Portrait Editing Just Got INSANE! Meet the AI Editing Software JUST for Portrait Photography!

0:00 you are not going to believe what I'm going to show you today I promise you you are going to be amazed with this editing software which is just for portrait photographers and you're are going to be able to reach magazine level photography editing even if you are a beginner I mean I'm Blown Away with this software and you are going to love it and for those who are not new here you noticed that I have a different setup today so if you follow me on Instagram you know that I move Villa here in valy finally and I have to share this with you because I'm very happy I was struggling so much to record in my other Villa with 30° because the living room was open and now in rainy season the mosquitoes were eating me alive so finally I have creative space so I'm very happy about that I needed to share

0:45 this excitement with you so let's go to it I'm going to show you how I use this software the software is called aery it's a new release from the guys from luminar Neo and you know that I always recommended luminar Neo on my Channel with zero subscribers okay so yes today's video is a sponsor but you know I've been using this software for many years and now aery is just exclusively for photographers like me because I love portrait photography so I'm going to show you how it works you can use it as a plugin for Lightroom and Photoshop and also as a standalone software this is the best thing ever not for me necessarily because I love adob you guys know I always do Lum luminar Neo and Photoshop we all have the different workflows and I love to do it this way

1:32 and that's it okay but since I tried aery I'm using always AER te so let's go to it I took some self-portraits in my new Villa to show you as an example because obviously I'm going to show you some hardcore details of the skin and my face and I didn't want to expose any of my models clients collaborations I don't find it fair so I'm exposing myself here I have massive bags because I didn't sleep properly these days you can see here my bags my skin is not the best I have so many blemishes so this is the perfect photo actually to show you how aery works this is how I personally launch operty because I use light room all the time so I launch it as a plug-in but you can use it as a standalone as I mentioned before so if I go to right click I just have to go here edit in

2:18 upper and this is how it looks super clean which I love and as you can see here you have a whole section beginners you're going to love this which is full of presets so this is super easy but I highly encourage you to don't use them because you can create your own and you can create your own style and then you can apply it to all the photos so here you have yours if you want to create favorites because there are plenty so you can mark them as favorites color creative retouch presets and external if you add presets as well but I don't want to show you this because this is more boring it's just one click here you have the masking tool then you have cropping as well so I'm not going to explain that too much and then here I'm not going to

3:04 explain much but this is the essentials so you have everything here to retouch a photo exposure contrast highlights everything you need all the tools to edit a photo are there already okay so this is for portrait photographers but you're going to be able to do basic edits as well here not just portrait editing so then if you go down this is the fun part for portrait photographers which is incredible you go to retach so you can retouch people skin blemish this is amazing face skin eyes mouth makeup you can add makeup in your models and then body skin now you can smooth the skin of the body as well so you go to People by AI is recognizing there is an individual female in the photo it even

3:50 recognize male tin child and elderly so I'm glad I'm just an individual female for upper tea and then let's go here to skin blemish you're going to see this I'm going to zoom in here and expose my beautiful skin full of imperfections I have so many imperfections here because I have rosacea in my skin so blemish removal if you go up I'm going to do it at maximum look at this like look the before and look the after like what my skin is perfect already with just one slider so you don't have to keep cloning like I was doing before or with the lasso tool nothing one slider so I don't even think I'm going to use Photoshop anymore because my third step

4:36 in Photoshop it was for these kind of things so yeah anyway I don't have freckles but you can remove freckles and then adjust the details let's go to face skin the skin is smooth in it works very well and very natural that's what I love about aerate everything looks natural not fake all the retouching so you go up I'm going to do it a lot even if it looks good don't overdo it anyway so I'm going to go lower I never do more than 30 or 40 and then you go down you have face skin color correction but here is perfect I'm not going to touch it and this is my favorite tool because many times I mean I work a lot and now I travel you know how hard it is for me to keep up with my YouTube videos my

5:21 private Community my emails I do everything myself and I'm traveling a lot in B and I'm going to start traveling around Asia as well so subscribe to my channel if you want to learn photography and if you like photography blogs as well about my travels because yeah 2025 is going to be packed of those so yeah I don't sleep pretty well sometimes or I'm tired and I get these dark circles underneath my eyes so you're going to see here maximum again for you to notice there you go it looks like I have concealer which is great this is the before look at my skin and look now I wish I would have this skin for real you know but this is retouch already and you don't want to have a lot of effect concealer effect let's say just put it lower go to 50 and

6:06 it's even more natural now before and after it's so good I love it I'm so happy with the S Bar seriously and then you have the same tool as in luminar Neo which is called face brighten you can go up a lot and it's going to mask the face only and this is one of my favorite tools as well from luminar Neo that it's know in AER as well shine removal no matter what you do in Lightroom there is no tool like shine removal on luminar Neo or upper T because I tried in Lightroom to play with the Highlight to lower them in the shiny parts of my models because I do a lot of studio photography and it wasn't working as good as shine removal in luminar Neo and upper tail you are going to see here the shiny parts of my face

6:52 how they disappear I'm going to go maximum for you to notice there you go before after it removes all the shiny parts of your face super realistically like it looks so natural but Again Naturally you have always shiny Parts on the face so don't overdo it do it a little bit maybe I'm going to do 50 something like that there you go and it's more natural then let's carry on with the eyes this is like in luminar Neo as well okay but I'm just going to change the color of my eyes for you to see how it works I will never do this to any any model really nobody wants that but just so you know it's here I'm going to put blue look at me with blue eyes it's good no I look good

