The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar AI

Book Description

Skylum’s Luminar AI is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar AI also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place.

Luminar AI is deceptively deep, and in The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar AI, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Luminar AI’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs. From importing your images to editing, managing, and exporting your files, Jeff showcases the power, precision, and control of Luminar while teaching you to work quickly and efficiently. In this book, he walks you through real-world landscape and portrait edits, and covers every tool and feature with the goal of helping you understand how to make Luminar improve your images.

In this book you’ll learn all about:

• AI editing: Luminar AI’s many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes.
• Expert editing: Take advantage of Luminar’s many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar’s RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits.
• Advanced editing: Use masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects.
• Creativity:Open your imagination with Luminar’s creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.
• Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables): Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work.
• Luminar Library: Organize and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that’s on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup.
• Luminar plug-ins:
•  If you already use other applications to organize your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar AI also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place.
• Sharing images: Whether you’re printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.

中文：

书名：The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar AI

对于想要快速拍摄出令人惊叹的照片的专业和业余摄影师来说，斯凯奇的发光体AI都是一个很棒的解决方案。卢米纳先进的基于人工智能的工具消除了数小时的传统编辑任务，无论是应用自动色调和颜色调整，用更有活力的天空取代沉闷的天空，还是润色肖像以平滑皮肤，去除瑕疵，并突出讨好的五官。对于那些想要深入研究编辑的人，强大的工具让您完全控制您的RAW和JPEG图像，包括高级功能，如蒙版，混合模式，和镜头校正。Lnuar AI还可以作为其他应用程序的插件，如Adobe Photoshop、Lightroom Classic和Apple Photos，允许往返编辑并与您可能已有的工作流无缝集成。

发光体人工智能具有欺骗性的深度，而且在中国照相人工智能的摄影师指南，摄影师Jeff Carlson帮助您发现了鲁米诺AI的最佳功能，以充分利用该程序来满足您所有的摄影需求。从导入您的图像到编辑、管理和导出您的文件，Jeff展示了Luumar的强大、精确度和控制力，同时教您快速高效地工作。在这本书中，他带领你通过真实世界的风景和肖像编辑，并涵盖了每一个工具和功能，目的是帮助你了解如何让卢米纳改善你的形象。

在本书中，您将了解到以下所有内容：

• AI编辑：*Lnuar AI的许多基于AI的工具消除了数小时的传统编辑任务。只使用一个滑块来改善整体色调和颜色，并使用另一个滑块来增强天空，而不需要构建蒙版或层。一步到位地替换整个天空，即使是建筑物或树木等物体侵入时也是如此。勒米纳识别照片中的面孔，允许您在几分钟内平滑皮肤、锐化眼睛、使脸部变亮，并执行其他肖像润色任务。
• 专家编辑：我们将利用鲁米纳的众多专业工具，为您的照片带来最好的版本。使用色调控制和曲线、减淡和加深以及为特定类型的图像构建的工具(如景观增强器、可调渐变和黑白转换)来增强外观。擦除和复制图章工具可以轻松删除意外物体和故障，如镜头灰尘斑点。鲁米纳的原始编辑引擎包括实时降噪和高级色彩处理和锐化工具，所有这些都是完全无损的，并具有回退编辑历史的能力。
• 高级编辑：他们使用蒙版、混合模式和镜头校正来组合编辑和效果。
• 创意：打开你的想象力与鲁米纳的创造性工具，从增加辉光，纹理，和戏剧性的外观，将阳光和物体加入到增强的天空。
• 预设和LUT(查找表)：了解如何使用Lumar Look预设和LUT将模拟胶片库存的外观和创意色彩等级带到您的工作中。
• 鲁米纳尔图书馆： 在中央库中组织和管理您的照片，您的源映像可以驻留在您想要的位置，无论是在您的硬盘、网络卷上，还是在本地云服务文件夹(如Dropbox或Google Drive)中以进行远程备份。
• Luminar plug-ins:
• *如果您已经使用其他应用程序来组织图库或进行照片编辑，如Adobe Photoshop或Lightroom Classic，Lnuar AI还可以作为插件使用，允许进行往返编辑并与您可能已有的工作流程无缝集成。
• 共享图像：无论您是打印图像还是在网上共享图像，无论您需要哪种输出解决方案，都可以了解如何让您的照片呈现最佳效果。