Luminar 4 debuts with automatic sky replacement filter for your photos

Programmer Skylum has announced Luminar 4, the next major version of the photo editing app, will launch this fall. Ahead of the update's launch, Skylum is teasing several new features for Skylum 4, and the first is the new heaven replacement tool.

Sky replacement does exactly what it says on the tin can, allowing you to easily reaplace the sky in your photographs while taking all of the hard work out of the procedure. Using a mix of AI smarts, the feature can change the look of a bland sky to something more inviting, tweaking the rest of your photograph to match the lighting.

Typically, to accomplish such a chore, you lot'd have to manually adjust layers and use tools like smart selection, brushes, and masking. Luminar 4 will take all of those steps out of the process and automatically adjust the sky in your photos and apply the desired effects to the rest of the scene.

There'southward no solid release date for Luminar 4 only notwithstanding, merely Skylum expects the update to launch this autumn. The company is also planning a beta testing period alee of launch. For now, y'all can check out Luminar iii from $seventy at Skylum.

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