Ai Toolkits are going to significantly transform your photography editing workflow, all thanks to the recent Ai updates in Lightroom (and, ahem, WEEKS of hard work on our part perfecting these for you).

Adobe Lightroom has integrated Ai Technology to wildly enhance its editing capabilities and streamline the creative process. Thanks to advancements in AI technology, which advanced SO FAR in just a few months, Adobe Lightroom now offers powerful features that can revolutionize editing workflows.

We’re Lightroom people – always have been, always will be (although, that new Photoshop Ai generate tool…?! Insane. It’s now a staple in our Workflow, but that’s for another blog post).

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of AI-powered Tools for Adobe Lightroom, specifically exploring our THREE Toolkits (two of which are shiny new!), and how they are transforming the way photographers edit their images.

WHEN WE WERE FIRST STARTING OUT

When we were first starting out, it would take literal days to do what now can be done in seconds with our Seasons Ai Toolkits. Here’s baby Athena 👇👇👇 in 2013 who would have LOST IT at the power that is 2023 for Lightroom.

Please note the perfect faded look of these 2013 edits (These tones are tenderly missed by me and so I brought them back in Seasons Ai Film Presets.) 

Traditional photo editing techniques have been the go-to for photographers for years. These methods include manual adjustments, selective editing, and retouching. While offering a high level of control, they can be time-consuming and subjective (that’s the understatement of the year). Photographers often spend hours carefully adjusting each aspect of an image, and the results largely depend on individual expertise and artistic vision (and patience).

BUT NOW – Ai has entered the chat. 

Adobe Lightroom Ai is a LIFE SAVER for Photographers time, energy and creativity. It leverages artificial intelligence through its advanced engine called Adobe Sensei. This integration of AI technology equips photographers with a range of automated and intelligent editing tools. Lightroom’s AI algorithms analyze images, identify patterns, and make smart adjustments, revolutionizing the editing process.

Aka – Magic. ✨

Now, it may feel like everyone is using Ai, but actually, less than 10% of businesses have actually stared harnessing the power of Ai. For Photographers, it is still relatively new, so if you can understand and adopt Ai, you’ll be immediately ahead of the game (which can help you stand out, book clients, and also gives you a platform to help other photographers).

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“Using Ai Presets + Tools from Athena and Camron helped set me apart from other photographers.”

Dustin
Woodlard Narrative

Three Reasons to Use Ai Tools

1. Efficiency and Speed: One significant advantage of Adobe Lightroom AI, combined with Athena & Camron’s Seasons AI Toolkits, is its efficiency and speed. AI-powered editing enables photographers to adjust multiple aspects of an image simultaneously. The algorithms work behind the scenes, analyzing and optimizing the image quickly and accurately. This time-saving potential is particularly beneficial for professionals and busy photographers who need to process large volumes of images within tight deadlines.
2. Precision and Accuracy: AI-powered tools in Lightroom offer UNMATCHED precision and accuracy. The algorithms can make intelligent adjustments based on image analysis, resulting in precise masking, retouching, and selective adjustments. Lightroom’s AI-driven features, such as automated subject recognition and advanced masking techniques, enable photographers to make targeted edits with exceptional accuracy, reducing the need for manual fine-tuning.
3. Creativity and Artistic Control: While AI plays a significant role in automating certain aspects of photo editing, it also offers new opportunities for creativity and artistic control. Adobe Lightroom AI, combined with our Seasons AI Toolkits, provides a wide range of innovative effects and styles that can be applied to images, offering photographers new avenues for expression. AI-powered presets and suggestions provide a starting point for creative exploration, allowing photographers to infuse their unique artistic vision into their edits.

The Best Ai-Toolkits for Photographers

The future of editing is Ai, and we’ve got the best of the best Ai Toolkits for you – Athena + Camron’s Seasons AI Toolkits (that’s us!).

Our three Seasons Ai Toolkits complement Adobe Lightroom AI by providing EVERY Ai Tool we think photographers will need in their everyday Editing Toolkit to elevate and enhance their photography workflow.

