My feeling when using both applications is that Luminar Neo was much easier to use, gave good results and produced a noticably better image that what I started with. However, it is not perfect and with the image used here, it suffered similar problems with dealing with the hairline of the subject. PortraitPro Studio 21 is probably one of the better portrait editing tools on the market today. Luminar Neo Relight on the left, PortraitPro Studio 21 on the right There is no doubt that with additional work both could be improved greatly but as a tart point, they hopefully allow some useful comparison. Since the edits are done in different packages there is some difference in the overall colours and tones but the comparison is really to allow you to see what each application has achieved. Here’s the final image associated with the edits discussed presented so that we can compare it to the results from Luminar Neo. As with all the tools in PortraitPro Studio 21 there are a lot of options but for this edit I only wanted to apply light to the right hand side of the face as we look at the photo so as to provide more even tone agross the face as whole. The final step required is to relight the face and this is done using the Skin Lighting & Colouring tool. Once the background is isolated, it is a simple job to change whatever parameters you feel will provide the end result you are looking for, In this case I used just brightness and exposure but I could have used blur, contrast and even a tone curve to make the changes I wanted. In general terms, seperating the background from the foreground is a one click process as here Seperating the foreground from the backgroundĪs can be seen, the background is now really well seperated from the foreground including the areas that Relight Ai had problems with. This process creates an editable mask which can be fine tuned to give better results. Looking at the background first, PortraitPro Studio 21 provides the ability to seperate the foreground image (the face) from the background. However, this would not provide a fair comparison so I used only those stated above. Being software designed specifically for portrait work PortraitPro Studio 21 has many additional tools that I could have used. In PortraitPro Studio 21 I used just two tools these being Skin Lighting & Colouring which affects the relighting of the face and the Layers tool to modify the background. I also used two other tools to affect the Mood and the Colour. In Luminar Neo, see Part 1 for much more detail on exactly what was done, the relighting of the portrait is handled by Relight Ai. The User Interface for PortraitPro Studio 21 It is somewhat different to that in Luminar Neo, somewhat busier and focused on the face but that is not surprising as PortraitPro Studio 21 is really designed o do a different job. Here is what the UI of PortraitPro Studio 21 looks like. Nomally I would recommend starting with the RAW file when editing but the importance here of where we end up is less of interest than the journey itself so the jpeg works equally as well. Since I had chosen to use the jpeg version of this image in Luminar Neo I again I started with the jpeg in PortraitPro Studio 21. No attempt has been made to enhance the portrait in either software, firstly because the beta version of Luminar Neo I have access to has no significant portrait capabilities and secondly because I really only wanted to look at how easy it is in both software solutions to effect large global changes to the overall lighting of the portrait.įor this comparison I used exactly the same start point, the image of my friend Chris as shown in Part 1. This second part looks at how PortraitPro Studio 21 handles the exact same job. In Part 1 of this two part examination of Luminar Neo I looked at how Relight Ai handled a typical portrait taken under difficult lighting.
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