Creating A Better Composition Using Layers In Luminar Neo

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Since creating this video Luminar Neo has been updated and improved. You can get the newest version on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and maybe save more with coupon: ATNEO10 (sometimes Skylum de-activate the code if there's already a promotion running but worth giving a go!)

[@carlabrams5072]

I'm rather late to the party but really appreciate the longer, detailed edits. You do have a great way of explaining the finer detail and not getting flustered when the masking tabs disappear. More please. :-)

[@johncameron6853]

Anthony, mate, that in my humble opinion was the best tutorial you have ever done. The way you come over in the vid makes it compelling viewing and of course an excellent final product. 10/10 look forward to the next one, bring it on. 👍😎

[@AnthonyTurnham]

That's great to hear John. Thanks. I always try to improve in some way here or there. In this one being out and recording the first bit was different. I'll try and do more in that style where I show a complete workflow from capture through to final edit. Trouble is they end up being quite long videos (relative to youtube norms) and often people choose not to watch because they don't want to invest 25-30 minutes. It's a tough balance to get right between giving thorough information and keeping the time down.

[@travelrefocused]

I thoroughly enjoyed this session. To answer your question. I like the longer format vs the shorter videos. I think this video was just about right as far as how quickly you were moving along. I also enjoyed the subtle and quiet music in the background. I like to sit back with a cup of coffee or tea and watch these types of videos. So again, nothing wrong with longer videos.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Awesome, thank you!

[@januitdiemen1986]

Bedankt

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thank you!

[@canuckdon]

Masterful, Anthony!

[@willbrink]

Anthony makes that look so dang easy!

[@nrod8709]

Another great edit, love that you go on location and great to see you happy and back to yourself 😀

[@philyoung4804]

Great video and very informative. Thanks Anthony

[@MWTH37]

Great idea anthony Thanks for sharing

[@ncc1701BB]

A great lesson on Layers! Something that I have needed. Thank You.

[@MWTH37]

Great tutorial Thanks for sharing Anthony

[@bretteortiz]

Loved every minute! A quick glimpse into your thought process of composing the 2 different shots to create 1 has me wondering how many times I've walked away from location empty-handed when I could have used this technique. Brilliant! More videos like this please!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Brett! 🙏

[@matthewisaacs4537]

Love this video. I had to do something similar to a semi-professional family photo where my kids just weren't cooperating. Good smile from one kid in one photo but bad faces on the other kids. I ended up blending the good smiles together into a single photo using Neo and what I've learned from your videos. End result was great and my wife ended up ordering prints of my blended shot. If it weren't for Neo and your videos, I don't think I'd have bothered to try to do the face swaps in other software. I had tried to do similar face swaps before and never got good convincing results, even after spending a lot of time trying to adjust the heads and junk. But Neo really does make it so much easier for me. Back to your video, though, that is an awesome composition you ended up with, considering the bland photos you started with. It's amazing how Neo enables such fast edits.

[@keithgrundy9010]

WOW that was truly amazing. I can`t get enough of your edits, i think it`s an amazing transformation. Hope we can see plenty more of them. Look forward to the next. Keep up the great work

[@concentricthree]

Hi Anthony, I just got Luminar Neo in the mega independence sale for an absolute steal! £32 for the year. I am new around here and loving your videos. Keep up the good work mate.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Welcome aboard!

[@fenraven]

This one is packed with cool tips and helpful tricks. Saved to my Luminar folder (along with pretty much everything else you've posted!). Thanks for a fascinating edit.

[@LoveTech]

You are a real artist. Great job on this one!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thank you very much!

[@bramelsheretan]

this is excellent tutorial, more please, and thank you

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You got it!

[@brucewiebe6490]

Nice work. Inspirational

[@Pondou]

Anthony, you certainly found your inspiration. Love the composition.. and all the work you did to get to the final result!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thank you 🙏

[@offpawel]

You did a great job here. Thank you for all tips included in this video!

[@Greg_Ashley]

Impressive. Thank you.

[@philmtx3fr]

Wooaaahoo!!! Very good demonstration about the capabilities of the tool : The blending of two images, the improvement of the light, the change of the mood, the light sandwitch, the use of the LUTs… and so much more. Now, I can t say I love all what you did on that photo because the fact of adding and adding modifications one over the other makes me think that sometimes we are just erasing a modification we did before, but never mind, this just show that we can modify a picture to our taste and as said Ansel Adams (more or less) about his work of improving pictures in his lab, « I am just doing what God forgets to do « :). Thx Anthony, big work and share here.

