![]() ![]() Next, the Top & Bottom Lighting filter which does exactly as you’d expect – I add some lighting to the bottom of the image. Turning up the brightness and slightly lowering the contrast in the Brightness / Contrast filter adjusts the whole image. ![]() Our foreground is still quite dark, so I combine several filters to improve this. ![]() I use the Split Color Warmth filter to add just a touch of colour to this – brilliant white colours now appear golden, and some pink is added to the horizon’s glow. Some lights can be seen on the horizon as we look east, which creates some interesting illumination but introduces some unwelcome colours to the frame. In doing so, we lose some brightness, but we can continue working on this. Here, I use the Remove Color Cast filter to adjust this automatically. There’s still quite a strong purple tone to the foreground – if you examine the foliage you’ll notice that green grass and moss is just a little off-colour. If the colour tone is still not quite right, a subtle adjustment with Luminar’s Color Temperature filter will do the trick.Ī subtle adjustment of the Foliage Enhancer will gently increase the luminosity and saturation of green tones in your image, instantly making the grass and moss become more visible. Instantly, highlights are calmed down, details are brought out of the darkness, and colour tones are instantly improved. My first step in most image edits is to use Luminar’s amazing AI Accent filter, a content-aware filter which analyses the image and automatically enhances it. Step 1 – Foreground Start with some AI Accent magic With a little time and Skylum’s incredible Luminar software, we can take process this shot into a portfolio quality image with punchier colours and properly show off the astronomical detail in the sky. There’s quite a strong colour cast to the image, a very dark foreground with a lot of lost detail, and the Milky Way is very faint. ![]() Though it is in focus and composed pleasingly, there’s still some work to do. Captured on a starry night on the Pembrokeshire coast, this image combines the rugged scenery with the Milky Way and a small meteor to the top right of frame. ![]()
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