Luminar Neo Major Update 1.21 - Fall 2024

[@PictureperfectphotographyVA]

I’ve searched through your Neo vids. I’ve learned soooo much!!! Do you have techniques to create a reflection for animals in Neo?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Not specifically for animals but I think I demonstrated that in one of my livestreams about layers

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Have you considered getting my course for Neo? It's on sale right now for $59 and is being redone for 2025.

[@samiludo]

Thanks again for this "true" and objective review. It is so rare on KZbin nowdays 😉 Very good and valuable job 👏

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I appreciate that!

[@FabrizioBertorino]

Thanks for your review, clear and honest. I'd like I could move in the Catalog photos as I wish: it would be very useful when creating a storytelling.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You can do that in an album. Just make an album and arrange as you wish

[@FabrizioBertorino]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor @DigitalPhotoMentor Hi, thank for the answer. It's likely I didn't correctly express (I'm from Italy): I know I can arrange the order of albums as I wish, but what I'd like is arranging the order of the photos. So far I can do it only by using stars, but this way is very limiting (just 5 stars available). If I have photo A, B, C, D, E, F... I should be able to move them as I want: D, B, E, F, A, C... for example.

[@DarleneHildebrandt]

@@FabrizioBertorino OH yes you are right. I thought we could do that but I honestly don't use that feature much. Send it as a feature request to Skylum

[@pcrate20]

thank you for sharing photos from my country..

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

My pleasure but which one? Cuba or Nicaragua

[@pcrate20]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor it is 🇨🇺 Cuba

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@pcrate20 me encanta to pais

[@markbarnes9694]

Virtual copies is long overdue. Wish that a side by side compare function came with it. Great video...thanks!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Agreed!

[@normameyers4904]

Yes, post crop vignette would be nice.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Anything else you're missing?

[@wielpaquay1932]

Thank you Darlene. Could you also ask Skylum if they make it possible to merge the layers....... without having to export the photo.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yeah that's another common request.

[@jamestibbel]

Thanks this was great. Looking forward to using virtual copy.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome!

[@horizonimages]

Thank you for such an honest review. This and some of the comments has put me off purchasing Neo. I have an earlier version that I rarely use due to lack of features and slow performance and was hoping this update was going to give me a viable alternative to the Adobe subscription. Sadly not. Maybe it needs another year or two to mature.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

It depends what you want it to do. If you're like me and have 10s of 1000s of images in lightroom then no it's not a replacement. Bit I use them both in my workflow

[@Rackmani]

Colour grading works better if applied the way anthony turnham demo's in his video. Essentially make the adjustment - say hue shift- then apply the colour masking then you can go back to check and when go back in can add to the existing mask by clicking on another part of the colour. You can also then use the brush to remove from any unwanted areas. Like you say not perfect but this is work around ish

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Aha I haven't seen his technique I'll check it out

[@alexzahnd2642]

Thanks again for a very informative tutorial of the new, forthcoming Luminar Neo update! I am MISSING the Infrared (IR) RAW images editing for all various cameras, not just the Fuji images which are finally supported, BUT as well the Sony IR RAW images. I communicated with Skylum in this regard and they promised to work on it BUT it would be GOOD and important that MORE photographers bring this to Skylum as otherwise it will take ages!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I saw your emails about that but the issue likely is that it's a very small percentage of photographers that need that. They prioritize things based on what is most needed by the majority of users.

[@alexzahnd2642]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor thanks Darlene for your feedback, its very much appreciated! The IR photography community is growing FAST and the Skylum Luminar Neo development team HAS to consider this group of photographers as an increasingly important customer group. Thanks for stepping into the gap for us as well when you talk with Skylum and suggest your changes and future developments to Skylum, as your voice counts! Keep the great tutorials you make coming we all enjoy and appreciate them very much!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@alexzahnd2642 No worries, thanks for watching!

[@AXNJXN1]

Actually, I think your review on these particular limitations are very valid. Hopefully, Luminar techs will take this constructively and improve the color picking portions here; these truly ARE important!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Thank you

[@FoarteMisto]

Ones and twos should be used for examples of bad photos like extra flares or weird artefacts or other exemplar tehnical mistaked !

[@horizonimages]

I use 1s as a way of identifying that I have at least looked at that photo but decided it’s not to be kept/edited. 2s are images that I don’t want to edit but can’t bring myself to delete. I’m such a hoarder 😂

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Everyone uses them differently

[@tompatton2086]

I've always found the masking in Luminar Neo to be somewhat sloppy. An edge aware brush similar to what's found in Affinity Photo would be very helpful. Drawn and parametric masks similar to what's in Darktable and Lightroom would also be most welcome. Aside from that, I'd like to see improvements to their denoise and sharpening AI capabilities. Thanks for showing us this. Hopefully it will be a little more useful by the time the fall update is released.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I agree about the masking but Noiseless AI is pretty good

[@torbenpedersen3140]

Nice review. You can sort folders, but what about subfolders ?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Hmmm not sure. Don't think so but I didn't try it

[@acneubauer]

