{"id":1150,"date":"2018-03-15T21:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2019-12-16T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:29:50","slug":"rediscovering-lumenzia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/rediscovering-lumenzia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering Lumenzia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit of creativity moves in mysterious ways, and it stimulated my soul quite unconsciously, but nevertheless emphatically, to focus once again on luminosity masks. I had discovered the power of luminosity masks in photoshop about two or so years ago, and acquired Greg Benz&#8217;s Photoshop Extension, Lumenzia, a year ago. Greg has produced an exceptionally powerful editing program for photoshop that makes the difficult to achieve \u00a0fairly easy, if one knows what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1151\" src=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/77A1109_DxO11LumenziaEfexPro.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have found that Greg&#8217;s Lumenzia Program is quite extraordinary, not only in what it is able to accomplish regarding luminosity masks, but he is able to apply these in a full spectrum of editing of photo files. Not only that, but he is constantly updating and refining his creative tools.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am far from being an ambassador for Lumenzia, but I have to call a spade a spade, and I have used and am beginning to see that what he has created is quite powerful, especially regarding the product cost point.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I am still in the process of fully trying to utilize the program he has created, but so far believe that I will be using it for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The currently posted photo is of Conimicut Light House in Warwick, RI, being taken in late after noon light in mid January, 2018. It was taken with a Canon 5 DS, f\/16, 5.4, ISO 100,\u00a0EF100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 100mm, post processing with DxO Optics Pro 11, Lumenzia, and Color Efex Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit of creativity moves in mysterious ways, and it stimulated my soul quite unconsciously, but nevertheless emphatically, to focus once again on luminosity masks. I had discovered the power of luminosity masks in photoshop about two or so years ago, and acquired Greg Benz&#8217;s Photoshop Extension, Lumenzia, a year ago. Greg has produced an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,56,68,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}