Explained: Portrait tools

Create your best portraits ever with pro-level editing tools

Face AI is the portrait editing tool you’ll use the most, and provides a huge amount of control over facial features. We’ll look at this in detail, along with other portrait editing tools.

Face AI

Face AI provides adjustments for face shape and lighting, as well as extensive control over the eyes and mouth of people detected in photos.

Face controls

These two sliders provide quick and accurate methods of lighting faces and slimming faces, which are automatically detected by the software.

Eyes controls

Eight sliders and a dropdown menu allow you to change your subject’s eye colour in an instant, alongside multiple eye enhancements and retouching options.

Mouth controls

The mouth controls allow you to adjust the colour, saturation and redness of your subject’s lips, while the Teeth Whitening slider brightens and whitens teeth if Luminar AI detects them in your portrait.

Skin AI

Skin AI consists of two sliders and a checkbox: the sliders smooth skin and remove shine, while the checkbox takes care of light blemishes.

Body AI

Body AI recognises different poses and provides control over body shape and waist size, with the ability to increase or decrease either using two simple sliders.

Feather Light

The Feather Light Template is found in the Experimental Collection, a set of creative effects that can be applied to any image. This Template creates a bright image with areas of colour that look like light leaks or film fogging. There are six creative Templates in this collection; each of them will give your portrait shots an exciting look at the touch of a button.

Rembrandt

The Rembrandt Template is part of the Essence Collection, which is designed to give portraits and fashion images a high-end look and feel. The Rembrandt effect desaturates images slightly and adds a burst of Mood, which is one of the Tools available in the Edit tab. With five stunning Templates in the collection, you can be sure that your portraits will have a professional finish.

Soulful

The Soulful Template is one of five stylish black-and-white effects in the Monochrome Collection. Soulful creates a fantastic mono conversion that darkens images slightly; if you combine it with manual edits, you can achieve unique results, as you can with all of the Templates. With this image, Soulful creates an elegant look and feel for a timeless black-and-white image.