HOW TO USE LAYERS IN LUMINAR 4.3: Complete tutorial on how to use layers in your photo editing!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

If you don't have Luminar AI yet, you can save $$ using the discount code ATSKY10 here: bit.ly/Lum-AI Check out my channel for lots of free training videos and resources, including this one to get you up and running:kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4iwaKGEgZx8frM

[@geekmeee]

Once I understood that the idea of layers were an extension of non-destructive editing... And I finally got it!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Ah, that wonderful Ah-ha! moment. 😀

[@PictureperfectphotographyVA]

I am new to photo editing and I chose Luminar 4. These are a godsend!!!!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Lisa!

[@Clemi47]

Hi Anthony, new to Luminar 4 but very exited for at last I am working with a program easy to learn and yet I am still getting to " comprehend " it. What I've noticed is most of the presenters do a reasonable job and I follow most of them as it gives me the chance to see different styles. I think you impart your knowledge thoroughly in a way that makes me understand "what happens" to the picture when I apply layers or masks to images. Thank you and please continue delivering such a nice training. Kind regards Clem (QLD, Australia)

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thank you Clement. I appreciate your kind words. Yes, I'll be doing more training going forward. Not sure if you've see the playlist I put together but bit.ly/3cPREVd here are 19 or so other videos covering Luminar 4. Cheers, Anthony.

[@briangriffin8903]

Thanks a million for this tutorial. Totally understand now how to use layers. Game changer...👍👍

[@sallyerickson9120]

I just started with Luminar and have been a bit overwhelmed. You videos are helping tremendously Thankyou

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You are so welcome Sally! Have fun creating!

[@Simarchy]

I just finished the entire series, thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge! You have a new subscriber!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Awesome, thank you!

[@howardpearson6281]

Very clear slow and stead spot on

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Howard.

[@TheDavcoll]

Many thanks Anthony, being an oldie I will probably have to watch this a couple of more times. Dave

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Cheers David. I hope you don't get sick of me by the end! Haha. 😜

[@barryvenditti614]

I am a retired worker who is a photo hobbyist and let me say that I am so impressed with your videos. I have been a long time Photoshop user and will soon download luminar which I am sure will be my primary photo editing program. Thanks for your wonderful, instructional videos.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hey Barry. Thanks for the positive feedback. Really good to hear 👍😁

[@peterridgwell8531]

Looks please Anthony, I know this video is old but I'm a newby still learning and your videos are top class.

[@adavogelaar398]

I am new with luminar but you explained it very we how to use Laiers. Thank you.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Glad it was helpful Ada! Thank you.

[@mariozakall]

A video about creating looks would be great :)

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Noted! Thanks for the request 😀

[@donaldandrews3158]

Excellent and precise presentations. Have enjoyed and learned something from each so far. Not everyone can teach, however, you have the talent for it. Thanks

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I appreciate that! Donald. Thanks so much. 😀

[@Ole_c8]

this unlocked a whole new world for me! thank you :D

[@AnthonyTurnham]

That's great to hear Ymua! Awesome :)

[@aaronza7218]

Great content. Thank you Anthony.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Cheers Aaron

[@robertmeyerson1618]

Excellent tutorial !! LOOKS would be a great addition. Thanks!!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Cheers Robert. Thanks for the comment. I hope to have a looks video soon(ish). Watch this space 😀

[@dannytolliver5362]

Awesome Anthony, great information on Layers, this helped me out so much

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Danny. Glad it helped.

[@focus1ist]

Thank you! Learned a bit more about layers. My fav. Luminar tool is "mist" because I can use it to put things more in focus.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Mist, eh? Thanks focus1ist!

[@khenghongng19]

Thank you so much for the best teaching. Hope you have more a bout LUMINAR 4

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Khenghong Ng, I have a whole playlist here: bit.ly/3cPREVd

[@ajayanivas321]

Hi Anto, you are the master brain, how fantastically you shown up the intricacies in a very possible manner, I will watch this again a couple of times to get it more friendly to me. Awesome master class you are bringing into the display for a layman like me. Thanks.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Many thanks Ajaya! I'm glad I'm the master brain. My wife may disagree with you on that one though! 😆

[@hannahmountry5030]

Hahaha. The outtake at the end was funny. Show's us that it's not a perfect delivery everytime you hit record! And yes, Looks! Please do a video on creating your own looks in Luminar. Your layer videos have been super helpful! Thank you.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Hannah! If I get some more requests for a looks tutorial I'll put one together for you!

