**Luminar: A Powerful Editing Tool**

In the world of photography and editing, there are several tools that can help take your work to the next level. One such tool is Luminar, a powerful and user-friendly editing software that has gained popularity among photographers and editors alike. In this article, we'll explore one of the key features of Luminar: Studio Light.

**Studio Light: A Game-Changer for Portraits**

When it comes to portraits, having control over light can make all the difference in creating a stunning image. Traditional studio lighting setups can be expensive and impractical, but with Luminar's Studio Light feature, you can achieve similar results without breaking the bank or having to invest in a dedicated studio setup. Studio Light allows you to simulate the look of natural light, while also giving you control over intensity, color, and contrast.

**How Studio Light Works**

To access Studio Light, simply scroll down to the "Portrait" section in Luminar's tool menu. You'll see a series of sliders that allow you to adjust various aspects of your image. The first slider adjusts the amount of light emitted by the artificial source, while subsequent sliders control the color temperature and intensity of the light. By adjusting these sliders, you can create multiple light sources within your image, allowing for more flexibility and realism.

**Blending Light with Ambient Light**

One of the key benefits of Studio Light is its ability to blend artificially lit areas with the overall ambiance of your image. This means that you can create a seamless transition between the bright, well-lit areas and the darker, more shadowy regions. To do this, simply adjust the "Brightness" slider, which allows you to control the overall light level in your image. You can also use the "Smoothness" slider to fine-tune the transition between light and dark areas.

**Color Grading and Contrast**

In addition to adjusting brightness and smoothness, Studio Light also offers advanced color grading tools. By using the "Saturation" slider, you can adjust the color tone of your image, creating a range of effects from subtle warmth to bold vibrancy. You can also use the "Hue" slider to shift the color temperature of your image, creating a sense of depth and dimensionality. Furthermore, the "Light Contrast" slider allows you to fine-tune the contrast between light and dark areas, adding drama and tension to your image.

**Convenience and Accessibility**

One of the standout features of Luminar is its intuitive interface, which makes it incredibly easy to use even for those without extensive editing experience. Studio Light is a prime example of this, with its straightforward sliders and controls that allow you to achieve professional-looking results with minimal effort. Additionally, Luminar's AI-powered technology means that tasks such as 3D mapping and mask creation are done automatically, freeing up your time to focus on the creative aspects of editing.

**Conclusion**

Luminar is a powerful and versatile editing tool that offers a range of features and effects that can enhance your photography and editing work. Studio Light is just one of many tools in Luminar's arsenal, but it's certainly one of the most impressive. By providing control over light, color, and contrast, Studio Light empowers you to create images that are both stunning and realistic. With its user-friendly interface and advanced AI-powered technology, Luminar is an excellent choice for photographers and editors looking to take their work to the next level.

