Showing posts with label AI tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI tools. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Secret Sale! (And a fun head shot project)

Before I tell you how to save an extra 20% on Luminar Neo, on top of the already low Summer Sale prices, I gotta tell you about the two pictures below. 

I was going through my emails the other night, and came across one from ChatGTP, teasing their "pro studio head shot" skills, with the challenge: Try It!

Who am I to turn down a challenge like that, even though my days of sending resumés out were well in the past,. I wanted to see what they would do, so I just did a simple selfie with my laptop camera (left image, below), and just used their suggested prompts, and waited.

After about 30 seconds I got the result. It was not the image on the right, at least not completely. Considering it was supposed to be a "business'' head shot, they gave me a nice sport coat, with a tie-less light blue dress shirt. I decided I would prefer a more "casual Friday" look, so asked for a nice navy blue polo, and while it was at it, gimme just a bit more pecs, traps, and delts, and oh yeah, lose that wattle on the neck! I was quite impressed, mostly with the fact there were almost no visible AI artifacts. I did forget I had white earbuds in, and the AI kinda turned them into, what, white ear hair? Well, I am old, and ear and nose hair are a constant challenge! Other than that, my face stayed pretty faithful to the original, and the studio lighting and background were nearly perfect.

I wasn't going to settle for "nearly" perfect, though, was I? Of course not. So into Luminar Neo the ChatGTP image went. I primarily worked a bit more magic with the Portrait tools, face lighting, (13 on the slider), face slimming (17), iris visibility (80), iris flare (55) eye enlarge (22), eye whitening (74), eye enhancer (5), dark circle removal (25), and eyebrow  improvement (32), and I was nearly done. After a couple more little tweaks, (shine and blemish removal), I was ready to use one of the favorite toos of nearly all the Luminar Neo YouTube influencers: Mystical; and maybe the second favorite, a faint vignette. Done. And that is the image on the right.

 

So here's the Secret Sale pitch. Until the end of the month, if you use my limited time only discount code of PHOTODAN20, you can save an extra 20% on your purchase of the full Luminar Neo package, or the current Update if you're already a Luminar Neo user. The Summer Sale discounts are in the 40% off range, so this is a great deal. So make sure you get on over to the Luminar Neo sale page using THIS LINK, and do it before the end of June!!


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