[@phlotographer]

I would assume AT that one could create a "look" before the erase layer or even after but turn off the erase layer to save all the work for the future of what is created? With the use of the layers, including those in the included look, they could be adjusted individually for a new image if the "look" is just not exactly as desired for another image.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Bang on Phlotographer! I like your thinking.

[@micahgabriel2072]

Thank you for getting me started in Luminar. Your lessons are awesome and easy to follow and understand.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Great to hear! Thank yo Micah.

[@MrRegW]

Anthony very informative, you have a great way of putting things across, have recently subscribed as I want more, please keep them coming.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Welcome aboard Reg! I appreciate the positive feedback 👍😀

[@jamesyoke3501]

My favorite tool is the sky replacement

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yeah, it's right up there for me too. I really love it!

[@pr8nay101]

excellent tutorial. Subbed.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks for the sub!

[@debbieshriner1308]

Thank you so much for this video your the best!! This has helped me a lot, I now understand so much more. I will now be having fun seeing what I can do 😊😊 will be keeping a eye out for more videos.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You are so welcome Debbie! I'm actually just brainstorming some new video ideas as I type this to you! 😀

[@jonasrocha2836]

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Did you had a tutorial about Portrait edit? Thanks

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Jonas. Yeah I have one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJjQYoeEp8pgjtU

[@GlobalPhotoClub]

Nice editing of my favorite local beach (New Brighton Pier). I'm using Luminar more for sky replacements, but I should dive into using the layers more. Maybe I'll meet you at the pier one day. Have subscribed to your channel now. Wish you all the best for your channel, and keep creating!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi there fellow Cantabrian! Always great to get a comment from someone local 😀 Yeah it's such a great spot in New Brighton. I love it when I get the opportunity to go there, although it's usually sadly when a lens or camera body needs a repair! Cheers for watching and subscribing. And cheers for the encouragement to keep pushing forward with the channel! If you see me about, come say hi!

[@jimfok4343]

Brand new subscriber here. I do close up plant photography and my favorite tool is Dodge&Burn as it gives depth to my captures. -Elaine J.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Welcome aboard Elaine! I love the dodge and burn tool too. It's so nice to have that control over bringing out depth in your images. Thanks for the comment :)

[@msturi2002]

The dodge and burn tool is priceless.

[@trevorwright6165]

hello, Anthony, i hope you and your family are doing ok, well this was useful I am still having fun with luminar 4 and thanks to you and the lessons I think this one will be looked at a few times for me as the brainpower is not so good as it used to be so thank you very much for the great help from you all the best from trev in Sussex

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Great to hear from you Trevor! Yes, layers are a tricky concept to start with but they really are one of the fundamental keys to gaining complete control over your photo edits. The family is very well here in New Zealand thank you :) Best wishes to you too!

[@normameyers4904]

I think I’m finally brave enough to try layers.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Be bold. Give them a try. They're not too scary and they really open up the possibilities for you.

[@scubarocks1861]

Hi Anthony, thanks for the insightful tutorial. The Layers in L4 are the most Powerful and Versatile tool as compared to ... But alas... for how long more will it be available... It will be a sad day when it's not supported anymore...

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You're very welcome! Yeah, I still think there's a place for Luminar 4. Although it won't be updated in a year or so, at least it will still exist as it's current version 😀

[@pandnmaunsell9195]

Hi Anthony - thankyou for your tutorials - I'm a newbie so have appreciated what you're sharing. I was wondering if you could show how to 'clear' the dark tint that occurs on transition lens on spectacles when they go dark out in the sunlight please......Paul

[@mikesphotography7185]

Great video

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks!

[@paularnold9009]

Brilliant!! My only question is why you need to stamp the layers before moving on to a new one...?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

It's a great question. You actually don't. I was just demoing different approaches to working with the layers. As you picked up, in this instance, it doesn't actually help us! Well spotted Paul.

[@walespete]

Great videos, I've learned a lot. What mic are you using? Looks interesting.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Cheers Peter. It's in the description.

[@walespete]

@Anthony Turnham I have had Luminar 4 for 6 months, but couldn't get on with it. Watching your videos gave me the confidence to switch to Luminar from Affinity. Thank you.