**Get Started with Luminar**

If you're interested in trying out Luminar's Studio Light feature for yourself, click on the link below to learn more about this powerful editing tool. With a 30-day money-back guarantee, there's no risk involved – and with its competitive pricing, you can enjoy all the benefits of Luminar without breaking the bank.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everyone in this video we are going to be taking a look at luminar Neo now I have covered luminar a lot on this channel over the years but I haven't talked about it in a long time and I thought it'd be really cool today to revisit luminar Neo and see some of the new things that skylum has added to this one thing I want to say before I get started if you're not familiar with luminar Neo essentially it's developed on four basic principles so one luminar Neo gives creators the tools that they need to get results that previously seemed impossible luminar is built on AI technology and it includes intelligence tools such as accent AI Sky AI skin Ai and many others that we're going to cover in this video two luminar gives you maximum flexibility and this manifests itself in the ability to use layers and so what we can do is we can create layers on an image it's a great way of organizing the edits that you're performing I'll show you how this works in a second but you can do any edit to any layer and you can stack those to get your final image three luminar sets out to provide extremely high quality Imaging results they have a raw processing engine that that gives you very high Precision color processing full dynamic range and both shadows and highlights raw d noising as well as D Mosaic that provides outstanding results and four luminar provides high performance that allows anyone to create based on your experience level with really good results even on average Hardware it's very efficient these days and you're going to see that as we go along so one thing I want to explain a little bit as we get going if you never used luminar before the interface is quite simple so on the Le hand side of the interface over here you're going to see a series of folders and that's essentially your catalog so you can put this on an external hard drive you can keep it local on your hard drive this allows you to navigate folders that you create and keeps track of your catalog on the top in the middle of the screen you're going to see three buttons here we have catalog view presets View and edit and that's the workflow that we're going to be using to go through each one of these images and then over on the right hand side you're going to see a list of whatever tools are available now we are in the catalog menu right now and I want to talk a little bit about some of the tools that are provided in the catalog this includes generative tools which are new and these are really cool as well as extensions so I want to start with extensions because these are tools that are extremely handy when you're dealing with files that you need to be doing a lot of stitching on for instance so if you have HDR bracketing and you have let's say six different photos of different exposures and you want to get a really wide dynamic range in your final image this is where you would stack those images you can also do Panorama stenching so if you take a panorama of a landscape let's say and you have six or seven images you can now stitch them together here it will also do things for instance upscale which will allow you to incre inrease the size of an image without losing resolution or detail these are things that are pretty destructive to the overall image and that's why they're over on the catalog side they're not something that you would want to go back and necessarily undo later and so that's why it's not included in the edit menu but another thing I want to talk about are some of their generative tools and this is where things get very interesting so the first one is called gen erase we also have gen Swap and then we also have gen expand what these tools allow us to do is to use AI to make pretty heavy edits on images that surprisingly are the things that people want requested the most so for instance for Gen erase allows you to do something it's very common with imaging if there's something you don't want in the image it allows you to actually paint over it it's going to use AI technology to fill in the gaps of what's missing and I'll show this to you in a second we also have gen swap that allows you to select something in an image and you can use AI to replace it with something else and then we also have gen expand which is really cool because a lot of times let's say you're working on a layout or something and you need a little more in the image than what there it allows you to in small increments actually increase the size of the image and create data that is not there so let's go ahead and take a look at how gen erase works this is really cool so I'm going to select an image in the catalog double click it and it's going to go full size now the way this works I'm going to Simply select gen erase and it's going to load up the interface and this couldn't be easier to use you're going to see that the cursor turns into a paintbrush here and I can actually adjust the size of the paintbrush and make it larger or smaller and what we're going to do is simply paint over an item that we don't want in the image and it's going to do its thing now a couple ground rules here that make this work more efficiently first of all if you've got multiple things in the image skym say that it's best to do them one at a time that's going to keep things a little easier on the engine so let's say in this image which is not that great of an image because there's too many people in it and I want to get rid of somebody let's pair it down to just three people so I want to erase two people this woman that's got her back turned to us and probably this woman that's sitting down too so I'm going to go ahead and start here and I'm just going to paint over this woman who's sitting down and you don't have to be very precise about this in fact it's best to go outside the lines just a little bit make sure you include the shadow here once I've got her selected you're going to see the erase button light up at the bottom and all I have to do is go ahead and click that it's going to start doing its thing and it takes just a couple seconds here and voila our subject is gone so one of the things that's important to know and in this image I'm actually just kind of dealing with some small items in here so it