"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everybody in this video I want to talk about the brand new version of luminar which just came out this is version 4.2 for both Mac OS and Windows there's a lot of cool new features in here I did a video couple months back on the original release of version 4 and it was really excited about then and I want to share some of the new stuff with you guys today this video is sponsored by Scylla if you're not familiar with luminar it is a photo editing application that features a unique set of technologies that you're not going to find in other editors and a lot of these are what we call AI driven or they use artificial intelligence and this varies depending on what tool we're talking about but it could be something kind of simple seemingly like the artificial intelligence or AI enhance tool where you're able to move one slider and it does multiple things behind the scenes in terms of flattening out contrast and adjusting saturation and just overall enhancing the image or these get a little more complex so with artificial intelligence the software is now smart enough to know what's going on in your picture so for instance if you have a person in your photo it can identify where the face is where the nose the eyes the mouth and so you can make adjustments let's say for portrait retouching that used to take a long time to do you can now just do them in a couple slider moves and you've got something that's very usable it can also do advanced masking for things like identifying where the sky is in a landscape and this allows you to enhance specific detail so you can even do sky replacement and so I want to jump into these and give you some examples in this video and if you want to work along there is a link in the description where you can download a 7-day free trial of luminar and check it out and you can go through some of these examples I think you guys are gonna be really impressed it's also worth noting that luminar is affordable and it is not a subscription-based price like everything else on the market seems to be these days you pay a one-time fee and you get version updates for free this is version 4.2 of luminar that was just released so there are an enormous amount of bug fixes on both Mac OS and Windows and you're also going to notice a considerable performance boost as well they're using smarter caching now so the software is not actually hitting your processor nearly as often as it used to be and I love that they're continuing to work on that but if we use this first example here I want to get into some of the artificial intelligence technologies they've been talking about so I have a portrait open that I want to do some retouching on so what we're going to do is go over to the far right-hand side of the screen and I'm going to select the tab that says portrait here and this is going to give us a series of tools and technologies here that we can use and actually we're going to be using artificial intelligence and each one of these examples to make corrections in here that used to take a long time and a lot of steps in other photo editors so the first thing we're going to look at is the AI skin enhancer and we saw this actually in version 4.0 but what I want to do is actually smooth out her skin a little bit so I'm going to bring the amount up and we're going to also select a I skin defects removal and what this is going to do is clean her face up considerably she's got a lot of makeup on and I want to note here that it's really easy to add too much of this really quickly a little bit goes a long way because we don't want the skin to look plasticky and right now it's starting to go a little bit into that territory so I'm going to bring this back just a little bit another slider that I really love in here and this image in particular was shot in Florida on a really humid day and sometimes you end up getting a little bit of sweat you get a little shine to the skin when we now have shine removal so I'm going to select this slider and bring it over and it's going to just bring that down just a little bit so what I want to do here is do a quick before and after I'm gonna hit the before after slider at the top of the screen actually it's a button but it brings up this slider and I'm able to scroll and I can see that before after we have cleaned up the face considerably so looking really good and of course it's using artificial intelligence in other words it under the hood knows that this is in person in the image and so therefore it can identify where the eyes the nose and the mouth are it knows where the skin is and so you're able to get a lot of power after just using one slider next thing I'm going to do is go down to the next section that says AI portrait enhancer and this gives us a lot of options first thing I'm gonna do is bring up a face light and this is just going to basically add a little bit it's like if somebody were standing there with a reflector it's really cool you can just brighten the face a little bit we don't have a red-eye issue i whitening is fine I'm gonna bring the eye enhancer up and let's see what that does just brings a little bit of color into her eyes a little bit more detail you can use the dark circles removal we don't have a lot going on in this portrait new in this version of luminar form this is 4.2 so we now have slim face 2.0 now the whole idea here is this is a common technique that you have in portrait retouching or I'm going to crank this slider up it's actually going to slim her face down a little bit and this one does a really nice job this is particularly useful if maybe you're using a wider angle lens it's a common technique that you see in portrait retouching quite a bit is actually slimming the face and this