How Luminar 4 Completely Reinvented this Photo

[@wesleybrilhante5989]

Love your pictures love how passionate you are doing your editing stuff and your love and happiness and joy for the skylum softwares

[@JimNix]

Oh thanks so much, I appreciate it and yeah I do love this stuff 😁

[@philipbloss5370]

Flipping the photo was a great idea that completely changed the way you perceive the photo.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Philip and it had the same effect on me when I saw it flipped - I appreciate it!

[@epiac1216]

As you already know, I'm subscribed to your KZbin videos. All of them are very helpful in understanding post-production processes. This one is one of the best I've seen. Thank you, Jim.

[@JimNix]

oh thanks so much, I appreciate that!

[@mauriceprokaziuk337]

Love the transformation.

[@JimNix]

thank you so much!

[@daddysdust]

Excellent Informative Presentation! Thanks

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@annebowman4371]

Another great video Jim. The flip is the icing on the cake

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Anne! I loved the flip too 😁

[@lookforbeauty1964]

The flip trick has been awesome !!!. It has the typical light everybody can photograph and gives me good ideas to some of my pictures with a similar light Thanks Jim

[@JimNix]

thanks Jose, glad you like that!

[@gpdoyon]

Great Luminar demonstration! Loved that flip!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@regansalamander8185]

Very well done! One of your better videos. Every previous brushstroke and experience led you to this vision. Awesome

[@JimNix]

thanks so much, I appreciate it!

[@nfinnigan]

Jim your amazing, doing the flip did make sense. I like your videos because you get stuck right in and get to the point fast and dont waffle about. Many thanks

[@JimNix]

Oh thanks so much Nick, glad you like my videos, I appreciate you watching them!

[@KellyPettit]

Beautiful photo, great post-production and excellent vlog. Thank you!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Kelly!

[@jandaub4471]

Welcome back Jim, great photo transformation. You saved another one.

[@JimNix]

thanks much Jan and hope you are well!

[@aslisekhon]

You're the legend mate ! I tried move to lightroom but after watch your video I realised it's all about our work not about program! Keep it up love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@JimNix]

aw heck thanks so much, that's very kind and thanks for watching!

[@vsquare5653]

Very good! Good presentation as well. Love the picture. Barns and trees are one of my favorite subjects.

[@JimNix]

Thank you very much!

[@krm920]

Excellent. I gleaned a lot from this tutorial. Thanks much for all of your tutorials...

[@JimNix]

thanks much for watching Ken!

[@Scubabuddy9958]

Some great tips. I liked the softening in stages. But the flip at the end was interesting as I have never considered this. I will have to experiment more. Thanks for taking us all the way through the process. It does help me understand better than just focusing on a tool.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much for watching Mark!

[@robertsimon6500]

The one great thing about your work is that , it is not over the top difficult to get great results. Luminar really has taken photo editing to the masses, the learning curve is nowhere near as difficult as Photoshop or light room. There is little to no frustration level with using the program. If there is any frustration it is in wanting to print and mount all the great photos and looking at the price tag to do so. It really forces a person to go back and look at all the stuff that was considered garbage in the hundreds of pics and see what can be done to change crap to a treasure.

[@JimNix]

thanks Robert and yes I think you are right about that!

[@brucewright1649]

I loved the edit, Jim. I'm going to have to check out your videos on the gradient mask to better understand its application. Great transformation!!! I'm looking forward to Luminar AI.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Bruce!

[@colin-4794]

Impressive change Jim, it's great fun finding what you can do with images. Nice one.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Colin and yes fun is goal #1! 😄

[@Ilene1020]

terrific edit, Jim. You really show the possibilities with an edit!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Ilene!

[@pederkristensen4691]

Yet agin Jim a great demo. I liked the flip step you did.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Peder!

[@paulfelt8440]

Whoa!!!! Your skills are amazing. Even as important is your ability to present "how toos". Thank you for taking the time to help us out.

[@JimNix]

Oh thanks so much, I appreciate it and hope it helps!

[@oldbugr1]

Enjoyed all your videos -- felling passionate about what you do should always be at the top of the list.

[@JimNix]

yes thanks Ron I agree!

