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Luminar Neo - My First Impressions

Mystical Woods - move mouse over  for an before / after     In December of last year I was asked whether I'd like to take a look and try out the photo edit software Luminar Neo. So I was provided with the program and the extensions pack. At the moment there are seven extensions available, I installed four of them that I thought could be useful in my workflow. These are Noiseless Ai, Upscale Ai, Supersharp Ai and Magic Light Ai.  Until I was asked to try Luminar Neo, I had not heard of the program, but the opportunity to partner with Skylum and make some additional money convinced me to take a look. That means: This text contains affiliate links. What is Luminar Neo? Skylum's Luminar Neo is a photo editing tool that makes editing your photos quite simple. Many of its features are enhanced by artificial intelligence that lead to sometimes stunning results and are intuitive and easy to use. LUMINAR NEO - special offer until 28 February 2023 Lightroom and Photoshop plugin I almo
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How to add snow to photos & a free falling snow overlay

Hello
sooner than we think it will be Winter and if we are lucky there will be snow. Unfortunately this isn't always the case where I live. So I decided to make some snow overlays to add to images, what the weather could not always deliver. :-)
I usually use jpg- overlays to add the snow flakes, it is one of the easiest ways.

Please see the before / after effect by moving your mouse over the image:

Winter Idyll
   


Here is another one 






In both cases I chose two of my snow overlays and placed them above the original image. I then set the blend mode to "SCREEN" and already had a convincing layer of snow flakes. One can always adjust the intensity of the snow fall by either lowering the opacity, adding a layer mask and erase parts of the overlay with a soft brush or experiment with other blend modes such as LIGHTEN or COLOR DODGE.

I also experimented with snow brushes that I created myself, but found that it is much easier once you have realistic looking overlays. 

If you want to experiment with a snow overlay yourself you can download one for free from my Deviant Art profile -->  FALLING SNOW OVERLAY


If you want help me out you can purchase a whole package of overlays and a psd-file with additional possibilities to add snow from my Creative Market shop 



Thanks very much for reading.
Dirk

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