Make Better Black & White Edits in LUMINAR NEO - Simple Tools, Powerful Results!
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Avoid lifeless black and white photo edits by following this approach. It's easy to create strong black and white photos in Luminar NEO but you must follow the right conversion method. That's what I'll share with you in this photo editing tutorial. The concepts and techniques shown here are applicable to ALL genres of photography not just portraits. So if you want to learn how to make better black and white photos then follow along this demonstration with your own photo. I hope you'll be making stunning black and white photos in no time!
A lot of what we cover is relevant to Luminar AI also (bit.ly/Lum-AI), however it's the application of tools numerous times where Luminar NEO really shines, and that's something you can't do in Luminar AI. In this case though I would recommend using the local adjustment tools in Luminar AI in a similar way to re-applying tools in NEO.
Personally I love editing black and white photos, and I hope this video helps you to start creating better monochrome, black and white photo conversions.
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Awesome! I'll have to revisit and study this a few times to get all the essence and then practice on my own sample files. Thx Anthony!
No troubles. Thanks Alex.
Very helpful video, Anthony. Helping to make Neo feel like a serious editing tool. I don't do portraits so, yes, showing how to do a b&w edit on a landscape or urban shot would be really interesting.
Thank you Anthony, I'm with you John a tutorial on landscape b&w editing would be great, but they're are all great, thanks again Anthony.😎👍
Enjoyed all your tutorials where the pace is well done, very detail on each editing tool for easy understanding. Looking forward to more.
Awesome, thank you!
I'm learning so much through your videos. Did my first b&w editing with your instructions. It looks so much better. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Excellent tutorial as usual!
Something New and something Creative always in your videos. Thanks for the video, Anthony. You didn't touch the "Super contrast" which works great for Portrait editing.
Thanks mate 😀
I’m really happy with the first version, but I’m even more delighted to know these guys are safe and taking care of themselves and their loved ones. Slava Ukraina
Thanks for posting this video! Very helpful! As we know there is no "dodge & burn" feature in Neo. So this information is quite something!
remember, Skylum will try to add more updates as time and ability based upon the current situation in the country allows so we hopefully will be able to see more options in the future.
Really enjoying your approach.
It was a great demonstration on the power of Luminar Neo. I think I'll try some of the tecnichs you showed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Best regards from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
Thanks Paulo. 😀
This one was a ton of fun and learning. Followed along using a head shot of my dog. Very happy with the results.
Nice to know the approach worked well for an animal too. Cheers for watching! 😀
Love the channel. This tutorial helped immensely. interested in more b&w tutorials and creating images with vintage films look like ilford fuji kodak. Cheers
Awesome, thank you!
Thats an awesome and very practical edit. This really shows the power of Neo (and your skills). You "attack" photo editing quite different from me - so this is inspiring.
Finally i see and understand the possibilities of layers!
Thanks Anthony
Very kind of you Gunni. I appreciate the comment.
It s always a pleasure to learn with you about the capabilities of this tool which are really large. Honnestly -and even before the application of the layers- I think we are more and more going far from photography and more and more near art … which is not a bad criticism :)… and we are free to stop where we want. Big big job here and thx for that.
Wow! Loving luminar-Neo, but that is one of the best tutorials for using and re-using the tools. Like many I guess, I kinda thought my editing options were diminished once I had converted to B&W. Who knew! Thanks for sharing Anthony!
Awesome, thank you!
NEO getting better, very nice
The black and white is quite a transformation from the original colour and looks really good. It was quite a bit of work to get there. As for the layers, they are not what most people
understand as true layers. They are at the moment just textures or images you can add. The only use I've made of layers is to add a PNG signature image to use as a watermark.
Hi Ken, I'll see if I can put a video together on layers. At first glance they may seem like some form of augmented texture tool but I have managed to utilise them in other creative ways...
Absolutely fab! I don’t do portraits much, but I found this very informative for other photography subjects! THANKS 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Teresa!
I love your Luminar videos very much (and the others once, too, of course,😀). Thanks
Happy to hear that!
Your videos inspire me to experiment more. Thanks!
Great stuff Theo! Go for it mate. Get in there and experiment :)
So doing this from a black & white neg involves making a colour scan (tiff ?) then making a colour conversation then making a black & white in neo.. Got it 🙃
Absolutely great introduction into some of Luminar Neo's very specific features! Thanks!
Thanks Jens.
I learn so much from your tutorials, Anthony. Been following and learning from Lum 4. Just wondering why not to apply curves in the Develop Raw edit? Thanks and cheers
Good question. How much contrast is in a file is a processing decision that, in my workflow, comes closer to the end. If I go too hard with a contrast curve early on then I'm limiting my dynamic range in the rest of the process. I like to start with basic white and black point movements, shifts in shadows and highlights and then visit curves later to set my final look.
Thanks, Anthony .... makes sense! I'll experiment! :)
thank you for the tutorial, very informative and easy to follow.
You're very welcome!
Makes sense. I really like this video. Useful tips for B&W.
Glad it was helpful William!
Thanks for the helpful videos as always.
My pleasure!
Wow, that was awesome and very informative.
Thank you Joe!
Another great video I really appreciate the emphasis you put on looking at the details and experimenting with the sliders. In the end it all makes sense! Many thanks. 👏
Great to hear David! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment :)
Thank You Anthony very helpful keep them coming and when are you going to create a Preset bundle? :)
Hi Michael. Thanks for the comment :) Preset bundle, eh. Not a bad idea at all. I'll give it some thought!
