Full Luminar AI Moody Landscape Photo Editing Tutorial & What Tools to Use When and Why

hi guys it's been a little while so i'm really excited to be back with you and looking at another luminar ai photo edit in this one what we're going to talk about is actually editing your photos with purpose strategic photo editing if we jump back to the catalog view here you can see seven shots i took while i was at the linda's past the other day but even though it was an overcast day the interesting thing for me was on my way to this actual lookout at the lindis pass i'd actually kind of pre-visualized this idea of areas of light just popping through the clouds and illuminating the rugged landscape we've got here and i was really hoping to get the actual road that leads into the pass itself lit up but unfortunately no matter how long i waited that just didn't happen this particular photo sums up about as good as i got which was basically an illuminated bit of cloud here and then just some little tiny pockets of light just coming through in the background here but i really really wished that the sunlight had been down here on the road and just brightening this whole area here i was hoping for a little bit of the undulation of the hills to really start to pop and so this is one of those times where i've got an idea in my mind of what i want to achieve but unfortunately it wasn't like that while i was there so in my mind's eye i've got this idea of what i want to achieve with this photo edit but at the same time what i'm going to do is try to remain kind of faithful to this original scene i'm not going to make any alterations in terms of swapping out pixels changing the sky for example augmenting anything we're going to be working exactly on this raw file and just seeing what we can do in luminar ai to bring out the best in this photo and so rather than coming in and just arbitrarily moving around my sliders and seeing what happens and yeah of course luminar is great for doing that because obviously we've got all of the templates that we could just with one click come and go to fast fix for example and luminar is going to give us a helping hand and sometimes you can actually use this as a good launching point for your actual photo edit even if this isn't exactly what you're after for example using one of these can actually just give you a nice helping hand just to nudge in the right direction but more often than not i will actually have an idea in my mind of what i'm wanting to do and in this case that is use this brighter area of cloud here as the illumination point for here which is what's going on anyway so we're just sort of enhancing what's already there but i really want to brighten up this area through here so our viewers eye leads into this area here i also see that because of the light here and here we're actually getting a little bit of backlighting on the hills and it's not particularly dramatic but i'd like to enhance that maybe brighten this area up here as well and these little pockets of light that are appearing just behind this hill here which i really wish were actually occurring down here in the valley but never mind i'm actually going to use luminar's sun rays tool just to see if i can't actually just add a bit more atmosphere in there and add this sort of ethereal heavenly light quality with some sun rays kissing in the background there so i'll be doing that and i think that'll be a really nice counterbalance in what otherwise is going to be a quite dark and moody shot so we're gonna have dark and foreboding clouds quite dark shadowy kind of foreground and then as the road here leads us into this nice intriguing background that's gonna be lighter brighter and just give us this feeling of wanting to be drawn into the photo itself so now we've got an idea of what i actually want to achieve let's take a look at how we're going to do that so i'm just going to flip this back to the original here and let's come into the editing section and we're going to jump straight into the enhanced ai and grab the accent ai slider and boost that up and just see what it's doing for you and you guys who watch my videos will know that this is one of the tools i absolutely recommend even if you're not going to be using a hundred percent or anywhere near that it's worth just grabbing this slider just to see what luminar's ai recommends for the photo and more often than not i will put a bit of accent ai in just as a bit of a kickstarter for the photo it's also a useful tool for pointing out areas where things aren't quite right as well so you can actually see just here where my magnifying glass is at the moment if i zoom into that you can see that i've got a bit of a squiggle on my sensor going on so what i'm going to do is just erase that and as a pan over i noticed that there was another spot just there and i'm just going to erase those so i've got a nice clean palette to work with i'll just come back to fit on screen and now i've done that i can also see there's a couple of other little squibbles squibbles scribbles one there one there so i can just erase those as well barely noticeable but it's worth cleaning those up so now i'm going to dial the accent ai back down to a place where i feel it's a little bit more appropriate and now i'm going to grab the sky enhancer and as i push that up you can see that it's just starting to enhance that kind of feeling of foreboding in the clouds and that's what i want this image to be about i want it to have a nice juxtaposition between dark and broody and moody and light and bright