You can go head and add that,
get that kind of sportsy, crispy look
there's also the matte look
which exactly how it sounds.
Mystical, boom, glowy, magical.
A lot of people love the sky replacement feature here.
And again you don't have to go in
and tell the software where the sky is,
it generally detects it pretty accurate
for the most part.
See there, now not bad.
I'll choose a dramatic sunset, let's do that.
Whoa, alright and then of course you go in
and tweak it like your sky's exposure,
make it look al little bit more natural.
Sky defocus, especially if you're running
a fast aperture, it makes it
definitely blend in a lot more.
But you see how all this was kinda done
with just a couple of clicks so we have our
before and after.
Before and after with just a couple clicks
so that is really why I'm obsessed with this app.
Let me go ahead and take that same look,
paste it on to this photo, see how it comes out.
Yeah, look at that.
It's definitely extravagant.
You don't have to go that far, but it definitely
blew my mind how easy it was
to get these kinds of results.
Here I probably want to add some face light
so let's go to the portrait.
Oh too much, too much there we go.
Just like somewhere right around there
is probably where I'll put it
so no face light, face light.
No face light, face light.
Before after, before after
I mean come on.
You could also load in your own skies as well
so that's something I might need to do one of these days
is go out and get a bunch of different
photos of the sunset.
Oh, you know what filter would go good on this
is the dramatic filter.
Let's go back to the creative tab,
dramatic, let's add a little bit.
Yeah, and then I think we just need
to add in a little bit of AI enhance
just to get the exposures, fix that up for me
and oh, lookin' pretty good right there.
Look at that it looks pretty clean.
Before, after, before, after.
Oh yeah.
Alright let's see what this looks like
with let's do oh starry night,
what's that gonna look like?
Whoa. (upbeat electronic music)
And this shot already has a pretty good sky,
it's a little bit blown out
but all I would probably do here
is just add a little bit of that accent
which brought up the exposure
on the subject and then just do this
AI sky enhancer, bring in some of that detail back in.
Of course you still have your general controls
like your color temperature
because this is a raw photo.
I've always been a big fan of curves so
you have that control right there
and I believe this is your levels right here
but it's kinda mixed in with your curves right there.
It's pretty cool.
Oh dodge and burn, this is something
that I usually hit every photo with
with at least some sort of pass.
It's if I want to darken this area
I can go, I just want to bring
that sky in a little bit more
oh that was too strong, probably should've
adjusted the strength there
but you can also take your overall amount,
bring it back down 'cause we just went too far with it.
Gonna add a little bit of glow on them.
I'm doing a really sloppy job
but you guys get the point right.
I'm just slightly redirecting
a little bit of attention to the subject
but look at that.
Here's a photo I kind of want to put on Instagram.
I'm just gonna go ahead, go into my looks.
Let's just do day at the beach I mean
that probably's gonna get me really close.
Yeah, already one click and since it was just
July 4th why don't I go in and do some augmented sky?
This is the stuff that Sam was going crazy with.
Oh let's do fireworks, oh yeah there we go.
All I'm gonna do is place this object.
Let's put it right here.
And there, Instagram photo edited in
six and a half seconds.
Or maybe it was like 20 seconds.
It was quick though.
Another thing that's nice about Luminar
is that it isn't subscription based
so you buy it out right, you have it.
It looks like they're also givin' us
a discount, $25 off.
Info down there, link in description
and of course we're givin' away three licenses
so if you want a chance to win, just drop a comment
within the first 12 hours of this video
goin' live, you'll have a chance
to win and there's more stuff here.
You could make a code that'll give you $10 off
any sky pack on the marketplace.
So if you fall in love with a sky replacement feature
there's a whole bunch more to choose from.
Oh, some of these look cool.
Power of nature, lightning what?
And they also offer 30 days money back
so you know you could try risk free.
But yeah, that's all I got for today's episode
thanks for tunin' in, see you guys lex,
next time, next what I can't speak?
Who am I, Frank?
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