does a really good job of just filling in replacement image for what is going to be gone in the end what we're erasing one thing to note though is that if you don't like the results that it gave you and in other words it's a more complex image and it's not quite flowing with the image you can hit erase again and it will try again a second time and you're going to get slightly different results so that's something that's very handy too so I've got one image removed or one person in the image removed I'm going to go ah here and paint out the other individual here and we'll just kind of like I said you don't have to be precise at all I'm just going to go a little bit outside the lines and I'm going to go ahead and say erase it'll do its thing once again and by the way it is using AI in the cloud so this is nice because it offloads some of the workflow from your computer into the cloud so it just runs more efficiently so don't worry if you have a slower machine or more average sized hardware and voila our second person is out of the image so now I'm left with the three that I want so all we need to do now is click save and one thing that is important to note here is it's going to put it if I go back to the catalog view it's going to put it in this folder over here called generative Creations this is really cool because it actually duplicates the image and makes a second version so your original image is left in intact if you need to go back to that for some reason but now I've got this and I'm ready to roll on to other things all right so the next thing I want to cover are presets now presets is a feature that has been in luminar for a while and I've covered it here on the channel before but just in case you're new to luminar I want to talk about this because presets will save you time and luminar Neo is all about saving you time and keeping things quite effortless so remember up at the top we have our catalog View and I just went full screen with a image that was in the catalog if I click on the second one over here it's going to be presets once we're in the presets pane you're going to see all of your presets listed over here on the right hand side of the screen and they are organized by categories so we have Essentials landscape Mother Nature so on so forth one thing that you'll notice as you're working in here is that different images prioritize different presets this menu will shift around over here and that's because luminar Neo is AI driven it's using AI to select what is probably going to be the best suggestion not necessarily what you want to use you can go through and use whatever you want but it's going to give you the best suggestions first so for instance on this one I'm going to go under Essentials and when I go into that it's going to build previews of each preset here and I can hover over them and I can see this one goes to black and white we've got brush up here which gives us a little more color anyway these all do different things and it gives me a preview of each one it hasn't actually rendered it yet now I can select any of these I picked the one I want and once you do you're going to see a little slider over here and this is for instance a pretty contrasty preset here so I can back off on that a little bit and once I get a look that's kind of close to what I'm looking for I'm ready to edit if I want to and so I can go into edit and I can perform more actions on this a note about presets that I want to make that's really cool is that a lot of these use these artificial intelligence sliders so in a traditional sense you would think of a preset doesn't necessarily work for every image you would actually have to go in and do some modifications these are a little closer to being usable because they're using artificial intelligence and so that's something that's very cool all right so now I want to talk about some of the editing tools that we have available and how powerful these are so a lot of times with an AI slider you're sliding it it's using artificial intelligence and it's actually doing multiple things things behind the scenes and I want to show you just how powerful this is so this first image that I've got up here is very underexposed this is one that I shot last summer when I was in B and this was a tough image because these clouds were above the mountains that you see here and there's a lot of dynamic range that is needed to get this image to work right so basically the rule is is that when I'm capturing an image once you've blown highlights it's very difficult to bring them back so if I had exposed for the mountains down here where it's darker this is backlit essentially then I would have blown everything out in the top and I can't recover that so I intentionally took this image underexposed it requires a lot of work in traditional editors to get this looking pretty good again but I want to show you how easy this is in luminar Neo so the first thing I want to do is we're going to use the relight tool and so it's all the way down here under creative and when I select relight what this does is it gives me a couple different sliders and luminar is actually going to build a 3D map of a 2D image here so it knows what's in the foreground what's in the background and it allows us to balance out that light that's in the foreground versus the background so for instance if if I just bring up the slider for the brightness near you're going to see that the bottom of the image gets a little brighter well I'm going to need it brighter going way up right so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use the depth slider and we're going to go ahead and bring that up and you're going to see let me do it quickly see how it just moves through the image that's the 3D map that it's created so I want it to go all the way to the right here because it's going to get all the mountains here and I want to bring the brightness far we're going to bring that down a little bit bring my brightness near let's go and bring it all the way up now it's still a little bit underexposed the next thing I'm going to do is go back under the develop menu and this is pretty traditional here but we're just bring the exposure up just a little bit here starting to look good another thing I want to do is maybe get the white balance situated a little bit let's bring the temperature over cool it down maybe bring in some Reds here and the tent and that's so far so good the another thing that I want to do with this is work with the accent so if we go up here under enhance you're going to see two sliders there's one for accent