[@absar1491]

Hope you get well soon and keep updating us with your valuable info :)

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@stephenwoodburn2970]

Great edit, Jim. It is amazing to me what can be done with some experimentation. You should be really proud of this edit. Great job! I hope your ankle is better. Take care my friend.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Steve and I am proud of this one, thanks and take care of yourself as well!

[@JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67]

love it Jim, the flip makes a huge difference, gonna give it a go for sure, thanks for sharing.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching John!

[@wesleybrilhante5989]

Amazing how drastically you change the photo so fast

[@JimNix]

all in good fun!

[@MrHumie]

When you flipped it was amazing the effect it had on the composition for the better.

[@JimNix]

thanks Ian and I feel the same, really made it better!

[@paulbigelow252]

Nice job! I really enjoy your method of editing.

[@JimNix]

thanks Paul, I like to have fun with it!

[@warrengh5647]

Good one Jim, that flip really made an instance impact.

[@JimNix]

thanks and I thought so too

[@michael-lt2lf]

Amazing! One of your best!

[@JimNix]

oh thanks so much!

[@dadofpun]

Amazing. It was a big surprise what a flip at the end does to the image. Totally unexpected.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@rajajinnah6749]

Beautiful edit. I prefer it without the LUT but it's amazing anyway. And that Flip made it for me too. I like this flipped version 👌🏻

[@JimNix]

thanks much Raja!

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

Transformative! The beauty of editing eh Jim! Any photo can be a masterpiece nowadays thanks to Luminar and Photoshop. Magical! No more wasted images!

[@JimNix]

haha true, we can make any photo amazing LOL - actually, I think these "powers" make us need to be even more aware of the basics like composition etc

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

Jim Nix that’s a blessing though, all we have to worry about is composition. One less thing as Forest Gump would say 😂

[@JimNix]

@@WanderFeetChronicles haha that's true - less for me to worry about is a good thing!

[@desertgecko4549]

Excellent work, Jim. Something about the photo bothered me too, so at 13:30 I got excited, thinking you were about to say the same thing I was thinking. But no. First, I agree the horizontal flip helps. But I was bothered throughout the video by the tree being so close to the edge of the frame. For a moment, I thought you were going to fix that in Luminar although I didn't know how that could be done. This can be done easily in Photoshop, which is where I'd have started before working the photo in Luminar. I'd have simply stretched the canvas using the crop tool then used Content Aware Fill to populate the new real estate and voila! Ready for your skilled hands.

[@JimNix]

thanks much and yeah I would like to stretch the canvas too but Luminar does not allow that, and I agree it would be helpful - so I did everything else I could do here 😁

[@tonygovaerts3458]

Good job and thx Jim👏

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Tony!

[@photografia]

You Sir, are master. That was wonderful!!

[@JimNix]

oh thanks so much, glad you liked it!

[@clasijuls1]

love your photo !!

[@JimNix]

thanks much!

[@jackieconnell7183]

This was just another amazing tutorial.i'm new to luminar 4 and all i would do is add a new sky and then head over to PS that was an amazing edit,and now i will spend more time in luminar in future

[@JimNix]

thanks much Jackie and hope it helps inspire you to explore more tools in Luminar!

[@shlomoeshet8525]

Wow, the final twist (flip) really made a difference.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@danschreckengost6153]

Wow, love it. Great job.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Dan!

[@jer3006]

Wow, some transition of this photo! And lots of good tips here, thanks. Love the Crop Tool flip (So that's what those little icons do.) Say, a couple of thoughts here: • Protect your ankles by taking your eye from the viewfinder before walking with your camera. • Caution when Crop-flipping an old barn that has a Dr Pepper sign on it - so many old Texas barns do. • Get well fast, it will cool down soon and we can get out for more photos when Texas gets under a 100° again.

[@JimNix]

haha thanks much Jer and yes to all of those ideas! 😁

[@johnanderson4069]

Absolutely blown away, that was an amazing edit! You're inspiring me to go try and edit some of my middle of day shots.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much John, I hope it helps!

[@MrFirstdance2000]

What a special and magical phrase...."Pull Over" :)

[@JimNix]

haha thanks for watching!

[@jean-francoisdamon4847]

encore de précieux conseils pour améliorer ses photos,super bon travail !

