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Luminar AI review from a hobbyist photographer’s eyes

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Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more integrated into image editing. And the first editing software that comes to mind when you mention AI is Luminar AI (announced here). I was honestly curious to test it out ever since it came to market. So I did, and I thought it would be great to share my impressions.

I would describe myself as an experienced hobbyist. I’m not a pro photographer, but I have some experience and have been doing it for a long time. I’m going to write this review for the average Joe photographer. Mostly because I think Luminar AI is more suitable for “everyday shooters.” That said,  even if you’re a professional, feel free to check out how it performs and decide if it would be something you’d incorporate into your workflow.

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Avoid these seven mistakes all beginner landscape photographers make

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We all make tons of mistakes as photographers, but naturally, we tend to make more of them when we’re just starting out. While learning from our own mistakes is effective, it’s a painstaking process. After all, learning from the mistakes of others is better because “you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” So, in this video, Nigel Danson shares seven of the most common mistakes made by beginner landscape photographers. Hopefully, they will help you skip making them yourself and you’ll improve your photography skills.

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Blackmagic adds AI text editing in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Public Beta

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During NAB 2023, Blackmagic Design announced the new DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Public Beta. Building on what is already a very solid video editing platform, Blackmagic – like just about everybody else – is jumping on AI to help improve and speed up the editing workflow. Probably the biggest new feature in the Resolve 18.5 Beta is AI-powered speech recognition and subtitle generation, with text-based editing.

The complete notes for the new DaVinci Resolve 18.5 beta are listed below, but other highlight features include a new standalone proxy generator application, timeline improvements in the Cut page, improved Media page organisation, more GPU acceleration in the Fusion page, AI-based scene relighting, more colour tools and improved audio tools in Fairlight. We spoke with Simon Hall on the Blackmagic stand to find out more.

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These are some silly mistakes all photographers make

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We all make mistakes, and that’s fine because we can learn something from them. In this fun video, Tony and Chelsea Northrup talk about some common blunders that have most likely happened to all photographers, no matter if they’re newbies or pros. In this video, you won’t hear about common lighting, composition, or editing mistakes. It’s about those silly mistakes we all make from time to time, which can be funny, but sometimes also pretty frustrating. How many of them have happened to you?

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These are five most common Lightroom mistakes of beginner landscape photographers

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As I always say, we all make mistakes, and it’s good because we learn from them. But there are some mistakes that can be avoided, or at least we can learn to overcome them much faster. In this video, Nigel Danson reflects on the five biggest mistakes beginner landscape photographers make when editing their photos in Lightroom.

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DragGAN is a Click and drag AI image editing tool

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If the people behind DragGAN have their way, we may say goodbye to what photo editing looks like. We have featured many photoshop tutorials in the past. Many of them focus on taking out the complex “photoshopping” part and providing a recipe to the editing process.

But this new editing workflow from DragGAN (available via huggingface)  is taking even what little Photoshop is left out of the equation, making it a simple click-and-drag interface.

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Five editing tools every photographer should know

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No matter which editing program you use, there are plenty of helpful tutorials that will help you improve your knowledge about them. But there are some tools that appear in all programs, and they’re essential for proper image editing. In this video, Ted Forbes brings you five of these editing tools you’ll find in software apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, or Luminar. They’re tools you need to have a grasp on in order to better understand light and color, and therefore to become better at editing.

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Are you guilty of making these 7 landscape photography mistakes? I know I am

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Photography “mistakes” videos seem to be quite popular these days, but that’s for good reason. Many of us keep making them, and for most of us, we really should learn not to.

In this video, landscape photographer Nigel Danson talks through his top seven landscape photography mistakes that he sees people making all the time. He also discusses how easily these mistakes can be fixed so that you don’t keep making them.

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These are five most common mistakes you’ve probably made as a freelance creative

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we all make tons of mistakes and it’s a way of learning. However, some mistakes are just cute little “hiccups,” while the others may cost you a lot of your time, effort and wear you out emotionally. In this video, Gene Nagata a.k.a. Potato Jet shares five biggest mistakes he’s made as a freelance filmmaker, and they apply to photographers, too. I’m sure we’ve all made them, and many of us still do. So, this video will remind us to stop making the same mistakes and starting making the best out of our filmmaking or photography careers.

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