has a really natural look into it and I think it does a wonderful job another common technique is to enlarge the eyes again be careful because this can get a little cartoonish if you're not it's probably a little big there and just gonna draw a little bit of attention to her eyes we've slimmed the face down just a little bit she's got pretty thick eyebrows but we do have a slider for improving the eyebrows if we want to use that you're not gonna see a big difference here this is another section that I use quite a bit she is wearing lipstick but I want to saturate the lips a little bit we're going to bring a little more redness in and I want to darken those too and we're gonna bring that down a notch so it's not too garish and we're starting to look pretty good there are no teeth in this image but you could whiten those as well if need be I'm gonna bring the saturation back just a little bit it's looking really nice so now if I go up here and I'm going to do my before and after comparison and you can see that we've done a lot of work to this and when I whip it over you can see that the slim slimming of the face actually looks very natural this is portrait retouching which used to take a long time to do and a lot of steps one other thing that is really cool I'm gonna reset these here for just a second is that we now have ai filters built into the looks now a look-in luminar basically any setting configuration that I have I can save and some other applications refer to this is something like presets luminar calls them looks if you click on the looks tab here there's a whole section in here we're gonna go find it for portraits so let's hit portrait and you can see that let's grab female portrait here when I select that and bring that up it's going to also do some face slimming and it allows you to save a I driven configuration so I'm going to do it quick before and after here so you guys can see her face is slim this was saved into a look so this is something that is very cool and saves a ton of time in lemon are another technology that I want to share with you is the AI sky replace tool so to get there what you're going to do is on the right hand side of the screen we are going to go under the creative tab the first section you're gonna see says AI sky replacement let's go ahead and open this up and this couldn't be easier to do so the problem that I have with this image is my and this was a difficult image to capture because of the dynamic range involved this was shot obviously in the shade you can see from the airplane hangar here so we have some highlights that got blown in these clouds and I just can't recover them so we've got some options here and the old way of doing this would have been to create a mask and get rid of this guy completely and try to bring something in but in luminar 4 we have these sky replacements tools so what I'm going to do is go under sky selection up here at the top and let's go down and choose dramatic sunset for for example and voila looks pretty good so this is a very dramatic sunset and again it looks really good especially like you know when you used to have to go in and mask out stuff like this railing in here where it's all these little tight spaces this does an excellent job with this a couple of controls that we have that we can use to our advantage here so it does a really good job of detecting the horizon but you can also adjust the horizon blending if that's not quite right to your taste I want to bring it down just a little more there we go and it really looks seamless in there you know it's a reposition if we want I'm gonna relight the scene just a little bit and it's gonna add a little more mood it's gonna bring my shadow areas in just a little bit sky global let's go down to sky D focus now this one's actually kind of important too because the way lenses actually work is you do not have an infinite depth of field ever so if your sky is just a little too clear a little too fake looking you can actually go in and just add a little bit of blur to it usually like one or two does it it's almost too much I think in this case I'm gonna go ahead and leave it wide open it looks pretty good it's a pretty sharp image another thing I'm going to do is adjust the sky temperature I'm gonna bring that up and warm it up just a little bit since this is a sunset image and it's looking really good and you can also bring your sky exposure down just a little bit maybe get a little more drama in there it's looking pretty tight another thing that we can do is we have the ability to add sun rays this has been in luminar for a little while but anyway I'm gonna go ahead and click on sunrays let's add one so let's place the Sun Center and I'm going to bring it down to where the Sun is in this image and what we can do is we can adjust the amount I'm going to bring that up and whoa it gets crazy fast but it adds a little bit of you know depth to our image a little bit interest with the light and I can change the length of the sunrays the penetration here overall look I get something that's starting to feel a little bit good and so this looks nice I really like it let's do a quick before and after I'm gonna bring up my before after controls here and we can see already there is a huge difference so here's the original image here are the edits that I made and literally I did these within just like a couple of minutes it's pretty crazy like the masking capabilities that are in here I think this is cool because I think it's something that this column have really just barely cracked the surface on I think there's a lot that they're gonna be able to do using artificial intelligence to on-the-fly essentially draw masks and finally I want to share with you a new feature in luminar 4.2 this is