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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
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The making of a texture & how I used it

Its autumn and I must admid I love the moods that light, fog and nature create in that season. I wanted to make a post about the creation of a texture and yesterday I found myself in a situation where I ended up altering a texture for a shot I took on a foggy morning last November.



It is a photo of an meanwhile dead hawthorne tree full of red berries.  Of course, the original file wasn't that colourful and I wanted to give a real warm autumn feel to it. So I made my first corrections in Lightroom enhancing the red of the berries and using the colouring tool to give it a yellow tint:


Lightroom export

I also felt that the foggy parts on the pic's left side lacked interest, so I searched my archives for a suitable texture but couldn't find one that I was completely satisfied with.

I chose a texture I started to make some time ago and made some adjustments & alterations to get the one I finally used. I originally started with the folllowing picture:


original

Of course, I wanted the texture to be much finer so I decided to make a copy of the background layer and rotated it by 180° and got this:


Two layers, 2nd rotated 180°

Now I had a much finer pattern. I decided to add two layers of brush strokes to make the picture lighter and add some more structure to it.

Brush strokes

I copied this layer and set the first layer at 80% opacity / 100% fill - soft light, the second layer settings were 20% opacity / 100 % fill - hard light resulting in this:


First version of texture

I found the greenish leaves & branches  in the upper right  and the down left corners disturbing so I used Photoshop's patch tool to soften them. I also adjusted the colours and enhanced the red and yellow tones. I also added a dark red border and was finally satisfied with my new texture:


Autumn Leaves Texture

This texture will be part of a new texture pack I am working on, but you can download a higher resolution version from my Deviant Art account here: 
Download Autumn leaves texture

I'd love to see what you used it for. If you are a flickr member you can submit your work to my group

Thanks for reading!





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  1. Dylan@6615:09

    very interesting article, thks Dyrk

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  2. Unknown16:52

    This is excellent! Thanks so much -- I look forward to following your blog. Love your work. I wanted to download this gorgeous new texture -- for some reason, I couldn't get the "download' button to work. Will try again later.

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  3. Tim16:54

    Nice article, thanks very much! I love the finished work, too - it reminds me a bit of an Arthur Rackham painting :^)

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  4. Anonymous17:46

    I really appreciate your generosity in sharing your process, Dyrk. This is such a beautiful texture and I can't wait to try it out. I will look forward to your posts here.
    -Cindy

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  5. Vicki18:06

    So happy to see you have a blog! Thanks for posting this beautiful image and especially for explaining your technique. I look forward to more!!

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  6. Sharon (30yrs later)07:34

    I have never seen such a great post on making a texture. This is fabulous! I did try to download it as I would love to use it, but could not figure out how to download it from the web album. I look forward to exploring your texture set! Again, my compliments.

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  7. wuestenhagenimagery10:47

    Thanks very much for your comments!

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