Why Luminar Neo Single Image HDR ROCKS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Creating a single image HDR with Luminar Neo using the new HDR Merge feature quite frankly, simply ROCKS. If you've ever tried to make fake HDR, you know the twists and tricks needed to pull it off, and it's a LOT of work. With the new Luminar Neo extension HDR Merge, your photo editing process had been made much more simplified.
Fake HDR (or Faux HDR) has been around a long time. While it can be done, as I said earlier, it's a bit of work. When Skylum Software updated their Luminar Neo with the new extension for handling bracketed images, it stated it could handle from 1 and up to 10 images.
I decided to do a single image HDR experiment and see how well it worked. As you've seen in the video, I'm quite impressed.
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If you have a lot of images of high contrast scenes, or if you have photos you WISH you had bracketed so you could do HDR and pull out more detail, then this is just the video for you.
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Thank you very much Darlene for this video. Wow!!! The power of Luminar Neo is infinite. I’m using since 6 months until now (the most recent with the latest update) and I love it. But, respect to you, I’m almost a beginner 😅. I will continue to follow you because there are lot of tips from you to learn. Have a good week Darlene. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭 😊
Thanks so much!
Tried this single image HDR merge procedure with my oldest digital image taken in 1999 with a Sony Mavic MVC-FD 5 & recorded on a 3.5" floppy disk. Original image was a 640x480 jpg, 66KB. Results were very impressive, with great detail. Very much impressed.
Holy crow. Im impressed in many ways, including that you still have photos on a floppy disk
Wow indeed. I have a few more I wanna pull through now too
This video was great, you explained it so well with great examples. I'm sold!!!
Thanks so much
Finding NEO HDR is so good I'm having to redo all my old RAW pics. Great tutorial Darlene...
Thanks glad you liked it
Thank you for this great tutorial. Certainly explains the benefits of single image merge vs trying to do it all manually with various tools.
Thanks I was impressed with the results and wanted to share
impressive. I'm going to give this a shot on some of my garden photos
Yes. Do it and let me know how it goes for you
Please 🙏 keep up the good work we love videos and insight u bring ❤️💯❤️💯 You are now officially my go-to person when it comes to anything dealing with Lumina Neo
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Very nice, Darlene.
Thank you Marc
Thank you for such good demonstration I appreciated greatly
Thanks so much
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Hi Darlene At 7:46 you explain how Neo HDR strips away any RAW edits. I get around this by first developing my RAW files in DxO photolab and exporting the developed RAW files as DNG's. Because of DxO noise removal technology and camera and lens corrections I get a very clean DNG to run through Neo HDR. Doing this provides an excellent HDR TIFF and generally because the DNG file is so clean I don't have any noise issues. I develop my RAW file to be very flat and try to balance out my histogram. This give Neo HDR a lot of information to work with 🙂
Yes I use lightroom as my main editor too and could do the same. I just noted that so people know about it
@@DigitalPhotoMentor Yes, an important point. I would like to think that Skylum will make so developed RAW files can be passed to Neo HDR ☺️
@@Crowuk01 I hope so too
Wow great tip!
well done.
Thanks
Why are my single RAW images created in HDR in Luminar Neo become a TIFF File and how do I correct it to a JPEG.
That's how it works. You want a TIF because that's a 16-bit file with more information than an 8-bit jpg can hold. You can edit the TIF and then export it as a JPG
how do you get the HDR merge in nero
It's an extension. You get it for free if you own Aurora HDR, otherwise you have to pay for it
I tried this on a snap of my husbanding in the snow and I was really impressed withe the result. But I imported that image directly into Luminar Neo's catalog. I still use Lightroom as my main catalog, and so I want to use the plugin to get to Luminar. I tried to import from Lightroom, and also as a smart object from Photoshop and I can't see the HDR merge panel. I've had a good look for the option in the menu too. Is it only available for photos in the Neo catalog or am I missing something?
Hmm good question. Let me test and get back to you. I haven't tried that
So I tested and you cannot use the HDR merge extension as a plugin for LR or PS. It's ONLY visible in the stand-alone version. So no you didn't miss anything
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Does it work when Luminar Neo is used as a plug-in in Photoshop?
No the HDR and Focus Stacking extension only work with Luminar Neo as a stand alone version - sorry
@@DigitalPhotoMentor even the single image HDR?
@@aviatorman8 Correct - that is because the HDR and Focus stacking extensions show up in the catalog view which does not exist when you open it as a plugin
@@DigitalPhotoMentor well hopefully they enable the HDR extension in the edit view in order to use it as a plug in in Ps.
@@aviatorman8 You can send them an email and add it as a feature request
Have had Luminar Neo for two months now and am NOT impressed by the single image HDR processing, contrary to what this video suggests. The first portrait photo the videographer processes in HDR Merge looks entirely unnatural (as the videographer acknowledges), but I find almost ALL of the single images I process through Neo HDR Merge, including landscapes, look entirely overprocessed and unnatural, IMHO. Just my two cents worth on the subject...
It really depends on the image and what you do after HDR merge also. Bring back some black and see how that goes
thank you!!
Welcome