Make your portraits shine with Luminar 4
This morning we announced yet another new feature to Luminar 4, and we’re pretty excited about it! AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer will be a set of tools that let you have further control over portraits, allowing you to apply content-aware adjustments that make for professional results in no time!
We’ve all been there and have taken portraits that aren’t quite perfect. We need to remove things like blemishes and acne, in addition to smoothing the skin. We might need to boost the exposure, but only on a person’s face, and need to enhance their eyes and get rid of things like dark circles and red eye. Doing so usually requires some fine-tune masking, which can make for quite the tedious process.
But with Luminar 4, those problems are gone — and then some. Our new tools allow everyone to make people in their photographs look the way they feel, in less time.
Make your subject’s skin perfect with AI Skin Enhancer
With AI Skin Enhancer, a person’s skin is retouched automatically, but you retain complete control over how the content-aware adjustments are applied. AI Skin Enhancer can get rid of various skin imperfections like acne, freckles and moles. It can smoothen the skin, but make sure that small details like hair and eyelashes are still sharp as can be.
Perfect for studio beauty shots or events like weddings, AI Skin Enhancer will help bring your creative vision to the forefront.
You can deliver a professional look in mere seconds, and then take your adjustments and sync them to multiple other images, saving you even more time!
Achieve professional-looking portraits with Portrait Enhancer
Also in Luminar 4 is a collection of tools we like to call Portrait Enhancer. These tools help improve the photo of any person in a natural, yet pleasing way, and make it possible to highlight and improve primary features of a person’s face.
Portrait Enhancer includes adjustments for eight areas:
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Face-aware Lighting: Adjust lighting for a face that doesn’t impact the rest of the scene. Get the emulation of a flash or reflector aimed at a face.
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Eye Improvement: Enhance and make a person’s eyes more expressive and sharp as well as whiten pupils.
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Dark Circle Removal: Easily remove dark circles or shadows below the eye.
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Red Eye: Fix red eye problems caused by flash.
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Face Contouring: Make the face thinner, achieving more attractive results in your portrait.
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Eye Enlargement: Is your portrait subject not fully awake yet? Squinting in bright light? Bring their eyes to life by gently increasing the size of their eyes.
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Eyebrows: Thicken and darken brows for stronger framing of the eyes.
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Lips and Teeth Enhancement: Bring more color and depth to a person’s lips, and take advantage of teeth whitening tools.
Portrait Enhancer lets you achieve professional results quicker and more effectively than ever. It helps make facial features more expressive with just a few sliders. Gone are the days of selecting and masking; AI technology instantly recognizes the right areas to adjust.
Just like AI Skin Enhancer, you can apply your Portrait Enhancer adjustments to multiple images. Luminar’s human-aware technology will know what adjustments should be applied where, saving you time and energy when trying to turn around your photographs quickly!
Better yet, built-in presets easily adapt to each portrait, meaning you can apply Looks and other creative enhancements and retain the adjustments you’ve already made.
With Luminar, you’re in control
These two new portrait tools join the previously announced AI Sky Replacement and AI Structure tools that are coming to Luminar 4 this fall.
AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer are built to work with Luminar’s plethora of image editing and management tools, meaning you can apply various other filters and adjustments (like Accent AI and AI Structure) while retaining the edits you’ve made to your subject. And it doesn’t matter if you’re using professional studio lights, off-camera flash or shooting in natural light — Luminar 4’s portrait enhancement tools will turn your image into a true work of art
The tools also work great with your Luminar Library, letting you sync adjustments in an instant that adapt to each photograph automatically through machine learning. What once took several hours to complete, you can now finish in a matter of seconds!
At Luminar, it’s our mission to make your creations into something spectacular, so you can spend more time creating and less time tweaking. And because it is available as both an application and plugin, Luminar 4 fits into every photographer’s workflow.
Pre-order your copy today!
Luminar 4 is set to be released this fall. Luminar 4 can be run as a standalone application or a plugin for Adobe applications like Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop Elements, or Apple software like Photos for macOS and Aperture.
Pre-orders are now available on skylum.com. Owners of Luminar 3 or Luminar Flex plugin can also upgrade at a discount.
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Looking forward to it! And for those of us who have already paid, is there access to the beta which all the reviewers have been using?
I'm a software tester for my day job and photographer by night so I think I could contribute something, especially as I'm using Mac OS Catalina which is causing a compatibility issue for you guys.
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Hi Gareth,
For now, we don't have an open beta but you can contact us via
http://www.skylum.com/support and we will be glad to add you to the list of the potential beta testers.
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Hi Matthew,
If the face is obstructed, or only takes up a very small part of the frame the AI can have trouble detecting it.
If you have a portrait where the AI is having difficulty, please send it to www.skylum.com/support. We'll share it with our developers to help train the AI and improve the tool.
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Used Portrait Enhancer features a couple days ago for the first time. It was easy to use and I had terrific success! Am very pleased with it. Well done Skylum! I would think this feature alone would warrant the price of Luminar 4 for a professional portrait photographer.
That said, Yesterday I took a portrait-like photo of a friends dog. He has black fur around both eyes so experimented using Portrait Enhancer features to better show his eyes. Unfortunately it does not appear to work on dog photos. Would be very cool if it could be added in a future release.
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@Member - The best solution for photos with multiple people is to make use of Adjustment layers - one for each person. You can then use the masking tools to make sure the adjustments only affect one person at a time.
Bob Warwick - Glad to hear that the AI Portrait tools are working well for you! For your dog's eyes, I'd use the AI Structure tool, along with AI Enhance, and then apply the effects locally using the masking brushes. I agree it would be awesome if the tech worked on animal photos! I'll be sure to share the suggestion with our developers.
Sharon Vallentiny - Please reach out to us at www.skylum.com/support and we'll be happy to help! Please note that the portrait tools only work when the face (or faces) fill a significant portion of the frame and are unobstructed.
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Could you please send us your images to https://skylum.com/support so that we could check them on our end?
Here's how you can send us the images:
- Visit https://wetransfer.com/
- If it's your first time visiting this website, it might ask you to purchase a subscription. Simply select to proceed with the free version.
- Click Add your files.
- Select the file(s) on your computer.
- After you see all the files you need to send appear in the list, click the icon to the left of the Transfer button (the icon looks like a circle with three dots in it).
- In Send As select Link.
- Click Transfer.
- After the files have finished uploading, click Copy Link and paste it into the email to us.
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