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Luminar Neo - My First Impressions

Mystical Woods - move mouse over  for an before / after     In December of last year I was asked whether I'd like to take a look and try out the photo edit software Luminar Neo. So I was provided with the program and the extensions pack. At the moment there are seven extensions available, I installed four of them that I thought could be useful in my workflow. These are Noiseless Ai, Upscale Ai, Supersharp Ai and Magic Light Ai.  Until I was asked to try Luminar Neo, I had not heard of the program, but the opportunity to partner with Skylum and make some additional money convinced me to take a look. That means: This text contains affiliate links. What is Luminar Neo? Skylum's Luminar Neo is a photo editing tool that makes editing your photos quite simple. Many of its features are enhanced by artificial intelligence that lead to sometimes stunning results and are intuitive and easy to use. LUMINAR NEO - special offer until 28 February 2023 Lightroom and Photoshop plugin I almo

New Textures in the Pack & a Wednesday Freebie!

Hi, I have just added 10 new textures to the Pick your own Pack. Most of them are kind of winter inspired, so there are a lot of blue tones to see.
Of course, they are not only suitable for snowy & wintry sceneries, but also work quite well with other subjects ;-)

These are the new textures:


10 Winter Textures
Build Your Own Texture Pack
The new textures are at the end of the gallery.



Examples

I already used them in some of my last pictures, here are some examples:

Lake Thun with snow capped Eiger - Mönch - Jungfrau
In this I used Winter Ice Melt & Metal and Stone from the Pack.
As you can see, there was a lot of clone stamping and manipulation  involved.
The original picture was already very bluish, because of the hard midday sun and the deep blue sky. The first texture gave the foreground a deeper more sea like blue tone. The two layers of Winter Ice Melt helped to light up the middle and the sky as well as it textured the sky.
The sky got more of the actual texture, because of the layer mask I used.

I didn't like the blues after the addition of the textures so I tweaked the tone with hepl of a colour layer.






Pomgranates and Snow Day

I used the Dark Emerald  and Winter Cloud textures in these two pictures:

Pomgranates


Snow Day



Free Texture

Now the promised freebie:

This is a texture that didn't make it to the pack, because it isn't big enough to be sold.

Please click on the texture to download!!!


Curaçao
Aus Free texture




Next post will deal with negative space and texturizing, so stay tuned!!!

Thanks & have fun with the texture!

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