Skylum is known for its excellent stable of award-winning photo-editing software such as Luminar 2018 and Aurora HDR. Recently, Photolemur has joined the team and you can now enjoy enhancing your images easily using AI allowing those of us who are not professionals or who lack the knowledge and skills to use curves and layers etc to still get excellent results.
To give you an idea of what's possible I have put together a little example of an edit of a photo I took on a recent trip to the north-west of England. It was a very sunny day so the conditions were very bright and contrasty, meaning that some of the highlights were somewhat burnt out, as you can see in the sky in the first image below.
The image was taken on my Fuji X-T2 in RAW and opened in Apple Preview on my Mac. No editing was done and it was saved as a JPEG. As you can see, the clouds are burnt out, the image lacks overall contrast and appears a little flat.
Here is the image being opened in Photolemur. I have included a short series of images to illustrate the process but as it is all virtually automated once you choose your image it happens pretty quick. With a capable computer (powerful cpu, graphics card and lots of RAM) it only takes seconds to process a RAW file of 50MBs - impressive!
So, whilst Photolemur is doing it's magic it displays a pretty animation and some helpful information about what the AI is up to.
More magic at work.....
Once the magic is done it displays the processed image with a slider to show the 'before' and 'after' image. At the bottom right is a brush icon (more on that in a second) and an 'export' button. If you are happy with the result, you can just click the export button and Photolemur will apply the full effect to your image and export the result, either to file or to a service such as Facebook, Twitter or Flickr (see below).
However, if you would like to tone down the impact of Photolemur's processing then by clicking the brush icon you then get a slider that allows you to choose a setting between the original and Photolemur's effect, which it calls 'boost' (see above). Once happy with your choice, you can then hit that export button.
As well as exporting the final image to file you can export to Flickr, email. Facebook, Twitter and Snapheal.
If you choose to export to disk (as a file) then you get the usual options of where to save the file and adding tags (on the Mac) but yo also get an advanced settings option (see below). You can, of course, save your file as a JPEG, PNG etc.
The Advanced Settings option allows you to automatically add prefix/suffix etc to filenames, change colour profile, resize image etc and create presets.
Once you are done exporting you can import another image and continue working on your masterpieces.
Now, for final result of my image.
As you can see, Photolemur has recovered some of the details in the highlights, helped no doubt by the fact the original was shot in RAW. However, I think the image still lacks a bit of punch and so I tweaked it slightly in Apple's Preview using the auto function.
Personally, I prefer this version as it has a bit much contrast and better blacks. However, overall, I think Photolemur did and excellent job and it handled a very lack RAW file well, processed it quickly in under a minute on a 4 year-old MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and didn't require any great technical knowledge or skills with the likes of Photoshop, Lightroom or other expensive photo editing software.
If you are looking for an inexpensive photo editor that doesn't require great heaps of technical knowledge or huge amounts of time to learn then you should seriously consider Photolemur. Visit here and use this code STEVENDALE to get 30% off for a limited time only.
To give you an idea of what's possible I have put together a little example of an edit of a photo I took on a recent trip to the north-west of England. It was a very sunny day so the conditions were very bright and contrasty, meaning that some of the highlights were somewhat burnt out, as you can see in the sky in the first image below.
Here is the image being opened in Photolemur. I have included a short series of images to illustrate the process but as it is all virtually automated once you choose your image it happens pretty quick. With a capable computer (powerful cpu, graphics card and lots of RAM) it only takes seconds to process a RAW file of 50MBs - impressive!
So, whilst Photolemur is doing it's magic it displays a pretty animation and some helpful information about what the AI is up to.
More magic at work.....
Once the magic is done it displays the processed image with a slider to show the 'before' and 'after' image. At the bottom right is a brush icon (more on that in a second) and an 'export' button. If you are happy with the result, you can just click the export button and Photolemur will apply the full effect to your image and export the result, either to file or to a service such as Facebook, Twitter or Flickr (see below).
However, if you would like to tone down the impact of Photolemur's processing then by clicking the brush icon you then get a slider that allows you to choose a setting between the original and Photolemur's effect, which it calls 'boost' (see above). Once happy with your choice, you can then hit that export button.
As well as exporting the final image to file you can export to Flickr, email. Facebook, Twitter and Snapheal.
If you choose to export to disk (as a file) then you get the usual options of where to save the file and adding tags (on the Mac) but yo also get an advanced settings option (see below). You can, of course, save your file as a JPEG, PNG etc.
The Advanced Settings option allows you to automatically add prefix/suffix etc to filenames, change colour profile, resize image etc and create presets.
Once you are done exporting you can import another image and continue working on your masterpieces.
Now, for final result of my image.
As you can see, Photolemur has recovered some of the details in the highlights, helped no doubt by the fact the original was shot in RAW. However, I think the image still lacks a bit of punch and so I tweaked it slightly in Apple's Preview using the auto function.
If you are looking for an inexpensive photo editor that doesn't require great heaps of technical knowledge or huge amounts of time to learn then you should seriously consider Photolemur. Visit here and use this code STEVENDALE to get 30% off for a limited time only.
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