and there's one for Sky enhance accent's great because it's going to brighten up and relight your image but it's using AI so it knows what to brighten and what to bring up so basically it's a one slider thing if I just start moving this to the right you're going to see that it adds a lot of Brilliance into my image and notice I'm not clipping any of my sky up here and if I want to enhance the sky I can bring that up too so we'll just hit Sky enhance now this is a landscape there are a lot of details in this image so one of thing that I might want to do is play with the AI structure tool now structure typically we think of it as the coarseness of an image or how much detail you want to get out of it's something that on a portrait would not look very good but on a landscape you want all that detail so what I'm going to do is go here under structure Ai and I'm going to bring the amount up and rule of thumb here is a little goes a long way and so if I bring that up a little bit and we're going to bring up the Boost fact let me bring this up way too much you're going to see that this gets garish really fast there's too much detail this doesn't look real anymore so that's something to consider on a lot of these tools they're so powerful that they kind of take over the image so my rule of thumb is to make them hot and then bring them back in fact sometimes when I get them where I like them I want to go away from it come back and look at it again just to make sure they're not too hot but anyway I'm going to bring accent down the Boost we just don't need that much of and this is looking pretty good now another thing that I want to note is anytime during this process you want to compare this image with the original there's a hotkey on the keyboard that will do this and it's the forward slash key and if I press and hold that down it's going to go back to my original image and then when I release it it's going to go back to the edit so you can see how much with just basically a couple tools here I was able to do with this image to recover it and get it looking pretty good so here's before here's after so that's one thing to think about when you have something that's back lit is always underexposed cuz it can be fixed and post if you overexpose you lose those highlights you would have lost all those details in the cloud so anyway it's something that's very powerful and you can rescue images that are very difficult to shoot with one shot in camera so now I want to look at another one of my favorite Tools in here and this is one called Studio light this is really cool if you're working with portraits and this portrait I'm happy with it was shot with window light on the left hand side of the image here but I want to show show you how you can play with this and intensify it a little more a lot of times you know we're out shooting something we capture something and we didn't have flashes to use or it's not studio type situation well Studio light allows us to simulate that a little bit so in the tool section if you scroll down to Portrait you're going to find Studio light that's the first one in here so I'm going to go ahead and select that it's going to give me a series of Sliders now the way that studio light works is it's going to give us pinpointed light sources and I can create multiple light sources in here by default it gives you the first one and so we're going to play with that let me show you what it does so it allows us to actually increase the light from an artificial light source so to speak and it allows us to blend that with the overall Ambiance of the image so let me show you how this works so we're going to go ahead and take our pen here and just put it in the middle of the image I'm going to slide it up here and I'm going to go ahead and say amount I'm going to bring that up and you're going to see that the light gets pretty intense really quickly in fact let's bring it down just a hair but I want to move this around I know this is too much but I want to show you the effects on this if I grab this pen and I start moving it around my composition you're going to see that it relights very naturally looking pretty much from the what is an artificial Source essentially but what luminar is doing behind the scenes is again it does that 3D mapping when it creates the mask that's in the image you don't have to do any of this and so it's a lot easier to work with this than it is let's say something that you're going to do a gradient in a traditional editor and try to blend this this gives you something that acts like a light source it also changes the intensity depending on the closeness I have to my subject if I bring it back it's going to look more natural so let's bring it back like right around here so now I have some controls over this I can actually let's bring up some s atation so you can see this I can change the Hue so if I want to make it look like I put a gel filter over the top so if I want to make it kind of purplish I can bring it in and do that now let's say all right well that looks okay but the overall scene's pretty bright if we go up to the top here you're going to see brightness smoothness and light contrast I can bring my brightness down which is going to bring down the ambient light in the scene I can play with the smoothness of the transition here and I can also play with the light contrast which is going to be pretty dramatic here I can bring up the brightness some more and I'm going to bring that back a little bit and actually don't want this this one to be colored so I'm going to bring my saturation down a little bit we might mess with the depth some and uh just kind of get it to look more natural and that's something I'm pretty happy with and you can see not only affect the face but it affects the arms and the the body as well and so this is something that's very cool and again it's fun to use and it saves a ton of time when you're trying to do something like this versus what you would have in a traditional editor so you can see luminar Neo is quite powerful and it's very easy to use that's the best part they leverage AI to make tasks very easy it comes down to sliders a lot of times and there's a lot of power that you get in this application is very cool and I would suggest that you guys check it out for yourself luminar has moved to a subscription and I think that you'll notice I'll put a link below you can check out their plans they're very cost effective as well when you consider the expense and costs of some other editors this one is very reasonable and I think it's an incredible value