Creating a template for future reuse in Luminar AI

- We've been doing fairly natural type of edits. Ones where we were just enhancing pictures and making them consistent. But Luminar has a slew of creative editing tools and those can be stored in your own custom template. Let me show you. Let's go back to some of those Tokyo images and what I want to do is create a nice vintage feeling. We'll start with this Lobster Fishing one. What I'll do is come on over here to Edit and it needs a crop, but we'll deal with that part later. Let's just work on the recipe. To start, we're going to do a few tweaks. You'll notice for example, that we could take what we've basically done here of enhancing the image, adding in structure to really bring out the texture and I'm going to boost that so it's nice and strong. I'll use our details enhancer here, just to bring out a little bit more of that texture and we'll put a nice stylistic vignette on there. Then I'm going to come down and do a few more things. From the Mood section, you'll see a bunch of different recipes. These can be previewed by just mousing over. I actually wrote most of these color recipes so I hope you enjoy them. And as you can see here, there's a lot of fun options that you could apply like digital film stocks, and you can dial in the intensity and the amount of color for that look. Now what's really cool is not only can you use lookup tables that's what the mood tool is using, you can also use things like DCP profiles if you're working with raw images and this allows you to attach other types of developing recipes. And if you decide to, there's even more control. So let's go ahead here, I'll put that to Adobe standard for a moment and I'm just going to tone down enhance slightly and back off the mood, so it's not quite so strong. There we go. Now let's come on over here to the Local Masking tool. The local masking tool lets you load in textures. Textures could be regular images with blending modes or transparent images like PNG files. What I'm going to do is choose Add, and I'll go to Texture. Click the Load Texture button and navigate here to the Template Build folder. I'll switch to icon view here and you'll see we've got some different items. For example, some different types of textures. Let's start with a JPEG texture initially. What I'm going to do is load in that canvas texture, and I can adjust the opacity of it. From the advanced settings, I can change things like blending mode to mix that in. I'm going to go something simple here like soft light at a lower opacity. Let's add another texture. This time we'll go with a strong canvas texture. I'm going to take one of these PNG files, can drop that in and again, if we zoom, you could really see that, the PNG file is giving it this look like it was printed on actual canvas or aged or weathered. And you can adjust the intensity of that as well as again play with things like blending modes if you want to blend that in a little bit more for a nice natural look. That's really pretty cool of what we can do. Notice there, you can mix in the opacity and now it looks like it's faded cracked paint. Let's add another texture. This time an overlay for a picture frame. And so I have some other PNG files and there's lots of places to get these on the web or you can make your own. And what I'm going to do is apply the edges here. It's going to drop it on and if I use the place object command, I could actually scale or adjust this. Let's set it to full opacity to start and it came in pretty close. But if I need to, I could use that command there just to adjust that to taste, looks good. You could add watermarks and other things and you could add up to 10 textures. So by combining these, for example I'm now going to put a swirly paper texture on top of this, that's going to give the ripped edge and the overall frame a little bit more to it. So let's take this wrinkles here and we can layer that in and blend it. And you see how you could do some really cool stuff. If you need to, you can also mask or erase. So if you didn't want it to be applied so much in the middle here, you could gently erase away the center part of that overlay to control it. Now here's what's cool. I like what we've got here, lots of things all combined. I'm going to come down here and click on my template and choose Save. Now I can go to my template section and I'll see in the main template area, My Templates. Let's click here to rename this and we'll call it Distressed Village and press Return. Now, I'm free to click and use that. So with just one click, you could take complex look and apply it, all the colors, all the recipes, all the textures are available. Now it takes a second when you apply it there but you see how quickly we came up with a whole stylistic look. And as we have different shapes of photos, it's still able to conform. So here we have a vertical image and I'll apply that to distressed village. You'll see that the textures are able to accommodate the changes in aspect ratio and it scales the texture to match. And you see there how quick and intelligent that was. This is great because you can now come up with a nice series, perfect for a presentation, or a website or a report, or maybe a magazine, or newsletter where you don't just want standard photos but you want something a little bit more artistic. Now, the ability for you to take color profiles, lookup tables, multiple creative effects, textures and overlays and come up with your own template, means that your creativity is just a click away and thanks to some artificial intelligence it will automatically adjust and conform to the different shaped photo very easily.