Luminar Neo brings treasured family memories back to life
Luminar Neo not only took this outstanding vintage black and white image of my mother, father and aunts posing with our cousin Audrey and her husband, acclaimed singer of the Ink Spots, Bill Kenny, but modernized it with an extraordinary colour rendition using the “Full” module in the post processing photo program. (see BW image below.)
Restoring, colourizing vintage photos
Not long ago, fixing old family photographs involved bringing them to professional photo retouchers and paying a week’s salary to have a handful of them restored.
Those days are gone thanks to a new, incredibly impressive new feature in this fall’s Luminar Neo release.
With a single click of your mouse, you can transform a faded, scratched, blemished old black and white photograph into a perfect reproduction of the original Black and White version.
And that is just the beginning.
The simplicity of the “restore” module is almost too good to believe.
Rediscover treasured photos
This prized family group portrait of the acclaimed lead singer for the Ink Spots Bill Kenny and wife Aubrey pictured here with my mother (2nd left and father far right) at a club in Halifax Nova Scotia. Luminar Neo was able to repair any scratches and blemishes on this BW image with the simple click of a single button. Another button colourized it (see above).
Restore module is the essence of simplicity
In fact, there are just three buttons to choose from to transform your vintage images: “Full” which repairs scratches, blemishes and colourizes the image to modern standards; “Colour” which simply colourizes the image without removing scratches and blemishes for a more authentic Lomography look; and “Scratches” which leaves the image either in its original BW or colour state and simply removes any scratches or blemishes on the photograph.
It’s so simple and effective that it is difficult for me to go into much more detail than – choose what you want to do and press the appropriate button.
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This is the restoration module in Lumina Neo. Simply drop the image into the box and choose Full, Color of Scratches. Then hit the Restore button. The final image will show up in a separate folder within Luminar Neo called “Restoration.”
Obviously, you will have to have a way to get the old images into Luminar Neo. I choose to use a flatbed scanner, but you could easily take digital pictures with your phone or, even better, a digital camera with the ability to take close-up images.
Once the images are on your computer or phone, import them into Luminar Neo, drop them into the restoration box, choose the appropriate button – either Full, Colour or Scratches – and Luminar Neo will drop the finished photo into a separate folder named restoration.
It’s as simple as that. The following are just a few examples’s of what the “restoration” Ai module can do in just a minute or two.
For more before-and-after images, check out my new “Spaces” gallery from Luminar Neo here.
The original BW image prior to any post processing.
A “Full” colorized version of the vintage image.
The following is a good example of what the Luminar Neo “Restoration” module can do for heavily compromised images by not only restoring them by removing scratches and even missing parts of the image, to colourizing them to create authentic-looking images.
The following shows the original scan, a repaired scan and the final colourized version.
This is the original, untouched image of my uncle and his dog.
The same image ran through the restore module – a single click of a button in Luminar Neo.
The final restored and colourized image. Note that the ai changed the dog’s profile slightly.
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