Dramatic Photo Editing with Luminar NEO - Full Tutorial
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In this photo editing tutorial / walkthrough lets do a photo edit of the magnificent Lindisfarne castle. Luminar Neo offers us many ways to tackle a photo edit and in this one I explore some tools that will help to add a moody stormy look to this dramatic shot. Thanks for your patience while I've been away!
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Personal circumstances have meant I've been overseas and away from my TH-cam videos for a while. Thanks for your patience 🙏 It's good to be back 😀
Hey man... God bless you for doing this video in the midst of you and your fathers situation. Seriously, thank you.
I appreciate that 🙏 😀
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Hey, I love you brother. I'm 38 years old, I make content and help people grow their channels and I just wanted to say I love you and I get what you are going through with no words required. My dad is a smoker and an amazing person and he is an alcoholic and going away soon. I just can't imagine the world without him but, It is the natural way of the world. Not sad or bad in any way but definitely hard in moments and can take some getting used to. That aside, great video, great edit. I bought Laminar a while back but never used it and now NEO is a thing. I just feel annoyed that I bought their program and then they dumped it and started this other one NEO and charged again for it as well. I wish they would just merge them into one license. I really like how it shows red and blue to show over and under-exposed. Great work brother. All the best and can't want for the next one.
Thanks man. I really appreciate the kind words and support. Means a lot.
Just had a look at your channel. Looks like you're creating some cool stuff! Kudos!
Thanks for all the wonderful work that you put into your videos. God bless you and your family and I wish you all the very best.
Good to see you back. Looking forward to seeing a photo or two from Wales
Anthony great to have you back, I feel for you I live in Australia and had the same situation with my Dad 6 years ago having to go back to the UK.
Thanks Ian. Much appreciated 🙏
Priorities, man! I hope you brought back some beautiful shots of your dad.
I sure did! He's not one for having his photo taken but I managed to twist his arm for a few. 😀
I don't know how you do it, but every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new! It's wonderful. Thank you.
Great to hear Theo! 😀
Love love love the cloud tip.
Thanks Rebecca 😀
So glad you got to spend time with your dad. Thanks for sharing with us. ❤🙏🏻Jane
Thank you Jane.
This is the second tutorial Luminar should add to their website. After watching your video tutorials, I decided to purchase Neo. Thank you so much for posting these videos!
Glad I could help Robert! I've got quite a back catalogue of tutorials and demos with Luminar Neo that should allow you to get the most out of your editing. Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙏😀
Thanks for getting back to me, found my Sky tool, keep up the great work.👍
No problem 👍 Glad you found it 😀
Thank you so much for your videos. I have been telling myself that photo editing was for people who didn't know how to take good pictures for many years, but the truth is I didn't know how to proceed.
With Luminar and your precious lessons I can now really express myself with my photos and it made me change my mind completely.
Thanks for another excellent session Anthony, glad that you were able to spend time with your Father, best regards
You're welcome. And thanks for the well wishing 😀
Wonderful video, as always. Thank you. Sorry about your Dad. You are a gifted teacher and I always learn something every video I watch. Thank you and I hope the best for your family.
Thank you Mark.
Thanks for yet another masterclass in editing. It's great to hear your thoughts on what you do and why you do it. You really make your photos sing with Luminar!
I appreciate that! Thank you 🙏
Appreciate this in depth tutorial to deepen my knowledge and skills within Luminar Neo!
Prayers for you and your family, brother. Great snapshot of the castle and video!
Much appreciated
Bravo!
Thanks for this video work through Anthony transforming the image. Good to see your return and all the best to you and your family.
Thanks Ken 🙏
Blessings to you and your family, thanks for sharing a bit of your personal life as I so enjoy your tutorials. You seem like such a decent sort. And your editing skills are high level. I am grateful you share them!
Thank you so much!
Excellent video and explanation
Thank you!
Excellent tutorial Anthony--I love the resulting image. That's exactly how I would envision the final results. I like how you recap all your edits at the end, that helps cement the learning process. And like you, I'm finding myself moving away from Lightroom to Neo for all of my creative edits.
Great really appreciated this!
Thanks, and I appreciate your support!
Ah! It looks like Lindisfarne in Northumberland. I have never been there, but I recognise it as a well photographed location! 😻 Regards from Felix the Cat. 🐱
Yes, good spotting. Great place to visit. Very enjoyable.