[@kabend56]

Great, I love the detailed edits , it gives ideas to experiment more

[@paulinanelega]

Wowza! Awesome edit. I especially appreciate your explanation of the mechanics of what is happening within each tool. Thank you!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@John-Shutterlyphotos]

How cool is that! I was not completely aware of all Neo can do with masks and layers, a weakness of mine in editing. So thank you for this video, I have learned so much!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Happy to help!

[@arpearce4416]

I really enjoyed this. The extra detail does help with the learning process.

[@segram3]

Amazing technique !! Thank you

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad you liked it! 🙂

[@hepgeoff]

Very nice edit! Thanks for showing how to combine two images in layers.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad you like it!

[@robertmeyerson1618]

Brilliant !! I learned so much from this video. I need to save it to watch again. Thanks, Anthony.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad you enjoyed it Robert! Thank you! 🙏

[@TLeightonWomack]

Love how the artist in you saw this when capturing the image.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks :)

[@Centauri27]

I generally avoid videos that push half hour in length, but I watched this video to the end. I pick up so many valuable tips and tricks from you! So good to get into the mindset of a working professional photographer. And you explained something that has baffled me--why sometimes the Masking option disappears for a tool! It never occurred to me to go into the Edits tab to look for it. This is a definite bug that I hope Skylum fixes soon.

[@jackbrainassociates8806]

Great content! A LUT called Bakersfield 😂 that’s the nicest thing I’ve ever heard about that city.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

😆

[@oldman1517]

A creative process video like this is nice indeed. I vote for drop shadow tool over everything right now! 😂

[@felixthecat1882]

Lovely transformation Anthony! 😻 Very creative look! Regards from Felix the Cat. 🐱

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Big thanks

[@ziv2liv]

Nice results Anthony. You know, when Photoshop was introduced some 40 years ago or so, the biggest complain was that "Now, we no longer know what's real and what's not". This argument is growing even bigger with the introduction of AI. We certainly reach a new height altering reality. I am not too concerned about it cause we are not documenting anything, we are creating and by doing so, we take a license. Working in the Film and Televsion business for almost forty years (I am retired now...) I learned that one thing is really important even when creating a fantasy, is always to remember where the light is coming from and what is in it's way. My only problem with the final result is that the sky suggests that the sun is positioned at about 10 o'clock and and the strip of light is coming from about 8 o'clock. The other issue I have is the big two shadows where the strip of light going through. In the original photo it is quite clear that the shadows are created by the clouds since those shadows are quite fainted and sun is still low. In the final photo, those shadows are so pronounced as if there are giant trucks casting them... 😀

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Nice feedback thanks. Yeah totally agree about being respectful of the original light position. Personally I didn't feel the introduced sky conflicted too much with the original direction. It was left lit and lo in the sky, I felt close enough but perhaps I could have selected a more accurate sky. The shadow intensity was a deliberate decision as I wanted to create an area of contrast and interest in the foreground. The initial rendering of the shadow with the flat profile does indeed make it look a lot less intense than it really was, but it was in fact a self cast shadow from the low sun being blocked by the undulation of the hill itself rather than cloud break. It was more evident in other shots that showed more of the environment. Like I say though, good feedback and always good to ponder how another pair of eyes is interpreting the final result. Cheers 😀

[@colinyoung9432]

Hi Anthony, What a great video, well done, love what you did... Do you think the structure tool & detail tool are almost the same, I do tend to use the detail tool more, but having watched your video I will try the structure for a change....Hope you are getting better . Doing a great job....Colin, Devon.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thaks Colin. I actually find they serve different purposes. The structure tool is similar to clarity in other editing apps but with the benefit of knowing where skin is and not adding unwanted structure to people's complexions. The Detail tool is great for smaller more localised refinements.

[@ghqservicesmiddlegeorgiadr9986]

Great video, thank you!

[@KrunoslavStifter]

Not sure about the light source in the "after" version. Its like there are two suns. Sky and field.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Good feedback. Thanks. I probably should have chosen a better sky option to match the original far left sun position.

[@hughellins1422]

After a note on a bug bear of my background music. I amore serious point. When using layers is the only way of getting new images into "My Images" to import them. I had one image which I had worked on by removing the background which was sitting in the catalogue but did not appear in my images nor could I get it there unless I exported and then imported. Any bright ideas or thoughts? Thanks

[@patricklancien1506]

Thanks for this interesting video! I will be very interested watching your video which shows how to install the camera profiles (in my case the fuji profiles) but I can't find the link you mention in the video (2:22)?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXupm3mvpNl7pqc sorry - I forgot to add it once I'd finished recording.

[@patricklancien1506]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks! I have watching this video but not learned how to import fuji's film simulations (you have a fuji xt4 folder, but not speaking about). I thing it is not possible or..?

