Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

1. PL4
2. SNS-HDR > save 2 TIFs a. Good foreground and b, Good stars
3. Tweak a. in PS > save a a TIF.
4. Starting with b., extract the stars and save as a jpg
5. Luminar AI > replace sky with saved starts
6. Tidy up in PS

I seem to prefer the blue / red color scheme for starry nights. I bought a Luminar preset package a year ago and this is one of the presets, with adjustments.
I used Topaz Denoise except removed that mask from the water.

That was a fantastic RAW file. Pretty much anything works on this image. 10s at f1.4 was great; I've can go as low as f2.0 with my kit and that pushes me to around 20s on these exposures.

Cheers,

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Stiga wrote in post #19355963
2. SNS-HDR > save 2 TIFs a. Good foreground and b, Good stars

That's a fine idea for the foreground Martin. Masking the sky against the mountain looks to need a bit of cleanup, but that foreground technique seems to have worked very well.

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GlimmerMan wrote in post #19356837
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Very cool!

rrblint wrote in post #19356867
Very cool!

Thanks! I've always loved the double exposure feature in Nik AnalogEfex. Wish I could achieve those effects in-camera. Cheers,

As usual -- not competing, just fiddling with lights . . .

Mostly edited in Camera Raw.

There was a new version of Luminar NEO to download this week so I thought I'd give it a try with this image, and use bokeh capabilities and a few other sliders. Cloned out the table first in AI (no Clone yet in NEO) and straightened and cropped a bit. Then to NEO: passed image through Portrait Bokeh twice, then brought in an abstract sparkly layer, masked the subject, and changed the background layer to B&W, and let just a bit of the colour from the original layer bleed through. Some face lighting and a few other sliders; removed facial shine, and a bit of touch-up cloning back in Luminar 4. Hands (esp her left) are still awkward but didn't attempt.

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RDWP wrote in post #19357501
There was a new version of Luminar NEO to download this week so I thought I'd give it a try with this image, and use bokeh capabilities and a few other sliders. Cloned out the table first in AI (no Clone yet in NEO) and straightened and cropped a bit. Then to NEO: passed image through Portrait Bokeh twice, then brought in an abstract sparkly layer, masked the subject, and changed the background layer to B&W, and let just a bit of the colour from the original layer bleed through. Some face lighting and a few other sliders; removed facial shine, and a bit of touch-up cloning back in Luminar 4. Hands (esp her left) are still awkward but didn't attempt.

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Nice work Rob. Glad you're back!

Thanks - Having a look over at the Post Processing Game too.

RDWP wrote in post #19357501
There was a new version of Luminar NEO to download this week so I thought I'd give it a try with this image, and use bokeh capabilities and a few other sliders. Cloned out the table first in AI (no Clone yet in NEO) and straightened and cropped a bit. Then to NEO: passed image through Portrait Bokeh twice, then brought in an abstract sparkly layer, masked the subject, and changed the background layer to B&W, and let just a bit of the colour from the original layer bleed through. Some face lighting and a few other sliders; removed facial shine, and a bit of touch-up cloning back in Luminar 4. Hands (esp her left) are still awkward but didn't attempt.

(Hi folks - back again!)

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Very interesting workflow and a great result.

Good to see you back on this thread

Thanks. Trying some new things with Skylum/Luminar. At this point I find that L4, Ai and NEO all have a place, though hoping that Neo when fully implemented will do all. This page from their site updates their software situation:

https://skylum.com …fects-skylums-operations-

I think I'll go ahead and call this one. Very nice edits all, but my favorite is GlimmerMan's double exposure of the Lady in Red with cfdesigns' version of Mt Rainier coming in second. Congrats and it's all yours GlimmerMan!