[@marlenachetwynd2925]

Thank you for your tutorials I would like to edit night skies, especially the Milky way. do you have a tutorial that will help me.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

HI Marlena. Funnily enough the very last video I posted was on just that! Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h16paIpre7GtaNU

[@karlwilson2108]

Thank you for keeping it intelligently simple and edifying. You are probably if not the best on this subject. Thank. PS. I could not find "Composition " when running AI as a plug in Photoshop 2021 on WIN 10

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Karl. Thanks for your kind words! I think the composition tool would be disabled because photoshop would nee to handle the cropping of the file itself. I think if the edit from Luminar was a different size going back into Photoshop than the canvas you were initially working on it would confuse the program. Just my guess on it 😀👍

[@karlwilson2108]

Thanks

[@philgrainger5691]

Thanks for all the lessons Anthony, really enjoying them. I tend to go over them more than once - slow learner! I've had L4 for about a month now and need my fix every day, thoroughly enjoyable, brings back memories of when I first got CS2! (which I still have!) :-) ......... I've been using some of my own Skies in 'Sky Replacement', but wondering if and how I can create my own 'Objects' in 'Object Selections' tried PSD's but dont seem to work!...thanks again, from the other side of the world!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Phil, thanks for the comment. Sorry, I've been away for a bit so playing catch up on the comments scattered across my channel. Sorry for the delay. I think .png with transparency saved into the file would be the way to go. I haven't tried creating my own object library but my hunch says .png as that's designed to incorporate transparency... Let me know how you get on!

[@DB7PHiL]

@@AnthonyTurnham You were right Anthony, .png's work, I cut out a photo of a Vulcan Bomber that I took at an air show here in the UK, works well. Now to try something a bit more challenging, like a Flying Saucer!....you don't know where I could shoot a photo of one of them, do you? 😊 thanks Phil

[@pauloricardoferreira2841]

Looks!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Paulo. "Looks!" what?

[@pauloricardoferreira2841]

@@AnthonyTurnham so sorry. I don't think I'm able to complete that sentence I began 2 months ago. Not in my age. Sorry about that. But, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@Lykzabet]

Subbed thx Anthony 👍

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Nice one Lykz. Thanks for the sub.

[@augiestark7403]

I wanted to thank you for your Luminar 4 tutorials. I've had it for awhile but just dipped my toe into it. What I needed was guidance. And you have given me the direction I needed. I still don't feel as comfortable as I do in LR and PS but I'm sure you will help me along the way. Also, when does the new version of Luminar come out?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks Augie! I appreciate the feedback. Yep I'll be making more videos to help guide. I'm working with Lumionar AI beta at the moment and it's bloody good! I wasn't sure if the AI will do away with the need for tutorials but there wll still be scope to help people get the most out of it. It's dropping sometime towards the end of this year/early next year but an official release date is as yet unconfirmed. If you want to preorder Luminar AI I have a link here (skylum.evyy.net/c/1304886/880106/3255) and a small commission just goes to help support me running free tutorials on my channel. Also I have a pre-review video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXWXkoBnoqZphNk

[@briantooze3415]

Great video. Just used your code to purchase Luminar. Please can you demonstrate how to create a frame around a photograph using a layer. Thanks.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Great suggestion Brian! I have a few video requests queued up - I'll see what I can do for you. 😀

[@AnthonyTurnham]

What are you struggling with in Luminar? Let me know here in the comments!

[@brucewiebe6490]

What is the benefit of stamping the first few layers

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Bruce. Good question! If you have a stamped layer you're able to work directly onto that layer as if that were a new image in itself. IE any effects applied become global and effect the image as a whole. Also, if you're confident of your combination of the first two layers you could delete those underlying layers to free up more system resources. (I kept them in as I wanted to demonstrate having a stack of layers and how they interact).

[@michaelsurgeon4386]

Is there an UNDO tab some where?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Michael. Yes. If you go to the bottom right of the interface you'll find the history panel so you can jump backwards in your editing.

[@michaelsurgeon4386]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you, I figured it out about 5 minutes after I asked that :)

[@davidcostantino1838]

Anthony, thanks for the videos. I purchased Luminar just a couple weeks ago and am still experimenting. Living in a dark skies area of the US I'm lucky enough to get lots of opportunity to shoot meteors. Is there anyway of layering my photos of single meteors in order to get a composite image of maybe a half dozen?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi David. Absolutely. You could start with your preferred overall shot and then add the other meteor photos as new image layers. From there you could experiment with the blend mode overlay or screen to just bring in the brightest part of that photo - ie the meteors. Or alternatively apply a luminosity mask as I demo in this video. Or try a combo of both. Best of luck. Let me know how you get on!

