AI Mask Will Change the way You Edit Your Photos! Luminar Neo Tutorial

[@paulfelt8440]

Lot of folks presenting hints and tools for editing in NEO, what I appreciate a great deal is the speed of delivery. My compliments Anthony and thank you.

[@davidbinks817]

Hi Anthony I really like the way you explain the techniques for editing the photos, not just showing how the tools work, really helps me understand the process better.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

My pleasure!

[@tomprzytula]

Anthony is not only a great photographer and knows how to edit, he's an amazing teacher that is able to translate all the details for some of us beginners. Thanks!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I'm humbled. Thanks for your kind words 🙏

[@790Piper]

Honestly a great instructional 101 on the latest Luminar Neo. Great use of masks histogram etc ideal for a fab taste of Neo’s capabilities

[@mikepenny2491]

Thanks

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thank YOU Mike. I'll enjoy myself a nice cuppa on you. Thanks so much 🙏

[@alanberry9643]

Excellent presentation Antony, your enthusiasm is infectious

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Alan

[@ArminHirmer]

Getting there Neo, masks are way not there but its a nice improvment

[@Revi200x]

How cane a get camera profile in Luminar neo ???

[@peteschenck9655]

Brilliant Video. You know how to educate. I wish you would offer a photo tour in Sydney. I’d fly the 19 hours for that.

[@promenadenprolls5790]

Super interesting video! Love your style👍

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks so much!

[@DaddyDee193]

Gosh, that's powerful editing and you make it look easy. I can't wait to start using Neo. Excellent tutorial, thank you! 🇺🇦

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks 🙏😀

[@thisarfingai]

Honestly - thank you so much. I absolutely love your teaching style; you have helped me immensely.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Cheers for that feedback. Good to know I'm helping 😀

[@kevinw7044]

Great demonstration. Great software.

[@mhouslay7281]

Another super useful, clear and inspiring video. Thank you !

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@howardpearson6281]

Hi, All your video are great But the best one ever is in light room guide lines [ WOW] say no more

[@IAmR1ch]

Great video. Thanks I could not figure out how to change the mask if Neo did not do a good job in an area. I still find that with layers it is completely lacking for what I do. Unless one of these masks can make transparency. On1 has masking and blend modes in raw editing which makes it. I do use Neo and AI as a plugin, which makes it useful to me. Thanks again.

[@KLLDZR-se1qk]

Very nice edit!!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks!

[@felixthecat1882]

Hi Anthony - still no clone stamp brush though! This is where Luminar AI still has the edge over Neo! Regards, Felix the Cat. 😾😾

[@pserfaty]

Great video as always! Nice work and the most helpful and detailed Luminar Neo videos. Have you tried focus stacking images with layer functions?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Paulo. Thanks man. I haven't tried that as yet, however, coincidentally this photo was shot as part of a focus stacked series so I may end up using it for a video on that. Nice idea! :)

[@pserfaty]

Hi Anthony, great news! Thanks. Cant wait for the video. Keep up the good work 💪

[@kenalexander8714]

Excellent video Anthony and a good demo of the latest NEO update. The AI masking is great but its early days and I'm sure more refinement is to come. An interesting test would be a comparison between the NEO AI Masking and the LR AI Masking which is non specific and looks for a subject.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yes, for sure there are improvements to be made, but I'm in no doubt those will be coming. The portrait mask is the most accurate and I believe that's because it's got time on its side, having been used for a while in bokeh AI. The other genres will improve as the AI learns the forms. Good idea for a video Ken. Thanks.

[@robertjbater1]

Hi Anthony I tried to find the profiles in Adobe negative. I looked in the directory you suggested and also did a search for the profiles without success. A turned on view for hidden files. Thanks Rob

[@robertjbater1]

P S I saw the profiles being installed and looked up the directory where they were without success. Rob

[@scubarocks1861]

Hi Anthony, great video... LN masking... Powerman! Thanks.

[@belalang90]

Love using DxO Photolab and Luminar. But I can't for the sake of myself figure out the best way to have a better workflow with this two software. Anyone can share their experience? Thanks

[@thaulovfoto]

do you have a video around where to get camera profile

[@SandyOstroff]

Thanks for the great video. Where do I get Canon profiles and how do I load them into Neo?