I remember that you had problems with the beta version , that there were some white blocks appearing in the photo, was that with Neo or with Aperty ? Because I just updated Neo to 1.21.2 . And am I the only one who has still white blocks my photo in the preview window? Sometimes they go sometimes they stay. Sometimes it's okay in the preview of catalogue but not in the preview of edit. And the white block is always visible in the film strip. When I export it the photos, okay.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

No for me it was black boxes in Aperty. But I had an early beta

[@acneubauer]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor do you have an Intel Mac or a new one? Skylum thinks, that my graphic processor could be corrupted. And wants me to reinstall NEO . But reinstalling has never helped in the past. Plus I do not have that problem in any of my other photo apps.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@acneubauer new iMac M2 chip but it also runs on my 6 year old Macbook Pro with an intel chip just fine

[@mikkosuhonenphotography]

My Adobe Photography plan ended today. I have bought Luminar Neo. Is there away to import photos from a camera? I use Nikon transfer for my Nikon files but for other cameras, I don't find a way to import from a camera.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yes there is a little trick to that. I covered that in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/r37Yp2uBr7KdfLM

[@markk7916]

I tried to purchase your Neo course using coupon code shown in video but it errors saying it is expired. Based on time of this video release I expected it to be good until end of October. Is the code still available?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Let me check

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Sorry about that, I have updated it to expire at the end of October. Try it now

[@barrylevine9546]

Catalog: Detailed view - name of photo is at the top, I believe, not the bottom. It is a bit confusing as the spacing of the thumbnails causes this. Maybe they'll address it in a "point" release.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Huh you might be right I didn't even notice that. Well that's odd if so. I'd not expect the name above the image.

[@claptnei]

Version 1.21 has killed my workflow. Its slow and cannot export any photo as locks up and GPU goes 100%. NOT HAPPY with this update. Want to go back to 1.20

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Message Skylum and let them know about the issues

[@Big.E]

Hope you don't mind me asking a question, after I updated I lost all my previous folders and albums. Is this the norm or has there been an issue with the program or user error. Thank you 😊🤔👍

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Windows? Not sure sorry I had no issues.

[@MZ-Online]

Sorry my English, I hope you understand my problem. I reinstalled my macbook (m1). Then I reinstalled all programs. I use macOS Sequoia. I have downloaded the latest version of luminar neo 1.21.2. I created a new catalog in the program and added a test image in raw format. Luminar Neo always crashes permanently when using some creative tools. It doesn't matter if I uninstall the program and reinstall it. Every time I'm almost done editing, creative tools collapse. I don't have any lut or plugin installed..

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

That's why I don't install the new mac OS right away. It is likely the culprit. Report the issue to Skylum

[@MZ-Online]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor I just did that

[@markhoward8880]

After the update, Neo started crashing. Then it said there was anither update. I installed that. It still was crashing. I reinstalled it three times now. It says update to Windows 11. It has Windows 11 already!!! It's broke. It won't open on my computer anymore!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Sorry not sure how to fix that. I use Mac, email Skylum

[@markhoward8880]

I'm going to remove recent Windows updates to see if that fixes the problem.

[@WilliamWallaceRoss]

It still needs work. Thanks, Darlene.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

What do you want to see added?

[@michaelhale416]

They could solve some of the search issues if they added the ability to keyword photos.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

So true!

[@osomax]

It's a real disaster! Everything is much slower now and there are modules like Relight that take up to 5 minutes to apply when before they were instantaneous!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Hmm have you reported it.

[@jonathan66my]

Hmm I had the same issue and with other edit modes the processing time was long even abandoning saving 😢 they suggest some tweaks but didn't resolve the longer processing. Got a latest update and it's working like before the updates ie. Processing time returned to normal time.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@jonathan66my Good to know

[@fcb190051]

The Luminar Neo Update 1.21.0 is for me a joke. Since 18.08.24 I have the new Canon EOS R5 Mark II, since this date I can not use the software because the new camera is not integrated in the software. Regarding a request at the Luminar Support I got a short answer: "Please be patient! Ist this answer a joke or what? I payed for lifetime license, bought new tools as well as a pass for the new great update now. So is it normal that this new camera was not now integrated in the software? For me a real NOGO of Skylum/Luminar. Now we are near 2 month sice release day of R5 Mark II. Sorry Skylum/Luminar.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yes that is normal for all software. Even Adobe has the same delay. They have to get the camera profiles from the manufacturer so I suggest you aim your complaint at Canon. It's possible they haven't provided it yet. Also lifetime license does not mean free lifetime updates. It means you own the version you bought forever.

[@fcb190051]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor Adobe PS/LR as well as DXO Photolab 8 it works since more than 5 weeks !!!! Sorry Lightroom/Skylum.

[@MrMoonpie001]

Ugggggggggg, what a disappointment!!!! Tomorrow is the date they are suppose to release (Oct 10). I always get these updates and feel it is my lack of skill that keeps me from executing the tool properly. I can see it is a Luminar problem more than likely. The AI think is just a bust. Moonpie

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

What were you hoping for that isn't in it?

[@waymondsmith8278]

Not worth the money

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Which part?