Skylum has just released their fourth free update of Luminar AI. The update introduces the all-new Portrait Bokeh AI. If you are a follower of our posts, you will see that we are huge fans of Luminar AI (and Luminar 4). For us, as travel photographers, we really love the amazing technology that this software offers. In our style of photography, we don’t always have the luxury (or time) to switch lenses when in the field. So, on the odd occasion, having some control over the background blur in post-processing that is fast and easy to use would be a real benefit to our workflow. So we were quite keen to check out Portrait Bokeh AI when it was introduced in the latest update to Luminar AI. With the use of AI (artificial intelligence), Portrait Bokeh AI does a great job of recognizing individuals, groups of people, or unusually posed people in an image. The AI combined with the 3D depth-mapping technology can calculate distances in a photo, making it fast and easy to create background blur in seconds. Though this type of processing is available in other software it can be quite complex to achieve and is usually best created in software such as Adobe Photoshop.

It can involve using multiple layers and masking which can be time-consuming.

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