10 Helpful Luminar Tips You Probably Didn't Know

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[@sharonsuskin6859]

Jim, you are a great teacher! Thanks for these tips-very helpful.

[@JimNix]

thank you Sharon!

[@charlesdavis6371]

great tips for those still using Luminar. edit: Just noticed that you were mentioned in a recent Luminar ad. CONGRATS!

[@JimNix]

thanks much Charles and I have not seen the ad but that is cool, thanks for letting me know

[@rebeccamoore4177]

Thanks for the gift 🎁 Jim.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Rebecca!

[@mikepenny2491]

Excellent Jim keep the tips etc coming

[@JimNix]

thank you Mike!

[@sarniasurfer]

Awesome tips Jim. Getting really excited about NEO and the upcoming extensions. This is the perfect channel to get the most out of this software. 👍

[@JimNix]

thanks so much for watching Frank!

[@kym-bid-bidstrup3623]

You've done it again, Jim. Great information presented in your own friendly, easy-to-understand, (where appropriate) jargon-free manner. Love your work, man. Thank you 😃

[@JimNix]

oh thanks so much!

[@tonykoch4284]

Outstanding Jim, please keep providing tips in another video... They are awesome!

[@JimNix]

thank you Tony!

[@myraposner486]

Great tips here, Jim! Thanks!

[@JimNix]

thank you Myra!

[@gloucesterkiwi]

Really useful reminder that the Luminar tools can do so much not so obvious on first (or even repeated) use.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Alex!

[@segram3]

Thank you Jim they are great tips.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching, and glad you found it useful!

[@carlosprovyrivera8522]

Tips, tricks and traps! Love it! Keep them coming.

[@JimNix]

thanks Carlos!

[@billychampy316]

Thank you... Really fun and educational!!

[@JimNix]

Thank you for watching.

[@chrisroberts5355]

As usual, greatly helpful advice. Thanks Jim. 👍

[@JimNix]

thanks much Chris!

[@raylynch8419]

Great video with lots of useful info presented in just 16 minutes. Nicely explained and easy to follow. Thank you for sharing. Ray (Australia)

[@JimNix]

thank you for watching Ray!

[@segram3]

Great idea!! Thank you.

[@JimNix]

thanks much!

[@tonymurphy9112]

Thanks Jim, love learning something new👌

[@JimNix]

thanks much Tony!

[@nigelchase2407]

Thanks Jim, nice tips.

[@JimNix]

thanks Nigel!

[@mirto5663]

Great tips, Jim! You solved my custom sky dilemma! Thanks!

[@JimNix]

oh awesome, glad this helped and thanks for watching!

[@Centauri27]

Really good tips Jim! You could probably do many more of these videos. I'm glad Neo has a proper way to load custom LUTs now. It was such a pain in Luminar AI! Also, I didn't know that you had to click the "place center" button again for the vignette! I always just clicked it once, selected a center, the wondered why it wasn't working...

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Carl and glad you liked this one!

[@nambuck5583]

Nice, learn a lot from this video. Thanks

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@alangauld6079]

Nice tips. Most I already knew but a couple were new - the structure being human aware is a biggy and the RGB values on the eye-dropper tool I hadn't noticed. Thanks.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Alan!

[@kenalexander8714]

Thanks for this Aide Memiore of useful tips Jim. Sort of thing that needs bookmarking as a reference.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Ken!

[@DroningaboutIreland]

Thanks for that Jim

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@Santamike212]

good info, thankyou

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@tomcat7525]

Much appreciated. 🙏

[@JimNix]

thank you for watching!

[@jeanbrown8295]

Very helpful tips

[@JimNix]

thanks Jean!

[@glennwoolum9457]

Great tips Jim. I'm still learning NEO even though I've been using it a while.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Glenn!

[@Lykzabet]

Thx Jim

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@derekhandforth1287]

Thanks Jim. More things I didn't know about Neo. It keeps getting better and better. I be in Barcelona at the weekend and want to photograph the Sagrada rose window, very bright light with dark edge. Any tips?

[@JimNix]

Hi Derek and thanks. Best bet in those situations is to bracket some shots, at least 5 for the full dynamic range of interior and exterior lighting. At least, that is my preference. You could also just take two exposures and blend them. Thanks.

[@jeanbrown8295]

Thank you ,this has given me a few ideas ,I got my Luminar back by uninstalling and reinstalling from my Time Machine,as you suggested

[@JimNix]

ok great and glad to hear it!

[@hVF8KZuQPeCc8u]

Thanks Jim, nifty tips and tricks. I'd love a video or two on how to "fine tune" Neo's masking since it does not currently provide an edge aware brush. The majority of my photos using MASK AI are very inaccurately masked. Love for any tips and work arounds to help me utilize this feature.

[@JimNix]

thanks much Steven and I can take a look at this idea and see if I can come up with some useful stuff

[@MyFingerLakesRailwayLayout]

Man I got a lot out of this video, thanks Jim. I took notes.

[@JimNix]

awesome, thanks for watching!

[@richardhaas1989]

Tip number 11-carry a few Melita coffee filters with you. They’re available anywhere and you can always take a shot with one of them in it and have something to white balance on with the eyedropper. This is a cinematographers trick. Tip number 12-do what I did and spend $1000 on a computer with a Ryzen chip in it my copy of Neo works a lot better now. Great tips Jim!

