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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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Lost Robin & Big Texture Pack - update

Hello,
the other day I was suddenly disturbed by a soft bang on the pane of my terrace door and I found a little bird sitting on my floor. The little creature ( a robin) was obviously dazed and didn't move, but started flying around when I approached it trying to get it out of my apartment without causing further harm. It decided to hide behind one of my loudspeakers. I lured it out of hiding with some bread crumbs and after flying around in my room, stopping here and there it finally found its way out again. The image you see was taken on one of its stops.




Robin


The original of this image wasn't particularly interesting and the empty space of the wall and part of the door frame were destined to be treated with textures.


Some time ago I collaborated with app developers and contributed roughly 100 textures to their app called Stackables but I also decided to make these textures available for desktops as well.
I used three of these textures to process this image.



Processing






The door frame looks rather bland, so I decided to use a strong grunge texture (grunge floor) to make it less ugly. I didn't want to have this in the background, so I masked it out with a layer mask.

The texture tarnished added a nice subtle frame to the whole image. For the background in general I wanted to have some cloud like background. The texture rainclouds provided that. I had to use a clipping mask to desaturate the texture and also masked the bird and the part of the lower right corner.

Finally I lightened up the image with the bleached texture. Curves added more contrast and stronger colours.


Here is a short video of the processing steps:




Texture Pack


So I used only 3 textures of the big pack and you can get these in my Creative market shop for only 
25 US$ Maybe I can temped you to purchase them  :-)




If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, please comment & share!

Thanks for your attention and have a nice weekend!

Dirk


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