Freestyle Edit in Luminar NEO & What To Do When It Goes Wrong!
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Get Luminar Neo here using discount ATNEO: bit.ly/Luminar... In this photo edit I invite you along as I talk through my process along with my reasoning for using certain tools and what I'm trying to achieve. The result isn't necessarily what I was after but I share a great technique to allow you to dial back your entire edit with one slider. It's easy and it can really save your bacon if you've gone too far with your processing.
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I over-edit a lot, so thank you, thank you, thank you for showing me how to tone things down using an overlay of the original photo.
Great tip on adding the additional layer at the end to pull back overdone edits.
Glad it was helpful!
Using layers to reduce all the effects at once is a fantastic tip! 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you
Yes I like this freestyle approach as it shows the tools off well and helps with ideas on how to rectify things when we get a bit carried away with the editing.
Hi Anthony, yes, ther overlay does bring it a calming effect when one overcooks the image. Surely, after the edit, I´m sure that lots of ideas as to how you could´ve even improved it further, but the excercise was good to show the a common scenario to all photographers.
Thank you much for the video.
This is precisely what i wished for - your finishing layer trick is extremely usefull! thanx for that
- and your communication skills are top notch no matter you think yourself ;P
Great video Anthony! Much appreciate the concept of layering the original photo on top of the edited HDR image. In some of your previous videos you showed the technique of blending the HDR layer with the original, then dropping it out to a tiff to continue editing, which I have adopted in my workflow. But I find it a bit “clunky” when editing multiple images. However, by coupling this technique with your recent tip on creating your technique of creating “my own” preset, I think that combination will greatly impact my processing time.
Absolutely marvelous technique sharing. Thank you sincerely. Best wishes & thanks again. Bill
Enjoyed your freestyle editing as it shows how you evaluate and work through the photo edits from original to final product. Very helpful. Thanks.
Anthony I learn so much when you free style Thank You
Love that video Anthony! Couple of things I learned from my process. First, "playing" with too many options makes me lose perspective. Sometimes, I just leave the edit for a couple of days, come back to it and notice that I have better judgement that way. Another thing is, when I play with the edit too much, I tend to save various edit versions of the file cause I find it hard to decide. 😀 Couple of features I REALLY like to see in Neo
1. Better masking tools and more refined AI masking. ON1 for instance has different masking brash shapes which allow more precise masking.
2. I wish the IA masking could identify animal. It's particularly important to wildlife photographers. Right now the only way to mask animal through AI is using "Architecture".
I also wish Luminar Neo had Panorama stitching, especially with RAW files. (Again ON1 has it).
Hi again Anthony! From my previous posting, I believe the addition of magenta to the sky could be done by using the Cinematic LUT 'San Diego', which gives a nice magenta/purple tone! 😻 Regards from Felix the Cat! 🐱
Dude, this is so awesome. Love how you approach this.
I appreciate that! Thanks.
Thanks Anthony. Very helpful freestyle editing. Would appreciate if you continue these tuts.
I looked this episode. I do not need to like the final product because I want to learn, not buy an image from you. You did a good job of explaining what you adjusted and why you adjusted it. I also like the advice of ordering light control, then structure, then color, then creative. (Or something about like that.). That layer trick at the end is a great technique, thanks!
Thanks Bert
Very well taught. Looks like worth a try.
Love the layer trick! I love all your videos as you really know things like color and contrast and how they impact your image. I believe that I’ve improved greatly because of what you share. Thanks so much!
Thank you, this was quite interesting. Even more so that you were critical of the end result. I wondered what specifically you didn’t like about it. It felt like you have a structured yet emergent process, which makes sense. You had no specific end point in mind but started with your initial go to steps and then explored from there in some general directions. This helped demystify the process for me. Step one, be happy about the composition. Two, fix your noise and light. 3 - play.
nice edit. I just tried the HDR merge on a file from my old Ricoh GXR, nice how much it brought back just through this :)
Nice Armin!
HDR merge using one image looks intersting and a time saver.
Long beach luts look nice.
I really appreciate you and your channel. It was interesting to watch your process here. I agree the outcome wasn't appealing but it was still informative. Thank you!
Interesting video, Anthony. I especially like the option to overlay the original image in a second layer and effectively tone down the changes made. 👏
Thank you so much Anthony. I ALWAYS learn something from you and this episode was no exception. I agree that the initial editing was somewhat (actually a lot) overdone, however you taught me how to balance that by adding the original photograph as an overlay. That impressed me, and I'm absolutely going to use that feature since I habitually do over edit initially. Again, thank you.
This is really helpful Anthony! I always enjoy listening to the thought processes of a pro photographer during an editing session. I learn so much that way. I also learned two things that have been vexing me since I started using Neo: how to "dial back" the overall edits and how to show the mask that was previously applied.
Great to hear! Thanks Carl!
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Hi Anthony, thank you.
I thought it was very interesting to see you questioning your editing while you are doing it. Overall, I took out two important tips: the HDR merging for too dark photos, and the final blending with the original file.