the AI augmented sky tool so we've already seen what we can do with replacing a sky but let's sleeve what augmenting does so what we're gonna do once again it's under the creative tab it's the second one down under AI sky replacement you're going to see the section for AI augmented sky I'm going to open this up and what we're gonna do is select an object first I'm gonna use this drop-down box here and let's just say birds one and see what happens what it's going to do is add a series of birds into the image so what it's doing behind the scenes is a couple things so first of all we've already talked about the technology where it's able to mask out the sky and also the technology where it's intelligent enough to know what is the sky what is the horizon and what are objects in the foreground and this is a little bit difficult to see in this example with the lifeguard shed here but the birds are not in front of it they are in fact behind it and I'll show you another one in a second but you have some control over this I can fade the amount I can warmth relight is a big one these are really dark birds so I'm actually gonna bring that down a little bit if we go under advanced settings mask refinement we're fine with you can add a little bit of D focus and again this is important because once again not everything is always in focus in a picture and so sometimes if they look a little too tight and not very real there we go plus birds are usually moving and so you get a little bit motion blur D focus you only need just a little bit I've got mine set at five here let's look at another image here this is a shot that I did a couple years ago on the rooftop of the building I lived in when I was in Dallas we used to do movie nights so we'd have a projector and a screen up anyway let's say that I want to add something into my sky here so what I'm going to do is go into object selection I'm going to go down and select moon one bring a moon into this and you can see it brings a moon in and it's actually behind the overhang here what about do I need to move this around what we're gonna do is select place object to so when I click that it's going to draw a bounding box around the moon what's really cool again it's smart enough to know objects in the foreground even though this is a really dark image where the sky is where the horizon is so it's using a combination of all of these and if I made this moon a lot bigger for instance and you can also rotate it from here I'm not really wild about that placement and it looks way too big and is a little corny but I'm showing you that you can put it behind objects which is actually very cool but if I bring it up like so and make this moon just a little bit more believable in size it's a nice way to just add a little bit more into my image and into my composition to round it out a little bit and it looks pretty good actually I wanted to spend the other way house bring it around there let's face it down just a little bit and we have sliders here so we can tweak this a little further so for instance I might want to go ahead and warm this up just a little bit you can warm it up or I can actually cool it down depending on the scene that I'm in so you basically the whole idea is to make this look a little more more realistic say something else you can also bring in your own objects just like you can bring in your own skies and all you need to do is have a PNG file with a transparency layer in it so another image that I did a couple years ago is this one and I did it with that Nikon with the crazy long lens and so basically what I do is create a transparency layer of this so we get the sky that comes through if you want a whole tutorial and that let me know and I'd be happy to do one but what we're going to do is go back to luminar and I'm already saved that so we're gonna bring that moon in so let's reset our moon and what I'm gonna do object selection and we go all the way to the bottom to load custom image and I have one in here TF moon oh one then I'm gonna use there it is let's go ahead and open that up and boom it's huge so way too big let's go ahead place object let's dial this way back in size and I'm going to bring it up here let's make it look a little more believable it kind of looks like the Death Star right now but it's very textured you can spin this around we'll work with it just a little bit so light sort of coming back from there so let's kind of try to make this a little bit more believable go ahead and bring that down in size so there we have something that looks slightly more realistic and we go ahead and deselect that we can also warm this up if we want it's already kind of warm I'm actually gonna cool this moon down so it looks a little more natural and then under Advanced Settings I'm gonna add just a little bit of D focus to this so it's not quite so sharp and yeah it's looking pretty good so you can bring your own objects in for a I augmented sky creative possibilities are key and that's one of the things that I really like about luminar is that it gives you a lot of power it's a big time-saver you can use one slider and have it a big impact on your image and change several things at once and once you get used to working with this it's a really powerful tool I think this is one of the reasons that I would not consider it to be a competitor to something like capture 1 Lightroom Photoshop but what's really cool is that it complements those applications really well in the way that you can run this as a plugin so right now we've been using luminar as the stand-alone application but let me give you an example where you can bring this into your workflow in Lightroom and you can use it as a plugin so the first thing you want to do is make sure that we have the plug-in