Spectacular portraits with Luminar AI Update 4
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Helping you explore your creativity and making your editing experience comfortable are our top priorities. In this update, we bring you the power to create spectacular portraits with a unique AI-based bokeh effect that takes into account image depth. You will also find many improvements that make editing even more comfortable. Let’s dive right in.
Spectacular people thanks to Portrait BokehAI
Want to achieve dreamy and spectacular portraits with just one slider? Now you can. With the help of artificial intelligence, Portrait BokehAI creates a beautiful background blur in seconds, adding a realistic and dreamy 3D bokeh effect to your portraits.
Use Portrait BokehAI to automatically emulate the stunning background haziness of a high-quality lens at maximum aperture. Easily add volume, airiness, and depth to your photos. Hide imperfections in an unfocused background. Let the people in your images stand out without needing a powerful light-sensitive camera or when shooting in harsh lighting conditions. Thanks to AI, this tool recognizes people from the waist up, groups of people, and people in unusual positions and applies all changes automatically and effortlessly.
With Portrait BokehAI, you don’t have to waste time on masking. Simply use the Amountslider to regulate the amount of background blur and the tool's algorithms will separate people in the foreground from scenery in the background, putting the spotlight on the people. For those who want to correct imperfections, the Brush Control tools are at your service. (You can adjust the brush Radius, Softness, and Opacity.) If you need something in the background to stay in focus, or if you want to add additional detail in a subject’s hair, you can use the Focus and Defocus tools and mask the area of your photo that you wish to be affected. Restore allows you to return to the original automatically generated mask. In the Background controls, you will find sliders that help you gain even more control over the results, including by enhancing brightness, pulling up background highlights, and refining edges.
Better workflow with visual Texture previews
Create fantastic compositions and stunning effects with the improved Textures tool, which gives you a more comfortable workflow. In the Local Masking tab, click +Add and select Texture. Now you can visually browse Textures in the dropdown list to instantly have an idea of what your final result will look like (just like in SkyAI and Augmented SkyAI). Custom Textures are also shown right after various default selections in the visual dropdown grid: you’ll see Flares, Sparkles, Custom, and will be able to add more. If you want to get even more curated Textures for your photos, click the Get More Textures button and browse the Luminar Marketplace.
Perfect sky positioning in SkyAI
To deliver perfect and realistic results, we’re constantly improving the algorithms behind our AI tools. In Update 4, you can enjoy significant improvements to the SkyAI tool. One of these improvements is a new slider that correctly adjusts the position of the sky. Now you can replace the sky and set the desired position of your horizon line thanks to the Shifting Horizon Control in the Sky Orientation section. Instead of Vertical Position, Horizontal Position, and Horizon Blending sliders, there is now just one smart control that saves time and is more efficient at getting the replaced Sky Texture just where you want it.
Even more convenience…
There are also multiple improvements inside the software that will let you expand your creative toolbox.
- Easily get even more creative assets from the Luminar Marketplace with handy download buttons located in each category of assets: Skies, Templates, Sky Objects, and Overlays.
- Get easy access to information about Luminar X Membership inside the app along with monthly creative assets, inspiration, and curated video tutorials.
- Find out more about the Referral Program and join to get $10 for each copy of LuminarAI sold along with other exciting bonuses.
...To top it all off, we caught some bugs!
To make LuminarAI even more convenient to use, we’ve caught and fixed more than 50 bugs, including 8 major bugs on macOS and 7 major bugs on Windows that could lead to crashes or unexpected results. Thanks to these bug fixes, you can now:
macOS
- Open and edit in LuminarAI as a Photos Extension plugin without errors
- Add transparent PNG Textures to your photos without encountering artifacts
- Work on Big Sur with the photos in your Pictures folder synchronizing correctly with your Сatalog
- View the Custom Textures that load right away, even upon leaving and returning to the Texture tool
- Find the controls for placing Sky Objects and Textures in the correct location instead of in the bottom-left corner of your photo
- Crop a photo in CompositionAI to a small ratio and use SkyAI or Augmented SkyAI without a hitch
- Smoothly work with masking in Show Mask mode
- Use the “Shift + ]” and “Shift + [” hotkeys to smoothly adjust the Softness slider when in Masking mode
Windows
- Add transparent PNG Textures to your photos without encountering artifacts
- Use LuminarAI as a Photoshop or Lightroom plugin and see the right-side Templates and Edit tabs without a hitch
- Enjoy better disk space optimization
- Export files in raw format without experiencing crashes
- Work in Augmented SkyAI, SkyAI, and AtmosphereAI without experiencing memory leaks and crashes
- Open Templates created in LuminarAI on macOS
- Export multiple photos while retaining the original resolution
Updating LuminarAI
LuminarAI Update 4 is a free update for current LuminarAI users. To update:
macOS: Open LuminarAI. In the top menu bar, choose LuminarAI > Check for updates. If you purchased LuminarAI via the Mac App Store, open the App Store and go to the Updates tab.
