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The Essential filters are some of the most frequently used in Luminar. These filters perform core adjustments that are useful for most images.
This filter automatically analyzes your image and instantly corrects it. Under the hood, more than a dozen controls are in use. This effect tends to yield naturally beautiful results with one simple slider. The Accent AI Filter 2.0 can substitute for many traditional controls like shadows, highlights, contrast, tone, saturation, exposure, details and others.
The AI Sky Enhancer allows you to get beautiful skies almost instantly with artificial intelligence and a single slider. Luminar analyzes and detects the sky in an image to improve the texture, tone, and colors of the sky itself. The filter can recognize sky in most photos as well as distinguish between water and other elements in a photograph. It also detects the objects in the foreground and their edges for perfect masking.
As you move the slider, AI Sky Enhancer performs the necessary improvements, selectively adjusting brightness and contrast, saturation and vividness, alongside recovering the details and improving the textures of the sky and clouds. The AI Sky Enhancer is designed to work with most photographs of skies and works from blue hour in the morning to the blue hour in the evening. The filter is not designed to work with night skies.
Just like a professional photographer, AI Sky Enhancer treats different images differently. It applies a custom set of adjustments to a sky in a photo, depending on the look of that particular sky. This means that a blue sky will get a treatment far different from a grey sky, and a sunset sky will be enhanced differently from a mid-morning one.
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If the controls are grayed out after applying the filter, the artificial intelligence could not recognize the sky in the photo. Skies that are very out of focus or blurred may not be detected automatically.
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If you apply a Luminar Look that uses the AI Sky Enhancer filter and no sky is detected, Luminar will skip the adjustment. This allows you to create your own custom Luminar Looks containing the AI Sky Enhancer filter and still apply them to images whether they include any sky or not.
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The B&W Conversion filter converts a color photo to black & white. It also contains a number of controls to manipulate the monochrome look.
The Develop and Raw Develop filter let you adjust the primary image. This filter is usually run first. To learn more about it, see Chapter 9 titled "Developing a Photo”.
This filter is a useful way to control the Intensity of colors in a photo. It is often used in conjunction with Exposure or Tone adjustments.
This tool allows adjusting of image detail and clarity. Using this tool you can get a classic HDR effect with great detail or get a smoother picture with less detail. This is the main tool to increase the contrast of the image and visualize more details in the image.
The Tone effect is a precise way to adjust overall brightness and contrast. It helps to provide tonal balance and a unique signature style to your photos. Tone is one of the most important filters to give your photos the necessary look. This filter is similar to the Develop filter. However you may have only one instance of the Develop filter in a recipe, you can have multiple instances of Tone.
A recommended workflow is to start with a light touch with Exposure and Contrast, then Smart Tone. Then proceed to setting Shadows and Highlights and finally fine tune the contrast of the image using the Whites and Blacks sliders.
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Whites and Blacks can be used to fine-tune of contrast of the image.
Strong raised Shadows can lead to a strong dark areas and loss of contrast.
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A Vignette darkens or lightens the edges of your image. This is quite an old technique to emphasize the accents on photos. The effect typically leaves the central area unaffected while the edges are shaded or lightened. Luminar goes further by letting you place the center point of the vignette anywhere in the image you like.
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This tool allows you to highlight key points in the photo, making it more interesting. A slight edges shading always provokes the viewer's eye to consider the lighter central part of the photo. For a realistic picture, don’t lower the Amount below -50. As a rule, this effect is used only with darker shading. Highlights are rarely used except for some vintage looks.
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