installed so if you go back to luminar 4 I'm gonna go under the lumen hour 4 menu at the top I'm gonna go down to install plugins and what it's gonna do is it's going to bring up this window I actually have both of these installed for Photoshop which is already installed on my computer and Adobe Lightroom classic CC you can also uninstall them for some reason you want to here but this is where you make sure they're installed they are installed I'm gonna say done and now I'm going to go over to Lightroom and the cool thing here is if I grab the same image here I'm gonna right-click on the image and I'm going to say edit in and you're gonna see luminar 4 in the drop-down and what this is going to do is it's going to prompt if you have any Lightroom adjustments made this is typical with plugins you can do the original copy this one doesn't have any adjustments so it needs to create a tiff file and so what it's going to do is do that when you say edit and it's going to go ahead and prepare that file it's going to bring it up into luminar so when you get into luminar as a plugin it looks pretty much the same as the standalone app the only difference is you don't have your library so over on the left hand side you're gonna see that we don't have any icons they would normally be here if we had multiple images because we're just working on one so you can make this part of your workflow in lightroom this is really cool because i have access to all the tools it works just like luminar a standalone application so my enhancements are here my structures here if I was doing a portrait you have access to all the same stuff so it's really cool in Lightroom and I think it's even cooler in Photoshop and I want to show you a little trick on that so I've got an image open in Photoshop and what we can actually do is use luminar for as a plugin and it works as a filter now the really cool thing is that you can convert your layer to use as a smart object and this will make it so any edits that you make if you change your mind on something it's non-destructive and you can go back let me show you how to do that this is really cool so I'm in Photoshop what I'm gonna do is the first thing under the filter menu if you haven't could already converted your layer to us it uses a smart object you want to just say convert for Smart Filters and that will convert it to a smart object I'll say okay you can see over here on the layers panel that it's going to convert that background layer into a smart object there we go now what I'm going to do is go back to the filter menu and down at the bottom you see a category for skyline software I'm going to click on lumen r4 and what it's going to do is just like it did in Lightroom is it's going to open up luminar as a plugin so again it looks just like the standalone app but you don't have the thumbnails for other images because we're running it as a plugin and so now what I can do let's just go into AI enhance for instance and we're gonna go ahead and crank up the accent and I'm just gonna make some edits here let's go to structure also and I'm going to let's give it an amount a little bit of boost and so yeah here we go let's go to lights I'm going to warm that up a little bit so on and so forth so I've made some edits to my image all looks good now when you're done what you want to do is on the top left hand side you're gonna see apply so what we're gonna do is we're going to go ahead and apply that it's going to take just a second to process the image and then what it does is because we've created we've converted that layer to a smart object now we have Luminara running as a filter on that smart object so over on the layers palette you're gonna see the layer it's converted to a smart object and below it we have Smart Filters and luminar for where I can add more filters to this if I want as well but it come becomes part of my workflow I can also click the little eye icon here and I can turn them on and off which is also very cool and let's just say for a second for the sake of argument that we spent a lot of time on this and as I said a little bit goes a long way and we found that this image is just a little too on the yellow side in terms of white balance what I'm going to do is double click on the luminar 4 icon and what that's going to do is it's going to open it back up in luminar for running as a plugin now what I'll do is go back to light and I'm going to bring my color temperature down a little bit because I thought it was a little too yellowish so there we go and then when I'm done once again we're gonna hit the apply button on the top left hand side of the screen and you can see the updates are applied now what's cool about this is it's completely non-destructive I can go in and make further edits if I change my mind on something I can go back I absolutely love this way of working and there aren't a lot of software packages out there where you can say hey if you like the to work on this on your own go for it but if you want to make it part of your workflow with other software plays nicely there too so I highly recommend you use the link in the description and go download the 7-day trial and try luminar out for yourself see if it's right for you I think this is a really unique application it does things that other applications don't do and it will fit into your workflow with other applications and the best thing is the price is very reasonable and it's not a subscription so you just buy it once and you've got it it's pretty amazing and it's a very different approach than a lot of companies are taking anyway we barely scratch the surface this does a lot of amazing things if you'd like to see more let me know drop me a comment if you have any questions I'll see you guys in the next