Skylum software, the company behind the Luminar and Aurora HDR applications has announced it is developing a dedicated software for enhancement of aerial images captured with drones.
The application for Windows and Mac will be called AirMagic and is AI powered "to transform photos made with a drone from great to breathtaking." It will become available sometime in spring.
Looking at the teaser video above AirMagic is capable of detecting what drone camera an image has been captured with. It can then scan the scene for haze, skies, and presumably other image elements and artifacts, before automatically adjusting exposure, color and other parameters for an optimized end result.
It looks like AirMagic will be targeted at users who prefer automated enhancement over manual optimization but we'll hopefully know more in the near future. No information on pricing has been released yet.
Skylum would be better placed fixing Luminar 3 before developing even more products. LUM3 should never have been released as it is still broken as a standalone. I have supported Macphun and Skylum in the past hoping that there was light at the end of the tunnel. Luminar 3 has destroyed any faith I had in the company and stick to LR / PS / Affinity / NIK in future.
I was about to write the same thing, what difference will there be if I take a picture looking down from a mountain or from a bell tower? And what if I want to use that software for normal pictures?
OMG, i already typed my comment and i see yours. I'm at your side. What the f...ing difference between photos taking by drone and cameras: drone pictures is on low quality side, thats all. Luminar is a good photo editor but it's ruined by it's snail-ish performance, Photolemur is decent for landscape but a nightmare for portrait, please fix this before developing new one. P/s: Aerial photography can also use Luminar to edit LOL.
Hello everyone! Because of weather conditions and technical limitations of cameras, aerial images have issues like haze, low or extreme contrast, lack of sharpness, undersaturation, and chromatic aberration. Drone photos don’t always look as amazing as they could with proper editing. AirMagic adjustments are optimized to remove haze and reveal the real colors in drone photos. We’ve analyzed color profiles of most popular drone models producers to let AirMagic apply the right adjustments each and every time.
Stay away from this scam company. They keep announcing products with fancy buzzwords but their software runs like crap (slowwwwwwwwwwwwww), they don't ship promised features and when they ship them they are incomplete.
This company excels in one thing... viral and influencer marketing to get a lot of people to buy their software, which they will probably never use because it is bad.
Hey Skylum, How about fixing your cr@ppy Aurora HDR application first, before producing more buggy software. I reported the batch processing bug to Skylum support 5 Months ago, and still no fix, no updates, nothing:
I second that! I have bought every version of Aurora HDR and while I over all like it, I am frustrated with the batch process not working. To release the 3rd version of a product with a broken feature that worked in the previous version is sloppy.
I would have rather waited another week or two and have them fix the problem or state they are removing the feature then push out something half baked. Skylum support kept saying it would be fixed in the next Aurora Update. They have been saying that since November. I finally got a response with a date that they will be releasing the update. They said sometime in April.
I think they are pushing out products to keep cash flow, and while I understand you need money to stay in business I feel they have changed a lot in the last year to the point I can no longer buy their products with any confidence.
Drone are so powerful these days ,so why aren't they flying the longest lens in the world nikon P1000 to record the farthest events ? There is a demand for that.
DEMAND is endless but the main concern is that: Revenue can pay for development and production cost. There is demand, but if it is on low quantity, forget it.
Rather than quoting Canon Rumors, https://skylum.com/airmagic is the actual announcement site. Not much there -- neither at the site nor in the tech shown in the vdieo. Even a pretty terrible artifacted background image at their site, which doesn't exactly boost my confidence about their automatic enhancement tech. ;-)
I think it's based on Photolemur, but they're not killing the original one. Actually Photolemur is doing fine for me when I don't have time, but see how a photo might improve. I actually like the results it produces.
Hi! AirMagic is a new product, not a Photolemur rebrand. It does have a similar interface, however, the AI algorithms are new and tailored for drone and aerial photography. And thank you for the good words of Photolemur!
I really wish Skylum put as much time into fulfilling their promises for Luminar as they put into running contests, creating partnerships, sending marketing emails and creating new apps based on their mediocre AI technology.
After the crash landing with Luminar now Kamikaze with a drone program? @Skylum Management: Step by step you win loyal customers. At the moment you are on the wrong way!
The DAM came a couple of years late after being repeatedly promised and what was delivered is hardly more than a browser. No real metadata support to speak of. They have an aggressive roadmap to flesh this out this year. Time will tell if they can deliver on this latest roadmap better than they did in the past.
I like the Luminar take on editing and some of the novelty that they have introduced so I would like to see succeed in delivering a DAM with metadata support (ability to add keywords, filter on metadata and to write out the metadata changes) and have robust batch editing that extends to a batch export with file renaming (that doesn't rely on having to use their separate legacy batch processing utility).
They are annoying and hazardous. But as a photographer I don't want to see them banned. A more controlled method for owning drones and laws to enforce drone free areas would be better.
@Imager of - That's not really the right way to think about it to be honest. It won't stop misuse but it's a deterrent. That's what most laws are. By your logic we shouldn't have laws against murder and theft because clearly those still happen. When people know they can be held responsible for not being nice they'll think twice before doing silly things.
Though they will never be banned outright - at least in N.America - they will face increasing regulation to own and operate. Canada is implementing additional requirements for training to operate one commercially. This is a bit like when cars were taking over the country in the early 20th century. Most cars had to be licensed/plated by the mid-30s, but their operators had almost no training requirements whatsoever.
And when I say they will never be banned, I am specifically talking about commercial applications... what they do to consumer-grade DJI-whatever is of little consequence frankly. UAVs have transformed many industries and all the crying and towel-wringing will not turn back the clock. We estimate that drones will save our company close to $20M over the next 5 years. Mind you, we also don't fly them at the park, lol.
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