Skylum has introduced the newest and best updates coming to its flagship Luminar Neo picture modifying software program that encompasses a large enchancment to the general consumer expertise in addition to some spectacular Synthetic Intelligence enhancements pushed by generative AI know-how. Full disclosure: This text is sponsored by Skylum. The enhancements coming within the Fall Replace embrace many new options and quality-of-life enhancements primarily based on consumer suggestions with the Luminar Neo group. These embrace issues like Good Looking out, Shade Switch between pictures, focused/object-specific colour masking, Catalog Filtering, and lots of different large catalog enhancements designed to make the lifetime of creatives leveraging the picture modifying software program all of the extra satisfying and environment friendly an expertise. Shade Switch First up is a brand new AI-driven instrument that’s designed to permit customers to pick out colours from a reference picture and switch its colour palette to a picture of their selection. As soon as chosen, you may modify the outcomes and depth of the utilized colours utilizing a number of sliders and apply them utilizing the AI switch function to match colours between related objects throughout the picture, reminiscent of sky-to-sky, terrain-to-terrain, or transport-to-transport. This new function will assist creatives rapidly and simply make spectacular colour modifications, giving them way more inventive flexibility and precision with their edits to allow them to mimic the colour palettes of their favourite films, pictures, work, and extra. This can enable for a lot higher management in reaching their desired color-aesthetic selections whereas modifying their favourite photographs.
Shade Masking The brand new Shade Masking instrument grants additional management over a photographer’s picture by permitting customers to create precision masks primarily based on particular colours of their photos. The masks is created just by utilizing an eye fixed dropper instrument to pick out the colour, after which the colour vary will be adjusted utilizing a slider, permitting for a lot extra exact management over the precise areas and objects throughout the picture which can be affected. These enhancements to the colour deciding on/masking instruments have been created to make it simpler for photographers and retouchers to use focused and precision edits to their pictures to assist save them time and power and enhance the general expertise of modifying pictures utilizing Luminar Neo. Good Search
The brand new Good Search function in Luminar Neo is a Machine Studying (ML)-based search function that’s designed to assist photographers discover particular pictures not solely by generic attributes like filename, file kind, date, and extensions but in addition by content material throughout the picture reminiscent of objects, scenes, and other people. These embrace timber, site visitors indicators, vehicles, bikes, subways, folks smiling, and extra. The superior search capabilities of the improved Luminar Neo will considerably improve the consumer’s capability to find extremely particular pictures inside their catalog, permitting for quick and simple navigation, group, and picks. Catalog Enhancements Primarily based on consumer suggestions, Luminar Neo’s new and improved catalog options are designed to supply a much more environment friendly and satisfying consumer expertise whereas working throughout the picture modifying software. These updates will present an enhanced picture group with filtering choices out there by digicam mannequin, focal size, shutter pace, ISO, score, and aperture, in addition to a number of different easy-to-navigate parameters that make it far simpler for creatives to find the precise {photograph} of their backlog they’re trying to find.
The brand new replace permits customers to see an improved show of filename extensions throughout the EXIF panel, add/take away star scores, and supply a extra structured “detailed” view that shows filenames, scores, and favourite/reject flags on the similar time. Moreover, this new function consists of intuitive contoured grid views for simple picture dragging, an up to date view for “File not Discovered” situations, and a number of other different minor UI enhancements that embrace some redesigned icons within the Picture Motion Panel to reinforce the consumer’s expertise managing and navigating inside their picture catalog. Filtering Catalog Diving deeper into the catalog enhancements bundled into the Fall Replace for Luminar Neo consists of some vital enhancements to the Filtering options. These give customers the power to filter their catalogs utilizing quite a lot of new and improved parameters from the metadata of their information, in addition to fundamental picture attributes reminiscent of digicam mannequin, focal size, ISO, shutter pace, aperture, score, and way more. Utilizing these filters will present customers with an in depth and strong filtering possibility that permits them to effectively slender down their searches inside their catalogs, making it far simpler to seek out particular pictures primarily based on detailed standards. Digital Copies A much-beloved function amongst photographers has lastly arrived at Luminar Neo, and that’s the addition of making Digital Copies of their pictures, permitting for a number of edit variations of the identical file. These digital copies will be created a number of occasions, duplicating the unique file and permitting creatives to experiment with totally different modifying types, crops, or changes whereas preserving the unique file(s), permitting for lots of untamed edits and artistic visions. This new function permits customers a protected area to foster inventive experimentation with none threat of dropping the unique “protected” edited file. Kind Folders and Albums
Added to the already large replace is the power to type folders and albums throughout the Luminar Neo Catalog. This new function is designed to permit photographers to type their picture folders and collections by quite a lot of totally different attributes, making it far simpler to handle giant picture collections, whereas simplifying the method of discovering and accessing particular albums and folders. Filmstrip in Edit Lastly, the brand new Fall Replace for Luminar Neo will embrace a Filmstrip within the Edit Tab that provides customers the power to modify rapidly between pictures with out having to exit the catalog mode. This enchancment to the standard of life will assist photographers keep their deal with picture modifying and permit for fast synchronization throughout all pictures throughout the folder, successfully streamlining the modifying workflow and enhancing your total productiveness. Pricing and Availability These new options and UI/Catalog enhancements will likely be out there at no further price for all Luminar Neo clients this October. A public beta may even be out there close to the top of September. Lifetime purchasers could have entry to the Catalog enhancements and the Filmstrip in Edit Mode. To obtain all options and enhancements from the Fall Improve 2024, the Spring Replace 2025, eight pro-level instruments to maintain completely, and three generative options with entry legitimate till January 1, 2026, customers should purchase the one-time Improve Go 2024/25. Lifetime purchasers who purchase their licenses between July 1, 2024, and August 15, 2024, will mechanically obtain the Improve Go 2024/25 at no additional cost. Luminar Neo is on the market on Skylum’s web site, in addition to the Microsoft Retailer and Apple’s Mac App Retailer with costs starting from $11.95 to $199. All updates are included for customers on subscription plans. Complete details about pricing and subscription plans is on the market on Skylum’s web site. For a restricted time, Petapixel readers can get a 15% low cost utilizing the code PETAPIXEL15. Full disclosure: This text is sponsored by Skylum.
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