for what you're getting so click the link below check it out and see if luminar is right for you there's a 30-day money back guarantee I will catch you guys in the next video Until then laterwelcome back everyone in this video we are going to be taking a look at luminar Neo now I have covered luminar a lot on this channel over the years but I haven't talked about it in a long time and I thought it'd be really cool today to revisit luminar Neo and see some of the new things that skylum has added to this one thing I want to say before I get started if you're not familiar with luminar Neo essentially it's developed on four basic principles so one luminar Neo gives creators the tools that they need to get results that previously seemed impossible luminar is built on AI technology and it includes intelligence tools such as accent AI Sky AI skin Ai and many others that we're going to cover in this video two luminar gives you maximum flexibility and this manifests itself in the ability to use layers and so what we can do is we can create layers on an image it's a great way of organizing the edits that you're performing I'll show you how this works in a second but you can do any edit to any layer and you can stack those to get your final image three luminar sets out to provide extremely high quality Imaging results they have a raw processing engine that that gives you very high Precision color processing full dynamic range and both shadows and highlights raw d noising as well as D Mosaic that provides outstanding results and four luminar provides high performance that allows anyone to create based on your experience level with really good results even on average Hardware it's very efficient these days and you're going to see that as we go along so one thing I want to explain a little bit as we get going if you never used luminar before the interface is quite simple so on the Le hand side of the interface over here you're going to see a series of folders and that's essentially your catalog so you can put this on an external hard drive you can keep it local on your hard drive this allows you to navigate folders that you create and keeps track of your catalog on the top in the middle of the screen you're going to see three buttons here we have catalog view presets View and edit and that's the workflow that we're going to be using to go through each one of these images and then over on the right hand side you're going to see a list of whatever tools are available now we are in the catalog menu right now and I want to talk a little bit about some of the tools that are provided in the catalog this includes generative tools which are new and these are really cool as well as extensions so I want to start with extensions because these are tools that are extremely handy when you're dealing with files that you need to be doing a lot of stitching on for instance so if you have HDR bracketing and you have let's say six different photos of different exposures and you want to get a really wide dynamic range in your final image this is where you would stack those images you can also do Panorama stenching so if you take a panorama of a landscape let's say and you have six or seven images you can now stitch them together here it will also do things for instance upscale which will allow you to incre inrease the size of an image without losing resolution or detail these are things that are pretty destructive to the overall image and that's why they're over on the catalog side they're not something that you would want to go back and necessarily undo later and so that's why it's not included in the edit menu but another thing I want to talk about are some of their generative tools and this is where things get very interesting so the first one is called gen erase we also have gen Swap and then we also have gen expand what these tools allow us to do is to use AI to make pretty heavy edits on images that surprisingly are the things that people want requested the most so for instance for Gen erase allows you to do something it's very common with imaging if there's something you don't want in the image it allows you to actually paint over it it's going to use AI technology to fill in the gaps of what's missing and I'll show this to you in a second we also have gen swap that allows you to select something in an image and you can use AI to replace it with something else and then we also have gen expand which is really cool because a lot of times let's say you're working on a layout or something and you need a little more in the image than what there it allows you to in small increments actually increase the size of the image and create data that is not there so let's go ahead and take a look at how gen erase works this is really cool so I'm going to select an image in the catalog double click it and it's going to go full size now the way this works I'm going to Simply select gen erase and it's going to load up the interface and this couldn't be easier to use you're going to see that the cursor turns into a paintbrush here and I can actually adjust the size of the paintbrush and make it larger or smaller and what we're going to do is simply paint over an item that we don't want in the image and it's going to do its thing now a couple ground rules here that make this work more efficiently first of all if you've got multiple things in the image skym say that it's best to do them one at a time that's going to keep things a little easier on the engine so let's say in this image which is not that great of an image because there's too many people in it and I want to get rid of somebody let's pair it down to just three people so I want to erase two people this woman that's got her back turned to us and probably this woman that's sitting down too so I'm going to go ahead and start here and I'm just going to paint over this woman who's sitting down and you don't have to be very precise about this in fact it's best to go outside the lines just a little bit make sure you include the shadow here once I've got her selected you're going to see the erase button light up at the bottom and all I have to do is go ahead and click that it's going to start doing its thing and it takes just a couple seconds here and voila our subject is gone so one of the things that's important to know and in this image I'm actually just kind of dealing with some small items in here so it does a really good job of just filling in replacement image for what is going to be gone in the end what we're erasing one thing to note though is that if you don't like the results that it gave