Well, now I know you can use multiple masks on one image and copy and paste for further editing. Watch and learn and all that. So, whilst there might be a busload, or several, of folk who are surprised by my lack of knowledge, I thank you for enlightening me. Another great video. Thanks.
Your the Best Jim, Love your style of teaching, and the results. Thanks looking forward to Wednesday should be awesome. Seems like masking was always a little confusing, but since Neo and your videos this fall it just all came together for me. Thanks so much.
This is an excellent video about all masking tools; Seeing this gorgeous image, I am thinking "why am I not signed up for the Iceland trip with LUMINAR?" Really impressive when you put all tools to work. Thank you
Hi Jim ! Very useful. Since you have done a very few demos about the use of the layers, I'd appreciate if you could prepare a deep dive into the use of them with tips and tricks in order to get the best from their use. Thanks and regards
Very good demonstration. However, you breezed over one area that Neo needs refinement. That is the AI masking. Either they improve the accuracy of the many areas they try to identify or simplify the tools. At this point in the development of Neo, they lag far behind Lightroom, basically because of the need for refinement and to innovation.
Hi Rich and thanks. Yes, I breezed over a lot here actually, simply because I could do a deep dive on each of the tools. I agree that Mask AI could be improved. It works well but I want more accuracy and refinement options. We will see what comes as this year develops. Thanks for watching!
Jim I have really enjoyed your UA-cam videos and thank you for doing them. I’ve had Illuminar for about six months now and getting a little more serious about using it. I am a amateur photographer for personal use. I enjoy flower photography. Is Illuminar in your opinion sophisticated enough to do serious photo editing for flowers? Could you also tell me what pointing device you’re using when doing your masking manually? Like a mouse a trackpad tablet or so on Thanks
Hi Mark and thanks and yes I think Luminar can help yo edit any sort of photo quite well. The only thing to be aware of is that the Mask AI tool may not make a selection of a flower so you could have to do that manually and there is no edge aware brush, so it requires detailed work sometimes. I just use the trackpad on my Macbook Pro. Thanks.
Hi Jim, thanks for introducing the masking tools again in detail. As always, your videos are very informative and helpful. But, and I say this as someone who really appreciates your image edits, I find it a bit overdone this time. You have a sunset over the sea with beautiful reflections in the water and that is really well worked out. What bothers me is the frontal lighting and brightness of the small icebergs. Here the light setting is just not right. I hope and believe that you do not resent this little criticism and look forward to your next videos. Greetings from Germany, Andreas
Hi Andreas and thanks for the feedback. Of course I don't resent this. I don't mind if a viewer does not like my edit - it's personal taste anyway. And you delivered this in such a nice way, that it could never bother me. Polite feedback - good or bad - is always welcome. Hope all is well in Germany!
I'm having a plethora of trouble with the "refind mask" tool. It feels so tedious trying to mask my model to remove or darken the background accurately. Can you do an indepth video on the refinement brush please? Sometimes I wish they had a cut/line lassoo like photoshop.
HI - how do you mask out part of a sky that you place over an ocean, when using the horizontal adjustment, and the sky leaks into the ocean? (It's not a reflection - it's part of the sky replacement)Thank you.
Well, now I know you can use multiple masks on one image and copy and paste for further editing. Watch and learn and all that. So, whilst there might be a busload, or several, of folk who are surprised by my lack of knowledge, I thank you for enlightening me. Another great video. Thanks.
thanks so much Paul and glad you got something out of this one!
Nice tutorial on how to use masking. These was very helpful, I picked up a few tricks I didn’t know about. Thanks for sharing Jim.
thank you for watching Ron!
merci Jim pour cet excellent enseignement qui nous permet d'évoluer .
thanks so much for watching Jean-Francois, I appreciate it!
Thanks Jim. Let’s hope that Luminar completes the masking quinella by introducing luminosity masks. Even more control of the light then!
thanks much Edward and yes for sure I would love to have luminosity masks in Luminar!
Thank you Jim. You made masking less intimidating for me. I now have a clear picture of masking.
Glad that it helped and thanks for watching Jack!
I thought the base pic was nice but wow that edit is stunning Jim 👏
Thank you so much, I appreciate that!
Your the Best Jim, Love your style of teaching, and the results. Thanks looking forward to Wednesday should be awesome. Seems like masking was always a little confusing, but since Neo and your videos this fall it just all came together for me. Thanks so much.
thanks Paul and so glad that my videos have helped, and I appreciate you watching!
