Panoramic Stitching is HERE for Luminar NEO! Is it any good?

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[@AnthonyTurnham]

Since creating this video Luminar Neo has been updated and improved. You can get the newest version on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and maybe save more with coupon: ATNEO10 (sometimes Skylum de-activate the code if there's already a promotion running but worth giving a go!)

[@AnthonyTurnham]

One MAJOR thing I didn't cover (a little pressed for time sorry) is that it also supports HDR panoramas. Kind of a big deal so I'm sorry that's not been covered here. I'll be back with a follow up video that shows that in action too. 😀👍

[@Centauri27]

Yes, I was going to mention that! Very cool and innovative extension from Skylum. Can't wait to try it out! The pano from video is such a great idea.

[@raysauerkraut1973]

Instead of immediately cropping out the dead pixels, use the erase tool. It can also generate fill on the stepped edges.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Nice tip Ray! I'll give that a try. Thanks. 😀

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Anthony, the deghosting option appears when you put in bracketed images to make an HDR pano. It's only for HDR

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Ah, I thought it might be for overlapping sections. HDR, yes, that makes much more sense! Thanks Darlene 😀

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@AnthonyTurnham Don't think so. I assumed HDR because the HDR extension has the same feature. When I dropped in a set of 15 images, 5 to merge as pano, 3 frames of each bracketed - then it shows up

[@johncameron6853]

I've looking for this for simply ages and I think Anthony is a little bit excited about as well. Anthony thank you for the tutorial mate, you're a star. 😎

[@AnthonyTurnham]

No worries John! Yeah, guilty as charged. I love pano shooting. I actually just got back from a sunrise shoot where I was shooting panos!

[@mauriciolee7349]

As of today, June 10, 2024 this is the BEST Panorama stitching technique I've ever seen. This is because you demonstrate how to adjust the RAW files to my heart's content first. Then export them as TIFF files BEFORE stitching them in Luminar Neo to get the best result. The only thing missing is you don't mention if this video is sponsored or not. Thank Anthony for such a HELPFUL video.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. As with most of my content this has been created by me without sponsorship. If a vid is sponsored it will say so in the corner of the vid when it loads. If not, you're safe to assume it includes no sponsorship or paid promo.

[@mauriciolee7349]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for your clarification

[@jamesss1953]

20th July and the panoramic addtion I have just downloaded which took seconds. I have imported 15 images form LRc which I have previously edited. Within NEO I selected all and slid over to the panorama module - some 149 MB worth. seconds and it produced a panoramic perfectly. I then exported twice back to LRc - 1st with max sharpen and 2nd with no sharpening. Best was with no sharpening as might be expected since LRc editing prior to import to NEO. This is the main reason for my purchase - to aid in pano's. I must admit now I use NEO as a plug in for LRc and very benificial. Thank you very much for your intro to NEO and your channel = most helpful.

[@NJM1948]

Excellent explanaiton of the new Pano tool Anthony. Whenever new stuff comes from NEO I always head to your vids first!! You seem to be able to capture much more info and get it across to us easily.

[@grantw7]

I just got back from Santorini and am looking forward to trying the panorama feature with the video pans that I did. As always, your videos are very clear and help us make the most of the software. THANKS!

[@throughmyeyes4]

The video pano is amazing, would bring new life to all the panning videos we all have

[@AnthonyTurnham]

The current best deal for Luminar Neo can be found here bit.ly/Luminar-NEO. You can try code ATNEO10 for an additional discount.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

BIG NEWS! Skylum has just launched a summer sale where you can save a massive 81% off Luminar Neo here bit.ly/NeoSale But the cool thing is in addition to that they've given me a coupon code to share with you so you get to save ANOTHER 20% (use code AFF-T5C1C0 ) I really hope that helps you out! It should work for both the perpetual licence and the subscription too. Enjoy😄 Best wishes, Anthony

[@alexmanson1762]

It's nice to have the option to add this to Luminar. I take lots of panorama shots with my Mavic 3 drone. For now I'll continue using PanoramaStudio 3 Pro. Quick and simple to use.

[@rebeccamoore4177]

Yay! Finally I I can’t wait to play with this feature. And as usual you included work arounds that are so helpful. 👍

[@johnwrayton]

As ever Anthony very informative, can't wait to purchase Panoramic stitching.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You can use this link and get it now at the early bird price... bit.ly/NeoPano

[@tonymurphy9112]

Awesome, looking forward to the Pano Extension 👌

[@felixthecat1882]

Great new tool Anthony! I have pre-ordered it - can't wait! 🐱 Regards from Felix the Cat. 🐱

[@brianb6603]

Excellent as usual!!!

[@jimroberts6336]

Once again, XLNT video choices climbing the mountain. Very easy and understandable to watch.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Much appreciated!

