However, this would not provide a fair comparison so I used only those stated above. Being software designed specifically for portrait work PortraitPro Studio 21 has many additional tools that I could have used. In PortraitPro Studio 21 I used just two tools these being Skin Lighting & Colouring which affects the relighting of the face and the Layers tool to modify the background. I also used two other tools to affect the Mood and the Colour. In Luminar Neo, see Part 1 for much more detail on exactly what was done, the relighting of the portrait is handled by Relight Ai. The User Interface for PortraitPro Studio 21 It is somewhat different to that in Luminar Neo, somewhat busier and focused on the face but that is not surprising as PortraitPro Studio 21 is really designed o do a different job. Here is what the UI of PortraitPro Studio 21 looks like. Nomally I would recommend starting with the RAW file when editing but the importance here of where we end up is less of interest than the journey itself so the jpeg works equally as well. Since I had chosen to use the jpeg version of this image in Luminar Neo I again I started with the jpeg in PortraitPro Studio 21. No attempt has been made to enhance the portrait in either software, firstly because the beta version of Luminar Neo I have access to has no significant portrait capabilities and secondly because I really only wanted to look at how easy it is in both software solutions to effect large global changes to the overall lighting of the portrait.įor this comparison I used exactly the same start point, the image of my friend Chris as shown in Part 1. This second part looks at how PortraitPro Studio 21 handles the exact same job. In Part 1 of this two part examination of Luminar Neo I looked at how Relight Ai handled a typical portrait taken under difficult lighting.

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