New Luminar Neo


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Introducing a new creative image editor — Luminar Neo
Skylum helps visual creatives achieve complex results with innovative AI technologies and a flexible workflow

NEW YORK, NY – September 9, 2021 —Skylum revealed Luminar Neo, a new creative image editor which empowers visual storytellers to bring their boldest ideas to life. Luminar Neo builds upon the unique, purpose-driven, AI editing technologies for which Skylum is well-known. Driven by our tradition of innovation, Luminar Neo further reimagines the image editing experience which enables creators to be more expressive with fewer boundaries and rediscover joy in their creative work.

“As the latest member of the Luminar family, we designed Luminar Neo to allow artists to take on more challenging image creation work and achieve results which often seem unattainable.” said Dima Sytnik, Co-founder & CPO of Skylum.

Innovative technologies
Skylum continues to lead the market with innovative approaches and advanced technologies designed to improve the image editing process. Luminar Neo continues Skylum’s commitment to eliminate boring and repetitive tasks and help artists achieve results often seen as difficult.

Transform photos with new relighting options. Luminar Neo analyzes each image to recognize the depth of a scene and its subject which allows precise control over exposure and tone.

Remove blemishes and distracting elements. Luminar Neo automatically recognizes and removes artifacts caused by a dirty camera sensor or lens. New tools make removing unwanted background elements easier than ever before.

Powerful background replacement. Take full control of the background for portrait photos by quickly replacing it with an all-new image or background.

Round-trip mobile image management. Our new companion mobile app makes it simple to add pictures captured on a mobile device to your Luminar Catalog. Once edited in Luminar Neo, results can be sent back to the mobile device for easy social sharing or viewing on the go.

Precise control with flexible editing
We designed Luminar Neo with input from working photographers, artists, and colorists. With this guidance, we built Luminar Neo to help artists break new creative ground with an image editor that allows precise control over every aspect of the final image while providing artists a flexible toolset that can be tailored to their unique creative workflow. These capabilities include:

AI-Driven Compositing

  • Smart, AI-based masking easily isolates elements in individual images.
  • Add numerous images as layers to create entirely new art.
  • Apply any tool and any mask … to any layer, in any order, multiple times.
  • Use creative blending modes, guided by AI, to achieve clean, precise, composite images.

Improved Ease of Use

  • Users can save their photos as well as presets for easy reuse.
  • All editing steps remain editable for complete control over the final image.
  • With a minimalist user interface, the whole process is enjoyable and easy.

High performance
An all-new editing engine drives Luminar Neo, making it possible to apply multiple tools to an image without significant performance loss. Luminar Neo allows for complex layering of several raw images. Our new Luminar engine enables Skylum to further optimize and refine the entire image-processing pipeline.

While built atop an efficient new engine, Luminar Neo inherits the proven, AI-driven technologies which made LuminarAI a ground-breaking image editor.

“The goal of Luminar has always been to help everyone create images they truly love. With Luminar Neo, we empower even more artists and photographers to achieve their full creative vision,” said Ivan Kutanin, CEO of Skylum. “With new tools and a flexible editing workflow, they’ll find powerful new ways to create while being inspired to explore new ways to do so. We can’t wait to see what our creative community comes up with.”

Availability
Luminar Neo ships this winter, but new artists don’t need to wait to create. They can pre-order and save on a bundle that provides LuminarAI now and Luminar Neo when it launches.

Visual storytellers who use other image editing applications can also use Luminar Neo as a plugin. Used in this way, Luminar adds incredibly useful and powerful, AI-driven editing tools to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.

To learn more about Luminar Neo and sign up for updates, visit http://skylum.com/luminar-neo. We will release additional details about new technologies and explore the core benefits of Luminar Neo in the coming weeks.

Early-bird pricing is available here and includes a 30-day money-back guarantee from the time of shipping. Luminar Neo will also be carried in both the Microsoft Store and macOS App Store.

