Just a touch of added Color Contrast to improve the colour tones in the sky. To instantly add a magical glow and exposure to the stars, use the Soft Focus filter. Next, I manually adjust the overall contrast and tone using the Highlights / Shadows and Whites / Blacks filters – my goal here to to create more separation between the highlights of the stars and the darks of the surrounding sky. Turning up the warms and bringing down the cools using the Split Color Warmth filter gives us rich purple and blue tones in the sky. The Microstructure and Dramatic filters are superb choices to ramp up the night sky detail. In this case, I chose to reintroduce just a touch of magenta as there are some subtle green tones in the darker areas of sky. Accent AIĪs before, a touch of Accent AI filter which will analyse and improve the sky detail, plus any manual colour correction using the Color Temperature filter. If you find your mask is adding too much, or not doing enough, you can always edit this mask later. Creating a gentle vertical gradient across this, ending at the horizon line, ensures all the brightest stars are affected. You’ll notice there is a band of glow near the horizon. This allows you to select which area of image is affected by the filters on this adjustment layer. Finally, boosting the whites and slightly darkening the blacks in Whites / Blacks to manually adjust the contrast.įinally, a touch of sharpening, to add some definition between edges.Ĭreate a new Adjustment Layer, then add a new Gradient Mask. Next, the Top & Bottom Lighting filter which does exactly as you’d expect – I add some lighting to the bottom of the image. Turning up the brightness and slightly lowering the contrast in the Brightness / Contrast filter adjusts the whole image. Our foreground is still quite dark, so I combine several filters to improve this. I use the Split Color Warmth filter to add just a touch of colour to this – brilliant white colours now appear golden, and some pink is added to the horizon’s glow. Some lights can be seen on the horizon as we look east, which creates some interesting illumination but introduces some unwelcome colours to the frame. In doing so, we lose some brightness, but we can continue working on this. Here, I use the Remove Color Cast filter to adjust this automatically. There’s still quite a strong purple tone to the foreground – if you examine the foliage you’ll notice that green grass and moss is just a little off-colour. If the colour tone is still not quite right, a subtle adjustment with Luminar’s Color Temperature filter will do the trick.Ī subtle adjustment of the Foliage Enhancer will gently increase the luminosity and saturation of green tones in your image, instantly making the grass and moss become more visible. Instantly, highlights are calmed down, details are brought out of the darkness, and colour tones are instantly improved. My first step in most image edits is to use Luminar’s amazing AI Accent filter, a content-aware filter which analyses the image and automatically enhances it. Step 1 – Foreground Start with some AI Accent magic With a little time and Skylum’s incredible Luminar software, we can take process this shot into a portfolio quality image with punchier colours and properly show off the astronomical detail in the sky. There’s quite a strong colour cast to the image, a very dark foreground with a lot of lost detail, and the Milky Way is very faint. Though it is in focus and composed pleasingly, there’s still some work to do. Captured on a starry night on the Pembrokeshire coast, this image combines the rugged scenery with the Milky Way and a small meteor to the top right of frame.
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