Nice video Jim! Great explanation of masking. BTW, you were the star of the Grid!
thanks so much Dave, I appreciate that!
Yet another excellent tutorial, thank you Jim, looking forward to the next one already.
thank you so much John!
Excellent video Jim. A useful instruction in the diferences and uses in masking.
Thank you so much Ken!
Really enjoyed this. It gave me a better understanding of masking. Thank you very much.
thanks for watching James!
Very informative and always learn new things from you Jim. Very much appreciated :)
thank you so much Joe, and hope you are well mate!
This is an excellent video about all masking tools; Seeing this gorgeous image, I am thinking "why am I not signed up for the Iceland trip with LUMINAR?" Really impressive when you put all tools to work. Thank you
thanks so much Ray and please join us if you can, it will be an amazing trip for sure!
Thanks a lot Jim, very helpful and giving me new ideas to develop images
Awesome, glad it helps and thanks for watching Phil!
Nice edit, Jim!
thanks so much Geoff!
Hi Jim ! Very useful. Since you have done a very few demos about the use of the layers, I'd appreciate if you could prepare a deep dive into the use of them with tips and tricks in order to get the best from their use. Thanks and regards
thanks so much Alessandro and yes I have been thinking about a layers guide, just need to make the time to get it done 😀
Very good demonstration. However, you breezed over one area that Neo needs refinement. That is the AI masking. Either they improve the accuracy of the many areas they try to identify or simplify the tools. At this point in the development of Neo, they lag far behind Lightroom, basically because of the need for refinement and to innovation.
Hi Rich and thanks. Yes, I breezed over a lot here actually, simply because I could do a deep dive on each of the tools. I agree that Mask AI could be improved. It works well but I want more accuracy and refinement options. We will see what comes as this year develops. Thanks for watching!
Jim I have really enjoyed your UA-cam videos and thank you for doing them.
I’ve had Illuminar for about six months now and getting a little more serious about using it. I am a amateur photographer for personal use. I enjoy flower photography. Is Illuminar in your opinion sophisticated enough to do serious photo editing for flowers? Could you also tell me what pointing device you’re using when doing your masking manually? Like a mouse a trackpad tablet or so on
Thanks
Hi Mark and thanks and yes I think Luminar can help yo edit any sort of photo quite well. The only thing to be aware of is that the Mask AI tool may not make a selection of a flower so you could have to do that manually and there is no edge aware brush, so it requires detailed work sometimes. I just use the trackpad on my Macbook Pro. Thanks.
Hi Jim, thanks for introducing the masking tools again in detail. As always, your videos are very informative and helpful.
But, and I say this as someone who really appreciates your image edits, I find it a bit overdone this time. You have a sunset over the sea with beautiful reflections in the water and that is really well worked out. What bothers me is the frontal lighting and brightness of the small icebergs. Here the light setting is just not right.
I hope and believe that you do not resent this little criticism and look forward to your next videos.
Greetings from Germany,
Andreas
Hi Andreas and thanks for the feedback. Of course I don't resent this. I don't mind if a viewer does not like my edit - it's personal taste anyway. And you delivered this in such a nice way, that it could never bother me. Polite feedback - good or bad - is always welcome. Hope all is well in Germany!
I'm having a plethora of trouble with the "refind mask" tool. It feels so tedious trying to mask my model to remove or darken the background accurately. Can you do an indepth video on the refinement brush please? Sometimes I wish they had a cut/line lassoo like photoshop.
Great video! You make a lot of edits and Luminar is a memory hog. How do you deal with having the large files using the memory on your computer?
Thanks so much Sharon and I have 64GB RAM on my Macbook Pro so it handles it pretty well.
HI - how do you mask out part of a sky that you place over an ocean, when using the horizontal adjustment, and the sky leaks into the ocean? (It's not a reflection - it's part of the sky replacement)Thank you.
You should be able to click on Masking, then select the Brush and then Erase.
The straight line trick is an Apple program, it's not on PCs.
Oh interesting, I did not know that Richard, thanks for sharing.
Hallo Jim I have a question about opening Neo without seeing all your gallery....where can I ask you that because this is another subject. Sorry......
Hi there, you can email me at jim (at) jim nix dot com if you would like to!
I want to create a mask and apply multiple effects to the same mask.
Found the answer at 5:07! thanks you are the man! Subscribed.
Ok great thanks for watching!
I think Neo needs a refine mask option.
Totally agree.
Please do On1 begginer videos
For portrait
I did this video in case it helps: ua-cam.com/video/LvusMMPzRQs/v-deo.html