About Skylum Software
Skylum is a global imaging technology company focused on creating tools that make it easier for creatives to get things done. Skylum’s Luminar platform unleashes creativity through the innovative use of automated and intelligent image processing, which still allows the artist complete control over the final product. Skylum has won the Red Dot Award, Apple’s Best of Year, “Best Imaging Software” by TIPA and EISA, as well as several other top industry awards. To learn more about Skylum, visit skylum.com.

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Profoto B10X 250W and B10X Plus 500W Announced

Profoto B10X Plus: B&H Photo / Adorama
Profoto B10X: B&H Photo / Adorama
Profoto B10X Plus Duo: B&H Photo / Adorama
Profoto B10X Duo: B&H Photo / Adorama
Profoto Air Remote TTL-F: B&H Photo / Adorama

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ON1 2022 Announced


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New Sky Swap AI — Automatically detects the sky in photos and creates a mask. Select from one of the over 100 included skies or import your own. You have complete control over the mask used to blend the sky and can use the masking tools you are already familiar with to adjust it as needed. You can adjust the sky to blend better with your foreground, even blur the sky to simulate a long exposure. Not only does it replace the sky, but it will adjust the foreground lighting and color and add a reflection of the sky to water found in the foreground. You can even copy and paste to other layers for ultimate control.

New Time-Lapse Creation — The New time-lapse creation dialog can quickly create time-lapse videos from still photo sequences. You can preview your results right in the dialog and create quick proof versions or high-quality final results. It detects when the camera is bumped and can filter out misaligned frames. It also detects changes in exposure and can even them out automatically, making day to night videos possible. Finally, you can increase or decrease the speed to stretch out short sequences into longer, smooth videos.

Integration of ON1 NoNoise AI — ON1’s powerful, AI-based noise removal is now built into the core raw processing in ON1 Photo RAW. You can use it on the fly and non-destructively, just like any other raw processing adjustment—no need to create intermediate DNG or TIF files.

New Photoshop Plugin Host — You can now run plugins made for Adobe Photoshop right inside ON1 Photo RAW. If you have been collecting plugins for years, now you can access them and what makes them unique right inside the app where you do the rest of your work, no need to launch or subscribe to Photoshop.

Newly Retooled Export — We took over 100 suggestions from our users and have rebuilt Export from the ground up. It is the most powerful Export and image converter you can imagine. First, presets are more powerful. You can run them right from the file menu, and you can run more than one simultaneously. There are more options for everything. In File Type, you can now create DNGs or export copies of the original. The file renaming is infinitely flexible, as is the creation of destinations. You can now use multiple watermarks at the same time and use text or graphics for them. Resizing is more powerful and flexible than ever. And finally, you have control over what metadata is written to exported files.

New Line Mask Tool — Similar to a polygonal lasso or pen tool, it can quickly create masks using straight lines. You can now curve the lines, add and remove points, or change the feather and opacity of the shapes you create anytime, even after creation. They are entirely non-destructive and work hand-in-hand with the other powerful masking tools in ON1 Photo RAW.

Backup and Restore — Prepare for the worst and recover easily with the backup and restore features. They back up all your work, settings, albums, presets, and extras. You can use the restore feature to recover from a disaster on your computer or migrate everything to a new computer.

Favorites in Browse — We have added a Favorites pane to Browse to help you access frequently used folders easier. Drag and drop a folder you often access to the Favorites pane to create a shortcut to it. You can navigate through the favorites subfolder quickly in the Favorites pane without having to worry about all the folders above it.

Customizable Thumbnails  — Now, you have great flexibility over the appearance of the thumbnails in Browse. You can control what is displayed on them, how big the labels are and when they appear. You can choose between light or dark themes and also between regular or square thumbnails.

Gestures — Zooming, panning, and changing photos is more natural with a smooth, animated experience, with full gesture support on macOS trackpads and Windows touch-screen devices

Apple Silicon Native — ON1 Photo RAW now runs natively on Apple Silicon-based macOS computers.

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Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD Coming October 24th?


