Skylum has announced a new version of its Luminar 4 software, Luminar 4.2. The free update includes a major new feature, AI Augmented Sky. The new AI Augmented Sky feature allows photographers to place various objects directly into the sky, leading to new ways to create digital art. In addition to AI Augmented Sky, Luminar 4.2 includes new portrait tools and general performance improvements.
The new AI Augmented Sky feature can be found in Luminar 4`s Creative tab. This tool allows users to select objects from Luminar`s database or import their own. The included objects are: Aurora, Balloons, Birds (three choices), Clouds (six), Eagle, Fireworks (three), Lightning (two), Moon (two), Mountains (four), Plane (two), Planet (four) and Rainbow (two).
Luminar leverages its artificial intelligence to automatically detect the sky in a selected image and place the chosen object, including creating masks for foreground objects such as trees or buildings. Luminar also includes content-aware technologies, allowing the object and overall image to blend together naturally.
In the before and after comparison above, my original image had a completely bare sky. Using Luminar 4.2`s new AI Augmented Sky functionality, I added clouds and mountains to the image. The software did a good job masking out the trees along the horizon and matching the clouds and mountains to the existing scene.
You have control over the placement and size of the chosen object. You can also adjust its opacity, the color temperature and the strength of the software`s blending tools. If you have any issues with the automatic masking, you can also customize the mask manually with brush, radial, gradient and luminosity mask tools. The mask refinement strength and defocus can be adjusted as well through sliders.
In this before (top) and after (bottom) comparison, you can see that I added clouds and an additional hot air balloon to my image. I resized the added hot air balloon an ...
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