Scratching Fox – Bokeh AI Function not active.

Peanut Close Up Portrait – Bokeh AI Function active but a lot of manual masking is required.

Close Up Wolf Portrait – Bokeh AI Function active but a lot of manual masking is required.

Mask Created by Portrait AI in Luminar Neo of Wolf Photograph Luminar Neo Portrait Bokeh AI Animal Test Results There are also additional sliders to adjust the background: Brightness, Highlights Glove, and Warmth.īokeh AI also has a Brush Feature where you can manually paint focus on your subject or paint (erase) defocus on your background. With Portrait Bokeh you can also fine tune the depth correction of the focus and fine tune edges of your subject just by moving sliders.

Portrait Bokeh AI will automatically detect your human subject and allow you to blur the background bringing more focus to your subject. In both applications, Bokeh AI did not work for bird and animal photographs. I tested Portrait Bokeh AI bird and animal photographs in both Luminar AI and Luminar NEO. Does Luminar Portrait Bokeh AI Work for Birds and Wildlife? In fact, it worked so well, I wondered if it would work for bird and animal photographs. I’ve used Luminar Portrait Bokeh AI on human portraits and it works really well with minimal painting required on the mask. As we increase the matte look, you'll see that it really helps bring out the shadows and definition in some of the darker areas.Portrait Bokeh AI was introduced with Update 4 to Luminar AI and looks to be improved with Luminar Neo. But I'm going to drag that up a little bit so it happens earlier. I'll click to add, and it puts it at the bottom of the stack. In this case, it's going to take this classic image, with very traditional dress and make it feel a little bit aged.

Let's add the matte look filter here, and this is really going to help age the photo. Another one called high-key will create a slightly overexposed image with a lot of contrast, and it's often used for fashion shoots. The matte filter is great at producing images that have higher contrast and lower saturation values.

While Luminar offers several filters that you can use on your images, there are a couple that are well designed for portraits.

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