in the background so that's going to help me maybe i won't go all the way with that let's go around 66 that'll do i'm happy with my overall frame so i won't worry about any cropping in this one but i certainly want to jump into the light panel and i would always recommend coming in here because we don't want to work with the profile luminar default in the same way in lightroom you don't want to be working with the generic adobe profile you don't want to be working with any generic default profile you want to be working with something that's specific to your camera so for example watch this if i switch to camera landscape we've got a much more punchy image straight away that's not what i like to do i prefer to work with a camera flat image which on first glance actually looks worse than the luminar default profile but by switching to a camera flat profile we've actually unlocked more dynamic range that actually exists in that raw file and yes i'm talking about a raw file not a jpeg don't shoot in jpeg if you want to be doing photo editing give your photo editing software in this case luminar ai give it the most data to work with a jpeg just has a really limited set of data raw gives you so many more options you can't even apply a profile to a jpeg because it's already baked in in the camera you want to be shooting raw i've said that enough so surely you guys are shooting in raw by now but anyway let's press on the temperature itself so the color balance let's have a little tweak with this and see what we like the look of now i actually quite liked where it was when it was actually shot now because we don't have much in the way of colors to work with in this photo i'm going to kind of disregard the colors and i should have mentioned this at the beginning because this also came into my thought process although the landscape has greens in it it also has a lot of kind of burnt dry grass in the foreground here even leading in there and what i'd like to do is actually incorporate more of that through the whole photo so that we have a unified color scheme so that we're going to have kind of orange in the bottom half of the photo and we're going to have blue complementary colors acting together in the photos so the grays of the clouds i'm going to push them more towards blue and the foreground the greens i want to push those greens yellows more towards that orange color palette so i will get to that shortly let's have a look at our exposure and i'm going to start boosting that up now the further i go to brighten this up that is not really the look that i'm wanting for this particular photo because i do want it dark and moody so if i drop the exposure down we're getting more of a moody kind of look but i'm actually going to set a nice neutral base exposure which is just with a slight exposure boost here and i'm going to deal to that darkening later on so i just want the actual file itself to look pretty good before i start going crazy with the changes so here's the first one i'm boosting up the smart contrast and cranking that all the way to a 100 is actually looking pretty good in this case so now we've got the best of both worlds we've got all the dynamic range that was brought to us from the raw file and applying the correct profile to it and now we're able to reintroduce the contrast and the benefit of that is if i want to darken down the bright bits in the clouds i know that i've got detail there if i want to boost up the shadow areas here at all i can do that and i know there's data held within those pixels whereas if we were working with a jpeg or even a raw with an incorrect profile attached to it you're not going to have as much leeway for pushing those pixels around so onward from here let's grab the highlight slider and just have a little play and see what that's doing for us now while i don't want this area here getting overexposed i don't really want to bring the highlights down too much because that's just bringing out too much detail in the clouds here and i just feel like it's getting a little bit too crunchy in the sky one of the things i'd also like to do with this photo which again played into this idea of having a concept before i started editing but i forgot to mention so bear with me i like the idea of keeping the clouds in the top half of the photo much softer and less crunchy than we're getting here and that's going to offer our viewer a nice contrast between soft fluffy clouds not that fluffy but soft clouds in the top and then we're going to have this more crunchy undulating foreground going on here so in the same way i was talking about balancing the colors in terms of blue and orange complementary colors we can also take a complementary approach in terms of texture so that we can have a softer sky complemented by a more harsh and contrasty foreground okay let's grab the shadows boost those up and have a look bring it down and have a look now when i pull it all the way down one of the things that i like is that we are getting that darker moodier kind of look but i'm also liking if i push it to the right we're seeing more detail in here and so i'm going to try and get the best of both worlds and i'm not going to do it through the actual shadow slider itself i'm going to take more localized control a little later by using local masking okay let's jump into our curve section which allows us to control contrast amongst other things and in this case what we're going to do is actually just try and add just a little bit more contrast in the background you can see that we have a histogram here which