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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

Updated - Creating Mood with Textures - Processing in Lightroom and Photoshop

Time again for a short texture recipe disguised in the making of a picture. I'd like to show you how you can keep the overall feeling of an already moody picture, while adding some grunge.

Here's the result, though there are two versions. What you see is the one I finally liked best, it's the one where I tried to keep the colors I achieved with my Lightroom processing.
There is another one, that is influenced by the colors that the textures added, which you can check-out at the end of this post.



   


Processing in Lightroom


I took this photo on a rather dark and foggy morning, so I had to do a lot of brightening up and recovering / altering the colors. Generally I tend to take slightly more underexposed images, because I found, that it is easier to brighten parts of a photo that the other way round.

Here is what I started with:

1/125s - f 7,1 - ISO 400

Basically I lightened up the foreground, that brought back the color of the  orange-red leaves.
I changed their color to a more cold red by altering the orange tones to red. Cranking up the whites and playing around with curves lightened up the foggy parts and the colors as well.

Processing with Textures


I wanted to keep the tones, but also wanted to have strong textures without dominating the soft misty parts of the photo.
I thought it best to search for more "neutral" textures with soft colors and more or less regular patterns.

I chose three from my last pack October Moods.

Layers





I had to use a clipping mask (the green layer) on the Thunder texture, because its blue hues changed the tones too much to the cold blue hues. 

The Silverstone texture added the desired grunge effect on the top of the trees, but was too much for the trees and the distant light in the middle. Therefore I had to erase parts of it using a layer mask.

The Misty texture added further subtle texture patterns and light using the Overlay blend mode.


Finally here is a small version of the image without activated clipping mask, that feels colder and altered the greenish-blue hues to colder blue ones:





You can find my textures here:


or here: 


Thanks for your attention!

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