[@guysingleton3908]

Great video as per usual, learning so much from them. Didn't think much of Neo till I watched them. One question I have an image I like but the sun was very bright top corner and has really blown it. Tried highlights and whites, but still not right. Any tips that may fix this please . Cheers Guy

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks guy. Once you've blown out an image in camera, it's game over unfortunately. One way around the sun issue would be to bracket your shots on site and either use Aurora to blend them, or load the correctly exposed sun as a layer in Neo and then blend it in. Also shooting raw will give you a bit more recovery scope with shadows and highlights but if it's jpeg then blown out is blown out.

[@speecher1959]

Unfortunately, using Neo as an extension, at least with Apple's Photos for OS, the histogram is not available. Rats! How does one add one's camera's profiles? I'm a Canon shooter.

[@nigelchase2407]

Very well done, is it better to add the Lut at the end like you did or can it be added anytime in the editing? Thanks.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You CAN add it at anytime. BUT it's better done close to the end or prefferably as the last step.

[@Mr-Not-Applicable]

Great video. Any tips on how to apply face edits (eyes colour, size, etc.) to only one person in multiple persons in a photo? IU t seems any changes are applied to everyone in photo currently ..

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Absolutely. Simply mask the effect in only to the person/people you want it to affect (brush tool would probably be the best mask method). The adjustment will then only appear on the people you choose

[@felixthecat1882]

Hi Anthony! Very useful and time saving update! Cheers! Felix the Cat. 😺

[@datseveer]

I love the clarity that you bring to photo editing. I am looking at purchasing NEO after watching your tutorial. However, my wife is an abstract artist and the main thing I am interested in is 100 percent accurate color reproduction. I shoot in raw and do everything I can to make it perfect in the shooting but need to process the photo to the goal of 100 percent accurate representation of the original. Would you suggest NEO over AI for that purpose

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Richard. You could go either way really because the raw develop engine is very similar between the two. My pick for more creative editing would definitely be Neo though. bit.ly/Luminar-NEO

[@datseveer]

Thanks. Appreciate it. I’ll let you know how it goes for me

[@jvusa]

Thanks Anthony, Nice video, show how the discount code is not working when I try to buy it.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi mate. I think Skylum are running a promotion at the moment. If the promotion is better than the discount code then the discount code won't work as you're already getting the best price possible. Hope that makes sense :)

[@jvusa]

@@AnthonyTurnham Yes, Thank you.

[@Big.E]

Thanks again 👍

[@DanSme1]

Good artist’s eye…there Tony.

[@billbarber8]

Anthony: I now have Neo and Epson P900. After I edit my photo(s), Does the editor app save the image automatically? Should I drag and drop or export the file into my Epson photo layout to print?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Export your photo after you're done editing. Luminar will only save your edit as a set of instructions for creating the finished photo. Exporting will hard bake those changes into a new finished image

[@billbarber8]

@@AnthonyTurnham thank you so much for your time to reply to my message! do you have a video explaining the steps to take to export the image to be printed? There are so many choices to make when exporting and I am not sure which one is the best to use for printing. I am using epson print layout.

[@thompsy2k6]

Sorry for being a noob, but where would I begin looking for camera profiles for a couple of Canon DSLRs? Or do I make them somehow? Thanks. Love these videos

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi David, I'm going to put a video together on it. Hopefully not too far in the future... watch this space. In the meantime, luminar default profile isn't a bad one to use.

[@buzzbladz7142]

Thanks for the video, looking forward to more, subbed

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Welcome!

[@Deruzejaku]

To be honest I did try out masking, and as far as AI can mask something on simple image it's fine, but, and it's a very big but, once you need to make manual adjustments to mask things get annoying as you don't really see mask preview till you start drawing, which makes me want to alt f4 luminar xD Sadly Luminar is just bad for any kind of manual adjustments I mean past dealing with sliders only. This is on top of app being slow, way slower than lightrooom for catalogue management for some reason. Working on RAW's past 24 MPx makes it hard to work on since preview of any adjustments is so damn pixelated, you hardly know what you're doing. So far I think I will use some set of templates I made just to speed up my photoshop work, as a standalone editing app Luminar is still too green and way too unpolished. Well it's kinda sad, but it is what it is

[@igorgoga7985]

what file do i need to have to install camera profiles, pls?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

check out this video on profiles hopefully it'll help kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXupm3mvpNl7pqc

[@rickhughesprints]

How do you put the mask on an angle? I'm a newbie with Neo.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Rick. Just click and drag at the angle you want to set it at.