is showing us our distribution of luminosity i.e the brightness values so on the left hand side here we can see a massive peak here and this is showing us that we have a lot of dark pixels in our image made up by all of this foreground element here and on the center part of the curve here you can see a little bit more of a peak and that would be representative of the big areas of gray cloud here and then we just have a little bit more data towards the right which represents the whites and that be the brighter area of the cloud here and so we know where on this line different parts are talking to and so if we wanted to brighten up like the cloud area we can grab in line where they were on the histogram and boost that up for example but in this case i think i'm just going to go for a classic s-curve which is just a good way to add a little bit more contrast into our image now one thing i really love about curves inside of luminar that i don't see in other programs and that is once you've actually set the curvature of your curves graph you can actually come down and if you wanted to raise the black point so that blacks aren't pure black but they're just a little bit lighter you can lift that up and when we lift it if you look at the curve you'll see that the actual shape of the curve remains intact so that s curve that we created luminar is actually shifting that with our black point as we move that up and i really like that and i am going to bring our black point up just ever so slightly and the reason being that because this is going to be quite a dark and moody image i don't want the dark points being pitch black and it being very oppressive so i want dark and moody but i don't want oppressive so this is a little bit of a balancing act that i've got going on here and while i'm at it i'm just going to add a couple more points and just fine tune this curve a little bit and you can see that as i'm adding this one here we're able to control very specifically that little bright area just behind that center peak just there okay let's come back up to the panel here and unlike many of the other panels where they have a toggle so for example structure ai if i put a little bit of that on we can toggle that off and we can toggle it on but unlike that for some reason the light tool doesn't allow us to toggle on and off so i would still recommend just having a little look at our before and after so that we can see what this is doing for us and the way that i like to do that is just to actually reset the tool and then go to control z to undo the reset so that we can just flick between the two this is without our light edits and this is with them so we're heading in the right direction i like what we've got so far and we can move on so back to structure ai i'm going to crank this all the way to 100 so you can see exactly what this does and that's what i strongly recommend with most of these tools just smash them all the way to 100 see what effect it's having on your whole picture and then look at certain areas within the picture and see do i like it within this area and so if we toggle this off and then we put it back on for a start i don't like it in the clouds because that's adding a rough crunchy texture to my clouds and that's contrary to what i'm actually trying to achieve there but i do like what it's doing to the landscape here particularly these undulating hills on the left hand side so what we can do is come in and come to the add mask button click that and now with the paintbrush can paint our mask in but rather than just having it set to 100 and being very rough with it and just painting in quite crudely like that i'll press ctrl z to undo that what i'd recommend you do is actually just reduce the opacity to something around say 20 percent and then we can actually build it up in successive layers so basically i'm going over this and we're getting 23 when i let go now i can click here and i can put 23 on this side of the hill and as i bring that brush over we're now compounding that effect over on this side so now we can toggle that off and toggle it back on and there you can see that level of intricacy that nice bit of structure and depth that we've been able to add while at the same time leaving the clouds intact as they were and also the foreground here i want our viewers to be led into this photo and so that's why i've left the foreground elements alone and i've enhanced this mid to background here because i want that local contrast and those extra details that we're adding through here just to lead our viewers eye into the photo and talking of leading our viewers eye into the photo that is a nice little segue into the next tool which we're going to look at which is the vignette tool and i'm going to grab the amount slider and push that all the way to -100 and the reason i do that is just to allow me to see exactly what these changes that i'm doing and making because if this is set to a lesser amount let's say minus 19 there and i'm making these changes with the size slider you can't actually really see exactly what it's doing so it's really hard to tell what's going on so i would recommend go for minus 100 make your changes here and also within the advanced settings and then once you've got the vignette to look like you want it to look like that is when you can just come back to that amount slider and ease it back i'm going to add just a little bit of inner light as well just help brighten this area and that's another thing i really like about luminar ai's vignette tool as opposed to other photo editing