[@fenraven]

Looking forward to this tool! Thanks.

[@jimbok8]

Thanks, Anthony, I have bought it - I can't wait to play with the video feature!

[@peteschenck9655]

There are other options out there to learn about LuminarNEO but yours is by far the best. I only use AT for my training. Thank you!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Awesome, thank you!

[@kevinw7044]

Dropping a video into the pano stitching software? Well I never expected that.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I know! Me either. That's one of the things I really love about the way Skylum approach their software. They try to find innovative solutions to photographic problems rather than just copying Adobe. I'm not sure how often I'll use this feature but I'm looking forward to playing around with it.

[@user-xn3tt5pt4h]

Thanks for that great summary on how to think of projections (without the math :-). Really helpful.

[@OurWanderingWays]

Great watch. Certainly looking forward to getting it. Hope I can get my brain around it. I love my Luminar Neo, so this extension is going to be great.

[@stevencarletti2111]

Great presentation Anthony. I can't wait to get this tool when it becomes available. I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!!

[@ncc1701BB]

Thank you Anthony for the heads up! Looks like we'll have a great new tool to play with!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Indeed we do! Certainly among the more useful extensions.

[@jamesss1953]

I've been using Adobe since taking my photography s bit more seriously since early 2017, and started my passion for panos soon after. I like the catalogue system within Lr. I have an early Lumiar prog which I used to use. The NEO version looks extremely impressive especially with the ability to work with HDR images. Ive just subscribed and Liked - your presentations are quality. Literally have just subscribed to Luminar Neo / downloaded - looking forwards to pano's thank you

[@hughellins1422]

As ever great and clear stuff

[@shushens]

Excellent video! Although Luminar Neo's UI for stiching is much cooler than Photoshop's, it's certainly a major disadvantage that it forces you to stich 10-bit RAW images to 8-bit bitmap.

[@geeforceone]

Cool. Looking forward to the addon. And excellent video again!

[@Rackmani]

Nice...glad I bought

[@KingsleyGeorgePouponeau]

...between Bors Photography and you, all fronts of the new extension are covered...thank you

[@bramelsheretan]

thanks for this, have just purchased via your link

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks! Hope you enjoy it! I hope to do a follow up vid with more info and demos once the full release is out.

[@Greg_Ashley]

Too cool! Thank you.

[@chk3811]

Thanks again for the great video. I can't wait for the 20th.

[@ArminHirmer]

cool, thank you

[@AnthonyTurnham]

No problem Armin!

[@erikbackx3927]

Hooray, this is an extension I've been waiting for a long time. During your video, I thought: 'What if you want to work with RAW files now'? And go, Anthony gives the answer. Fantastic guy! I wonder if there are any extra options (export to RAW) in the final release ...

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Here's hoping for more raw functionality on the final release....

[@rather-reverend]

Nice! Though: having to edit the raw files separately is kind of a let down. Do you think there's much chance they'll introduce a means of exporting the set to raw - or are there technical issues that could make this very difficult and/or slow?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Unsure tbh. I hope that's a feature that's added in the final release. It's possible to do as Lightroom sends out as a raw (dng) file.

[@drpentecost]

If Luminar Neo brought out a Pano software that could deal with the Parallax issue of foreground objects, I'd definitely be interested. Until that time, Lightroom's Pano function is good enough for me 😀

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yeah, I think parallax issues are probably beyond most software as it's a very hard optical issue to fix once it's hard baked into the files during the capture process.

[@drpentecost]

@@AnthonyTurnham Yeah, I think I'll eventually invest in one of those nodal sliders and pano head and try and get it right in camera.

[@Simo68-]

Hello , it would have been more useful if it could also be used to create 360 photos, at this point I don't think of adding and buying this extension, there are free programs that do this thing excellently

[@markpowell7574]

Thanks for great content again Anthony. Have been waiting for the pano tool since way back last year. From the content of your Pano Folder you appear to have given it a thorough test. I am hoping it will be fine with multirow.

[@nzedsurfer]

Hi Anthony. Thanks for your tutorial. Interested to see how well it can handle astro.. More sophisticated programs can process the images in set order of images. Sometimes pano programs have difficulty with astro.

[@femiomomo4467]

I have never been able to stitch a Spherical Panorama in Luminar Neo firstly it wont stich correctly unless I select cylindrical during the process, and the most frustrating part is while I can change the sky in NEO when I view the panorama in Kuula or any preview software there is a massive stitch line. Even when the panorama is constructed within Luminar neo. I am using 22 pictures taken with my DJI drone. The stitching feature is ok, but Sky replacement or any enhancement post stiching does not currentlt function.

