Portrait Bokeh AI FAQ
Pinned Featured
What is the Portrait Bokeh AI tool?
When capturing photos, it is often desirable to place the area behind a subject out of focus. The Japanese word bokeh is used to describe the aesthetic nature of the blur that is produced in these out-of-focus areas. Traditionally, to achieve this effect, it often takes a high-quality lens and involves shooting at a wide-open aperture like ƒ2.0.
To simulate this effect and allow it to be used on most portrait photos, Luminar AI offers the Portrait Bokeh AI Tool. It works on just about any portrait image – regardless of the lens used or the lighting conditions.
How does Portrait Bokeh AI work?
Luminar AI uses artificial intelligence to recognize people in the frame, including those in groups or unusual positions, to create an initial mask that separates people from the background.The mask works with 3D depth-mapping technology to calculate distances in a photo. The result allows you to create a beautiful blurred background in seconds, adding realistic and dreamy 3D bokeh effects to your portraits.
Will it work for non-human portrait subjects, like a dog, or with non-portrait images?
The Portrait Bokeh AI tool is specifically designed and trained to recognize humans in photos. In the future, we may consider creating more Bokeh AI tools for other subjects.
Why is the Portrait Bokeh AI tool inactive?
If the Portrait Bokeh AI tool is disabled, it is because the AI cannot recognize any human(s) in the photo. Please make sure you have clearly visible people in the photo.
Can Portrait Bokeh AI use the depth data from the LiDAR from the iPhone or iPad?
No, it isn't necessary to use this. The tool performs a complete analysis of the scene and calculates its own 3D-depth map. It works with all lens types and cameras (in fact even scanned prints).
Can you change bokeh shape?
At this time Portrait Bokeh AI is designed to be easy to use and produce photorealistic results. Like all Luminar AI tools however, we explore and add improvements over time.
-
Dear Alina Skylum,
There is a bug in your latest update causing these 'Export' problems. I have updated also but can no longer export images from Luminar Ai to other folders or programs on my Windows 10 PC. I am also getting the error message relating to Windows 8 as highlighted above.
You need to get your software engineers, programmers and testers working on this asap before your customers start to discuss their issues on open social media forums which will have a detrimental impact on Skylum's (so far) good reputation.
-
I'm sorry you've faced this issue. I see that you have already solved it by reinstalling your antivirus, you've reported it here: https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4404515137426-Unable-to-export-images-after-latest-update
So everything is in order now?
-
Real-time slider image update not or hardly working anymore.
Since I updated to update 4 (=Portrait Bokeh included) sliders on my presents are not showing real-time updates anymore.
I have to release the slider all the time to see the results which makes it very inconvenient for fine tuning.
If I start w/o the created presents, I get updates but not as fast as before.
Seems something is not working as expected anymore and it slows down my speed seriously. -
Hi Wilbert Maximus,
Let's check this problem further. Can you please reach us via https://skylum.com/support ? Thus we can check more details and see how this can be resolved. Thank you in advance.
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
8 comments