Learn how to composite in Luminar Neo
How to Master Painterly Effects with Luminar
Are you ready to transform your photography into captivating works of art? In this immersive experience, I'll unveil the secrets of harnessing layers and masking techniques to create painterly effects with your photos. You will learn how to use painted backgrounds, textures, and overlays to make your photos truly look like a masterpiece using the software Luminar Neo. This is a previous Live Recording at 1:15:22.
What is in the Online Course
Video Tutorial
Plus Images
Overlays
Painterly Backgrounds
In this virtual course, you will be able to watch the pre-recorded video and learn at your own pace how to recreate three different composites: landscape, portrait, and animal. You will receive and be able to download all the images, overlays, and painterly backgrounds associated with each lesson, allowing you to follow along seamlessly. These resources will enable you to practice the techniques demonstrated and refine your skills throughout the course. By the end, you'll comprehensively understand how to combine various elements to produce stunning, artistic composites using Luminar Neo.
What’s Included
Section One
Fisherman
Landscape Composite
In this section of the tutorial, you will learn the essential keys to compositing landscapes with painterly backgrounds. You will explore how to seamlessly blend a fisherman into a serene, artistically painted landscape through a detailed step-by-step process. Key techniques will include integrating painterly textures over your photograph, moving the painterly background to match the size of your photo, the rule of thirds, masking, HSL, and changing the opacity to create a cohesive and visually captivating composite. And how and why to add overlays to add more interest to your composite.
By the end of this section, you'll have mastered the foundational skills needed to transform ordinary landscape photos into extraordinary works of art.
1- Fisherman Photograph
1- Painterly Background
2- Overlays
Section Two
Child Jumping in Clouds
Portrait Composite
In this section of the tutorial, you will learn the essential keys to compositing portraits with painterly backgrounds. You will explore how to seamlessly blend a child jumping into the clouds, with an artistically painted landscape through a detailed step-by-step process. Key techniques will include how to use AI masking with Luminar Neo to cut out the figure from the background, masking with a negative and a positive brush, positioning the figure, duplicating a layer, opacity, integrating painterly textures over your photograph, quick blending modes tutoria,l and changing the opacity to create a cohesive and visually captivating composite.
By the end of this section, you'll have mastered the foundational skills needed to transform ordinary portrait photos into extraordinary works of art.
1- Child Jumping Photograph
1- Painterly Background
Section Three
Buffalo
Animal Composite
This tutorial section will teach you the essential keys to compositing animals with painterly backgrounds. You will explore how to seamlessly blend an animal with an artistically painted landscape through a detailed step-by-step process. Key techniques will include matching your horizon line, using the subtraction method to mask, changing the brush opacity to add parts of the image back in, and duplicating a layer to help create a cohesive and visually captivating composite.
By the end of this section, you'll have mastered the foundational skills needed to transform ordinary animal photos into extraordinary works of art.
1- Buffalo Photograph
1- Painterly Background
Are you ready to transform your photography into captivating works of art? In this immersive experience, I'll unveil the secrets of harnessing layers and masking techniques to create painterly effects with your photos. You will learn how to use painted backgrounds, textures, and overlays to make your photos truly look like a masterpiece using the software Luminar Neo. This is a previous Live Recording at 1:15:22.