Doc Barry wrote:
Our great-niece took a photograph of her daughter in her prom dress (yes, she is wearing new tennis shoes as seems to be the style for young ones) at the Big Springs Park in Huntsville, Ala. She used a Canon EOS Rebel T6. You may notice the focus on her face is not quite on the mark and the composition could have been better. The image she sent me was 640x960.
I have a variety of programs for post-processing, but I figured that Luminar NEO would be appropriate. The first step was to use the Upscale feature to increase the pixel density for obvious reasons. I note that Upscale and Topaz Gigapixels yield similar results based on some tests I have made. Next, I cropped the original and then used the Develop, Noiseless, and Supersharp functions. The background is disturbingly sharp and detracts from the "star" of the day. I finished up using the Portrait Bokeh feature (almost a single step) and the Face and Skin features in the Portrait Section. The Portrait Bokeh features locates her and masked her beautifully and introduced the bokeh as shown below. I found that Lunimar NEO did a fine job of "fixing" the disturbing background.
Luminar NEO has essentially replaced Luminar AI and I feel does a better job. The Skylum Team seems to be working their rear ends off adding new features and improving existing features.
Our great-niece and our great-great-niece were very pleased with the results of my post-effort. BTW, it took less than 10 minutes as I recall.
Our great-niece took a photograph of her daughter ... (
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It's not the shoes, it's the porn dress.
Oops, I am so dislexic. 🤣