Thanks. Nice updates to the masking. Have there been any improvements to the other extensions (apart from HDR) which are generally far slower than competition options and some (noise reduction) perform poorly in comparisons as well?

Thanks for this! Do you need to have the subscription version of Neo to get these updates?

@@hepgeoff It's a free update if you already own Neo

@@jayeshtopiwala3219 I cant get mine to update and cant figure out why

Sorry, didnt see this before posting my question

I’m also a customer who refuses to do their subscription model.

@@hepgeoff Me too. I have purchased a couple of Skylum imaging products since 2018 but being a retired photographer, to spend monthly for some thing I simply don't have as much use for as the price involved, I am hoping that this update is offered to those of us that purchased NEO before it was actually available a couple years ago. I will view AT's review but Jim Nix did not say if it is free to early NEO purchasers but I hope that AT clarified this. Early AM here but will look at the review in a few minutes and hopefully fall asleep thrilled. TIA AT Well I did finally see all of the video and unless both my eyesight and my hearing has gone south, there is no mention of what purchase option is affected by the update. Would hope that maybe Skylum can comment to help folks know unless we simply have to wait until the 24/5 tp see what happens when we either boot up NEO or check for updates. Why did not all the water become selected in the waterfall image? Also why were not all the items with dark shadows not become selected. However, I find that when selected the building does not work so well to my eye. I also would be interested to see what a single image HDR would produce of the same image file. Any part of the result could also be adjusted with masking and remove are adjust some areas of the image adjustment.

Looks like a nice update BUT, alas there's that subscription thing which I refuse to do. C'mon guys!

Not this time@@michaelpitt3640, believe it if you can!

@@michaelpitt3640 Same here. Not doing the subscription.

Much appreciated!

Thanks

Yes totally agree. Great update but like you, unsure about the asterisk!

I have this problem too.

Thanks Michel. Yeah, that would be a good improvement too.

No probs Armin

Hi mate, in my efforts to condense all of this update into one video I managed to ommit a very important piece of information. Release date! It's due on 25th of April, or 26th depending on your time zone. Cheers, Anthony

@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you, I just received an email from Skylum informing me of the release date. Apologies, I called you Andy before, not Anthony.....forgot spellcheck !!

@simpix7683 - whilst I have Neo set to auto-updates, it doesn't always do so. I have to manually check every once in a while, to get the latest. Diary set for 25th!

I think 1.18.3 was just to fix a bug for Apple.

Thanks. It's going to be publicly available on April 25. Sorry I didn't mention in the vid!

@@AnthonyTurnham In my case, no biggie. I only shoot with a real camera, raw files and post-processing when I'm on vacation, and sadly, it'll be a loooong time till that comes by. But it'll be sweet.

Yay! Thank you!

Nice one. I hope you find my videos helpful. 😀

Yeah Neo is a really nice accompanying software to the likes of Capture One or Lightroom. Enjoy!

Great to hear 😀

@@AnthonyTurnham everybody is expectecting your videos, whatever the subject😍

Awesome! Yeah, I recently built a new PC too and love how it runs.

Yes you're right. Well remembered. This is definitely an improvement over that.

25 April release

Yeah there's a lot of good options in Neo now for real estate and architectural editing. The batch HDR and luminosity mask additions are a game changer. I'll try and cover workflow options and window pulls over on my architecture editing channel.

@@AnthonyTurnham Thank you Anthony! What is the name of your architecture channel? I am not aware of it.

youtube.com/@archiphoto?si=2tRDKTHh0-XJnv02

I've covered a lot of things already, what is it you'd like to see in Luminar Neo that you've seen done in Photoshop or Lightroom? Perhaps I can put some example tutorials together....

Hi Alan, yes it'll be interesting to see. My hunch is that you'll see the new tools, the layout change, the ability to turn off the dynamic background and anything else apart from the HDR merge change as that's linked to either buying the HDR extension or being on the subscription that comes with it.

oh, and the update is due for general release April 25.

Tbh not too much other than the DAM. But for me that's still giving me a need to use LR in my workflow, particularly professionally. But Neo now has a lot more editing flexibility than LR.

Haha - don't worry you're certainly not the first and turns out aren't the last. Note to myself, make it clearer in the intro when the update comes out. #learningallthetime 😆

My pleasure!