So, what sets our Ai Toolkits apart?

Unlike other Editing “Toolkits” on the market, our Ai Tools are layered with powerful Ai-adaptive masking, which means you can make highly specific edits to your subjects, background and skies – WITH ONE-CLICK.

Here’s a quick list of what sets our Ai Toolkits apart:

✓ Faster Workflow and Better One-Click Edits
✓ Add as the final step in your Editing Workflow – One-Click Done 😍
✓ Easy to adjust, so you still have total control over your edits if you choose
✓ Work flawlessly with your own Presets – you don’t need to own ours!
✓ FREE Membership to Seasons Ai Editing School included (tutorials!) 💻
✓ Tested on multiple camera/lens/file types 📸
✓ Hand crafted by Professional Photographers
✓ Beta Tested by Real Photographers

One of our customers Mariya Sakhno (an incredible Hawaii-based photographer – book with her if you’re ever visiting!) left us a review recently, and captured what I think a lot of us can feel at times:

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“Before I purchased Athena and Camron’s Ai Toolkit, I was quite overwhelmed with the Lightroom Ai Update. I’m SO happy I found this toolkit! It is such a timesaver, and gives me so much creative control with my images – I barely have to use Photoshop anymore, shortening my Editing Workflow! Seasons Ai Toolkit is truly something every photographer needs in their editing arsenal. 5 Stars!”

Mariya
Masha Sakhno

Seasons Ai Toolkit I

✓ Best-Seller
✓ 5-Star Rated
✓ Perfect Starter Kit for ALL Photographers

Our flagship Ai Toolkit, Seasons AI Toolkit I, was an immediate 5-Star product (seriously, we had NEW 5-Star reviews coming in from the day they launched) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Seasons Ai Toolkit I is our Best-Seller, and includes the best of the best Ai Tools for Portraits, Landscapes and Skies.

Seasons Ai Toolkit is our recommended choice for Photographers who only want ONE Ai Toolkit, as it includes Ai Tools for Portraits, Landscapes and Skies. It is like a ‘base’ pack in this way, and is a great starting point for Ai Tools.

While it pairs perfectly with Seasons Ai Desktop Presets, you do not have to own our presets to use our tools!

Your 25% OFF Coupon (at the bottom of this blog) takes Seasons Ai Toolkit I from $149 down to just $111 (or 2x payments of $55!). SHOP NOW.

Seasons Ai Toolkit II – Ai Magic Portraits

✓ 5-Star Rated
✓ Professional Expansion Pack
✓ Perfect for Portrait Photographers

If you really want to level up, we recommend owning both Seasons AI Toolkit II – Magic Portraits and Seasons AI Toolkit III Magic Background + Skies. They are more specific (and act as expansion packs if you already own Seasons Ai Toolkit I) – that focus on transforming portraits and landscapes, respectively. These toolkits provide a range of adjustments tailored to specific image elements, allowing you to create captivating portraits and breathtaking backgrounds with ease.

This is where we get REALLY EXCITED because we are Portrait Photographers first and foremost. People are our favorite muses. We were primarily Wedding Photographers in our decade-long career, which means we needed to be skilled at not just Portraiture, but landscape photography, detail shots, family photos, dance floor photography, night photography, + more! Not to mention being a CEO, CFO, COO, Marketing Specialist, etc. Wedding Photography really is the craziest kind of job that requires approximately one-billion skills, and we take our hat off to you if you if you’re in the arena with us.

But I digress. Let’s get back to Portraits. The latest update in Adobe Lightroom is especially powerful for Portraits. AI-masking in Lightroom can significantly enhance portrait editing by offering precise control over various elements of the subject’s face, body, clothing, hair + more.