you and in other words it's a more complex image and it's not quite flowing with the image you can hit erase again and it will try again a second time and you're going to get slightly different results so that's something that's very handy too so I've got one image removed or one person in the image removed I'm going to go ah here and paint out the other individual here and we'll just kind of like I said you don't have to be precise at all I'm just going to go a little bit outside the lines and I'm going to go ahead and say erase it'll do its thing once again and by the way it is using AI in the cloud so this is nice because it offloads some of the workflow from your computer into the cloud so it just runs more efficiently so don't worry if you have a slower machine or more average sized hardware and voila our second person is out of the image so now I'm left with the three that I want so all we need to do now is click save and one thing that is important to note here is it's going to put it if I go back to the catalog view it's going to put it in this folder over here called generative Creations this is really cool because it actually duplicates the image and makes a second version so your original image is left in intact if you need to go back to that for some reason but now I've got this and I'm ready to roll on to other things all right so the next thing I want to cover are presets now presets is a feature that has been in luminar for a while and I've covered it here on the channel before but just in case you're new to luminar I want to talk about this because presets will save you time and luminar Neo is all about saving you time and keeping things quite effortless so remember up at the top we have our catalog View and I just went full screen with a image that was in the catalog if I click on the second one over here it's going to be presets once we're in the presets pane you're going to see all of your presets listed over here on the right hand side of the screen and they are organized by categories so we have Essentials landscape Mother Nature so on so forth one thing that you'll notice as you're working in here is that different images prioritize different presets this menu will shift around over here and that's because luminar Neo is AI driven it's using AI to select what is probably going to be the best suggestion not necessarily what you want to use you can go through and use whatever you want but it's going to give you the best suggestions first so for instance on this one I'm going to go under Essentials and when I go into that it's going to build previews of each preset here and I can hover over them and I can see this one goes to black and white we've got brush up here which gives us a little more color anyway these all do different things and it gives me a preview of each one it hasn't actually rendered it yet now I can select any of these I picked the one I want and once you do you're going to see a little slider over here and this is for instance a pretty contrasty preset here so I can back off on that a little bit and once I get a look that's kind of close to what I'm looking for I'm ready to edit if I want to and so I can go into edit and I can perform more actions on this a note about presets that I want to make that's really cool is that a lot of these use these artificial intelligence sliders so in a traditional sense you would think of a preset doesn't necessarily work for every image you would actually have to go in and do some modifications these are a little closer to being usable because they're using artificial intelligence and so that's something that's very cool all right so now I want to talk about some of the editing tools that we have available and how powerful these are so a lot of times with an AI slider you're sliding it it's using artificial intelligence and it's actually doing multiple things things behind the scenes and I want to show you just how powerful this is so this first image that I've got up here is very underexposed this is one that I shot last summer when I was in B and this was a tough image because these clouds were above the mountains that you see here and there's a lot of dynamic range that is needed to get this image to work right so basically the rule is is that when I'm capturing an image once you've blown highlights it's very difficult to bring them back so if I had exposed for the mountains down here where it's darker this is backlit essentially then I would have blown everything out in the top and I can't recover that so I intentionally took this image underexposed it requires a lot of work in traditional editors to get this looking pretty good again but I want to show you how easy this is in luminar Neo so the first thing I want to do is we're going to use the relight tool and so it's all the way down here under creative and when I select relight what this does is it gives me a couple different sliders and luminar is actually going to build a 3D map of a 2D image here so it knows what's in the foreground what's in the background and it allows us to balance out that light that's in the foreground versus the background so for instance if if I just bring up the slider for the brightness near you're going to see that the bottom of the image gets a little brighter well I'm going to need it brighter going way up right so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use the depth slider and we're going to go ahead and bring that up and you're going to see let me do it quickly see how it just moves through the image that's the 3D map that it's created so I want it to go all the way to the right here because it's going to get all the mountains here and I want to bring the brightness far we're going to bring that down a little bit bring my brightness near let's go and bring it all the way up now it's still a little bit underexposed the next thing I'm going to do is go back under the develop menu and this is pretty traditional here but we're just bring the exposure up just a little bit here starting to look good another thing I want to do is maybe get the white balance situated a little bit let's bring the temperature over cool it down maybe bring in some Reds here and the tent and that's so far so good the another thing that I want to do with this is work with the accent so if we go up here under enhance you're going to see two sliders there's one for accent and there's one for Sky enhance accent's great because it's going to brighten up and relight your image but it's using AI so it knows what to brighten and what to bring up so basically it's a