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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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Making of - the silence of the birds

Hello, has it really been over a month since my last post!?
I had the pleasur to visit some friends in Italy and I also had a lot to do, so there wasn't any time to squeeze in a blog post....

Anyway, today I wanted to give you another making of an image I processed a few days ago.

Let me start with a before/after picture:




Processing in Lightroom

I think it s best to show the unprocessed raw file to  give you an idea what I did in Lightroom.


I updated my old version 3.6. of Lightroom to the new 5.0 and I must say it really was worth the money. First I updated this older file to the new process version 2012 which gives you much finer means to process your raw-file.  I then copied the settings of a similar picture that I had processed before, inserted them and made a few colour and light adjustments.
To set the colour mood I used the toning tool, I used a yellow-green for the lights and an almost violet tone for the shadows.
Tthe new radial filter is really useful to enhance parts of a pixture. I used it in the region above the bench to enhance the light.
I then exported a .tiff-file and loaded it into PS to further process the picture.


 Processing in Photoshop

I had to get rid of the two branches on the upper left side, so I eliminated them using the clone stamp and the content aware fill tool.



I used three textures in this picture. Framed Nothing helped to enhance the fog atmosphere. It was especially good to lessen the contrast of the the trunks in the brighter parts of the picture.
Rose Water  brought a very nice tone on the leaves and added a fine painterly structure to the fog.
Fairytale Light enhanced the coloours further, but added too much texture to the picture, so I decided to blur the texture to keep the colour, its setting were Soft Light at 68%.

I couldn't resist to birds to one of the branches using a bird brush. ;-)

After some minor color corrections I was satisfied with the result.

You'll find the used textures here: Spring Release Pack

Thanks for reading!

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