[@JimNix]

thank you so much Jean-Francois!

[@martingjsmith]

Great edit!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@judyjorgensen6812]

I liked this photo all the way through, but when you flipped it at the end my eye was at ease. May sound strange but that's what happened. Wow

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Judy, that flip made a big difference for me too!

[@LouiseMZeitlin]

I love this photo and what you did to it. Beautiful. Now, I have to find me something to work with to try all these tips out.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Louise!

[@tompatton2086]

I really like what you did with this. The only thing that looks a little out of place to me is the bright area under the tree. The light source is on the right side of the image.

[@JimNix]

thanks Tom and yep it's definitely not perfect, but hopefully a good demo of the sort of fun you can have with Luminar

[@rtherdaily]

Hi Jim. Great video. just wanted to say you're discount code worked great and actually gave me £10 of not $10 so worked out even better! Thanks ;-)

[@JimNix]

oh that's great, thanks for using it and of course thanks for watching!

[@jimjames4252]

Thank you, Jim, a really informative and enjoyable edit.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Jim! (great name BTW)😄

[@chesterjohnson4504]

Jim, nice presentation regarding the use of Luminar 4. I have been using LR 6, still along with Luminar and Aurora HDR 2018. I have been debating to upgrade my LR to using the classic CC and maybe up grade to Luminar AI. After watching this video I may keep what I have. You seem to have achieved the affect that I would like to have done as well. Again, thanks. Oh the Flip I never knew about and that did make a huge difference in my humble opinion.

[@JimNix]

thanks much for watching Chester, I appreciate it and hope it helps!

[@josefarfan5586]

Gracias Jim, siempre tan gaucho, thanks

[@JimNix]

muchas gracias Jose!

[@paulinanelega]

Love this edit!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Paulina!

[@sallyerickson9120]

I like what you did a lot. Thank you

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@normameyers4904]

Beautiful ❤️

[@JimNix]

thanks Norma!

[@guy3206]

hope you're in better health Jim ! Take care ;-)

[@JimNix]

I am doing better Guy, thanks so much!

[@JensChrStrandos]

Another excellent tutorial. :-)

[@JimNix]

thank you so much!

[@Rafaga777]

Thanks a lot for this editing tutorial, especially that neat crop tool flipping trick. I never gave it any consideration so from now on I will give it more attention. Btw: the end result really looks great...

[@JimNix]

thank you so much!

[@_HMCB_]

Very nice. You’ve earned a sub. Thank you.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much, glad you enjoyed this one!

[@tollarplennie]

I have just the photo I will try this on:) Just need to find it! Love the idea, but does normally not have the patience do do this much changed😱

[@JimNix]

have fun with it!

[@javiergomez4883]

Jim, could you advise us some page where to buy skies to be used for replacement? Thank you

[@JimNix]

Sure you can look in the Luminar Marketplace: skylum.com/luminar/marketplace/skies

[@VentiViews]

really nice edit. I will have to play with the flip tool myself.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@moomono9354]

Seems like I just found a great teacher for my Luminar and Aurora tutorials. SUBSCRIBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD!!!

[@steviexceed]

Hi Jim, I like it very much, but what about the noise in the new sky? It is a lot of noise there. Did you forget or do you like it the way it is? Greetings again from Munich, Germany.

[@JimNix]

thanks much Stevie and that is an easy fix with the denoise slider or a negative structure adjustment - I just skipped it here bc the video was long enough and I do negative structure in just about every video LOL

[@steviexceed]

@@JimNix That is True, I understand 👍🏻

[@colinmelhuish1254]

HiJim , great walk through , brilliant result. One question. On The Structure AI you took the slider to the right which I believe gives global adjustment then went to the brush to form a mask in the lower portion of the image as you didn't want the sky affected. Is the sky not already affected from the initial slider movement. My way of thinking is brush mask the area you want affected then move the slider. Be good for a comment. Thanks.

[@JimNix]

Thanks Colin and yes if you move the slider first it will affect the entire scene, but once you mask it then it just impacts the masked area. Or you can mask first and then move the slider, which means only the masked area is impacted. Did I answer your question? thanks!