[@richard281150]

On a slightly different aspect of Neo that even the techs at Neo aren't able to help with... Once you import an image into Neo, on Mac Ventura I can find no way to save/export an image to a folder of my choosing as this option isn't available. I import an image into Neo, edit it and then try to select the folder it came from which is buried away on an eternal HDD but Neo won't get any further than finding the external drive; it won't then allow me to delve down through the folders on that external HDD to the folder I need; are you having the same problem or can explaing ho I can achieve this?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Richard. I'd love to help but I'm on a PC rather than Mac, so it's not something I've experienced.

[@erikbackx3927]

Another interesting video from which we can learn a lot! Thanks Anthony! But ... sometimes it goes fast, very fast. (Am I the only one who thinks so?) Another question: why can't you view the latest result in the edit section? Then one would have much better control over the end result. I'm already very advanced in Luminar Neo, thanks to your videos. But some things are approached very differently than in Photoshop, for example, and that requires some time to adapt ...

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Erik. Thanks for watching and the feedback. I'm always walking a tightrope between covering topics fully vs keeping the video total time down (People don't tend to watch the longer videos as much) So I'm just curious about the "it goes fast" comment. Do you mean my delivery is too fast? IE am I talking to quickly, going to fast over concepts or something else. Cheers in advance for the clarification :)

[@erikbackx3927]

@@AnthonyTurnham In most cases I know what you are talking about and I can follow, but with a new topic I sometimes find it difficult to follow and it goes very quickly, both the talking and the actions on the screen. But I understand I'm not the only one watching your videos and things need to move forward.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

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[@vincentsoul2soulphotography]

Hey Anthony on which PC are you working? I have a M1 iMac and Luminar Neo and the performance of the iMac is terrible, most of the time not responding at all

[@AnthonyTurnham]

It's something I built about 4 years ago now and I'm due an upgrade. All of these AI tools popping up in software are hitting more and more demands on our systems so mine too is feeling a bit sluggish these days. Please note that sometimes just so the video length isn't getting away on me - and boring you guys in the process, if a tool is taking ages I'll chop out the processing.

[@vincentsoul2soulphotography]

@@AnthonyTurnham so you recommend that I stop using Luminar Neo?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@vincentsoul2soulphotography Only you can make that call. I don't ind it any slower than when I run AI tools in other software (Topaz, Photoshop etc). It's my PC I have issue with not the software.

[@vincentsoul2soulphotography]

@@AnthonyTurnham so you don't run a M1 iMac

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@@vincentsoul2soulphotography No it's a PC I built. New one on the horizon....

[@AnthonyTurnham]

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[@bullwaves6681]

Luminar Neo should have an update where you can see all photos on the side like Capture One while editing. It would make it perfect.

[@iankeel7914]

Where the hell, in the UK is the speed limit 80 ? I guess your working in KPH.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I live in New Zealand. 😀 80kph

[@chk3811]

I think the "making of" is very good. As always, the editing was great. But the background music could, in my opinion, be left out. Keep it up.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, the background music was a last minute decision. Just thought I'd try something a bit different 😀

[@Centauri27]

I thought the background music was suitably subtle and relaxing. Though it did start to sound repetitive in this longer video.

[@crisbarrows749]

Yes great content. Luminar is great fun. But, yes, drop the background music, you don't need it and I found it annoying and distracting. Keep up the great content.

[@richardhaas1989]

I don't agree with all your edits but I understand why you made them. Now all we have to do is wait a few generations for a printer that will retain the subtleties of these edits on paper...

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I've found as long as my final output is looking good in the srgb or Adobe colour space then the print comes out with pretty good fidelity to the screen rendition.

[@Humbug7225]

I really enjoyed the video, but found the background music a bit annoying!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback. Thought I'd try something different 😀

[@jinishupadhyay7414]

Don't you guys think , all this is going to be too artificial. If we change everything . Everything is just for looks.

[@hughellins1422]

Another excellent episode. Only one thing you have caught the modern disease of having tinkling music in the background. Please stop

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yeah I forgot to have my booster unfortunately. 😆

[@hughellins1422]

@@AnthonyTurnham you weren't thinking of boosting the music Aagh

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@hughellins1422 now there's an idea 💡 Surely there's an untapped niche for tutorials with bassboosted tracks thundering along in the background... watch this space! 🤣

[@hughellins1422]

@@AnthonyTurnham Your not going into rapping on a boom box are you? My music basically stopped in the 60's that ages me the n

[@rupeshshivdas]

That's called Photoshop. 😅

[@MrDogtown22]

You're making fake photos tho?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

This style of work doesn't claim to be documentative. I see this kind of creative editing as a way of creating art. Just like putting paint on a canvas, it's a style of photo editing that's about creative expression and realizing a vision rather than authentically documenting reality. That's photo journalism. That isn't what this is intended to be.