

If you want to restore an area, you can switch back to “focus” and then simply paint on top of it to fix it. You can switch to the “defocus” mode, then use the bracket keys to control the brush size, now you can paint on top of these areas to exclude them from the mask, and you can also use the shift and bracket keys to control the softness of the brush. We can try to fix that using the “edge correction” slider, which will help the image a little bit, but what we can do now is use the brush tool to fix them. In this example, if I increase the amount of Bokeh, you will see that Luminar has missed some areas If you hover over the canvas, you will see a preview of the mask that Luminar created, and you can use the brush tool to paint on top of this mask, In Luminar Neo they introduced the layers feature, so if you close the tab of any particular feature, and then reopen it again, you will see that all the settings will be reset, that’s because it’s now moved under the “edits” section, and there you can continue making changes to the features you appliedĪnd you can also stack them on top of each other, and you even have the ability to stack multiple layers of the same effect. Quick Tip: you can toggle the before and after preview using the backslash key \ on your keyboard, and you can also control the visibility of the individual features by clicking on the eye icon. You also have the edge correction slider, which will help you fix the edges of details like hair.

You can also do some changes to the background by expanding the background section, and from there, you can control the depth of the blur by decreasing the “Depth Correction” slider, and as you can see, the blur depth is now much closer to the foreground.

Portrait Bokeh is a feature that’s been in Luminar Ai for quite some time, and it’s also available in Luminar Neo, you can find it under the portrait section, click on it to expand it, and then all you have to do is to increase the amount to blur the background.Īs you can see the subject was automatically masked out and the background is blurred. Starting with the first feature in this list which is “portrait Bokeh”. Whether you are an existing user of Luminar Ai or completely new to Skylum Software, this video will give you a better look at Luminar Neo and help you decide if it is for you. Today, I’m going to show you the best 6 Luminar Neo features that will make your photo editing workflow so much faster and easier. Luminar Ai was a great software and such a time saver for many people with features like sky replacement, portrait bokeh, retouching, and more, and with the introduction of their new software Luminar Neo, they introduced many new improvements as well as new features