[@yevgeniyboubankov2127]

Hi Anthony! Thank you very much for your tutorials... But! Im little bit confused.. What the differens betwin Luminar 4 and AI? I have AI >I do real estate photography. Do i need to buy Luminar 4 as well? Thank you!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Yevgeniy. No you don't need both. However, Luminar 4 does have a few extra bells in terms of layering and luminosity masks which can be great for working with multiple exposures in real estate / architecture photography, but if you can get by with AI then you don't need L4 too.

[@yevgeniyboubankov2127]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you very much Anthony!

[@AmenitaMuscaria]

So you add something to a base layer. Maybe more warmth. To keep that do you have to create a stamped layer and then add a new layer to continue adding so you don't lose what you've already done. I may be mistaken but in the video it seems that you added a new layer a few times without creating a stamped layer. I guess my question is this. Do you have to create a stamped layer to keep what you've done and then add a new layer to continue editing and creating a stamped layer every time so as not to lose anything. I learned a lot from this video and want to learn more. Thanks

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Blumanchu. Great question. So in a nutshell, you don't need to stamp the layers together to preserve what's underneath. You can just keep adding on top. One reason for stamping is to be able to access again that you had previously used. In this video I stamped some layers simply as a demonstration that you CAN do that, not necessarily because it was needed. Sorry, I think I confused a few people by doing that.

[@AmenitaMuscaria]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for the clarification

[@KircardProductionsAustralia]

Hi Anthony, I have a heap of green screen shots and I have Luminar 4 and was wondering if you would do some tutorials on working with green screen images? or direct me to them if there are any available you can recommend.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Kircard - I haven't played too much with green screens in Luminar - but one thought of how you MAY be able to tackle it... how about using the colour tab to shift the greens into the blue hues, from there try using Luminar's AI sky replacement tool. As if you're "fooling" the software's AI into thinking the greenscreen (now blue) is a sky. Then load the background you want in as if you were doing a sky replace. It's just a thought of an outside the box solution... If you try it let me know how you get on!

[@KircardProductionsAustralia]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks Anthony, I will give that a try. Cheers. :-)

[@AnthonyTurnham]

How did the green screen photo edits go?

[@KircardProductionsAustralia]

G'day mate, tried that but I wasn't very successful with it, so I'm loading an image through HitFilm Pro and then bringing it back into Luminar to adjust the image and sky etc.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@Kircard Productions Australia A true Aussie greeting. Nice! Oh, sorry you didn't have much joy with it directly in Luminar. Cheers for letting me know :) 👍

[@markgoldfarb6029]

What is the advantage of stamping layers during your workflow? Why not wait till the end?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Mark. Good question. So, I left all the layers there and active just to kinda demo how a layer stack comes together. Usually if I'm happy to stamp the layers and commit to my changes I'll delete the layers underneath to free up system resources. You may have noticed, any software using AI suddenly demands a lot more from your computer. Cheers for the question :) 😀👊

[@clydek4994]

I have 3 separate images of the moon at different positions in the sky. How do I layer it so I have all 3 different moon positions in one picture?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Clyde. Load a base image and then layer in the other two using techniques shared in this video. Mask in just the moon component of the two photos you load as layers over the top of the base image.

[@clydek4994]

@@AnthonyTurnham thank you so much!

[@warmgun]

When you place the sun at 10:33 it goes under the clouds and when I placed the sun it is over the clouds. I can't partially hide it beneath the clouds because it's over top of the clouds.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Blumanchu. If you try dropping the penetration slider down the sun and it's rays have less ability to affect the darker pixels - i.e. the clouds. The bigger the difference in tone between sky and clouds the better job the software will do straight off the bat.

[@warmgun]

@@AnthonyTurnham What I'm trying to say is that when you place the sun, it's underneath the clouds. Only a portion of it is visible. I can only achieve this effect in photoshop. I did drop the penetration. Maybe it's my imagination. Anyway I'm learning a lot from your tutorials. I'm only on the Luminar 4 trial but I did pre-order Luminar AI.

[@craigozancin]

Great video. To bad layers and luminosity masks are being dropped from luminar ai

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yeah, true. The plus side is though that by dropping them the AI engine works much more efficiently so we get a zippier user experience. Also having now played with the beta version I'm happy to report a lot of what layers did is still available through the local adjustment tool. Nice. I've got a video on it here and show that feature towards the end... kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ7aoJyijqqUl8k

[@michaelsurgeon4386]

How do you add a nice full moon ?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Use the augmented sky feature and load in a moon.

[@michaelsurgeon4386]

@@AnthonyTurnham I only see 2 moons in that feature and neither of them are full moons?