[@mikepenny2491]

Excellent as usual How do we buy you a coffee?

[@Kit2Canada]

Mike, look to the far right of the 👍 and 👎 and the hearted ♥️ $ is for donations. if that was a hint, it was a good one =)

[@JFQ]

Awesome video! :) for Luminar Neo, does it come with the sky replacement tool + different sky textures or is that only included in the Luminar Neo + Luminar X package deal?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Mate. Yes it has Sky Replacement AI built in to Luminar NEO and the software ships with some skies too. It's a good kick starter but I can spot a "Luminar Sky" a mile away. If you're serious about dropping in quality skies to your work this sky pack is well worth checking out: bit.ly/2Ruj8KP-Skies Luminar X is worth getting as they continually send out new assets to use, skies, LUTs etc.

[@dekhog]

It comes with a decent selection of skies without joining X.... 👍🏻

[@phlotographer]

@@AnthonyTurnham oh, oh, another photographer without a camera eh? Anthony lol. JQ-- Go for a walk or step outdoors at home, take some sky photos, add them to the sky collection keeping them in folders that indicate the type of sky eg dark, blue, stormy, bright etc. and also indicate the direction of light. Makes them easier to choose. Oh, BTW -- easy to do sunsets also. Another things you might want to do is to copy and paste nice skies you may have already in images that were there when the image was taken. Paste to a new location. Use the sky composition a bit differently and unless you tell, we all will keep the secret. Always enjoy your tutorials AT. Look forward to more.

[@EnergiCodes]

Thanks mate

[@johnclapperton8211]

What format was the original image, jpeg or camera raw?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi John, it's raw. I'll always work with raw files where I can.

[@johnclapperton8211]

Thanks, do you happen to know if Neo works with Fujifilm raw or does it use some generic conversion?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

If a camera profile isn't there it uses the luminar default. But I put a video together recently on how to add your own. Fuji supplies .cube files for its profiles. They work via the looks section rather than the profile dropdown.

[@jimrandall1739]

thank you

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You're welcome

[@lloydstuartm.d.5625]

Can't get the discount code to work. Is there any way to get Luminar Neo for less that $149?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Lloyd, Neo is currently being offered as part of a heavily discounted bundle. Because it's significantly less than normal my discount code is temporarily deactivated by Skylum. If you're keen on getting it, this is the best price I've seen it for a long time! It'll revert to normal RRP in a couple of days when the discount should work again, but it'll still be more than the current offer they're running.

[@lloydstuartm.d.5625]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks Anthony, your videos are awesome. My only hesitation with Luminar Neo is that I finally got comfortable with Affinity Photo - using masks, color gradients, etc. I used Aurora HDR and loved the software but it doesn't support CR3 files so I don't use it as much. Can't really do much with Panos either. Maybe I'll get this bundle. Does Luminar Neo has a selection button to fine tune selection edges? Looks like the only option is a brush with soft edges. Any way - thanks again for all your tips and videos!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@@lloydstuartm.d.5625 Hi Lloyd. So there's no feathering of masks like in Photoshop for example (and maybe Affinity too) which is a shame. The emphasis is on simplicity with powerful results, so some of the more finessed masking features and tools I'm used to in PS aren't in Neo. But for me that's part of the draw in that I keep things simple and edits are quicker.

[@62cliffD]

awesome

[@edmondrusso2831]

Now we need cloning and dodge /burn

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Edmond. Cloning yes for sure, however, dodge and burn isn't really relevant anymore as you get better results making an adjustment through the develop tool and painting that in as a dodge or burn effect.

[@eddyvankeymeulen4705]

I do appreciate your enthusiastic demonstration & explications especially at the end of your video (a little song will be great!) - Luminar masking is indeed simple and will be refined in the future. We can't forget that the creators are under high pressure of the war situation in Ukraine. Let us hope that it will "stop" very soon. Thanks for you work.