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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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Free Texture Wednesday VI

Hello,
currently I am very busy creating a pack  of new textures. I am trying to make them easier to use. Which means, that I have to invest  more time and experimentation in their creation to make them better.
To bridge the time until I finally can release them, here's a  free texture, that I created in the process.

Texture

Orange Corner
Aus Free texture


Click on the texture or the link to download.


I used "Orange Corner" to process an old pic I shot on a trip to Madeira. Move over the picture to see a before/after.


Ruin-Madeira-Portugal



Additionally I made a hardcopy of the layers in Photoshop. This didn't need much tweaking. I only used the texture on two layers. First to tone it a bit more yellow using multiply. that made it a bit too dark so I added a second layer of the texture and used the Vivid Light blend mode to make it brighter.

     

That's all for today!

See you soon.
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