5 Quick Tips For Better Black & White With Luminar Neo

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[@gabriele.bruebach]

The second layer is a fantastic tip! Thank you very much!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad you like it!

[@vdammfra]

Very useful, thank youI love b&w's, think it's got something to do with the beautiful old photo albums my grandfather made before WW2...

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

oh nice, I love old photos

[@RobCooper]

This is an incredibly valuable tutorial, on so many levels.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Thanks

[@msgskhan]

I do bnw conversion on a regular basis. This video has helped me immensely and hopefully my future bnw conversions will be a level up. Thank you.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Great to hear!

[@rramkumar]

I convert about 50% of my images into b/w - nice tip regarding using the hues for better contrast!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're very welcome

[@skolforce]

Thank you, very well explained.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You are welcome!

[@melvinesmith]

Great video! Thank you 🙏

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

My pleasure!

[@RobCooper]

I will admit, I do not do any black and white conversions, but you make it look so easy I may start.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Excellent

[@socalduck1]

I convert to B&W on occasion, however because of your great tutorial, I intend to do so more often. Thank you.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Great to hear!

[@marleneschonbrun2070]

I don’t convert my images to b&w too often but used the darkroom years ago and favored b&w for printing. I used to use Macphun b&w software years ago and loved that software. Currently I use either LR or Nik but may experiment with Luminar Neo. Thx for your videos. They are always helpful.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

If you liked the Macphun software you'll like Luminar Neo. It's made by the same folks, they're just called Skylum now - use my code DPM10 to get 10% off. Glad this was helpful.

[@marleneschonbrun2070]

I already have Luminar Neo Version 1.18 but could not locate the b&w slider panel. I looked everywhere.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@marleneschonbrun2070 Check in your favorites at the top of the tools. Sometimes they get added there by accident.

[@marleneschonbrun2070]

I finally found it under Essentials. Thanks for your suggestion to look under Favorites. @@DigitalPhotoMentor

[@leonflack5673]

I know this is a Luminar Neo session, and a very good one at that, but do you have any B&W conversion videos using Photoshop &/or Lightroom Classic by any chance ?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yes I covered black and white conversion with Lightroom in my last Livestream. I switch back and forth so just watch the sections you want kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ-pZJ6ogM1-p7M

[@leonflack5673]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor thankyou Darlene; I will have a closer look at the video. Just took a quick look at the chat and can't believe the cold temperatures you guys are having, I thought Britain was cold ATM but your temps are rediculous, hope you can all stay warm ...

[@hymanlevy2265]

Nice video

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Thanks

[@noriller]

How to deal with masking? I've tried doing it in neo before, but I wanted to adjust luminance/saturation using masks... but once it's BW those sliders don't work anymore. Is using color and color harmony the way? it feels to me those sliders in BW do something different (or maybe i didn't use it enough)

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Luminance and saturation sliders in the color tool? That's why I suggest using it first.

[@noriller]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor is there a workaround to having to jump from one tool to another in the edits tabs? Once you want to edit the color edits, it comes to color and I feel hard to be sure of how it would look like as BW so I need to jump from one to another.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@noriller No not really. You just have to tweak it and try again. But are you using the sliders in the BW tool?

[@noriller]

​@@DigitalPhotoMentor Yes, but if I want to use masks... only one pass of BW tool doesn't cover it. And after BW, another pass or color don't work on it

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@noriller Sorry I'm not following what is it you are trying to do. You want to mask for what purpose and which tool?

[@gordw6402]

Responding to your query... Always B&W. Also nice to see a video exclusively for NEO Every time you bring up the other ones, I leave and inevitably forget to come back. Sorry.

[@RobCooper]

Her last 5 videos have been Luminar Neo

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Hi @Gordw6402 thanks, but not sure what you mean. Perhaps you're referring to my weekly Livestreams? Those are usually 1-2 hours long and I switch back and forth from Lightroom to Neo based on the image that was submitted and which program that person wants demonstrated. But most of my other tutorials like this are just one software. There is also an entire Luminar playlist which you can find here kzbin.info/aero/PL_lGwpH8kvQ5fQ9V1MLxgTd-ISC7D5LNf

[@vincentfrost6939]

Use B&W conversion extensively

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Cool

[@martyzechman2793]

ofyen

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Nice