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Again trying to get into the hang of photo editing. This one appears to be a relatively straightforward edit and it kind of is but I struggled with this one a lot more than I had expected.

The issue I have is that other programs such as GIMP etc are a lot more technical than I would like and I struggle to really navigate around the program like I would like to. Doing something as simple as adding a mask/layer to an image and then making that layer darker to create a dark background is a lot harder than you would think. The issue I had with Luminar AI is that for some reason it couldn't handle me slowly painting around the subject with a mask layer and would frequently crash. The issue I had with Luminar Neo is that it could handle drawing a mask layer but i had not really figured out it's layered system...

But now it seems like i've figured out the details of how the layers work in Luminar Neo. Hopefully over time maybe i can graduate to more complicated programs such as GIMP, Corel Paintshop, Krita etc.

Below is the process:

1: added one layer where I slowly painted around the subject to darken the area. This was a painfully slow process as I had to ensure that the darker layer would seemlessly and gently overlap the subject only partially darknening the edges of the subject but not in a way that is noticeable. So as you would imagine this took a lot of trial and error.

2: When i thought I was done with the layer I tried to darken as much as possible but a single darkening layer barely darkened the image at all. So what I did was I duplicated the darkening layer over and over again maybe 3-4 times to get the desired black background. It is at this stage I realized that the overlap wasn't as good as I would like it to be, appeared choppy in places...

3: Systemically i would remove all the darkened layers and edit the original darkening layer bit by bit. I would then duplicate the layers again to see if it had the desired result, if not i'd remove the duplicated layers and edit it some more. Rinse and repeat until i got desired results.

4: Finally i added two more layers to do some very basic tweaks with the colour of the subject itself. I found that as the rainbow lorikeet is a very vibrantly coloured bird only the most basic and slight edits would really work. Going greyscale probably would be overkill. Perhaps next time I could do a close up image of a lorikeet and play around with its eye.

Program used: Luminar Neo

original image:

As with the previous edit this is a relatively straight forward edit so i don't actually have any variant images to show off.

Description

Again trying to get into the hang of photo editing. This one appears to be a relatively straightforward edit and it kind of is but I struggled with this one a lot more than I had expected.

The issue I have is that other programs such as GIMP etc are a lot more technical than I would like and I struggle to really navigate around the program like I would like to. Doing something as simple as adding a mask/layer to an image and then making that layer darker to create a dark background is a lot harder than you would think. The issue I had with Luminar AI is that for some reason it couldn't handle me slowly painting around the subject with a mask layer and would frequently crash. The issue I had with Luminar Neo is that it could handle drawing a mask layer but i had not really figured out it's layered system...

But now it seems like i've figured out the details of how the layers work in Luminar Neo. Hopefully over time maybe i can graduate to more complicated programs such as GIMP, Corel Paintshop, Krita etc.

Below is the process:

1: added one layer where I slowly painted around the subject to darken the area. This was a painfully slow process as I had to ensure that the darker layer would seemlessly and gently overlap the subject only partially darknening the edges of the subject but not in a way that is noticeable. So as you would imagine this took a lot of trial and error.

2: When i thought I was done with the layer I tried to darken as much as possible but a single darkening layer barely darkened the image at all. So what I did was I duplicated the darkening layer over and over again maybe 3-4 times to get the desired black background. It is at this stage I realized that the overlap wasn't as good as I would like it to be, appeared choppy in places...

3: Systemically i would remove all the darkened layers and edit the original darkening layer bit by bit. I would then duplicate the layers again to see if it had the desired result, if not i'd remove the duplicated layers and edit it some more. Rinse and repeat until i got desired results.

4: Finally i added two more layers to do some very basic tweaks with the colour of the subject itself. I found that as the rainbow lorikeet is a very vibrantly coloured bird only the most basic and slight edits would really work. Going greyscale probably would be overkill. Perhaps next time I could do a close up image of a lorikeet and play around with its eye.

Program used: Luminar Neo

original image:

As with the previous edit this is a relatively straight forward edit so i don't actually have any variant images to show off.