Special offer on Luminar 4

I’ve written before about the sky replacement capabilities of Luminar 4 from Skylum, although, of course, the program does much more than that. To be honest, I’m so used to Photoshop and Lightroom that I haven’t had the time or inclination to investigate its other features, but if you are looking for more “One-click” improvements to your images, I’m sure it can deliver! I’ve been playing with its sky replacement functions when I have either a concept in mind that needs a specific sort of sky, or if I have an image with a boring blue sky. I’ve also been taking more skies of my own – whenever I see an interesting blue sky with clouds, or a sunset, I take a panoramic set of images of it to give me a very high resolution file that I will be able to use in future.

As an example, I wanted to create an image that showed the potential problems still ahead on trade between the UK and the EU after the Brexit deal:

All I had to start with was an image of a cargo ship at sea without much sky being present (and what was there was very boring):

I was able to create a larger frame, fill it with a new stormy sky without any messing about with masks around the ship itself, and then I could composite my message into the shot. Not a big seller yet, but there is still time!

But my main reason for writing about this now is that there is a sale on (and I’m sorry but I think this is for US and Canada buyers) between February 1st to 3rd on this software. The sale reduces the price to $79 plus throws in two sky packs into the bundle plus a new offer of an additional $10 off the price if you use my promo code “BackyardSilver” when you are checking out. This promo code should always work to give you $10 off the price, but it is rare for it to work in conjunction with another offer. Please note you need to use capitals just as I have done above.

Here is the affiliate link for the offer.