![]() ![]() Smart Dehaze – reducing the effects of mist/fog and the haze that results in further away objects appearing lighter.Exposure Compensation – making overly dark images brighter and vice versa.This can definitely over do it at times, but when it works, it works well. Foliage Enhancement – makes leaves greener.You're going to get some seriously blue skies. Sky Enhancement – makes what it thinks is the blue of the sky bluer, as well as sharpening and adding contrast to clouds.Colour Recovery – increases the saturation of many colours, so reds are more 'red' for example.Photolemur 2.31 working on AirMagic's sample photo complete with unnecessary GPU effectsĪt that point, it did a combination of things to your photos: Before long, every photo I took also had a version that Photolemur had had a go at, and most of those were kept. I bought it via a Humble Bundle in December, and was impressed: the results could be slightly over the top with photos of things like stained glass windows, but as an effortless 'what about this' look for portraits, landscapes, and street photography they were remarkable. People who'd paid for 1.0 or an annual subscription would get it for free, while those who were up to three months into a monthly sub got a 50% discount. July 2017, when they sensibly went back to a license system. The limit and the shift to a subscription model did not go down well, so ten days later in May, they offered a lifetime subscription to anyone who'd bought 1.0. were an early user on a Mac, you got just six months free.Įither way, you could only use it on up to 300 photos a month. (Yes, saying the price is 'normally' $7 when you've announced it will be free, erm, $6 a month and actually charging $3 or $4 is confusing, to put it at its best.) If you had bought 1.0, i.e. Oh, it wouldn't: 2.0 users were expected to buy a subscription: for $5.99/month (so $72 a year) according to the original announcement, or $4 a month / $36 for a year according to a saved checkout page. It also added a Windows version and would be a free update for everyone who owned version 1.0. because that was one of the features that was said to be removed in the version 2.0 release in April 2017, as part of making it a 'one click' program: a new engine would do all the enhancements automatically. Not having a Mac, I never used it, but as well as a slider that let you chose how much work it did on your photo, going from 'realistic' to 'vivid', it looks like you could also do things like crop photos in the program. For that, you could use it on up to twenty photos at a time. was first published in October 2016 as a photo quality improver for the Mac, with users paying $29 (or $39 for use on up to five Macs). ![]() The cost for all this? A staggeringly low $35!īe sure to check out Sean McCormack’s excellent Photolemur 3 walkthrough in Issue 53 of Lightroom Magazine. New features include: automatic face enhancement with skin retouching, teeth whitening, a quick access menu, smart eye enlargement, six creative image styles akin to Lightroom presets or profiles, an opacity slider to season adjustments to taste, lens correction, batch processing, a SmugMug export feature for the macOS version, as well as interface, performance, and stability enhancements. Version 3 builds on the success of this already impressive, drag-and-drop, editing platform. In other words, it’s smart software, and software that this skeptic has to admit does a really great job. Photolemur can tell the difference between portraits, landscapes, macros, and other images, adjusting them accordingly. Corrections are based on the specific needs of individual images, rather than arbitrary recipes that may or may not work. Gone is the scattershot approach: Photolemur is responsive and, using AI, able to analyze individual images and correct exposure, contrast, color, shadow detail, and more. ![]() Photolemur’s built-in artificial intelligence (AI) changed the definition of automated image editing. ![]()
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