However, for night photos, Luminar 4 struggled immensely. It requires JPGs, although in practice, I doubt this will matter with almost anyone. ![]() We all love “bottom line” answers, and I would give you one if I had one.įor day photos, Luminar 4 created a better mask. I don’t know that there is a clear, definitive winner here. The mask, even zoomed in at 200%, is quite good. Looking closely at the details of the leaves and branches in the Photoshop version above, we can see that it’s generally quite good, but that some of the branches and leaves are missing.Įxamining Luminar 4’s version above, we can see that the leaves and branches are noticeably more intact. But what if we zoomed in? What if we printed this at 100%? For this, I zoomed in to 200% so you could see the masking in detail. First appearances also looked good! I’m ready for my close-up!įor Instagram or Facebook, either sky replacement would look good. Although a little darker than the Adobe version, this could have been easily adjusted by using a slider. We could then examine the blend by zooming in close to see what was happening with the leaves of the trees.Īdobe’s Sky Replacement didn’t struggle to determine where the sky was here. ![]() However, I felt the darkness would create greater contrast. I decided to use the same Milky Way photo as the previous attempt. I used a bright day photo of the forest in Mount Pinos in the mountains north of Los Angeles as the base photo. But how would they recognize something complicated such as trees with lots of fine leaves? Third example – day photo with lots of treesĪll examples of both programs use day photos for sky replacement. If I had increased the brightness of the Eastern Sierras photos by a stop or two, it would have been fine. Luminar recognized the sky but struggled with both the blending of the sky itself as well as the horizon. I decided that this time, I would “drop in” one of my skies, a “stacked” Milky Way photo taken with the same setup later that evening.Īdobe performed quite admirably here, dropping in the sky, although I did have to adjust the size slightly to get it to match. I chose a “blue hour” photo of a lake in the Eastern Sierras, taken not long after the sun had set. It could not recognize the night sky at all. In this example, I chose one of Adobe’s skies, as numerous skies come with the program.Ībove, you can see that Luminar’s Sky Replacement feature is ghosted. And as previously mentioned, I had the choice of creating a duplicate layer, which would allow me to tweak the layer further in a non-destructive manner. How would Adobe fare?Īdobe recognized the night sky as being a sky, but struggled to determine what was sky and what was not. Luminar 4 struggled with identifying the night sky. I began with a photo that I took of an unprocessed 3 minute low-ISO photo of a radio telescope taken at night. Not everyone experiences this, but it’s worth mentioning. Luminar 4, and for that matter, Photoshop 2019, run very quickly. Photoshop offers the choice of creating another layer or a duplicate layer, including all the masks and the layer of the sky that come with it.Īnother difference is that Photoshop version 22 has so far been absurdly slow for almost every function on my 2017 iMac with 40 GB of RAM. ![]() When used in Photoshop, Luminar 4 will create another layer. Luminar 4 can only use JPG or TIFF files. I was curious as to how it would compare with Photoshop Sky Replacement. I’ve used Luminar 4’s AI Sky Replacement to do “drop in” my own sky before. ![]() This can be time-consuming, so I am always interested in ways to quicken the process. While I don’t generally replace skies, I do take low-ISO night or “blue hour” twilight photos of the foreground, then take successive “stacked” photos of the night sky, and then blend them together. One of the most anticipated features in Photoshop is their AI-powered Sky Replacement. Recently, in conjunction with the October 2020 Adobe MAX Creativity Conference, Adobe released the eagerly awaited version of Photoshop version 22.0, which comes with quite a few new features, many of which are powered by AI.
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