software because not only are you darkening the edges but you can also brighten the center point if you want to and furthermore to that another thing i really enjoy is the fact that we're not confined to darkening just around the edges of the actual photo frame itself we can choose the subject to be the center point for the vignette so in our case we want that to be a little further down and more in this landscape area here so as you can see as i click around different points in the photo we actually change the center point for the vignette which is really nice and i think we'll go for something like that and now we can come back to our amount slider and just start to ease this from the center point through to the left and just look at our photos we make that change and just get a feel for where we want that amount to sit and now let's toggle out before and thereafter our before and after i may even just push that just a little further now as much i do love luminar ai's vignette tool at the end of the day it's still pretty crude basically you're darkening the edges of your frame and that's pretty much it so we are actually going to refine the luminosity the brightness of the photo in a more specific way and i'm really looking forward to doing that because we're going to do that with the local masking feature and that's so powerful if you guys haven't used local masking before inside luminar ai you have to stick around for that it is absolutely indispensable if you want to take your photo editing seriously it's such a powerful tool but we will get to that very very shortly i'm not wanting to do too much in the creative section but one thing that i really do want to do is actually utilize the sun rays filter and so i'm just going to crank the amount pretty high again just for the purpose of actually seeing what i'm doing now i'm going to come to place sun center and what we want to do is actually match what the original position of the sun would be and in this case it's cloudy so we can't really tell but i know that it would have been somewhere around the top right of the frame and it would have been coming through the clouds here and just illuminating this area here now often if i'm including the sun rays filter i will actually come to the raise settings and i will actually reduce the number of rays it tends to give a more believable look but in this case i'm actually going to go the opposite way because i'm only going to be including a little bit of these sun rays just coming through this area here so i want to maximize the number of rays within this area because i want the viewer to feel like there's these beautiful rays coming through here they're actually causing these little light spots and so now what i'm going to do is use the randomized filter and just move this turn it around until hopefully i get two of these beams like that one on this area one on this area and if i need to i can just shift it ever so slightly so it's slightly better positioned no i'm going to go one more time i think they're too obvious just two beams what i'm hoping is to get a little variety of beams coming through there there we go we've got three beams just in that one little area there one two three so that's a little better even though there's only really two hot spots i like the idea of throwing in more now the overall look slider if i push that to the left you can see that we're adding more contrast and darkening areas down but i don't really want to do that all i want these sun rays to do is actually just brighten this area through here so i'm going to go pretty far over to the right hand side here the sun ray length doesn't really worry me too much here because what i'm going to be doing is masking this just where i want it and the penetration slider here just applies to how much it bursts through the clouds and i'm going to set this somewhere around that 50 mark and i'm pretty happy with everything else so what i'm going to do is just come in and paint this in just where i want it again so it's going to basically start where the bright area of the cloud is along here and it's going to come down into the valley and i'm going to again paint this in in layers so i'm working at 20 and i'm just going over adding this effect in and i might add a little bit there i'm going to have to make sure that i remove it from the top of that hill as well and i'll just paint a little bit in this foreground here even though that's not really where i want the beams it's just helping to blend that effect into the scene because if we just have it literally just coming through here onto these it's going to be very binary very here it is here it isn't and we want it just to kind of feel like it's wrapping into the scene so that's why i've just painted in those other areas just a little bit as well and if we feel like we've gone over areas we don't want it to be so just along here for example that was just a little bit too much we can get the eraser and just take it away from the areas where we don't want it and then we have the option just like with the vignette tool where we were quite heavy-handed and then we came in and reduced the amount we can do the same with sunrays filter and we can dial it back to a place where we feel it better suits the image now i will be adding a little bit of the dramatic the mood and a bit of toning as well but i'm going to do them at the end because i see those more as creative finishing tools so i want to add those at the end of my edit so for now there's two more things i want to do before i get to this and