One can easily see the possibilities: improving a background by softening the focus or completely replacing a background. Once Luminar is open and an image is in the editor, all you have to do is select Portrait Background Removal. Then, the image can be exported as a PNG file for compositing, or you can do the work within Neo using the layers function. Manual masking and separating people from the background is a lot of boring work to me. My creative spark can be extinguished by this routine. ![]() With Luminar’s new Portrait Background Removal tool, nothing will slow down the creativity. You can freely explore any and all of your wildest ideas. – Ivan Kutanin, CEO of Skylum Using Background Removal Sometimes, you'll have to refine the AI-selected image, and Neo helps with that as well. AI helps you to omit pixel-by-pixel selections in refinement brush mode. The portrait and the background behind will be highlighted in different colors. With Portrait Background tool you can create a Christmas calendar for the whole family or a personalized greeting card, make a profile photo for your Linkedin, or just some fun memes for friends. With automatic Portrait Background removal, nothing will slow down your creativity. Even if you’ve never worked with mask selection, you’ll understand the workflow by following the signs on the brushes. Your creative spark can be extinguished by this routine. From the submenu of options, choose Portrait Background at the bottom. Transition brush refines the edges by removing unnecessary elements where the portrait and background touch. Luminar Neo’s Portrait Background removal feature is located in the Edit tab under Layer Properties in the Masking tab. Object brush revives portrait details that may have been eliminated by the neural network, while Background brush helps to additionally remove parts that aren’t detected by the AI.īackground removal is going to be embraced by portrait photographers, and in a quick advance look, it seems to work as advertised. Working on a Mac Studio, the application doesn't seem laggy at these AI-intensive tasks. ![]() ![]() Here's a before image: (Images provided by Skylum) I didn't find the cutouts perfect, but with the included tools, I could quickly clean up edges and hair. (I'm a landscape guy, not a portrait photographer so my resources were limited, and my portraits are nothing to write home about.) My Thoughts on Luminar Neo I hate to use Skylum images, but playing with a few images I had in my archive, I found the results similar. Luminar Neo is quickly becoming a full-featured raw editor, and for many images, I can use Neo only and get away without jumping in and out of Lightroom or Photoshop. On the other hand, Neo is still missing some tools I almost always edit with, including a clone tool and dodge and burn. Those features were in the older Luminar app, so I expect it's just a matter of time before they appear in Neo.
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