[@RobNotANumber]

Looks like Skylum are getting more of my money. 😁

[@hedydd2]

What is the workflow to export a group of photos that need to be pano-stitched from Apple Photos into Luminar Neo. I use Neo with Photos but I have to individually ‘edit’ in Photos and then open Neo for that single file. Closing Neo automatically transfers the Neo-edited file back into the Apple Photos Edit window which itself can be closed to save back into the library.

[@KentSteinhaug]

That was fast. Only 25 years after most others :)

[@michaelhayward6097]

I may have missed something but Luminar tells me Pano is only released on the 20th July?

[@michaelhayward6097]

Ignore my last comment you said you were working on a BETA

[@Cullers77]

Lol...What a surprise! Anthony Turnham praising Luminar Neo. Personally, I'll stick with DxO and Lightroom. I truly don't understand why you don't just wear a Luminar t-shirt as there is zero objectivity.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

You obviously haven’t seen my reviews of the other extensions then. Please get the full picture before saying zero objectivity. You may also not have picked up where I'm unhappy the output is tiff not raw like lightroom.

[@kasetia21]

Thanks Tony for the video. By the way, is it possible to get panorama version in NEO in case the images include many people? Because it means we need to delete unwanted people.

[@ziv2liv]

Thank you Antony. I cannot wait! I usually have to go to ON1 software which I own and don't like very much, to create a Pano. I just hoped that Skylum would have the option to save the newly created pano in DNG file, similar to Topaz Photo AI which does that... Oh, well...Perhaps in the future

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yeah, it's possible we'll see it in the full release... fingers crossed.

[@felixthecat1882]

Hi again Anthony! I tried the panorama stitching plug-in, but it's not very accurate, especially when overlapping water, you can see the imperfections around the join. I tried to clone the affected areas but it made it worse! 😾 I previously used the panorama tool in Affinity Photo, which is much better and more accurate than Luminar Neo's new plug-in. 😾. What do you think Anthony? Regards from Felix the Cat. 😾

[@worldfromtheair]

They need the option to pano stitch bracketed sets of photos - I shoot almost exclusively bracketed panos and the only software I've found to do this it ptgui pro. Video stitching is a neat idea though

[@AnthonyTurnham]

HDR pano stitching is possible! I just had limited time to create this vid so didn't get to experiment with everything I wanted to. But I can confirm, yes, it supports it. 😀

[@paulwightman1849]

Hi..got panorama stitching after watching your video...and its been terrible - either it ignores half the picture's I try to use or I get a pixelated blob !!! Is it me ?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hmmm... that sounds odd. I've had really good results with it. I did a follow up vid to that might shed some light on techniques kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2jYgJeMgMmJh5o

[@ianslingsby3415]

Great video and hack thanks Anthony. Cant wait to get the neo update.

[@seabreezeof]

Can it do multi rows ? 3 rows X 4 = 12 images in all

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Currently I haven't got a set to test that on, but I'll do a follow up vid and look into that. Also the version I have at the mo is only the beta so more functionality may be being added...

[@tonyskewes9190]

What luminar Neo should I buy yearly or life time or what whatever it is just do picture of the family and got a lot of old pictures I like to do thanks

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Tony. That's one I can't answer. Entirely your call. Personally I prefer buy an own for life and then not worrying about recurring subscriptions... but that's me. The plus side of the subscription though is it includes the extensions for the life of the subscription. BUT, if you don't need the plugins to make the most of NEO as a photo editing app. In either case you can use ATNEO10 for a discount here: bit.ly/Luminar-NEO

[@alfashion]

Will it about to stitch 360 photos and video?

[@troytinsley148]

So I just saw that you did a video a while back on photoshop panoramas. Do you think one is better than the other? I was thinking of picking up Luminar Neo, but also have access to photoshop.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I prefer the pano tool in Neo, but both do an excellent job.

[@gerarddubar8674]

Hi Anthony nice video as always, does this work with brenizer method ?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Gerard. I haven't had a chance to test that yet. I hope so!

[@Richard1861]

Mer-KAY-tor 🌎

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks! I'll remember that.

[@TheMpsmith]

I will stitch it elsewhere then edit. Tired of the subscription or A-la-carte treatment. Beginning to sound like a Lightroom/ photoshop deal.

[@edwin_ac]

Thanks for the video. I just have a question, does this mean that I no longer need to worry the edges of the photos that I will merge for panoramic stitching? I hope you get what I mean. How close should the edge of one photo, to the edge of the next photo?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I always overlap my shots 30-50% just for safety sake. I haven't tried but I'm pretty sure if you have no overlap the merged file (if it can even be created) will not look great. So I'd still follow the normal pano capturing procedure in-camera.

