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Luminar Neo - My First Impressions

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

Making of DESOLATION & new textures


Hi friends,
as you might have guessed because of my prolonged absence from my blog, I have been very busy and couldn't find the time for a new post. Today I am returning to announce a new pack of textures, that I have been playing around with for the last couple of weeks. I hope I becomes as well received as the last one and you'll be able to create beautiful pictures.



It consists of 27 high resolution textures and you can get it for € 23.90 / app. 30 US$





As mentioned before I processed various photos with some of these textures and today I'll give you a step by step account of one of my latest creations:

Desolation


I used four textures of the new package to make it look that gritty. 




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I took this photo some years back on a hike through the High Fens on a rainy and foggy November day. The weather, the withered grass and the dead trees were quite spooky. 
It also appeared like some lost & forgotten place where things decay, so the peeling paint texture came to mind and I started working on the photo.

As always here's a screen shot of the layers:



You can guess the evolution of the final result by checking the layers I added from bottom to top.

Tip: If you want to have the structure of a certain texture more dominant just double it and use different blending modes. In this case the stone brushes texture wasn't strong enough, so I first tried to use multiply at 100 %, but it got too dark. But combining a "Multiply"layer with a "Soft light" or "Overlay" layer  did the trick.

Thanks for reading.

Dirk


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