[@colinmelhuish1254]

@@JimNix Thanks for the prompt reply and yes my question is answered. Thanks.

[@JimNix]

@@colinmelhuish1254 ok great thanks!

[@focus1ist]

Amazing!

[@JimNix]

thank you!

[@OurWanderingWays]

Brilliant

[@JimNix]

thanks much Gail!

[@gkp76]

Do the golden hour and other warming sliders done at the beginning get negated by the cooling split tones?

[@JimNix]

good question and yes probably so - I you follow my videos very often, you will see my creative process ends up with me bouncing around a bit with some moves reversing what I did earlier, at least to some extent - that's ok with me as I like to experiment and mostly just want to get to a final result that I like

[@pdbdd]

Kind of a bummer that skylum gives more attention to features for the mac users over windows. On windows you don't have black and white clipping point display, in erase tool you don't have straight line feature as well as lasso erase, and in color tab of essentials we don't have hue shift to go with the HSL, just to name a few missing features.

[@JimNix]

Yeah I hope that the PC version advances some more so you can take advantage of these other useful features.

[@lawrence_SoCal]

Nah, Windows version is a mess, clearly lacking sufficient and knowledgeable Windows programmers. And has been true for years.

[@deltaromeoz]

Hi, thank you so much for this nice video. I'm new to luminar. So my question is can I do all these in luminar Ai ? Appreciate your response. Take care

[@JimNix]

Hi there and yes Luminar AI can do all the things I did here, such as sky replacement etc. It works great. Thanks.

[@hanswielakker221]

Hi Jim, Before you start to edit this photo there's no noise in the air. After editing a lot. What to do?

[@JimNix]

you can use Denoise or negative Structure to smooth it out, works like a charm!

[@irinadriga8577]

Can you make a video explaining different blending modes, please.

[@JimNix]

I have considered that before, but I am no expert and I have Googled and found several websites that offer fantastic explanations. Perhaps that would be helpful for you? Thanks for watching!

[@PaPaMoSSi]

This was just another amazing tutorial. My HP laptop takes much longer to process. Can you share the specs or minimum specs you have or recommend? If Apple, them I am totally out of luck :) Thanks'

[@JimNix]

thanks so much and yes I am on a Mac, about 4 yrs old with 16 GB RAM, but I recommend at least 32GB if you can get it - they have minimum specs listed on their site somewhere if you want to review them

[@andrewhillphotosvideos2909]

I thought you shot this photo but in the video you said... (it wasn't a great camera but I assume it was hand held?)... did this mean you didn't take this photo? notice this at 10:54 on the video timer. or maybe it was a long time ago and you forgot lol..

[@JimNix]

Hi Andrew and yes I shot this photo. It was my first DSLR and it was 10+ years ago. It is outside of Austin, where I live. We were on a trip, and pulled over so I could shoot this. Thanks.

[@brianmccarthy5381]

Hi from the land down under, can you use Luminar 4 on an iMac

[@JimNix]

Sure you can, I just recommend having a minimum of 16GB RAM and more is better

[@darrellhornick7764]

Speaking of the Crop tool in Luminar 4, why is it not always available? I've noticed sometimes it is not available on different photos. Does it have to be an RAW file or ???

[@JimNix]

hmm, that is weird, it is available on every photo for me

[@stevenrutsch5026]

Hi Jim, excellent video, as always. You know I love your work, however, it seems to me that there is no way you could get the sharp shadow under the barn eave with that sky. As I see it, the sun and brightest sky is behind the barn. I have had this issue looking at sky packs, it always seems that if it is a sunset/sunrise, the sun is usually in the photo or just off frame. I have not seen a sunset pack including images with the sun at your back, just showing clouds. Have you? Obviously I have not seen every sky pack out there, but it seems to be a trend. Anyway I've decided I need to keep looking or try and shoot my own. And speaking of sky replacement, do you know why we can't free transform the sky like you can when combining multiple images. I find the adjustment options in sky replacement to be limited and a bit hard to locate just the way I want. If you can free transform with an added image, isn't the sky replacement the same thing? Perhaps not. A good idea for a future upgrade, I think. Thanks again, keep your foot elevated!

