Luminar Neo: Luminosity Masking for Color Control

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[@hughellins1422]

I found watching the first video on the luminosity mask followed immediately by this one really drove home the message

[@JimNix]

thanks for checking them out!

[@fenraven]

Nice edit! I'm just starting to play with luminosity masks. I really appreciate your videos about them.

[@JimNix]

thanks Theo and have fun with them, they are fantastic!

[@gregorychard]

G'day Jim
Another fantastic explanation video/tutorial of this spectacular tool😊😊
Greg

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Greg, and yes LM is a huge help in editing!

[@jean-francoisdamon4847]

Merci JIM pour cette brillante démonstration!

[@JimNix]

thank you Jean-Francois!

[@marcrjacobs]

Loving all the videos with Luminosity masking. I feel like I'm really starting to get a feel for them. Thanks, Jim!

[@JimNix]

thank you Marc!

[@StephenEhrlichPhotos]

Great Tutorial. Thanks Jim!

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Stephen!

[@andreask.6872]

Great explanation as always Jim! If I was allowed to wish for one more masking tool, it would be a color range mask. That would make the masking toolbox pretty complete.

[@JimNix]

thanks much Andreas and yes that would be great to have too, maybe in the future! (fingers crossed)

[@FoolWithACamera0]

THANK YOU. Your videos are enormously helpful.

[@JimNix]

awesome, so glad to hear that, thank you!

[@kenalexander8714]

Thanks Jim for this video on using Luminosity Masking for colour control. I think the Luminar Neo Luminosity mask is one of the easiest to use, especially thanks to your clear explanations.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Ken!

[@DavidCrooksPhotos]

I need to try this pn of my photos that had a magenta tint. Thanks!

[@JimNix]

yes that should help, thanks for watching!

[@Centauri27]

Lots of great ideas to try, Jim! Can you do some videos that show how luminosity masks can help in images that don't have a sky or clouds? (Or are other tools more effective in this case?)

[@JimNix]

Thanks Carl and yes it would work fine in those images too, since it masks based on various light values, and each image will have some highlights, midtones and shadows. I can see if there is a good demo image for something like this. Thanks!

[@fjperras]

Awesome edits using some new goodies from Skylum. I know your water already looks amazing (and likely the reason) but was just curious if you'd given any thoughts to water enhancer tool here? Thank you for sharing.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much and I didn't see any reason to use Water Enhancer on this one, as I liked it the way it was quite a lot already

[@andreask.6872]

Hi Jim, I still have a question. I like to save one or the other edit as a preset. Unlike in Lightroom, the NEO luminance masks are probably not adaptive, i.e. they are not recalculated when used in a preset but are adopted one-to-one. Although this leads to exciting results, they are not really useful. Do you know whether there is a workaround for this or whether Skylum is working on a solution?
Best regards,
Andreas

[@JimNix]

Thanks Andreas and you are correct about that, but no I do not know of a workaround, or if there is an update planned for that. But I continue to ask them. :-)