

The sliders really do allow you to adjust to taste, and used carefully, I found the effect very realistic and useable. There are many controls within the BokehAI panel, and I tried them all. After blurring the background, I also slightly warmed the color temperature. Here's a split screen that shows how effective the software can be.

The photographer easily retains control of the amount and look of the bokeh. I am really not a portrait photographer, but I used some of the Skylum-supplied samples and scrounged up a few portraits by other photographers to give the Bokeh feature a try. The horizon blend control has been replaced with a tool that lets you more accurately define the blend of the horizon, allowing a better match between the ground and the cloud background. This control allows the artist to better position a replacement sky in the frame to align it with the horizon and create a much more seamless and natural final image. The Vertical Position, Horizontal Position, and Horizon Blending sliders have been replaced with the Shifting Horizon Control, found in the Sky Orientation section. The software has also made some changes in how replacement skies are aligned to the horizon in SkyAI. Artists can also load their own textures for reuse to build up a library of their favorites. Your own textures are now also accessible right within the dropdown grid.

To understand how a texture might fit your work in progress, you can now visually browse textures just as you do with SkyAI and Augmented SkyAI tools. Skylum has improved textures to help artists see how they might be used to achieve their creative vision. Combined with the tools already in LuminarAI, like FaceAI, SkinAI, and BodyAI, a photographer can make subjects stand out in the frame. In addition to adjustable bokeh, artists can further refine the background using sliders to adjust the background exposure, add glow to highlights, set a specific depth of field, and refine edges. Now, Bokeh PortraitAI works on any portrait. While the bokeh is automatically generated, it is entirely controlled by the person editing via a single slider.Īccording to Skylum, traditionally, creamy bokeh could require expensive cameras and lenses coupled with complex lighting. The mask is generated automatically, but the artist can still refine and customize the mask to add or subtract focus to a photo. LuminarAI can recognize people in a photo and can create the perfect mask to separate subjects from the background. The BokehAI feature also offers intelligent mask creation. With subjects isolated from the background, Portrait BokehAI blurs the background to emulate the rich, hazy bokeh of a high-end lens at a wide-open aperture. It recognizes people in groups or in unusual positions or poses. This feature will have the biggest appeal to portrait or wedding photographers. Complete Control of Focus With Portrait BokehAI
