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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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Summer Feeling - softly processed summer impressions

Hi all,
looking out of the window I once again have to witness snow piling up on streets, paths and rooftops. That inspired me to take a look at some rather old shots I took with my point & shoot camaras 5 years ago in France.

I wanted to have light and soft color tones, so I decided to only use fine textures with neutral or light tones.

Most of the time I only used one or two textures from my latest Spring Release Pack

I think occasionally I tested a texture that will be inclued in the next pack.

So, enjoy summer....


Beach on a cloudy day
In almost all the pictures I blended the texture using "Soft Light", "Overlay" or even "Lighten" to get my soft texture look. Last step was always correcting contrast with the help of the levels tool.


Surf School

Trail to the beach

Waves

Dune


Have a nice week,

Dirk
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