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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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Hi there,
I have been very busy working for clients over the past weeks, sadly I couldn't manage to write a new post because of that. But the job qualifies for a series of posts, but it is too early to say anything about it.
;-)

Today I wanted to demonstrate how you can colourize a picture with the use of (in this case) only three textures and of course with the aid of Photoshop.

Before/After view:

There is a lot of playing around involved if one tries to get a colourful picture with the help of textures. First you need suitable textures, primarily of strong colours that fit your subject and your taste and vision. With the picture in question I first made a selection of textures I liked and whose colours and textures/structures hopefully go well together.

I thought that because of the rather white foggy parts of the picture it would be easier to colorize the image.

I all depends on the blend modes one chooses.

I wanted to have a strong contrasting green against the red autumn leaves. So I chose Pea Soup from the Spring Release pack. With the layer at 100% Multiply the whole white of the fog turned green. To get rid of the green on the leaves I used a layer mask and erased what was too much.

The red parts in the treetops and the stronger red tones of the leaves I achieved with the 2nd texture Pale Rose. To  achieve the red tones I played around with the blend modes. I usually start with a opacity of 50% when trying them out.
In this case "Linear Light" worked best. I wanted to keep the green tones in the middle, so I erased most of the middle part, again by applying a layer mask.

The third texture only slightly changed the red  and yellow tones and wasn't really necessary, but I liked it better than without.




Hopefully you are encouraged to try something similar with one of your photos.

I only concentrated on the colour part of this picture. As you can see the layers reveal a lot more work...

Thanks for reading -

Best wishes,
Dirk

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