Here’s what AI-masking can do for specific features using some beautiful images from Chloe Amaya and Debbie Elisa Photography:

1. Eyes + Eyebrows:

With AI-masking, you can make the eyes stand out by adjusting their brightness, contrast, and color. It allows you to sharpen the iris, enhance the catchlights, and even change the eye color if desired. And you’d be amazed at the difference Ai-masking on eyebrows makes – our Eyebrows Darker effect is subtle but powerful. Our Seasons Ai Toolkit II: Magic Portraits comes with 5 Magic Portrait Recipes that include Ai adjustments for Eyes, plus 9 individual Ai-masks for eyes (so much creative control!).

2. Skin: AI-masking helps in achieving smooth and flawless skin tones. It can automatically detect and mask the subject’s skin, allowing you to apply adjustments like reducing blemishes, evening out skin tones, and reducing wrinkles while preserving the natural texture. Our Seasons Ai Toolkit II: Magic Portraits comes with 5 Magic Portrait Recipes that include Ai adjustments for Skin, plus 13 individual Ai-masks for skin, including our popular – Skin | Tone 1 – Natural Restore.

3. Teeth: AI-masking can isolate the subject’s teeth, making it easier to whiten and brighten them. You can enhance the appearance of the teeth by adjusting their brightness and color, giving them a more appealing and natural look. Make sure to utilise the Preset Amount Slider here – one-click add Teeth whitening, then lower to the natural amount for your image (we usually like around 70% – that’s what’s built into our Seasons Ai Desktop Presets).

4. Lips: With AI-masking, you can selectively enhance the lips’ color and vibrancy. It enables you to make adjustments like increasing or decreasing saturation, adding a touch of gloss, or refining the lip line. Our Seasons Ai Toolkit II: Magic Portraits comes with 5 Magic Portrait Recipes that include Ai adjustments for Lips, plus 6 individual Ai-masks for lips. All our Seasons Ai Toolkits all come with a membership to Seasons Ai Editing School, where we show you how easy it is to only apply Ai-masking to lips of ONE of your subjects (this can help if only one of your subjects has a colored lipstick or gloss on, and the other doesn’t).

5. Hair: AI-masking can be used to define and enhance the subject’s hair. You can adjust the hair’s color, increase or decrease its vibrancy, and even apply targeted sharpening or smoothing for a more polished look.

We also added an Ai Tool on the subject’s Wardrobe. Literally 3 seconds later – here’s the difference between a STANDARD Preset edit and our Seasons Ai Preset + Seasons Ai Tools edit on Debbie Elisa‘s beautiful image.

Overall, AI-masking in Lightroom provides precise control over various facial and hair features, allowing you to enhance and refine Portraits in a natural and professional manner, resulting in stunning portraits with attention to detail.

Your 25% OFF Coupon (at the bottom of this blog) takes Seasons Ai Tooklit II Magic Portraits from $239 down to just $179 (or 2x payments of $89!). SHOP NOW.

Seasons Ai Toolkit III – Ai Magic Background + Skies

✓ 5-Star Rated
✓ Professional Expansion Pack
✓ Perfect for ALL Photographers

Unless you exclusively photograph in studio environments, you’re bound to encounter landscapes + skies! We recommend owning Seasons AI Toolkit III Magic Background + Skies. This toolkit provides a range of adjustments tailored to specific image elements, allowing you to create captivating and breathtaking backgrounds with ease.

Let’s us this beautiful landscape image shot at Mount Rainier in Seattle, WA on a misty summer evening.

Let’s add a standard preset (without any Ai). We’re going to add Seasons Creamy Dusk. This is a standard preset, and is still a gorgeous edit.

But LEAN IN friends, because this is the moment where ‘elevating your images with Ai’ is truly exampled, specifically for the background and sky. Here is the same image, but edited with ONE-CLICK Seasons Creamy Dusk + Ai, plus THREE one-click Ai Tools added from Seasons Ai Magic Toolkit III Background + Skies.

No extra manual adjustments, no tweaking, nothing. Just one-click for each of the THREE Ai Tool’s added.

Literally 3 seconds later – here’s the difference between a STANDARD Preset edit and our Seasons Ai Preset + Seasons Ai Tools edit.