[@JimNix]

haha thanks much Richard!

[@franbvm]

I learned a lot.....thanks

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@richardfichera2971]

Can you comment on the differences between Luminar Smart Contrast and Structure and On1 Dynamic Contrast? Thanks,

[@venkatakrishnanvijayarahav5487]

Hey jim.. that is an awesome tips and tricks.. which one u personally prefer for editing photos.. On1 photoraw or Luminar Neo?

[@JimNix]

Thanks much and I use both quite a bit. Luminar is my first and On1 is a strong #2 for me. Thanks.

[@alexzahnd2642]

Again great video and useful tips....ONE question. WHY does Luminar NEO opens SOME (only some and it seems randomly??) opens Sony RAW files in the EDIT platform NOT with the Development RAW option (in order to apply a camera profile. I even tried to delete the various RAW photos and downloaded them again from the camera and STILL the RAW option in the Development module does NOT appear, while in other RAW photo files in the SAME folder DO open in the EDIT platform WITH the RAW option in the Development module?? Very strange and have you noticed that as well? IF so do you have some remedies so that I CAN get the RAW option in the Development module? Thanks for your feedback

[@philiplanz1200]

Hi Jim. Thanks for all the great help videos for Luminar NEO. I have a question. I thought I read somewhere that Neo would be getting a clone and stamp tool in either the last update or the one that came out today. If it's there, I can't find it. Just curious to know if I got it wrong or if I'm just missing it. Thanks

[@JimNix]

Hi Philip and I read somewhere that it is coming in September, I think. So not this recent update but hopefully the next one. But I am not positive on that.

[@annee.7707]

Hey, jim, thank you so much! Are you on Vero yet? Notifications on youtube are very very sketchy nowdays

[@JimNix]

HI Anne and thanks, and yes I am on Vero just under my name. Thanks!

[@richbottarini86]

Can Neo lut’s be used in Lightroom

[@JimNix]

As far as I know LR does support LUTs, so if you can locate the folder in Neo that holds the LUTs, theoretically you could make a copy of them and use them elsewhere, but I have not tried this. I think that is what you are asking?

[@phillewis2524]

Jim, thanks for the tips. I have been trying to figure out something and maybe you can help. I frequently need to do perspective correction to adjust the horizontal or vertical alignment of a photo. In Luminar 4 and Aurora there are controls to make such adjustments ( to tilt the photo around the horizontal or vertical axis). If you click on the Layers window in Luminar NEO, a box with 4 control points in the corners comes up but the only thing you seem to be able to do with it is alter the aspect ratio of the photo. I can't see a way to tilt the picture around the horizontal or vertical axis as I used to be able to do with those controls I mentioned in Luminar 4 and Aurora. Am I just missing something or does that functionality not exist in Luminar NEO?

[@alangauld6079]

Might be the lens corrections in the develop module is what you want?

[@phillewis2524]

@@alangauld6079 The lens correction is not what I am looking for. However in taking a look at the Develop module again I noticed that somewhere along the way in one of the updates a TRANSFORM function was added in one of the updates. I haven't had a chance to play with it but it looks like it contains the functions I was asking about. Thanks for prompting me to take a second look.

[@alangauld6079]

@@phillewis2524 Sorry, the transform was the one I meant, I thought it was actually a sub-module of the lens correction because it's just below it...

[@michaelroach3553]

I've tried my hardest to find a use case for this software, but I just can't. I shoot real estate and I was looking forward to it for HDR Merging. Long story short, it's virtually unusable for any volume. 1 or 2 photos? Not bad but time consuming. Through lightroom, you have to create tiffs, then import / export from Neo after combining. If you pull the raws with Neo, you can't apply profile corrections before HDR merge. That doesn't sound horrible until you realize how bad a 16mm interior looks without profile corrections lol. You can't even run HDR merge while using it as a plug-in from Lightroom. It's sad because the actual HDR merges look good, but the integration is terrible. If you're looking for a usable solution, I'd recommend just going with Aurora or hand-blended brackets in Photoshop.

[@JimNix]

Thanks Michael and I totally get that. I am hopeful that things like this get addressed, since it is v1 of HDR Merge. But we will see. I do edit images one at a time so none of this is a problem for me, but yes I can see with real estate this would be a big challenge. Thanks.

[@dazedesign24]

How do you use Luminar Neo to create those soft, dreamy, almost painted looking pictures?

[@JimNix]

Well there are lots of things you can do in Luminar, but for soft and dreamy (at least how I imagine it), I would use negative Structure AI to reduce sharpness and possibly try Orton or Glow as well as Mystical. Those things should get you going in the right direction. Thanks.

[@dazedesign24]

@@JimNix thank you!

[@JimNix]

@@dazedesign24 you bet

[@snoopaka]

Why does Luminar Neo not export a DNG file? (Or am I missing it?) What actually is the difference in a Tiff/Psd and a Dng file?

[@philbreton9394]

Trucs et astuces

[@JimNix]

yes true

[@davearnold9328]

Great tips. But I do have a question. How does a photographer like you have bare walls? Can I have some?

[@JimNix]

thanks Dave and yeah I never take the time to get things printed, sadly - I need to spend some time on it

[@ultrasonicamediagroup3444]

Uh ok✅

[@JimNix]

Thank you for watching

[@vincepalmer9518]

✌

[@JimNix]

thanks Vince!