@@AnthonyTurnham Have you ever thought of visiting St Michael's Mount near Penzance in Cornwall Anthony? Regards from Felix the Cat. 😺
Thank you for yet again another great edit! Really inspiring for my landscape work!👍 Wishing you the best of luck and great strength💪
Thanks Sigurd. Cheers for your continuing support 🙏 I really appreciate it.
Anthony, thanks for your great tutorial which is very helpful for me as always. Great respect for your work under these circumstances. Best wishes for you and your family.
Thanks Ulrich 😀
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Love your tutorials, Anthony, and I'm learning so much from you. Keep up the fantastic work you do.
Great to hear! Thank you Joe.
Excellent informative tutorial ! I have learned a lot from this. Thank you.
Anthony, what a great tutorial. I sure learned a lot. All the best to you and your family.
Glad it was helpful!
Another masterpiece video. Keep up the good work. You're a blessing to photography.
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Great edit thanks for the great tips . I would play with the skies make different photos
Nice idea. Yes I'm sure this could be transformed in many ways with the Sky Replacement tool.
Sorry about your dad man. Glad you got to take time
Thanks Jared
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Another bonzza video mate.
Wouldn't it be quicker and more adjustable if you added a layer over the sky and used A.I masking and layers adjustment, and maybe some brush masking, to reduce the brightness of the clouds?
Greg 👍
G'day Greg! Thanks for watching and commenting. I like your idea for the sky. Great thing about software that's deep like Luminar is there are many different approaches you can take to get to the result you want.
All the best, Anthony 😀
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Another enjoyable edit of a nice image. Never did get to the UK in our time of being able to travel. Personally, I found that the bottom of the image was still a bit too bright which brought the eye to an area where not much was there to capture the eye but did draw the eye rather than allowing the eye to quickly be drawn to the castle. Just a thought.
Now for what I really liked but with a couple of ideas. At 0:48 the female portrait. Concept is excellent and the body positioning, split light, 2/3 facial view, arm positioning all made this a wonderful image and something any of your viewers who want to learn portrait image creation can get a lot of good info from.
On my part, let me mention a couple of ideas and hopefully get some others responses. One consideration is to straighten the image as it appears to slope upward from L to R. Secondly, while the objects on the table can add interest, a couple of thoughts. First is the layout which is straight across the composition. Perhaps consider placing the structure of the three items in a diagonal from lower L to upper R and putting the small lower L item a bit forward and then moving the vase to the mid point perhaps having some of the plant items covering the light colored vertical in the background. Because the cup & saucer are light and brighter than the mask of the subject's head, the color and tone could be adjusted so that the eye does not go the the c & s when one wants to have the eye directed to the subject much the way was done in the edit of that castle. When complete the items on the table now offer a mirroring of the arms and the body of the subject.
I am also thinking that with the slight re-arranging of the table items that the image could be cropped a bit tighter. Now that one is looking toward the background and not the subject, much like was done with the sky of the tutorial edit, so here could the background be toned down on both the highlight side and the shadow side so that the eye remains with the subject and not the strong visual presented by the background but keep in mind that there needs to be kept the ratio of highlight to shadow based upon the direction of light in the image. With the change of the crop, the new vignette will contain the eye nicely to the subject. That vignette will also help to tone down the brightness of the knee of the subject.
AT offers the squint method of viewing the image to see areas that may need adjustment to keep the eye upon the subject of the photo. A couple of other methods that work well include closing your eyes and opening them quickly and just seeing where your attention goes. If not to the subject see what can be done to adjust the image as AT has done with the sky (keep in mind the amount of adjustment is often "to taste"). Another method is to rotate the image 180 degrees so you view the image upside down and determine if what you see first is what you want the viewer to see.
Hopefully there are a few ideas here that can be of value as AT does wonderful images of architecture, landscapes and portraits and provides all of us with a plethora of great info making use of the NEO editor.
Great tips regarding how to see your images with a fresh point of view. I'll see if I can drop them in to future videos!
The rotation / flipping method is one I use when I'm drawing and painting to check areas that don't look quite right.
Hi Anthony, thank you for the video! 👍🏼 How did you get your X-T4 color profile into Luminar Neo? 😳
Good job, but I would have cropped or cloned out the finger post and person on the wall on the right-hand edge. And that horizon looks a degree or so tilted to my eyes...
Thanks for all your help with these videos Anthony, hope you can point me in right direction with this small issue. I have no sky replacement filter in the Creative dropdown box, all other filters are there but no Sky, i saw a video where someone said i could find it in favorites but i have no favorites box either.
Can you point me in the right direction.
Thanks again for your great work with these videos.