A Chinese retailer jd.com listed the Tamron 18-300mmm release date for X-Mount as being October 24th, 2021. You can find the listing here, but it could be a placeholder since Tamron hasn’t officially said anything beyond the lens is under development.

Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD (Coming Soon):
B&H Photo / Amazon

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Notice regarding supply of digital camera lens kit “FUJIFILM GFX50S II / GF35-70mmF4.5-5.6 WR”


Notice regarding supply of digital camera lens kit “FUJIFILM GFX50S II / GF35-70mmF4.5-5.6 WR”

Dear customers

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued patronage of FUJIFILM products.

The digital camera lens kit “FUJIFILM GFX50S II / GF35-70mmF4.5-5.6 WR” released on September 29th (Wednesday) has received more reservations than expected, and it will take time to deliver the product. You may be asked.

We will do our best to deliver it as soon as possible, and we appreciate your understanding.

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Fujifilm GFX50SII:
B&H Photo / Amazon  / Moment / Adorama
Fujinon GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6 WR:
B&H Photo / Amazon / Moment / Adorama

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Fujifilm GFX50R Discontinued‽


Digitalcameraworld is reporting that the Fujifilm GFX50R is officially discontinued, but that doesn’t sound quite right to me unless the GFX50R is being refreshed soon. To the best of my knowledge, the GFX50R sold a lot better than the GFX50S, and when the GFX100 was announced the GFX50S sales lagged even more, but the GFX50R sales remained strong. I doubt Fujifilm would pull the GFX50R without a replacement unless this is tied to the chip shortage or they have a replacement GFX50R II coming soon.

Further, the GFX100S styled GFX50SII is not liked by most that loved the GFX50S/GFX50R. The original GFX50S was almost a perfect camera and all Fujifilm needed to do was remove the bulge from the back to make photographers more interested in the camera. Fujifilm proved they could fix the bulge with the GFX50R and Fujifilm even had a better price point that helped the GFX50R cut deeply into GFX50S sales from what I have seen and it is the kind of update Fujifilm should have made with the GFX50S II instead of copying the GFX100S body. Yes using one body can cut costs for Fujifilm, but those savings do not appear to have been passed along to the consumer at the GFX50S II launch price point.

I have been shooting GFX since day one and I loved the GFX50S but I probably would have bought a GFX50R if they were announced at the same time due to the lack of bulge and lower price point. Still today I would pick the GFX50S or GFX50R over the GFX100S or GFX50S II simply because I like the bodies Fujifilm launched with most. I would also pick a GFX100 over GFX100S because even though the GFX100S is more compact than GFX100 the GFX100 is an all-around better camera in my experience and the quality of the camera has helped to keep the price point and resale quite high. That being said GFX50S had a superior layout to the GFX100 too.

GFX isn’t for everyone and I know Fujifilm is trying to expand the appeal with its new design philosophy, but at the same time, I think they are turning off a pretty big portion of their base with the latest announcements. I haven’t considered going back to shooting Leica as my primary camera since the GFX100 came out, but if they continue down this path Fujifilm will become a secondary camera for me like Sony did because Leica will be the only company left making cameras that operate the way I like them too.

Fujifilm needs to be careful not to lose its base in pursuit of Sony/Canon/Nikon, because most of us are picking Fujifilm over the competition due to its traditionally superior shooting experience that is absent from the GFX100S/GFX50S II/X-S10 and other low-end X mount cameras. Similarly, most photographers would love to own and shoot Leica cameras due to their superior shooting experience, but Leica’s exorbitant price point puts them out of reach for most, while many Fujifilm cameras provide 99% of the Leica experience for a fraction of the price.

If Fujifilm continues chasing Sony/Canon/Nikon instead of doing its own thing I’m afraid they might end up on the scrap heap like other brands that tried to do the same. Fujifilm needs to pursue its strengths and go back to ignoring the inferior products that Sony/Canon/Nikon are making if they want to lock in an audience.

Fujifilm GFX50R:
B&H Photo / Adorama / Amazon
Fujifilm GFX50SII:
B&H Photo / Amazon  / Moment / Adorama

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