A key aspect here is the Luminance – it is applied as part of our Ai Magic Background, and in this instance softened the highest light points of the image – essentially adding a creaminess to the BACKGROUND light, but not affecting the mids or shadows. Here are our settings for this one in particular:

Your 25% OFF Coupon (at the bottom of this blog) takes Seasons Ai Tooklit III Magic Background + Skies from $239 down to just $179 (or 2x payments of $89!). SHOP NOW.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Athena and Camron’s Ai Presets and Ai Toolkit truly speed up my editing time, all while giving it that punch images need! I’ve tried many presets in my time but none produce the quality and magic that Athena and Camron’s can produce. This new AI toolkit is no exception. I love that the AI Toolkit takes out the tediousness of brushing and the tools they give you meet every single need. Don’t sleep on this. It’s worth every penny!!!”

Leslie
Leslie Ann Photography

The Future of Photo Editing is Ai Toolkits.

As AI technology continues to evolve, so does its potential in Adobe Lightroom. With ongoing advancements, we can expect more sophisticated AI features that further enhance editing workflows, increase productivity, and inspire creativity. Staying updated and embracing AI will empower photographers to push boundaries and achieve even more impressive results.

By harnessing the power of AI-powered presets and effects from us in Adobe Lightroom, photographers can revolutionize their editing workflows. From streamlining organization and automating adjustments to exploring creative effects and achieving consistent results, AI offers a range of tools to save time, increase precision, and unlock new creative possibilities.

The future of editing is here, and it’s driven by AI.

Get Seasons Ai Desktop Presets + Seasons Ai Toolkit as a PRO BUNDLE for a further 25% off with the code at the bottom of this blog post. That takes it from $239 to just $179 (or just 2x payments of $89). 
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Your 25% OFF Coupon can be used on ANY Seasons Ai Preset Pack, Ai Toolkit, or Ai Effect Pack (even on top of ALREADY BUNDLED DISCOUNTS – yep!). 

This is the editing toolkit of our dreams. Thanks to Adobe’s latest AI Technology, we’ve been able to create a powerful, packed editing toolkit that is basically ONE-CLICK MAGIC for your photos. The tools perfectly complement Seasons AI Desktop Presets, and can be used in Lightroom Classic 12.0 and newer. Want to learn more? Read this quick blog post to learn what’s included.

Learn about the 2023 AI Update to Seasons Presets here

I mean look at this thing –
I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing 😍😍😍

BUT FIRST – INTRODUCING NEW AI FEATURES

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a part of our everyday lives, even if we are not always aware of it. The beauty of AI is that computers can perform tasks usually associated with intelligent human beings. Like, for example, I used to sit in Lightroom and slowly, laboriously, manually brush over a subject or sky or object to enhance my image – but it was (almost) always ‘worth it,’ because masking (with a brush tool or a radial/graduated filter) can make your image look incredible.

With the new Adobe AI, masking is now a one-click job. The first time I used it, it felt like a shock of magic.

Immediately I knew we needed to integrate Adobe’s new technology into Seasons presets and tools, so we’ve spent the last year doing just that. Now that Adobe has released their Fall 2022 update (with the COOLEST AI masking tech for portraits), we’re confident we have the best product for you for the coming year. Camron and I improved and enhanced each and every one of the presets, PLUS created AI-powered versions to give you that one-click magic for your photographs.

Not only that, the most exciting development is that we’re releasing Seasons AI Toolkit. 45 incredible AI Powered Tools that are as easy as presets, but pack the punch of powerful masking and professional editing with a single tap.

NEW ADOBE AI FEATURE: The Amount Slider

I have been waiting for Lightroom to have this feature for my entire career – the ability to apply a preset and lower or increase that presets intensity with a single slider. I remember playing around with VSCO (wow tumblr throwback), and easily being able to click a preset and then lower the intensity/opacity to 75% or 50%. This has not been the case in Lightroom (hence creating a ‘Lite’ version of Seasons for our early 2021 Seasons update. If only we knew that same year Adobe would release this feature!).