video until then laterwelcome back everybody in this video I want to talk about the brand new version of luminar which just came out this is version 4.2 for both Mac OS and Windows there's a lot of cool new features in here I did a video couple months back on the original release of version 4 and it was really excited about then and I want to share some of the new stuff with you guys today this video is sponsored by Scylla if you're not familiar with luminar it is a photo editing application that features a unique set of technologies that you're not going to find in other editors and a lot of these are what we call AI driven or they use artificial intelligence and this varies depending on what tool we're talking about but it could be something kind of simple seemingly like the artificial intelligence or AI enhance tool where you're able to move one slider and it does multiple things behind the scenes in terms of flattening out contrast and adjusting saturation and just overall enhancing the image or these get a little more complex so with artificial intelligence the software is now smart enough to know what's going on in your picture so for instance if you have a person in your photo it can identify where the face is where the nose the eyes the mouth and so you can make adjustments let's say for portrait retouching that used to take a long time to do you can now just do them in a couple slider moves and you've got something that's very usable it can also do advanced masking for things like identifying where the sky is in a landscape and this allows you to enhance specific detail so you can even do sky replacement and so I want to jump into these and give you some examples in this video and if you want to work along there is a link in the description where you can download a 7-day free trial of luminar and check it out and you can go through some of these examples I think you guys are gonna be really impressed it's also worth noting that luminar is affordable and it is not a subscription-based price like everything else on the market seems to be these days you pay a one-time fee and you get version updates for free this is version 4.2 of luminar that was just released so there are an enormous amount of bug fixes on both Mac OS and Windows and you're also going to notice a considerable performance boost as well they're using smarter caching now so the software is not actually hitting your processor nearly as often as it used to be and I love that they're continuing to work on that but if we use this first example here I want to get into some of the artificial intelligence technologies they've been talking about so I have a portrait open that I want to do some retouching on so what we're going to do is go over to the far right-hand side of the screen and I'm going to select the tab that says portrait here and this is going to give us a series of tools and technologies here that we can use and actually we're going to be using artificial intelligence and each one of these examples to make corrections in here that used to take a long time and a lot of steps in other photo editors so the first thing we're going to look at is the AI skin enhancer and we saw this actually in version 4.0 but what I want to do is actually smooth out her skin a little bit so I'm going to bring the amount up and we're going to also select a I skin defects removal and what this is going to do is clean her face up considerably she's got a lot of makeup on and I want to note here that it's really easy to add too much of this really quickly a little bit goes a long way because we don't want the skin to look plasticky and right now it's starting to go a little bit into that territory so I'm going to bring this back just a little bit another slider that I really love in here and this image in particular was shot in Florida on a really humid day and sometimes you end up getting a little bit of sweat you get a little shine to the skin when we now have shine removal so I'm going to select this slider and bring it over and it's going to just bring that down just a little bit so what I want to do here is do a quick before and after I'm gonna hit the before after slider at the top of the screen actually it's a button but it brings up this slider and I'm able to scroll and I can see that before after we have cleaned up the face considerably so looking really good and of course it's using artificial intelligence in other words it under the hood knows that this is in person in the image and so therefore it can identify where the eyes the nose and the mouth are it knows where the skin is and so you're able to get a lot of power after just using one slider next thing I'm going to do is go down to the next section that says AI portrait enhancer and this gives us a lot of options first thing I'm gonna do is bring up a face light and this is just going to basically add a little bit it's like if somebody were standing there with a reflector it's really cool you can just brighten the face a little bit we don't have a red-eye issue i whitening is fine I'm gonna bring the eye enhancer up and let's see what that does just brings a little bit of color into her eyes a little bit more detail you can use the dark circles removal we don't have a lot going on in this portrait new in this version of luminar form this is 4.2 so we now have slim face 2.0 now the whole idea here is this is a common technique that you have in portrait retouching or I'm going to crank this slider up it's actually going to slim her face down a little bit and this one does a really nice job this is particularly useful if maybe you're using a wider angle lens it's a common technique that you see in portrait retouching quite a bit is actually slimming the face and this has a really natural