Luminar AI 1.2 Update - with AI Sky 2
Gary Detonnancourt
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Improved Sky AI with reflections and more
Sky AI is faster and offers a more robust experience. The tool has many new features added and has a new user interface. Visually select the sky you want and instantly have an idea of what your final result will look like. Adding your own skies is easier too. You can add a new sky individually or select a group of skies and add them all at once.
Sky reflections can now be added to water, and a new Relight Human control has been added to realistically match people in an image with the lighting conditions of the new sky added. Last, freely and precisely position the sky with the new Vertical Sky Offset and Horizontal Sky Offset controls.
Sky Reflections
Luminar AI will automatically reflect the new sky in the body of water in the most realistic way. The new sky automatically conforms to the angle and depth of the scene to produce incredible results down to the smallest details. Once the new sky is in place, use the Reflection Amount slider to adjust the intensity of the reflection to your liking.
Scene Relighting
SkyAI now provides realistic scene relighting by eliminating strong color casts from the sky on foreground objects. To control the scene relighting, use the following sliders in Scene Relighting:
Relight Amount adjusts how the exposure of the scene matches the new sky.
Relight Saturation adjusts the saturation of the relighting effect to add the color from the new sky to the scene realistically.
Relight Human controls relighting for any people in the scene, matching people to the new sky for a more realistic effect. Use this slider on environmental portraits and lifestyle photos to see the drastic difference!
Sky Orientation
One of the toughest challenges in traditional editors is cleanly aligning a new sky to the original horizon. Use the new Orientation controls to align the sky until it is positioned for a perfect fit. This is a great tool for getting the most from untraditional angles, such as in lifestyle photos.
Flip your sky to change the direction of the sun.
Rotate the new sky on the Z-axis for perfect alignment.
You can also freely position the sky with the Vertical Sky Offset and Horizontal Sky Offset controls. Place the sky exactly where you want it in the scene and it will perfectly scale to fit while staying aligned to the horizon.
Horizon Blending creates the perfect blend where the sky touches the ground.
Sky Selection and Refinement
Visually select the sky you want from the dropdown list and instantly have an idea of what your final result will look like. We've added six new free skies with this release and made it easier to add your own skies or add new sky packs. Upload your own Custom skies and select them visually.
Copy multiple skies directly to the custom folder and instantly scroll through them in the preview window.
Take care of the small imperfections around the edges of your new sky with the new Fix Details slider.
Match new skies to the original photo with the new Grain slider for a seamless, realistic effect.
Texture Overlays
With Update 2, Local Masking adds new creative abilities. The Texture tool now offers advanced controls to transform texture and image overlays.
PNG overlays
PNG files with transparency can now be uploaded as textures in Luminar AI. These files can be used to add special effects to photos, including watermarks, text, emoticons, and other decorative elements.
Easy placement
New overlay elements can be easily moved, flipped, rotated, resized, and placed anywhere you want. There are even blending modes and masks to precisely control how the object interacts with the original image.
Overlays in Templates
Once applied, an overlay can be synced across multiple images or saved in a custom template for future reuse.
Discover an improved Templates experience
In Luminar AI Update 2, finding the perfect Template for your photo is even faster. Installing Templates is easier too.
Easy access
To make them easier to find and use, all Templates, including Favorites, My Templates, Purchased, and Legacy Templates, are now available within the main Templates tab, just beneath For This Photo.
Improved camera support
Update 2 brings support for new cameras and file formats to Luminar AI.
New Cameras
Canon EOS R5, Canon EOS R6, EOS 850D, EOS-1D X Mark III (lossy compressed files)
Fujifilm X-S10
Leica M10-R, S3, SL2-S
Nikon Z 5, Z 6 II, Z 7 II
Olympus E-M10 Mark IV
Panasonic DC-G100 / G110, DC-S5
Sony ILCE-7C (A7C), ILCE-7SM3 (A7S III)
Zeiss ZX1
New Formats
Lossy compressed CR3 files
Lossy compressed RAF files
The full list of cameras is available here.