The amount slider makes working with and adjusting preset intensity so simple. Just select a preset and use the slider to dial the effect up, or tone it down. All the settings the preset adjusts will be evenly modified – the settings will change on their own!

NEW ADOBE AI FEATURE: Masking

Presets affect the color and tone of an entire photo. But sometimes you don’t want to make global adjustments to the entire image – you want corrections or enhancements to a specific area of your photo. This is where Masking comes in. There were already many Masking tools that Adobe offered, which help to enhance your photography edits. Now, there are so many options to add a mask to your image. You can use Select Subject, Select Sky, Select Background, Objects, or People to automatically add a mask or use Brush, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, or Range Masks to add a mask manually.

You may want to lighten a face to help your subject stand out in a portrait, or enhance a golden sky in a landscape image. As opposed to global adjustments, masking makes local (specific) adjustments. To make local corrections, you can apply specific color and tonal adjustments just using a Masking tool. In the past, this has been quite tedious. With the new AI technology, masking a subject, sky, or background is as easy as one click. And with Seasons AI Powered Presets, this technology is embedded WITHIN the preset itself!

Subject Masking

The new AI Select Subject masking tool to identifies the subject(s) of your photo and selects either the entire subject, or specific aspects of that person for you – and so quickly and acurately. This means you can enhance just the subjects of your portraits, or just specific features of your subject, like eyes/lips/hair/skin, meaning better photographs with an obvious emphasis on the beautiful person/s in front of your lens.

NOTE: In all our testing on masking, the AI Subject selection works 99% of the time. When it grabs too much or not enough of a subject, it’s likely because the image is severely over or under-exposed. Try and first adjust the image so that it’s more obvious where the subject is, then the AI will be able to better guess the exact parameters of your subject.

Background Masking

Equally as game-changing as the subject masking, Lightroom has made it possible to AI select the entire background of your image, which means you can automatically select everything EXCEPT the subject(s), so you can make local adjustments to your background. This is SO brilliant and we included many beautiful background mask options in the AI Toolkit, as it really does transform your photo.

INTRODUCING SEASONS AI TOOLKIT

Our brand NEW Seasons AI Powered Editing Toolkit may just be my favorite thing ever. To use the most overused expression, it has ‘changed the game’ for me (sorry not sorry). The 45 tools included cover everything from subject/skin/sky adjustments, to reflectors, luminance adjustors and extra tone curves.

EXAMPLE: In this photograph from a beautiful sunset elopement at Mount Rainier, I added 5 layers of tools from the AI toolkit to affect the subject, background, and sky. Each layer of masking can be adjusted if you like, but these were applied with no adjustments at all. As you can see, it instantly took a beautiful edit and made it pop with color and dimension.

WHAT COMES IN THE AI TOOLKIT?

45 AI-Powered Tools

5 Modifiers – Auto white balance, lens corrections on, lens corrections off, add grain (the perfect combination of roughness, intensity and noise), remove grain. Tried and true, these quick modifiers are needed in every editors toolkit. They may seem simple, but they pack powerful effects. Because they present like presets, you can hover over them to see the effect quickly, saving you time fiddling in the develop panels.

6 AI Subject Feature Specific Adjustments – Thanks to the insane AI Technology Lightroom Classic offers, we were able to create specific editing tools for the people in your images. With one click, you can skin smooth, teeth whiten, and eye enhance on every subject in your image. We also added three options for adjusting the temperature of just the skin – skin warmth (gold/honey tones), skin warmth (rose/peach tones) and skin cool. 

5 AI Subject General Enhancements –Want to enhance your subjects overall? We have tools for Focus, Vibrant, Darken, Sharpen and Soften. We’re portrait photographers, so people are the most important part of our photographs. We created these quick tools that pack powerful adjustments to help emphasize and enhance your subject.

3 AI Reflectors – White, Gold and Transparent. Have you ever worked with reflectors? They are incredible and provide even, tinted light onto your subject. These AI Reflectors add the same look to your image, and it helps for more dramatic before and afters.