one slider thing if I just start moving this to the right you're going to see that it adds a lot of Brilliance into my image and notice I'm not clipping any of my sky up here and if I want to enhance the sky I can bring that up too so we'll just hit Sky enhance now this is a landscape there are a lot of details in this image so one of thing that I might want to do is play with the AI structure tool now structure typically we think of it as the coarseness of an image or how much detail you want to get out of it's something that on a portrait would not look very good but on a landscape you want all that detail so what I'm going to do is go here under structure Ai and I'm going to bring the amount up and rule of thumb here is a little goes a long way and so if I bring that up a little bit and we're going to bring up the Boost fact let me bring this up way too much you're going to see that this gets garish really fast there's too much detail this doesn't look real anymore so that's something to consider on a lot of these tools they're so powerful that they kind of take over the image so my rule of thumb is to make them hot and then bring them back in fact sometimes when I get them where I like them I want to go away from it come back and look at it again just to make sure they're not too hot but anyway I'm going to bring accent down the Boost we just don't need that much of and this is looking pretty good now another thing that I want to note is anytime during this process you want to compare this image with the original there's a hotkey on the keyboard that will do this and it's the forward slash key and if I press and hold that down it's going to go back to my original image and then when I release it it's going to go back to the edit so you can see how much with just basically a couple tools here I was able to do with this image to recover it and get it looking pretty good so here's before here's after so that's one thing to think about when you have something that's back lit is always underexposed cuz it can be fixed and post if you overexpose you lose those highlights you would have lost all those details in the cloud so anyway it's something that's very powerful and you can rescue images that are very difficult to shoot with one shot in camera so now I want to look at another one of my favorite Tools in here and this is one called Studio light this is really cool if you're working with portraits and this portrait I'm happy with it was shot with window light on the left hand side of the image here but I want to show show you how you can play with this and intensify it a little more a lot of times you know we're out shooting something we capture something and we didn't have flashes to use or it's not studio type situation well Studio light allows us to simulate that a little bit so in the tool section if you scroll down to Portrait you're going to find Studio light that's the first one in here so I'm going to go ahead and select that it's going to give me a series of Sliders now the way that studio light works is it's going to give us pinpointed light sources and I can create multiple light sources in here by default it gives you the first one and so we're going to play with that let me show you what it does so it allows us to actually increase the light from an artificial light source so to speak and it allows us to blend that with the overall Ambiance of the image so let me show you how this works so we're going to go ahead and take our pen here and just put it in the middle of the image I'm going to slide it up here and I'm going to go ahead and say amount I'm going to bring that up and you're going to see that the light gets pretty intense really quickly in fact let's bring it down just a hair but I want to move this around I know this is too much but I want to show you the effects on this if I grab this pen and I start moving it around my composition you're going to see that it relights very naturally looking pretty much from the what is an artificial Source essentially but what luminar is doing behind the scenes is again it does that 3D mapping when it creates the mask that's in the image you don't have to do any of this and so it's a lot easier to work with this than it is let's say something that you're going to do a gradient in a traditional editor and try to blend this this gives you something that acts like a light source it also changes the intensity depending on the closeness I have to my subject if I bring it back it's going to look more natural so let's bring it back like right around here so now I have some controls over this I can actually let's bring up some s atation so you can see this I can change the Hue so if I want to make it look like I put a gel filter over the top so if I want to make it kind of purplish I can bring it in and do that now let's say all right well that looks okay but the overall scene's pretty bright if we go up to the top here you're going to see brightness smoothness and light contrast I can bring my brightness down which is going to bring down the ambient light in the scene I can play with the smoothness of the transition here and I can also play with the light contrast which is going to be pretty dramatic here I can bring up the brightness some more and I'm going to bring that back a little bit and actually don't want this this one to be colored so I'm going to bring my saturation down a little bit we might mess with the depth some and uh just kind of get it to look more natural and that's something I'm pretty happy with and you can see not only affect the face but it affects the arms and the the body as well and so this is something that's very cool and again it's fun to use and it saves a ton of time when you're trying to do something like this versus what you would have in a traditional editor so you can see luminar Neo is quite powerful and it's very easy to use that's the best part they leverage AI to make tasks very easy it comes down to sliders a lot of times and there's a lot of power that you get in this application is very cool and I would suggest that you guys check it out for yourself luminar has moved to a subscription and I think that you'll notice I'll put a link below you can check out their plans they're very cost effective as well when you consider the expense and costs of some other editors this one is very reasonable and I think it's an incredible value for what you're getting so click the link below check it out and see if luminar is right for you there's a 30-day money back guarantee I will catch you guys in the next video Until then later\n"