Learn How to Get the Best out of Luminar Neo's Erase & Clone Tools

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

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[@egelb]

Excellent demonstration of the use of these two tools and their idiosyncrasies . Thank you very much.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're so welcome

[@cguerrieri4866]

Big help. You successfully pointed out all the mistakes I have made. And included why they didn’t work. Thanks for a great job

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome!

[@Lysander-Spooner]

Great tips, as always.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad you think so!

[@mpa3987]

Wow. Fantastic tutorial Have never used together and have experienced all the glitches in these tools. Thank you for clearing this up.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're very welcome!

[@nathancharles9222]

I like your lessons very well explained

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad to hear that

[@johnharmon9391]

Very helpful, I have had problems in these areas.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad it helped

[@andrewmckinney3053]

Super helpful, Darlene; succinct and highly instructional. Thanks!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TrishAnderson99]

I was working on an image last week where I got that uneven tone in the sky. The original image was a zoom on a bird. The powerlines in the background were soft and out of focus, but still lines in an otherwise even sky. After trying to clone them I still had a patchy tonal difference, just like when you did the first clone in the image with the lamppost in this video. The way you fixed it will hopefully work on mine.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Did you not try the automatic powerline removal inside the erase tool?

[@TrishAnderson99]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor yes I did. But they weren’t very defined lines because I’d zoomed in. Was probably on the extreme of my 70-300mm lense.. There were obvious streaks in the sky due to the tonal difference,but they were parallel lines with a different tone. I tried a sky replacement, but the bird was sitting on a bush and it didn’t deal with the outline of the bush very well. Have spent well,over an hour on this so far with minimal improvement. So far the only thing that has made it better was bringing up the highlights in the sky. It’s a bit bright for my liking but not blown out.

[@chrisg2475]

What is the shortcut for setting the source?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Just press the Alt/Option key. You can get my keyboard shortcuts sheet for free here www.digitalphotomentor.com/freebies/luminar-neo-keyboard-shortcuts-cheat-sheet/

[@mickeystine3100]

the clone would be good to do a double exposure for a portrait.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

NO there is a way better way to do that, use layers.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIezlYGcYteEaMU here is a video on doing double exposure

[@peterhewitson71]

I am not sure what you mean about the alt key ,when do you use it?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You need to press it to change the source area from which you are cloning

[@peterhewitson71]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor Thanks for the fast reply , do you need to keep it held down or one click and release ?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@peterhewitson71 Press and hold while you click a new spot

[@designs777]

Thank you❤

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome 😊

[@myfakeguuglaccount8307]

Awesome results! Sure is a lot of work though! 😮‍💨

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

It can be yes

[@nchana48]

Hi The GENErase appear to work on simple selections. I am trying to remove a person from a group of people. This does not work. Instead of removing the person it replaced it with a weird image. The examples you and others have shown are very simple. Please explain how to carry out the above successfully. Thanks

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

This video isn't about GenErase though it's the regular Erase tool. Have you tried that first?

[@RobCooper]

it was weird not seeing your tripod in the back of your studio

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Oops sorry

[@marknathan7744]

Erase tool and clone tool alters exposure when applied big bug problems with these two tools used on sony raw files obliterating highlights.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Report it to skylum. I haven't had those issues