Thanks Mark. I would have thought it'd be in the favorites if not in the creative section. Perhaps reach out to Skylum helpdesk...
Thank you Anthony, excellent tuition! I have one question! I had watch your video on the release of Neo, and wandered if Skylum have now put the erase tool into the product? I have been using Luminar 4 and AI of late and starting to feel the need to to upgrade to Neo, or Lightroom - which would you recommend. Regards Alan PS have now subscribed to your channel 👍
Hi Alan, yes they've added the erase and also clone too. Neo is now much more robust than it's initial launch. Neo vs Lightroom. Good question. I use both in my workflow but they each have their strengths. Neo is easier and more of a creative editing app. LR is more functional and has better catalogue and search features. My answer is both, but if I had to go one way or the other, NEO probably edges it for the additional editing tools. I think they've currently got a big sale on for a week or so bit.ly/Luminar-NEO
Thanks Anthony for the reply, have now gone with Neo, in light of your vid about them being from Ukraine! Really encourage by your video on the tone curve, and need to invest more time to this! hope you've had a great Easter Break! Regards Alan
Hi Anthony. How is your father now? We missed your videos! Regards from Felix the Cat! 🐱
Hi. Thanks. He's not great unfortunately. Great to be able to spend time with him though 😀
My sincere condolences....🙏
Thanks Herberto
Love your tutorials. Can you please tell me whether to use structure or detail or when to use both on wildlife. Thoughts s to you and your father,
Thanks for the well wishing. Dad's not too bad at the moment. So I really love structure as an editing tool. I'm no a huge fan of detail as it tends to add a crunchiness to the photo that I don't really like. However, for my architecture (and this would apply to wildlife too) a small application of each can work well. And I mean small. say from 2-6 on any of the small, medium, or large sliders. Beyond that I feel the image gets an over processed vibe.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks so much for your response and again hope that your dad is well. I do have one more question. I recently HAD to take a photo at 32000 ISO. Almost dark , dark grizzly, moving.....I am using a 5d Mark 4 I have sent the photo through Topaz with less than okay results. Other than turning this photo black and white 9and does that even help if I want to blow this shot up), is there anything that NEO can do? Thanks for all of your help.
Thank you Anthony, I hope all goes well for you and your family. One question please, how do I apply lens correction profiles to my images? I'm at a loss to apply these.
Apart from that, another great video.
Cheers Terry. You can apply camera matching lens profile corrections in the develop raw tool. Go to the optics tab and you'll see a check box that you simply need to tick. That's it. Photo must be raw and Luminar must also have to know your camera model for it to work.
@@AnthonyTurnham Many thanks, I'm set.👍
@Terry Young awesome! 😀
Ill wait as long as it takes for your videos
- your father is more important (i know from personal experience) I dont know his state, but i hope for the best!
As for your video, you did it again. Reinstating that Luminar Neo CAN be used for something.
I lost my faith in them after buying their add-ons and finding them more or less inadequate - especially their noise reduction.
but as i said, you rekindled my interest a bit again
So, if i dont want to fill my harddrives with huge TIFF files, how would you recommend to get the result from here, into my main tool ON1?
An even broader question; You as a pro-photographer, how would you use those two programs in conjunction for the best workflow?
regards
- and the best possible wishes
Hi Gunni. Thanks for your support and kind words.
Tiff is a great format but as you alluded to it is a memory intensive format. I'd still be using it though if I need to pass image edits from one place to another. I'd then look at keeping only my final edit once I'm happy. Perhaps even as a jpeg. BUT you have to have the confidence that you're content with your edit. For a long time I was too scared to get rid of my working files and have huge multi gigabyte PSDs still floating around.
With regards to the workflow, which ON1 program are you using? That'd determine the appropriate workflow.
Thanks again and best wishes, Anthony
@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you for a comprehensive answer - i always use the latest stand alone version of ON1 - right now its ON1 Photo Raw 2023
Oh by the way Anthony! Since you have been away, Luminar Neo has launched a fantastic new extension called 'Magic Light'. It's great for creating night effect scenes, why not produce a video on using this new extension? Regards from Felix the Cat. 😺
Nice idea. I had it in mind over Christmas time when all the pretty fairy lights etc were about.
Thanks again. Sorry about you Dad 🙏🙏
Quick question. I struggle with cloning tool usin my. Wacom pen. Any hints ?
Hi. Erm no real hints as such other than making sure you've got the alt key set up on the tablet for quick re-sampling of the source.
I hope everything is okay in England? You sounded a bit worrying. Very refined edit though
Thanks Armin. 🙏
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