Windows: Open LuminarAI. In the top menu bar, choose LuminarAI > Help > Check for Updates.
If you are running LuminarAI as a plugin with Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, it’s also recommended you rerun the plugin installer.
We have also expanded the LuminarAI user manual to make it easier than ever to search and find answers to questions you might have about LuminarAI.
If you’re already a LuminarAI user, don’t miss this special offer to get powerful add-ons.
Now it’s over to you
With LuminarAI Update 4, we’ve focused on creating and improving tools that can give you a new way to edit and make the whole process more enjoyable. Explore your newfound power and create beautiful digital art that realizes your unique vision and elevates the people around you. Enjoy creating photos you’re proud of in LuminarAI and share them with the world!
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Dear Member,
If you need the download tinks for Luminar 4, here they are:
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Margaret Bright thanks, I have luminar 4, I'm referring to Luminar Ai 1.4 download link....a full offline installer. Thanks.
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Update 4 and same as Update 2, and Update 3. First edit on a clean database, and Luminar AI Update 4 crashes (Nvidia 960 GPU). Crashes only started after the "Updates" started getting released. I have posted on every pinned update post, and have communicated with support including sending in logs. Here we are at update 4, and product is still unusable. Cannot get through a single edit?!?!? Also, Installed on 2 different computers and none of the 3D transforms while in composition module update the photo. This is seriously frustrating as there are certainly good things here, but when you can't use them, it is just a waste of time.
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Will this update fully utilize hardware acceleration on the GPU? The software seems to be very taxing on the CPU but not the GPU, which would make the software run 10x faster. For reference, I have a 12 core Ryzen 5900x with RTX 2070. It shouldn't take 15-30 seconds to load images if GPU was properly utilized.
Skylum needs to hire or contract out a software engineer that specializes in hardware acceleration because this software won't work efficiently without it coded to leverage the GPU processing power.
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I have an excellent system and Titan RTX graphics card but it is taking quite a while to render out images when using Portrait Bokeh. I am not sure it is utilizing the graphics card as much as it could do. Even though I have an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT processor it is slow. Any ideas that might speed up the process?
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Just seen this in Luminars system settings
User HID : 0d4dff8366c530b15839d6ff650aac56
Operating system : Windows 10 Pro
Operating system version : 19043
Device model : ASUS System Product Name
Processors : AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core Processor
RAM : 32.0Gb
Videos : NVIDIA TITAN RTX (4.0Gb)I have 128GB of RAM and a 20GB graphics card. Certainly not as reported here.
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Kevin Famuyiro where have you found the MSI installer for the 1.4 version?
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Hi Member,
Here is the link to it: https://downloads.skylum.com/luminarai/win/Win_Luminar_AI_Release.msi
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I have a few observations with Version 1.4. It's working pretty well form me.
- RAW lens corrections don't seem to work very well for me and my Sony APSC lenses. The corrections distort the image in the opposite direction, and chop off too much of the image. I think this has become worse in 1.4 than it was previously. (Note that I shoot exclusively JPEG from now on so this will no longer be an issue for me).
- I did have one image that when I applied Structure AI, it fouled up my plain blue sky (my sky, not a replacement image). That only happened once. Undoing the structure enhancement fixed the image.
- I installed the Windows 11 beta yesterday and Luminar AI is running just fine with it.
- No other usability issues for me thus far. Exported 96 photos this morning. That's still slow (as is loading my RAW thumbnails), but I'll take it.
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Hi Ray Blackburn,
Thanks for sharing your feedback. I'll make sure to forward it to our techs for future improvements.
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Hi Member,
I'm sorry this is happening! Let's investigate this issue together. Please, contact us via https://skylum.com/support so we could look deeper into this case.
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I'm sorry you have to wait. Indeed, while usually, we reply within 24 hours, right now, we receive a bit more emails after the update, thus, it might take us a bit longer to get back to you. But we will ensure to reply to each and every request as soon as we can.
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Dear Skylumn,
Where can I find the download Luminar AI update 3 -> last version w/o portrait feature?
When I change my sliders in ths last version they are not updating any more in realtime which makes it more than irritating and really slows down my edit process. Fine adjust is really not fun this way. I hate the program nowadays. Sometimes it does work, but I have no idea why it sometimes works and most of the time not.
I already swapped back to Luminar 4 where it works fluent, but luminar 4 is missing some AI effects like sky reflection and fog effects.
Please can you provide me the download link to the previous version Luminar AI update 3 ?
I found already version update 2, but was searching for update 3!. -
Forget it, in meantime I found the download link for Luminar AI update 3 somewhere between the other treads.
Had to set-up all again, inititated the database and copied my settings back in.
All works fine again. Sliders are again showing realtime updates when I move the slider.
I now made a backup op the installation files and settings.
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