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AI Sky Enhancement, for example, will improve your existing sky if you don't want to replace it. Other than AI Sky Replacement and the AI Portrait tools, there are not what I would deem breakthrough tools in this release. That allows me time to be more productiveВ or toВ spend more time on other aspects of tuning my image instead of worrying about getting my masks right. Luminar 4 can make some really dreary tasks immensely faster. I don't think that is really the the case here. There will always be a debate about photographers being automated or 'AI'ed'В out of existence. For example, in the AI Sky Replacement tool, there is a handy checkbox to flip the sky, so you can more realistically line upВ shadows with your replaced sky. You can still paint on effects in localized areas, and many of the tools have an enhanced tab that gives you even more control. At first glance, it seems like a lot of things have been taken away, but in fact, the organization is different. The main thing to note is the redesign of the GUI is a successВ and very logical, but previous users of Luminar will need a little bit to get adjusted to it. There is an AI Structure tool I have found usefulВ and a new LandscapeВ Enhance feature I found less useful. Most of what's left are the already good features that came from previous versions of Luminar. Unlike many portrait applications, you didn't have to define the parts of the face to work on В the AI just figures it out. The Portrait Enhancer holds a lot of power, including whitening teeth, brightening eyes, adjusting lips, face slimming, red eye removal, and eye circle remover.

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Open your portrait, then adjust the slider to smooth skin and reduce blemishes. This is two tools reallyВ that unfoldВ into a great deal more. At any rate, here's a quick sky replacement I did in Luminar 4 with an image I had taken at Sedona, Arizona.

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Landscape Pro has water reflections as a feature, and it is incredibly useful, but you have to manually define where the water is. There are ways you can accomplish that effect, but it's not one click. While it can cast an appropriate color castВ of the sky on your landscape, it can't reflect your new sky in bodies of water. It comes with a small collection of skies for you to use, but even better, it lets you select from your own collection.В The sky replacementВ featureВ doesn't do everything. I think this is the sky replacement technology people dream about, and some people will buy the app for this feature alone. Using Photoshop, ON1, or even a dedicated sky replacement app like Landscape Pro can be a very time-consuming experience.

Most of the time, in my experience, one click will do the trick. It takes what is now a tedious process of replacing skies with masksВ and makes it at minimum one click, at maximum, an adjustment of a slider to more fully render the mask. Sky replacement is the headline feature of Luminar 4. That includes gradient tools, split toning, dodge and burn, and advanced contrast and color controls.

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Pro: Sophisticated tools for professional photo processing. Portrait: Tools oriented for processing portraits, including AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer.

Tools: Basic tools to work with, including crop, transform, and erase.Д®ssentials: Everything necessary for basic color and tone correction.Д¬reative: Photo-processing tools that allow photographers to take their photos beyond basic editing, including AI Sky Replacement. Now they have their place to the right of the screen. In older versions, filters popped up over your image. These have now been organized into six tabs for their intended purpose, making it easy for users to locate and understand what they do. Filters are now called вЂњtools,вЂќ making for a simpler understanding of the software. In Luminar 4, even the language has changed a bit. Skylum's goal with Luminar 4 was to completely change the wayВ photographers approach photo editing, offering several tools utilizing extensive machine-learning and a new streamlined interface to make photo editing more accessible than ever before. We began to see some AI features in version 3, like an Accent AI filter and AI sky enhancement, but Luminar 4 goes much further. Luminar 4 is a natural evolution from Luminar 3, which is the current version.

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The portrait tools also work more quickly and easily than any software I've seen, including apps dedicated to portrait retouching. The bottom line is that Luminar 4 goes beyond anyВ manual method of sky replacement for speed and accuracy.

Others will be more interested in the new AI Portrait tools, to which I also gave some attention. I've tested an early beta release and found the new features, particularly sky replacement, rather incredible. There has been much talk about the upcoming version of Luminar 4 from Skylum software.

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