It Took Me Years to Learn This About Editing Color

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[@Membee]

Thanks Jim, very helpful tips.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching!

[@kenalexander8714]

Thanks for this video Jim and some more of your useful tips.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Ken!

[@martinlennon4673]

That was informative and useful ... Thanks Jim 👍

[@JimNix]

glad you enjoyed this one Martin, thanks!

[@gregorychard]

G'day Jim What a tremendous transformation! I agree 100%, but generally, I used golden hour as my last tool without any masking. I going to try your method on my next edit. Greg

[@JimNix]

thanks Greg and have fun with it!

[@briankennerley5833]

Another excellent tutorial Jim , thank you 👍🏻

[@JimNix]

thank you so much!

[@paulmarbach6447]

Brilliant !

[@JimNix]

thank you!

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

I do the same thing you do with golden hour with the new twilight enhancer. Most of the time it’s a bit over the top , but some tweaks and it’s a nice effect

[@JimNix]

yep I love Twilight Enhance, works great for sure!

[@richardfichera2971]

Useful info, as usual. Now I need to maybe tattoo some of these tips on my hands or start lining my monitor with little stickies to keep them in sight when I work:) BTW, don't know if its my setup or what, but you look very red in your inset window. Thanks,

[@JimNix]

Haha thanks Richard and hope the stickies work! I may look red when I am masking because it could reflect back on me. Otherwise, it's not my suntan that's for sure!

[@PaulGibbings01]

I am still very new to Luminar Neo and have found your videos and book very useful. I notice in supercontrast you have not touched the balance, only the contrast. I seem to find myself often playing with the balance, is this something you would advise against?

[@JimNix]

Oh most of the time I use the balance sliders in Supercontrast, but not every time - but yes for sure experiment and see how it helps on each image

[@PaulGibbings01]

@@JimNix That's great. Thank you.

[@colingrant325]

Jim, you say to use the raw edit module first and I can understand that. So are we saying Neo is not an end to end raw editor and that once one moves on from the raw filter we are editing something other than the raw file? If so what are we editing? It seems it might be similar to using Neo as a Lr plugin - you do the raw edits in Lr and then move to Neo where a tiff is used. I do use Neo as an Adobe plugin but tend to work via Ps using smart objects.

[@JimNix]

It handles raw files just fine so it is a raw editor. Adjustments after Develop Raw are sort of like adjustment layers in PS - that's how I think of them. I'm not sure if it's considered a tiff at that point or not though.

[@colingrant325]

@@JimNix Thanks Jim. It is as I thought then - not end to end raw processing as in, say, ON1 but a sort of Lr/Ps hybrid. One more question if I may, is there any way to go back and edit a mask (the mask itself rather than the edits applied to it) after it is applied via one of the adjustment tools? I guess not as it is not easy to identify which adjustments actually have masks. I just create another mask via a further adjustment which seems to work well enough but is a bit cumbersome.

[@JimNix]

@@colingrant325 yes you can edit a mask, just go back into the masking section again and you can use a brush to edit it - if it's a radial, linear, luminosity etc then you can't reconfigure those, you have to use the brush

[@grantsdonair1]

the ebook don't come to my email, I tried sign me up over 6 times and nothing comes .

[@JimNix]

Hi there and sorry to hear that. Please send me an email and I will figure it out for you. jim (at) jim nix dot com

[@myfakeguuglaccount8307]

I notice you started with the Luminar Standard profile. Do you ever start with specific camera profiles?

[@JimNix]

Yes I often start with their standard profile but sometimes mix it up and try the others. I don't have a specific one that I use, just test out a few and see how they look.

[@leonfisher]

I was wondering the same thing. As for me, I always use camera specific profiles.

[@RS-Amsterdam]

Hehe ...took you 4 years ...took me 10 minutes watching this video

[@JimNix]

LOL glad I could save you some time! 🤣

[@RonaldBrown59]

Great tutorial Jim, thanks for sharing.

[@JimNix]

thanks for watching Ron!