the first is to look at the colors that we were talking about before and actually unifying the color harmony within this and i know there's a tool called color harmony within luminar ai but i'm going to do this with the hsl sliders here so that stands for hue saturation and luminance and i really like this tool because it gives us individual control over the colors for setting the key ingredients of those colors being the hue itself the saturation i.e how strong that color is and the luminance how bright that color is and so that's going to allow us to come in first of all with the hue section and i was saying that the greens now they're kind of bugging me so i'm going to push those more towards the yellows now i'm going to get yellows and push those more towards the oranges and just with those two changes i feel like we've harmonized the color palette much more nicely so now rather than being a hodgepodge of many different colors i feel like we've brought the image together into just two key colors bluey grays and oranges and that's it and i'm happy with that so in terms of the blues let's jump into the luminance section and i'm intrigued whether we can talk into these blues in the clouds and actually bring the brightness down and that is exactly what we can do i'm going to also jump into the saturation because i would actually like to just saturate the blues a little bit just give them a little bit more vibrance and we could also come into the hue section and just have a little toggle from the right to the left and see whether we're actually happy with the color itself whether we want to push more towards a cyan blue or just push it a little bit more towards the magenta but i think i'm pretty happy where it is so in terms of my first pass with color i'm happy with that we are going to add some highlight and shadow colors with the toning section but for now it's time to dive into the local masks absolutely love this feature so we want to add a local mask a basic one is all we need and as you guys know this will actually enable us to talk into specific areas of our photos and make localized changes and so for me what i might want to do is add just a little bit of contrast and interest just into this area here maybe even brightening it up even more on the foreground elements here i think i want to add a little bit more structure and maybe even brighten this area just on this left hand side as well and potentially i may want to darken down the sky just a little bit more i'm not sure yet but we can have a play around it's one of the great things with luminar we can just play around it's non-destructive if you do ever make a mistake you've got your history panel here and you just go back in time to one of the earliest stages in your editing process so we are safe to jump into the local masking come into the basic tab and the first thing i'm going to do is deal to this left hand side here so like i said i'm thinking i'm going to brighten this up i'll grab the contrast slider and just have a little toggle of that okay we'll add a little bit of contrast the highlights isn't going to do anything for us and the fact that we've brightened up the sky here i'm just not concerned about that at all because i know that the whole point of these local masks is you keep it localized it's specific to an area so the changes i'm making i'm going to paint them in just where i want them so i'll reset the highlights by double clicking it but one thing that is definitely going to help us is the structure a high so look if i push that all the way to the right look at all this detail that's bringing in here it may be a little bit too much but by brightening it up again and boosting the shadows a little bit more and if you look at the photo as a whole you can see that it's made an absolute dog's dinner of this photo it looks really nasty really overdone but i'm not worried because this is the area just here that i'm concerned with so i'm going to grab my paintbrush tool again with a low opacity i'm going to use the right bracket key on my keyboard just to change the size of the brush increase that slightly and now i'm going to paint with one pass release and now we've got 20 percent of this effect that we've created here just in this area i'm going to go for one more pass and so we're about 40 percent of this effect just in this area and i'm probably happy with that so let's just drop the opacity down a little bit because well i said i'm happy with that but maybe i want to be a little bit more specific and paint it in other areas as well so just on the road which i think is a key element within the photo because that's one of our lead-in elements i'm just going to paint over that as well and that's just going to give that just that little bit more pop as well i'm thinking i may have overdone this just ever so slightly and so i'm going to grab the brush with a 25 opacity this is the eraser version of the brush and i'm just going to paint over this here so look we can look at our before and there after and we brightened this area through here and added more contrast localized contrast with that structure ai tool all the way through here and through on the road okay for the next step i'm just going to darken down the sky just ever so slightly and i'm going to do that with a gradient mask so all we need to do is add the same basic mask that we did before but this time i think all that i need to do really is just drop the exposure down and as i pull that down that's really starting to add some nice drama into the image and this time