7:39 I mean I prefer my eyes always natural but it's insane how realistic it is so yeah I'm going to come back to my original eyes and then this I use a lot the iris flare redness removal eye whitening or eye enhancement the one I use the most is the eye enhancement for me is the most natural one because it accents the light of the eye so you're going to see here if I do it a lot you see it's not adding anything on top it's just brightening what it's there already so don't overdo it I'm going to go to too any more or less eye whitening self-explanatory so I'm not going to go there mouth so in mouth you have teeth whitening which you're not going to appreciate because to be fair my teeth are quite white you're going to see here you don't not this mat but it will

8:24 remove the yellow tint of your teeth but you're going to see here teeth brightening you see how it mask it but I don't want to do this so I'm going to keep it there and now let's go with makeup let's go with makeup here this is super good as well I mean normally I do my makeup anyway but you can add more blush if you want to your model so they look a bit better and things like that so I'm going to add in the ticks and then you can add in the ticks and nose as well so I'm going to put only ticks this is a lot but you can even play with the WID and with the height of the blush so I'm going to make it the smaller there you go and less amount more natural like that and then this is something so many fashion photographers and Beauty photographers do is Contour the face of the models with photoshop

9:10 with dots and barn that technique which takes forever so now with aery you can do it with one slider this is before the lighting of the face is a bit more flat and after it adds Shadows to Contour the face so this is super good as well but I'm not going to give it here I'm going to put zero eyeliner so you can actually put color in your eyes well I'm going to do it maximum so you can see it and you can add makeup in your eyes look at my face and look at the transformation this is insane I'm going to be editing all my portraits in this software I was super happy because obviously they text me and they told me laa you want to try aery and I was like of course I use luminar Neo so if apery

9:55 is just for portrait photographers is like 100% and I'm super happy so I'm not going to use luminar Neo for now anymore I do use it for landscape photography as well luminar Neo sometimes but mostly I do portraits so it's going to be my go-to editing software from now on because I love it and you can buk edit photos as well you can create presets and buk edit all your photos so you're going to edit like this super quick so that's amazing and then you go here to reshape this is insane as well I mean this is creepy okay I'm not going to use it but fashion photographers Beauty photographers and all the magazines out there they do this in Photoshop they reshape legs necks eyes they reshape

10:40 everything don't believe anything you see out there guys so now you can do it yourself if you want you can make your face Slimmer there you go before after I'm not going to do it but you can do it the eyes you can change the shape you can make them bigger or smaller the eyebrows Arch there you go I mean this is insane this works obviously when you do it professionally and you just want to resarch minor things so yeah I'm not going to carry on because there are so many tools here nose Bridge nose tip shape mouth the position of the mouth the body like illuminar Neo you can resap the body the abdomen it's crazy and then you go down here you have another palette here which is called creative and you can play here with creative lighting as well light

11:27 customization portrait Boke like illuminar Neo Lots this is amazing because obviously you have like lots are like presets so let's go back this is one Grace Long Beach Manhattan I love this one Maria look at this photo like before after so beautiful you just you just edited the photo that's it some sliders some clicks and that's it and the photo looks like in a magazine I'm going to put you another perfect example for you to see okay I'm going to cancel this let's edit a different one with a different backdrop one where you can see my skin quite bad and my bags and blemishes so

12:15 let's edit this one I'm going to go right away to the portrait section which is here retouch blemish removal that's it no spending an hour in Photoshop like cloning and you know before after it's done in one second seriously and then skin is smoothing a little bit like I said before don't overdo things and then dark circle removals here you can see pretty well right my bags the lighting does a lot here I wasn't facing the light so when you don't face the light the light is not feeling the Shadows you can see the dark circles okay so let's go up 100% gone before after I'm just wearing a

13:03 concealer right away and how realistic is this look the before and look the after it's so realistic in Photoshop I would spend an hour and it's not as good so it's amazing and then with the eyes you can see they are a bit dark because I'm not facing the light so I'm going to retouch this as well let's go to the eyes section and I'm going to rise the eye enhancement and the eye IR is flare in this situation because my eyes are very dark over there and I'm going to do one more thing because in aery you have also the essential tools so I'm going to go to the essentials tools which are here and then I'm going to go to maskin I'm going to press plus I'm going to select a brush and I'm going to paint just tiny bit there and I'm going to

13:49 rise the exposure a tiny bit just tiny bit because otherwise it's fake there and this is before applying the mask and after you can see my eye better this is the photo I already edited this is before look at my eyes and look at after and my skin I'm going to zoom in because I'm just so happy with this software before and like a model you see before and after this is insane seriously in just few seconds if you're a portrait photographer beginner professional this is going to save you a lot of time and for beginners you're going to be able to achieve professional results in no time as you could see here so you going to have a link below if you

14:35 want to check it out again you can use it as a plugin if you already use Adobe or you can use it as a standal on software I recommend you to check it out at least or check the free trial because you're going to have so much fun with this and it works incredible for your photos and if you want to learn more with me subscribe to my channel because I said weekly videos and check out this playlist I'm going to put here because you have plenty of videos on my Channel about photography and creativity and about tutorials photo editing tutorials so I will see you soon big luck from Valley