13 AI Background Enhancements – Lighten, Darken, Soften, Diffuse, Airbrushed (love), Glaze, Watercolor Wash (LITERALLY best ever), Backlit Fields, Gold Glaze, Honey Haze, Peach Mosaic (drool), Cold Pressed Greens (sage forest, anyone?), muted storms. Need we say more? We can’t wait for you to use these – we use them on every single image now.

4 AI Sky Enhancements – Cloud Dancer, Blue Summer, Gold Sunset, Stormy. Love the names? The effects are even yummier.

5 AI Luminance Adjustments – Soften Highlights, Pop Mids, Glowy Lights, Dim Shade, Soften Shade. These are advanced adjustments that focus on luminance within the image. These tools mean that you can target areas based on their brightness and sort of ‘smooth’ them over.

4 Tone Curves – Creamy, Natural, Bold and Bright. Manually adjusting the Tone Curve after applying a preset can feel intimidating (or just plain time-consuming). But alternate tone curves can give you enormous power over the tonal feel of Seasons Presets. After making basic adjustments and applying your preset, hover over these Tone Curves to preview subtle and significant changes to your edit.

+ 11 BONUS TOOLS

4 Subject-Specific Tools – 2 for lips (dusty rose or velvety beige) and 2 for skin (hey honey and cocoa glow)

4 Cinematic Background Enhancements – an ode to Taylor swift and her Midnight cinematic vibes, Lavender Haze, It Was Maroon, Snow on the Beach, and Midnight Rain

3 Cinematic Sky Enhancements – pale peach, Tiffany blue, and (our favorite) rainbow daydream. Yes, with one click, add an adjustable rainbow to your sky!

How do you get your hands on the 11 bonus ai tools? Just leave an honest review with at least one photo edited with Seasons AI Toolkit! You’ll receive an email to review Seasons AI Toolkit 48 hours after purchase. Your review will be compared by a human with your order to verify you are a preset customer, so please give at least 3-4 business days to receive your bonus presets.

EDITING TUTORIALS

The AI toolkit also comes with 6 tutorials – these are the same tutorials that come with Seasons Preset Bundle, as the AI Toolkit will be included in the bundle for future customers. To be clear – if you purchase the AI Toolkit Separately, the tutorials will be exact duplicates of the videos in your Seasons Preset Private Video Workshop. Whether you upgrade to the AI Toolkit or not, you will get to see the tutorials – however, you won’t get the actual toolkit in the $1 upgrade – you will need to buy it separately (see below for how to get 50% off the AI Toolkit!).

AI Toolkit Tutorials are:

1. Introducing Seasons AI Toolkit (Complete Breakdown of all 45 AI Tools)* (Easy)
2. AI Masking Tutorial: Adjusting Masking on Desktop Presets in Lightroom (Easy-Intermediate)
3. Using AI Toolkit in Lightroom Mobile (Do’s and Don’ts for Mobile Edits)
4. Golden Hour and Blue Hour edits with Smart AI Masking on customer photos (Advanced)
5. Editing Bright + Airy with AI Masking on customer photos (Intermediate)
6. Editing Dark + Moody with AI Masking on customer photos (Intermediate)

NOTE: The AI Toolkit is not part of the $1 update available to all past Seasons Customers (see the end of this blog post on how to get the update). The 2023 update will give you brand new Desktop + Mobile Presets and a few brand new private editing tutorials, but will not include updated tools. You can continue to use your current Seasons Toolkit, however we highly encourage you to consider buying the new Seasons AI Toolkit!

But if you are a Seasons Customer who updates for $1 and wants to get the NEW AI Toolkit, you’ll be given an opportunity to add on the toolkit after checkout for 40% off RRP (save $60USD!).

HOW TO GET THE TOOLKIT

If you own Seasons Presets already, you’ll be offered to add the AI Toolkit to your 2023 Update – and the best part is, you’ll be given a 40% off discount if you add it during checkout!

If you don’t own Seasons yet, the 2023 Update will soon be open to the public, and the AI Toolkit will be available to purchase for $149USD.