rather than using the paintbrush tool painting the mask in i can come to a gradient mask and as the tool tip says click and drag to draw a gradient i can just click at the top that's going to be a hundred percent of that effect we just created and then it's going to taper off to where i bring this down to so if we bring it down to where the road meets the horizon there and let go we've got a feathered effect of that darkening gradient now let's toggle that off and toggle it on and i really like that because that's just adding to that drama helping to bring our eye into this center part of the image now i previously mentioned that one of the things that i wanted to achieve with this photo was some nice balance between contrasts the contrast of the color palette the blue and orange but also the textural contrast so that is the foreground sort of crunchiness that we've got going on with the landscape here balanced against some nice soft clouds so while the clouds are soft by nature they are starting to look a little crunchy in a little bit more detail in them than what i would like and so we can get around that again with a local mask so i'm going to add a basic mask here and this time all i'm going to do is grab the structure ai tool and rather than going all the way to 100 which obviously increases the structure the detail the clarity all through our photo we don't want that so what about if we take it the opposite way you see how if i drop that to minus 100 we get a softening effect so i don't want to be that heavy-handed with it for sure but if we move our slider from zero sort of around that minus 39 minus 58 and we find a place where we like the look of that now i can come in and either paint that mask in just over the sky if i want to or we can use the gradient mask again and drag one of those over here and we're going to have more of a softening effect at the top and that's going to taper off but what we can do is actually combine masks and so we've done a gradient mask so we've utilized the fact that we've got a nice taper from 100 to 0 nice and smooth but now we can actually embellish that mask by painting over the top of it so i'm going to come in with 29 opacity click once and i'm just going to paint that in just a little bit more over this area here and if i feel like i've gone over an area i don't really want to such as the top of this hill here we can just come in with the eraser and just remove that from the areas i don't really want it okay let's have a look at our before and after with that here's our before and here's our after and i'm going to say i'm happy with the local masking and so we're going to dive back into the creative tools and i'm just going to finish this image so the first thing i'd like to do is just play with the dramatic slider let's punch that up to 100 and just see what that does for us okay i don't mind that so i'm just going to add a little bit of that just kissing around nine percent of that and move on from there i said i was going to work with the mood tool earlier i didn't mean that i meant the mystical tool so my apologies um because we're gonna use the toning tool and really you don't need mood and toning they're both working with the same kind of principles of managing the colors in your photo and so for me it's really a one or the other and in this case we're going to work with toning but for now let's look at the mystical filter so i'm going to start moving this slider up let's put it around 50 and see what that looks like okay move it to a hundred okay so i'm a fan of the mystical filter i actually really like the quality that it gives particularly to landscape photos at one hundred percent i think it's far too much as with most of the tools they're very strong very powerful but by moving it to 100 it gives your eye that chance to adjust and see what it's actually doing to the photo get a feel for it and then you can smash it back to a naught and think um okay this was where i came from that's where i can get to how much of this do i actually want but for most cases a little bit goes a long way so somewhere around 18 maybe 25. let's go for 25. all right for the okay for the final touch let's jump into the toning section and i'll often use color toning in conjunction with other color changing tools as i have already done with the hsl tool to create that kind of blue orange combination but i can actually further enhance that and bring this whole photo together by talking directly into all of the shadows and all of the highlights and so i like to choose a complementary color scheme so in my highlights for example if we push this to a hundred so we can see the hue that we're working with or color i'm going to push this towards an orange yellow something like that is what i'm after now i'm going to jump into the shadows again i'm going to crank the saturation all the way up and now i'm going to find a complementary blue that works well with the orange that we've already introduced and yes these colors look absolutely gnarly at the moment don't worry we're just working with that principle of pushing things much much stronger than we actually want them just so that it's easier for us to make adjustments and what adjustment can we make here well we've already selected the hue we want for the shadows and the highlights what about the balance section well this slider basically lets us say we either want more emphasis on the shadows so the blues in the shadows or we want the highlights to occupy more visual real estate so by moving the slider from the left or to the right