BTW, I have a question I'd like to be addressed in the future. You are a pro photograph (I'm not) and you showcase LuminarNeo on your videos. Do you actually use (and how much) LuminarNeo in your professional activity, compared with PS? I'd like to know when you decide to use one or the other, or if you combine them sometimes. FYI, I usually combine DxO lab, Topaz sharpen AI and finish with LuminarNeo in my editing.
Hi Eric, thanks for the comment and cheers for the question. Yes certainly I still use both LR and PS as part of my workflow, I just prefer Luminar, especially for more creative work.
Great video as usual. Love this freestyle approach. I see that you struggle,at times,like the rest of us with your processing. Keep the videos coming.
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Excellent, you are a good teacher mate
Thanks Grant. And you're a bloody good commenter 😄
Hi Anthony. I know I'm going back and commenting on a video from a couple of months ago, however, I feel like this may be the best example to address a question I may have. I often find myself exposing for the sky when taking the shot, as you seem to have done in this photo. I sometimes notice that when I try to correct for the under exposed foreground in Neo I get this halo effect bordering the darker areas. I was wondering if you have any insight as to why this occurs and what can be done to avoid or correct it. BTW, I really enjoy the freestyle edit videos. I actually learn quite a bit.
I need to get L-neo. It's about time I get some decent software for my photos. This one looks awesome!
I enjoyed this style of freestyle edit! And, great tip about how to replicate the global 'dial-back' tool that Lum AI had. Thank you for another very informative tutorial.
My pleasure!
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might be just my bad eyesight but the overlay seemed to make the image not as sharp as the edited image. Maybe just doing a sharpen edit to the original and then do the overlay??? Lots of good info and I like this kind of presentation.
Thanks. Yes you're right. Because the original that was overlayed wasn't sharpened as the underlying layer was it will have reduced the sharpness very slightly. The fix would be, as you point out, to sharpen the overlayed original.
Hi Anthony! I feel that by adding a little bit of magenta to the sky would make the picture look more pleasing to the eye!😻 What do you think Anthony? Regards from Felix the Cat. 😺
Yeah, a bit of magenta would look good 👍
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I have a question, perhaps you know...
I'm trying to add a sky on an image but the horizon is at an angle. Is there any option to apply an angle to the sky? I can´t seem to be able to, and snipping the image into the right position and then rotating it back again seems like a pretty destructive process...
Which is impressive because i can remember clearly Luminar AI did have the option
Maybe you could open the replacement sky image as a separate edit, rotate it to the angle you want, then save it as a separate file. Then do the sky replacement on your main edit with the rotated sky file? That way you don't have to rotate your main image to get the horizon lined up first, then rotate it back once you've swapped the sky. Anthony might have a better method for this. I haven't played around with sky replacement enough to know if there are other ways of doing what you want.
Thanks!
Coffee's on you! Thanks very much!
Very helpful and instructional, Anthony ... as aways! I have a question re cropping when using a blended layer with the original layer. If cropping was necessary/desirable ... would one crop the edited image as desired ... and also crop the desired original image exactly so that the blending matches? Or would one need to export the blended images (to make a final edited image) ... and then re-import into the Neo edit panel ... crop as needed ... and then export the cropped image? [I'm assuming the latter] Many thanks!! Andrew
Hi Andrew, I'd just leave the cropping until the layers had been overlayed. Cropping then should do the trick.
Many thanks, Anthony!
Hi! I downloaded Luminar NEO, but have been experiencing heavy color banding that is only visible on the exported images (not in the platform). I've tried multiple attempts to see what this triggers this, but no matter how little or none of an effect I use it still has it... Do you have any solutions? Thank you!
Have you tried exporting with Adobe RGB vs sRGB and compared the difference? How about 8bit tiff vs 16bit tiff just to see if it gives visibly different results.
Thank you for these detailed thought process videos!
One question: What would you say are the use cases between using the sliders at 2:04 vs using the HDR merge, especially on portraits? I just came back from a concert event with well over 100 photos, but I don't know if I should use the sliders or HDR to get the full tonal range?
Depends upon the portrait location etc. -- eg. studio or outdoor, natural light or artificial lighting. Subject, CU or FL. I find that HDR does not work very well with human skin tones but of course a mask will help. Often HDR gives one a quick view of what might be the result when doing an edit even if all of the aspects are not fully required.
If you're dealing with images in bulk, ie from a concert, then I'd be trying to work with the standard tonal adjustment and synchronising the look across all shots.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you! I reasoned that was the most logical approach. Still, it would be nice to throw all of it into HDR merge like a pot one day😆.
I felt that the horizon wasn't horizontal, and was surprised that you did not correct it.
I think if you look at the small bit of ocean that's visible you'll see it's horizontal. If the sea is visible I'll usually go with that as my source of truth, but occasionally I'll override it just cos it doesn't 'look' right. This might be one of those times where actually straight is deceptive...
Did like this. Thanks. Steve n z