![]() To this end, I am using skies from a library that I have been building shooting my own skies possibly at the original locations. As a personal choice, I sometime use Luminar sky replacement with a couple of caveats: a) the original image is truly compelling and the only wanting component is the sky, b) the final image must look realistic. Some of my pics are digitally processed to look like convincing watercolors but I am clear about it with observers and clients. Secondly, I believe that everyone is entitled to do whatever they want with their pics as long as they are up-front about the nature of the finished image. Firstly, it was inevitable that digital photography (hardware and software) would develop an ever growing number of ever more sophisticated imaging tools. Hi, I can see a couple of points to be made here. I agree that, for people aiming for photo realism, (Luminar) sky replacement can be considered inappropriate, but photography, which I love and have been doing for over 50 years, does not end there. Also, there is a very large imaging market where realistic photography is not required nor expected (advertising comes to mind). I would not call this artwork photographs but some sort of mixed media. I have selling traditional painters who are intrigued but my work and buy my prints. I use every tool available to me to create images of that kind, beginning with a photograph but ending only where my inspiration takes me. that I want to buy it, hang it in my home and look at it every day”. I do not aim for clients looking at my landscapes to conclude: “I recognize this place”, but: “This is so beautiful/peaceful/inspiring etc. Today, trying to corral photography into a well defined, rigid definition is a lost battle. And let's be honest, Ansel Adams was the grand master analog genius at inventing an image that was not even close to what he saw in person. painted photographs, Polaroid filters, red filters in B/W.Any contrast adjustment you make automatically by some degree makes it fake. I love photographing skies but NOW laughably with Luminar 4 I can see people having to defend skies they were luckily on the scene to catch for real.Nobody is going to believe them now!!įinally photography has been always fake to some extent with soft focus touches. I have enjoyed playing with photos from 20-50 years ago and breathing a little different life into them for my own enjoyment.I know it's fake and would caution others with some disclaimer that I was experimenting with fake skies. ![]() Non-invasive/"innocent" especially in skies of the drought ridden American West where even monsoons have given up for the last two summers. You can check out the upcoming feature in the preview video below. Sky AI recognizes the objects in your image and works to preserve fine details in a scene. As Skylum writes, 'That means no more duplicating your scene, flipping it and applying a bunch of masking to make it look realistic.' The reflected sky will also adapt on the fly to your selected relight settings and be 'blurred into the scene without any manual work from you.'įurther, any details in the water in your scene, such as waterbirds, will stay in your scene and not be overwritten by the reflected sky. With Sky AI, when the software detects water in your scene and you replace the sky, Luminar AI will ensure that the new sky is accurately reflected in the water. Sky AI 2.0 includes the new water reflections functionality. Sky AI 1.0 (left) versus Sky AI 2.0 (right). As is the case with AI Sky Replacement, Sky AI and its water reflections feature will be fully automated. Skylum has published a new blog post and video, seen further below, showing off how water reflection will work in 2021 when it is added to Luminar AI, which is scheduled to release this year. Sky AI will add a much-requested feature, water reflections. ![]() Next year in Luminar AI, Skylum is taking the feature even further with its new Sky AI tool. ![]() The fully automatic feature, powered by artificial intelligence, can almost instantly replace the sky in an image and relight the overall scene. Last year, Skylum Software added a new feature to Luminar, AI Sky Replacement.
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