[@edwin_ac]

@@AnthonyTurnham thanks

[@geoffdickinson79]

Do we need a calibrated panoramic tripod head to eliminate parallax error. Thinking of architecture panos mainly ?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I rarely shoot with a dedicated pano head these days. The shots I tried worked fine. BUT if you're including more foreground close to the camera where parallax is more evident then I'd recommend using a pano head. It's very unlikely software will be able to correct for it.

[@geoffdickinson79]

OK, thanks.

[@John_McFadden]

Hi Anthony - thanks for the great video. Do you know if it will be possible to create multi-row panos, such as three rows each with three images (total 9 images)? Cheers!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I hope so but at this stage I'm not sure. I need to do more tests and it might be something added with the full release. Currently unsure but I'm away right now grabbing some landscape shots so I'll try and nab some double row panos to test....

[@peterleo16]

Is this a one off early purchase for standalone Luminar Neo as I saw there was a renewal price of EUR79 on the second year.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Yes. If you own Luminar then this link bit.ly/NeoPano gets you the early bird price which is a one-time only purchase. Any renewals refer to subscriptions only

[@peterleo16]

@@AnthonyTurnham TQ for the confirmation.

[@romiemiller7876]

I'ver found that Neo is a very slow program compared to other programs.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

It's because there's a lot of AI going on under the hood so it's quite computationally intense.

[@billygarrett3911]

question on the video pan, but I may be mistaken but I thought I saw your son 3 times in the pan. like it took his picture 3 times. Also I hope that they fix the stitching where they can be brought in as RAW light LR. Dont like that they come in as jpegs.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Billy, I'd need to go back and count any duplications, but it's quite possible if action is moving in the frame in the same direction as you're panning. This could open up some interesting creative effects though... ski jumper appearing in an arc in various positions through the pano for example. Currently the exports are 16bit tiff so they're a nice high quality (better than jpeg) but raw would be better still.

[@billygarrett3911]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for your response. What caught my eye was the number on the back of his jersey. I could be wrong.. I have loved how the AI is working with stitching pans. I wish I could have done this back in the day when I shot “true” pans using film cameras. I shot with Kodak #6,8 and 10 pan camera’s the fuji 617, and special custom pan that rotated called a Hulsher camera that used 120 film. And when I did pans I would do special effect by moving people around to be in each end or multiple times in the picture. Once again thanks for your reply and I enjoy your videos.

[@lsmonteiro]

Hey Anthony, have you tested the panoramic stitching for real estate 360 photos that we use to create virtual viewings? I'm very excited to see if AI is already sorting out those stitching glitches on small rooms 360 photos, I'm not a PTgui guys, so that would be a life changer!

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I haven't tried it yet.... unsure.

[@kjellhmyhre2374]

Nice! But let's hope the Luminar team makes it possible to export the stitched result as raw in their final release! Unless they do, I actually won't be buying the extension.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Fingers crossed.

[@kjellhmyhre2374]

@@AnthonyTurnham Keeping them crossed, for sure!

[@n3orun]

No HDR, no multirow?

[@n3orun]

Ah I see HDR is possible

[@jeeeeeeright]

What's the max image size in pixels?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

On this beta it's 15000px on the long edge

[@jeeeeeeright]

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks. Was hoping for more, but it's a start

[@peterspeight5384]

@@AnthonyTurnham Another reviewer suggested the limit is now 32000px on the long edge. I wonder how it would perform with 35 images in my drone panos??!

[@alexmanson1762]

Ok, so I decided to purchase this extension. Absolutely disappointed. It takes way to long from start to finish. The end result is not as good as the other software I have been using.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Interesting. I find it really quick to do the stitches. It out performed lightroom on my machine. What's your computer set-up?

[@alexmanson1762]

@@AnthonyTurnham Kinda forgot to reply. Here's my system specs... Operating system : Windows 10 Pro Operating system version : 19045 Device model : Alienware X51 R2 Processors : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz RAM : 15.9Gb Videos : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM (2.0Gb);Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (1.0Gb)

[@normanplant602]

Hello Anthony > I have just sent you a note on Facebook / Messenger - Would you be so kind to take a look - Many thanks - Norman

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Hi Norman, Cheers for reaching out. I didn't see it. I have pretty tight filter controls on my messenger - so unless you're my Great Uncle Norm, there's a good chance your message has been auto-binned (I get so much spam and requests for help I gotta have a good gatekeeper). It's usually best to keep questions here on youtube comments so everyone can learn together. 😀 Perhaps copy/paste below?

[@daviddyephotography]

did you run ito any issues using 9 or 10 images ? Up to now Neo won't save panos over a ertain size with larger panos.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

I didn't have issues with anything I tried but currently I think maybe 7 or 8 images was the max I've tried. There is an export limit of 15000px on the long edge though, but that's more than ample for lovely big prints.