[@JimNix]

thanks much Steven and yes I get your point on the shadow under the eave - oh well, it's art so I made it any way 😁- and yes free transform on a sky would be ideal but no idea if that is coming, tho I agree it would be most useful!

[@phlotographer]

With a replaced sky, what happens if you now wanted to create a Look? also, unfortunately maybe, I have to disagree with others related to the flipped crop. Because the eye goes to the lightest and brightest and because most of us read from Left to Right, generally one likes to draw the eyes in that fashion and leave the eye contained within the image whereas with the bright area on the R the eye is led out of the image but with the original crop, the tree contains the eyes within the image. I too though liked the LUT and strangely enough when you came to the original image I thought of using some desaturation and an appropriate LUT to create an old time film photo of that particular image.

[@JimNix]

I *think* you can add a sky to a Look but I am not in Luminar right now, but seems like it would work (a texture works, for example). It's ok if you don't like the flipped version, to each his own and no worries. I like how the flipped version goes from dark to light as you go left to right. But obviously everything about this is personal preference - part of the fun of Luminar! Thanks for watching!

[@salinmhzn]

Can i have non edited photo plz?

[@JimNix]

Oh sorry, I don't distribute my raw files.

[@ramezredarr]

Hi, Could u tell us how to upload an edited luminar photo on social media without losing much quality ?

[@JimNix]

I don't know if there are any secrets to it. I just export at a high quality setting and they look good.

[@kareemtejumola5443]

Hi Jim please I need your help in resolving a lingering problem in Luminar 4.3. When editing in multiple layers I can't exit to Photoshop which is my host application. when I pressed the Apply button, it just kept rolling and rolling until I do a force quit and subsequently lost all my edit in Luminar 4.3

[@JimNix]

You will need to email their support team for assistance. I never use PS and not sure how to help with this.

[@jledvinka]

🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@JimNix]

thanks much!

[@lifeonthebluff-va]

Great Tut but can you slow down just a bit? Very hard to follow everything when its so rushed. I end up having to stop constantly and rewind to see exactly what most steps are doing. Thanks

[@JimNix]

I believe I mentioned in the video that with the little gear icon you can slow down the speed. I try to slow down but naturally just get going fast and forget to. Sorry.

[@dretwav]

Flipping it was my first thought when I saw the photo. The foreground is blurred so much that it draws my eyes to it because it looks so out of place. Personally I would cut way back on that. Otherwise great edit.

[@JimNix]

thanks for the feedback, and for watching!

[@peteschenck9655]

I don’t know Jim. I look at the photo and it has shades of red/orange as well as shades of blue and gray. I think retaining the green of the tree and the background would have made the picture pop a lot more. You always mention how you like lots of color in your photos but here, the color has been reduced. I get it that you are creating “art” and that art may sell. I guess for my purpose I look to enhance photos shoot to make the look real and not over-processed. There are some excellent tips in here but, I’m sorry, it appears over processed to my eyes at least.

[@JimNix]

no worries Pete, I don't expect everyone to like what I create, but hopefully you got some ideas from it and that is always my main goal - thanks for the feedback and for watching!

[@michelangot5142]

JOLI JOLI !!!

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@lawrence_SoCal]

The Windows version is full of bugs, promised fixes never arrive. Luminar looks great...on a Mac. On a PC, beware. I can’t stand Adobe’s subscription model, but I feel mislead/taken advantage of by Skylum in regards to Windows version. It would be nice if Skylum spent less on ambassadors on more on programmers until Windows product actually worked decently, then maintained near parity with MacOS version

[@JimNix]

Sorry that has been your experience with it and I do hope it will improve for PC users.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Man, I'm punch-drunk. But nice face lift.

[@JimNix]

haha it was a lot of fun but a lot of work/steps to - thanks much for watching

[@marcthibault2835]

awasome change good work Jim bravo A_+ t y.v.m.

[@JimNix]

thanks much Marc!

[@samuelfarmon5896]

You are not honest presenter. You are just product pusher. I and many other people have alot of problems with luminar 4 specially after upgrading to windows 10. Shame on you,

[@JimNix]

I'm just showing what you can do with the product. I use a Mac and know nothing about Windows 10. If you are having problems with it, contact support. It worked fine for me.