look into it and I think it does a wonderful job another common technique is to enlarge the eyes again be careful because this can get a little cartoonish if you're not it's probably a little big there and just gonna draw a little bit of attention to her eyes we've slimmed the face down just a little bit she's got pretty thick eyebrows but we do have a slider for improving the eyebrows if we want to use that you're not gonna see a big difference here this is another section that I use quite a bit she is wearing lipstick but I want to saturate the lips a little bit we're going to bring a little more redness in and I want to darken those too and we're gonna bring that down a notch so it's not too garish and we're starting to look pretty good there are no teeth in this image but you could whiten those as well if need be I'm gonna bring the saturation back just a little bit it's looking really nice so now if I go up here and I'm going to do my before and after comparison and you can see that we've done a lot of work to this and when I whip it over you can see that the slim slimming of the face actually looks very natural this is portrait retouching which used to take a long time to do and a lot of steps one other thing that is really cool I'm gonna reset these here for just a second is that we now have ai filters built into the looks now a look-in luminar basically any setting configuration that I have I can save and some other applications refer to this is something like presets luminar calls them looks if you click on the looks tab here there's a whole section in here we're gonna go find it for portraits so let's hit portrait and you can see that let's grab female portrait here when I select that and bring that up it's going to also do some face slimming and it allows you to save a I driven configuration so I'm going to do it quick before and after here so you guys can see her face is slim this was saved into a look so this is something that is very cool and saves a ton of time in lemon are another technology that I want to share with you is the AI sky replace tool so to get there what you're going to do is on the right hand side of the screen we are going to go under the creative tab the first section you're gonna see says AI sky replacement let's go ahead and open this up and this couldn't be easier to do so the problem that I have with this image is my and this was a difficult image to capture because of the dynamic range involved this was shot obviously in the shade you can see from the airplane hangar here so we have some highlights that got blown in these clouds and I just can't recover them so we've got some options here and the old way of doing this would have been to create a mask and get rid of this guy completely and try to bring something in but in luminar 4 we have these sky replacements tools so what I'm going to do is go under sky selection up here at the top and let's go down and choose dramatic sunset for for example and voila looks pretty good so this is a very dramatic sunset and again it looks really good especially like you know when you used to have to go in and mask out stuff like this railing in here where it's all these little tight spaces this does an excellent job with this a couple of controls that we have that we can use to our advantage here so it does a really good job of detecting the horizon but you can also adjust the horizon blending if that's not quite right to your taste I want to bring it down just a little more there we go and it really looks seamless in there you know it's a reposition if we want I'm gonna relight the scene just a little bit and it's gonna add a little more mood it's gonna bring my shadow areas in just a little bit sky global let's go down to sky D focus now this one's actually kind of important too because the way lenses actually work is you do not have an infinite depth of field ever so if your sky is just a little too clear a little too fake looking you can actually go in and just add a little bit of blur to it usually like one or two does it it's almost too much I think in this case I'm gonna go ahead and leave it wide open it looks pretty good it's a pretty sharp image another thing I'm going to do is adjust the sky temperature I'm gonna bring that up and warm it up just a little bit since this is a sunset image and it's looking really good and you can also bring your sky exposure down just a little bit maybe get a little more drama in there it's looking pretty tight another thing that we can do is we have the ability to add sun rays this has been in luminar for a little while but anyway I'm gonna go ahead and click on sunrays let's add one so let's place the Sun Center and I'm going to bring it down to where the Sun is in this image and what we can do is we can adjust the amount I'm going to bring that up and whoa it gets crazy fast but it adds a little bit of you know depth to our image a little bit interest with the light and I can change the length of the sunrays the penetration here overall look I get something that's starting to feel a little bit good and so this looks nice I really like it let's do a quick before and after I'm gonna bring up my before after controls here and we can see already there is a huge difference so here's the original image here are the edits that I made and literally I did these within just like a couple of minutes it's pretty crazy like the masking capabilities that are in here I think this is cool because I think it's something that this column have really just barely cracked the surface on I think there's a lot that they're gonna be able to do using artificial intelligence to on-the-fly essentially draw masks and finally I want to share with you a new feature in luminar 4.2 this is the AI augmented sky