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Create a dreamy, saturated look
Start by increasing the saturation and brightness of the
warmer colours and vice versa for cool colours. Open
Split Color Warmth filter and slide Warm to 20, and Cool to -20.
Open the Image Radiance filter. Set Amount to 10, Smoothness
to -100 Brightness to 0 and Shadows to 50 for a dreamy look.
2
Bring back the shadows and structure
To bring back the shadows, open the Advanced
Contrast filter. Move the Highlights Amount to 60,
Midtones to 90 and Shadows to 50. Set the balance as above.
Now open a Microstructure filter and slide the Amount slider to
15 to bring back some more details.
3
Create a dreamy effect and save your Look
Finally, open a Color Balance filter and set the values as
above, or to values that work for your scene. Then add
an Orton Effect filter. Choose Type 1, set the Amount to 10 and
Softness to 40. Once you’re happy with the look of your image,
click Save Luminar Look to create your own preset.
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THE FLEX PLUG-IN
MAX RIVE WHY LUMINAR IS KEY
TO MY UNIQUEEDITINGSTYLE
Luminar Flex is a great way to
explore the power of Luminar in a
plug-in. Working with Photoshop
and Lightroom, you get full access to
Skylum’s powerful range of filters to
improve your creative image editing.I use Luminar because it offers some unique filters
that Adobe doesn’t. With these filters I can bring my
processing to another level – a level which I didn’t
know was possible until I found Luminar. I don’t necessarily
consider it a full replacement for the range of Adobe tools,
but instead, I see it as more of an essential supplement of
every photographer’s processing workflow. It definitely
helps me create my unique style, for which I’m so well
known today, and I can’t see myself being without it.Above & below Max attributes Luminar with allowing him to
create and develop his eye-catching signature editing style.