Makes Sense
Another really helpful and thought provoking episode. Can we have some more B&W tutorials or layer tutorials? Thank you so much
I'll see what I can do Nathan!
Brilliant!
Thanks Anthony. Amazing lesson as always
My pleasure Ulrich!
Very well done .. Thank you for your effort..
Thanks.
Great! Learned a lot again!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video mike
I'm new to Neo and asking if you see that I am missing something in my workflow that is obvious to you. I'm working with RAW scans of old B&W negs using a Lumix G95 with a 30mm Macro. So starting in Develop RAW I go first to curves and invert the negative image to a positive. Then I adjust the positive image in Develop Raw as best I can. I've been using Pixelmator and Neo obviously has all those AI tools you just used in this video which should allow me to improve my old shots with say, underexposed faces as you worked with in your example. I have been just desaturating the scans but I could rescan them with the camera set to monochrome to eliminate that step. It doesn't seem to flatten the image. You seem to think similarly to me as you edit so I find your videos very helpful. Thanks from Perth.
Hi Lorenz. Sounds good to me. As your originals are black and white, desaturating your scans is fine. Sounds like you've got yourself a fun project there!
Great video 👍
Thanks 👍
Loving it all and will get Neo. I have AI now so how will my workflow be using the catalogue of AI and editing of Neo?
Hi Peter. The catalogue works in a very similar way to AI. It reads the folder structure of the root folders you point it at.
Great job
Thanks for this Video. I enjoy . I work right now with Luminar AI . Shall I keep AI and install Neo ? is no Problem ? In advance Thanks
Hi Mate. There's no harm in having both apps installed.
nice job on the good facial view and location of the near eye. Only thing that I would have liked to have see is a landscape version of the frame from camera to allow for more room to look to than looking from. I also thought that maybe a bit more detail in the highlights of the face in the pure B/W image would have been nice so as to provide skin texture. Some of that came back when adding the textures. As usual, an most enjoyable tutorial. Oh, maybe someone that does videos could also include in their initial comments a .rtf file of the Keyboard shortcuts for NEO in their initial comments in text. TIA
Hi Phlotographer. Thanks. I noticed Skylum released on the Luminar Insiders website a page with all the current keyboard shortcuts. Just the usual stuff tbh. I'm sure more will be added though as there are a few that aren't there that I'd love to see.
@@AnthonyTurnham Not everyone is an LI member and I have not bothered to join so just had hoped that someone would put the shortcut list or a link where others could access it for NEO. I have also not seen if NEO has a user manual yet. Any info and/or link? TIA
I watch most of your video and have been using Skylum products since the launch of Luminar 4. In my normal workflow I use Luminar Neo as a plugin to Lightroom. It is easy to open an image from Lightroom in Neo but I can't figure out how to open the image as RAW. It always changes the format to tif. I want to use the Develop module on the RAW image as you suggest so can you explain how I can set this up?
Thank you
Hi John. Because you're using it as a plugin envoked from LR it's not going to let you mess with the raw file that way because LR and Neo "talk" to the file in a different way and so you'd end up with conflicting editing instructions on the same raw file, hence why LR creates a new file for editing. If you want to work raw in NEO, you'll have to start there and then bring your edit into LR afterwards.
@@AnthonyTurnham Anthony, thank you very much for your excellent explanation in answer to my question. It makes absolute sense.
Regards
John
Your tutorials are just great. You have shown me such a wide variety of editing w/in what is looking more and more like a very powerful and relatively easier application, Luminar Neo. You do a masterfully simple demonstration that even I can figure out and understand, LOL. Thanks so much Anthony. Also thanks for the safety updates for the Luminar team. As an American it's a breather that for once it's not us that are the usurpers, murderers, and destroyers, the effect of the invasion of Ukraine is a taste of our own medicine, horrifying!
Thank you Todd!
I don’t know if anyone is working with one yet, but the M1 max chips are really responding well with the first version of the app.
Hi Luke, I'm on PC and it's running nicely too.
I do not like that they have removed the visualization bar before and after I had to lumina, very bad but very bad.
Not removed; just not introduced into Neo just yet. Should appear in a later update/upgrade.
Hi Anthony, great tutorial, by the way, did you get the pictures? Felix the Cat. 😺
Hiya Felix The Cat. Yes, I just got those downloading now. Thanks for sending them through! Your cats are ridiculously cute!
Skylum's headquarters is in Bellvue, WA, far from any danger! Look it up!
Hi Kenneth. Thanks for the comment 😀 It's been over a year since I made this vid so I can't recall the discussion of where Skylum is based. But, yes I'm aware of where their company HQ is registered. I'm also aware of the location of some of their staff, developers etc. that I've chatted with on video calls and it certainly isn't Bellvue. Thanks for doing some background research, it's a good thing to do. But snippets of info don't always speak to the whole truth of a situation.
Awesome 😍
Thanks 🤗
Makes sense
Why I don't have the mask tool in my version?
No idea, which version are you using?
@@AnthonyTurnham Luminar Neo 1.18.2(12917)
Makes sence
makes sense :-)
needs histogram feature
Presume this photo was taken in RAW?
What if it was a tiff scan of 35ml..... Most of this great stuff only works this well in RAW. 🤔
You should be fine with a good tiff file. 16bit with good res and you won't be at much of a disadvantage tbh. Once we move away from the initial develop raw tool in Neo, at this point it's not working on the raw data set anyway, it's treating the photo as if it were a 16bit raster file like a tiff.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for that. Always helpful. 👍
Makes sense