tool so we've already seen what we can do with replacing a sky but let's sleeve what augmenting does so what we're gonna do once again it's under the creative tab it's the second one down under AI sky replacement you're going to see the section for AI augmented sky I'm going to open this up and what we're gonna do is select an object first I'm gonna use this drop-down box here and let's just say birds one and see what happens what it's going to do is add a series of birds into the image so what it's doing behind the scenes is a couple things so first of all we've already talked about the technology where it's able to mask out the sky and also the technology where it's intelligent enough to know what is the sky what is the horizon and what are objects in the foreground and this is a little bit difficult to see in this example with the lifeguard shed here but the birds are not in front of it they are in fact behind it and I'll show you another one in a second but you have some control over this I can fade the amount I can warmth relight is a big one these are really dark birds so I'm actually gonna bring that down a little bit if we go under advanced settings mask refinement we're fine with you can add a little bit of D focus and again this is important because once again not everything is always in focus in a picture and so sometimes if they look a little too tight and not very real there we go plus birds are usually moving and so you get a little bit motion blur D focus you only need just a little bit I've got mine set at five here let's look at another image here this is a shot that I did a couple years ago on the rooftop of the building I lived in when I was in Dallas we used to do movie nights so we'd have a projector and a screen up anyway let's say that I want to add something into my sky here so what I'm going to do is go into object selection I'm going to go down and select moon one bring a moon into this and you can see it brings a moon in and it's actually behind the overhang here what about do I need to move this around what we're gonna do is select place object to so when I click that it's going to draw a bounding box around the moon what's really cool again it's smart enough to know objects in the foreground even though this is a really dark image where the sky is where the horizon is so it's using a combination of all of these and if I made this moon a lot bigger for instance and you can also rotate it from here I'm not really wild about that placement and it looks way too big and is a little corny but I'm showing you that you can put it behind objects which is actually very cool but if I bring it up like so and make this moon just a little bit more believable in size it's a nice way to just add a little bit more into my image and into my composition to round it out a little bit and it looks pretty good actually I wanted to spend the other way house bring it around there let's face it down just a little bit and we have sliders here so we can tweak this a little further so for instance I might want to go ahead and warm this up just a little bit you can warm it up or I can actually cool it down depending on the scene that I'm in so you basically the whole idea is to make this look a little more more realistic say something else you can also bring in your own objects just like you can bring in your own skies and all you need to do is have a PNG file with a transparency layer in it so another image that I did a couple years ago is this one and I did it with that Nikon with the crazy long lens and so basically what I do is create a transparency layer of this so we get the sky that comes through if you want a whole tutorial and that let me know and I'd be happy to do one but what we're going to do is go back to luminar and I'm already saved that so we're gonna bring that moon in so let's reset our moon and what I'm gonna do object selection and we go all the way to the bottom to load custom image and I have one in here TF moon oh one then I'm gonna use there it is let's go ahead and open that up and boom it's huge so way too big let's go ahead place object let's dial this way back in size and I'm going to bring it up here let's make it look a little more believable it kind of looks like the Death Star right now but it's very textured you can spin this around we'll work with it just a little bit so light sort of coming back from there so let's kind of try to make this a little bit more believable go ahead and bring that down in size so there we have something that looks slightly more realistic and we go ahead and deselect that we can also warm this up if we want it's already kind of warm I'm actually gonna cool this moon down so it looks a little more natural and then under Advanced Settings I'm gonna add just a little bit of D focus to this so it's not quite so sharp and yeah it's looking pretty good so you can bring your own objects in for a I augmented sky creative possibilities are key and that's one of the things that I really like about luminar is that it gives you a lot of power it's a big time-saver you can use one slider and have it a big impact on your image and change several things at once and once you get used to working with this it's a really powerful tool I think this is one of the reasons that I would not consider it to be a competitor to something like capture 1 Lightroom Photoshop but what's really cool is that it complements those applications really well in the way that you can run this as a plugin so right now we've been using luminar as the stand-alone application but let me give you an example where you can bring this into your workflow in Lightroom and you can use it as a plugin so the first thing you want to do is make sure that we have the plug-in installed so if you go