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Winter Edit With Texture Overlays in Luminar Neo Including Two Free Textures

 Last January we had some days with snow and people were rushing out to have some fun with it before all melted away, which is often the case were I live. I took my camera and went out into the falling snow and saw some people from my neighbourhood with their kid sleighing down a small hill nearby.  Here is the finished edit of the scenery: Enjoying A Winter Day RAW - Edit in Luminar Unedited RAW Image -  I started with the Enhance AI tool. I set the Accent AI value to 32 which was enough and brought out lights and contrasts, which I found helpful with this monotone snowy image. -   I changed into the Develop module where I enhanced the Exposure always keeping an eye on the Histogram because with snow you quickly run into burned out highlights.  - I also decreased the Highlight a bit and added more blacks. Especially reducing the lights is helpful, because I found that blend modes such as Overlay and Soft Light work better when editing with texture overla...
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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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