Go further in Luminar Neo

How to use Al-assisted tools to quickly enhance your people pics

- George Cairns

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN How to use AI to improve complexions, add impact to eyes and create a soft-focus background

YOU’LL NEED Luminar Neo, macOS 10.14.6

People are one of the most common photographic subjects. To reflect this fact, Luminar Neo (£67, from skylum.com) has an Edit workspace that provides a comprehensive collection of portrait-enhancing tools.

Traditionally, portrait retouchers using apps such as Lightroom Classic would deploy brush-based tools to manually target and tweak the colours and tones of features, such as eyes and skin. Thanks to its Machine Learning (ML) component, Luminar Neo enables you to retouch portraits more quickly.

Luminar Neo can recognise that a person is in the picture, enabling it to automatically blur their background to create a flattering bokeh without you needing to spend lots of time making a manual selection. The app also recognises the components of a face so you can instantly adjust the properties of the subject’s eyes, mouth, and even eyebrows by dragging sliders. Again, no manual selections are required to target specific parts of the face. We’ll show you how to put the most useful portrait-enhancing tools through their AI-assisted paces.

EXPLAINED... The Luminar Neo Edit workspace

HOW TO Use Al tools to refine your portraits

1 Blur background