back to luminar 4 I'm gonna go under the lumen hour 4 menu at the top I'm gonna go down to install plugins and what it's gonna do is it's going to bring up this window I actually have both of these installed for Photoshop which is already installed on my computer and Adobe Lightroom classic CC you can also uninstall them for some reason you want to here but this is where you make sure they're installed they are installed I'm gonna say done and now I'm going to go over to Lightroom and the cool thing here is if I grab the same image here I'm gonna right-click on the image and I'm going to say edit in and you're gonna see luminar 4 in the drop-down and what this is going to do is it's going to prompt if you have any Lightroom adjustments made this is typical with plugins you can do the original copy this one doesn't have any adjustments so it needs to create a tiff file and so what it's going to do is do that when you say edit and it's going to go ahead and prepare that file it's going to bring it up into luminar so when you get into luminar as a plugin it looks pretty much the same as the standalone app the only difference is you don't have your library so over on the left hand side you're gonna see that we don't have any icons they would normally be here if we had multiple images because we're just working on one so you can make this part of your workflow in lightroom this is really cool because i have access to all the tools it works just like luminar a standalone application so my enhancements are here my structures here if I was doing a portrait you have access to all the same stuff so it's really cool in Lightroom and I think it's even cooler in Photoshop and I want to show you a little trick on that so I've got an image open in Photoshop and what we can actually do is use luminar for as a plugin and it works as a filter now the really cool thing is that you can convert your layer to use as a smart object and this will make it so any edits that you make if you change your mind on something it's non-destructive and you can go back let me show you how to do that this is really cool so I'm in Photoshop what I'm gonna do is the first thing under the filter menu if you haven't could already converted your layer to us it uses a smart object you want to just say convert for Smart Filters and that will convert it to a smart object I'll say okay you can see over here on the layers panel that it's going to convert that background layer into a smart object there we go now what I'm going to do is go back to the filter menu and down at the bottom you see a category for skyline software I'm going to click on lumen r4 and what it's going to do is just like it did in Lightroom is it's going to open up luminar as a plugin so again it looks just like the standalone app but you don't have the thumbnails for other images because we're running it as a plugin and so now what I can do let's just go into AI enhance for instance and we're gonna go ahead and crank up the accent and I'm just gonna make some edits here let's go to structure also and I'm going to let's give it an amount a little bit of boost and so yeah here we go let's go to lights I'm going to warm that up a little bit so on and so forth so I've made some edits to my image all looks good now when you're done what you want to do is on the top left hand side you're gonna see apply so what we're gonna do is we're going to go ahead and apply that it's going to take just a second to process the image and then what it does is because we've created we've converted that layer to a smart object now we have Luminara running as a filter on that smart object so over on the layers palette you're gonna see the layer it's converted to a smart object and below it we have Smart Filters and luminar for where I can add more filters to this if I want as well but it come becomes part of my workflow I can also click the little eye icon here and I can turn them on and off which is also very cool and let's just say for a second for the sake of argument that we spent a lot of time on this and as I said a little bit goes a long way and we found that this image is just a little too on the yellow side in terms of white balance what I'm going to do is double click on the luminar 4 icon and what that's going to do is it's going to open it back up in luminar for running as a plugin now what I'll do is go back to light and I'm going to bring my color temperature down a little bit because I thought it was a little too yellowish so there we go and then when I'm done once again we're gonna hit the apply button on the top left hand side of the screen and you can see the updates are applied now what's cool about this is it's completely non-destructive I can go in and make further edits if I change my mind on something I can go back I absolutely love this way of working and there aren't a lot of software packages out there where you can say hey if you like the to work on this on your own go for it but if you want to make it part of your workflow with other software plays nicely there too so I highly recommend you use the link in the description and go download the 7-day trial and try luminar out for yourself see if it's right for you I think this is a really unique application it does things that other applications don't do and it will fit into your workflow with other applications and the best thing is the price is very reasonable and it's not a subscription so you just buy it once and you've got it it's pretty amazing and it's a very different approach than a lot of companies are taking anyway we barely scratch the surface this does a lot of amazing things if you'd like to see more let me know drop me a comment if you have any questions I'll see you guys in the next video until then later\n"