you can actually set this so that you have a bias towards the highlights or the shadows and in this case i think just slightly to the right slightly more towards the highlights is a good option because that's starting to introduce some of that orange onto the raised ridges of the landscape just here and now we've got the colors where we want them we've got the balance where we want it now we can come in and say okay that's far too strong grab the amount slider and dial it right back so zero we're seeing our original and now we can start moving that slider to the right just to get a little feel for what that toning is doing and i don't think we need too much of that i quite like the original palette but just a subtle shift in the highlights and the shadows is just going to help to tie the overall photo together so in terms of an overall look and an overall edit i'm pretty pleased with this but there is one other thing that you really should do particularly if you're wanting to send this out to print and that is sharpen your photo so when you zoom in it will take luminaire a second or two just to render that area at full size and you can see that the original capture isn't too bad but it's worth throwing in a little bit of detail sharpening if we want to bring out the best in this photo all right and incidentally if you want the absolute best in sharpening i would strongly recommend looking at topaz sharpen ai i've got a link to that below that is absolutely phenomenal but within luminar and other photo editors you'll always have options to sharpen they're just not quite as good as topaz but anyway if i crank the small detail slider it starts to get a bit artifacty i don't really like that look and the same for the medium details as well if i push that to a hundred it's just doing something a little bit funky so i would recommend if you are introducing small medium large details into your photo do it very judiciously don't put too much in whatsoever so for example numbers are small from two to four work pretty well here's without the details and here's with them definitely keep those pretty subtle but the sharpen amount if we crank that to 60 that's doing a pretty good job you can dive into the detail masking and change the radius of the mask as well for the purposes of this photo because it was already pretty sharp from the lens i'm happy with what i've done here but yeah absolutely check out topaz labs ai sharp and link below if you're interested in getting a much better result with your sharpening okay we've zoomed out now my absolute favorite part let's look at how before and thereafter here's our before here's our after haven't we come a long way guys look at that original pretty lackluster file but we've been able to massage it with the tools inside of luminar ai and we've created something much more stunning now while i love doing that before and our after a word of caution it's really nice to see where you started from and where you got to but if you flick between the two too much your eyes rather than taking your finished photo at face value and evaluating it on its own aesthetic merit it will actually do a comparison you'll start looking at your original and then you'll finish one go ah you know what i've really over baked this one whereas i actually like the image when i look at it just like this but when i start to flick between the two that's when i start to think yeah maybe i've ever done it and if that is the case if you have overdone it don't forget you can come down to this magical slider in the bottom right hand corner and you can reduce the overall effect of your whole edit so we can go all the way back to the beginning and then we can start to ease our edit back in and end up in a place where you feel you're happy with that overall edit so in our case let's say i like the edit but not a full blast let's just ease it back a little bit and say i'm happy with that and then it's time to come up to your export save the photo to disk and just going back to the topic of raw and jpeg now i've done all my editing on my raw file i'm happy to save out as a jpeg because that is the most universally usable file format that you can possibly imagine and so we're going to save as a jpeg 90 quality is absolutely fine i'm going to keep the actual size that this was shot at but afterwards i could also export a smaller version let's say a thousand pixels wide for use on social media and luminar will create a new version of this photo with these changes baked in so my original photo remains untouched i can always go back to that raw the only changes that we've made inside of luminar they just exist as a set of instructions inside luminar's database so your original file don't panic guys it's still intact thank you for watching guys and thank you so much for your patience and understanding while i took a short forced break from creating videos so i'm back and a special thank you to my channel supporters and members i know exactly who you guys are and from the bottom of my heart i absolutely appreciate each and every one of you and the support you are giving me cheers for watching guys i will see you in the next video

Channel: Anthony Turnham

Views: 7,330

Keywords: Photography, Photo editing, editing, Post Processing, post production, photography editing, Adobe, Photographer, Photo education, Photography education, landscape photography, Luminar AI, Luminar, Lumiere AI, Moody Landscape, Edit with Intent

Id: g1kYRjN6VBE

Length: 36min 41sec (2201 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 17 2021