Luminar Neo: My Advanced Landscape Editing Workflow

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@charlesdavis6371 Жыл бұрын

Probably the biggest thing I've learned from you Jim is that you don't need to (and usually shouldn't), make huge changes. Although I don't usually use Luminar much any more, these editing tips apply across the board with almost all editing software. Sometimes they're just so minor, but when you put them all together - it's so much better. Loved this one.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much Charles and yes for sure that is the thing right there - don't make big, universal changes that often, you nailed it - and thanks for watching, and yes I agree this stuff applies across a lot of software - thank you

@meeker5jh Жыл бұрын

I continue to be impressed with NEO's capabilities. Thanks for sharing your workflow and illustrating the use of the various tools.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks Jim!

@rebeccamoore4177 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I especially liked how you refined the sky mask.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching Rebecca!

@andrewmckinney3053 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this work flow, Jim. Picked up a few tips and ideas. Thanks!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much for watching Andrew!

@rpurdum Ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial! Thank you for your efforts!

@JimNix Ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@kalenarandall6322 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome, Jim! Thank your very much for doing this video! Love your work!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you Kalena!

@shirishpandey3503 Жыл бұрын

Excellent learnings as usual Jim, love the sectional approach and the use of different types of masks to pull the various parts into a beautiful whole Thanks

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you so much Shirish!

@tomprzytula Жыл бұрын

Charles Davis is spot on! Here's an advice from an amateur to anyone struggling with photo editing. I've been taking pictures for over 10 years as a hobby. Started shooting JPG, then switched to RAW+JPG. 95% of the time my edited RAWs looked worse than the out of camera JPGs! Very frustrating - what's the point of shooting raw then!? After watching gazillions of YT videos from Anthony T, Anthony M and Jim Nix I finally got it. They all actually mention it in their videos. Did you catch it??? I'm sure you've heard it before but the advice was lost on you among the other 1000 suggestions about post processing. If you don't like your edits it is because you are most likely OVER PROCESSING them. If you move a slider and see a sizable change in your photo then you moved it too far. It's counterintuitive, but this is KEY. I guess the exception would be if you use a single slider like Enhance AI to fix your photo in one shot. But for "regular" edits where you're stacking several tools on top of each other - less is MORE. Stick a Post-It not to your monitor - less is more - and look forward to your editing. This was the answer for me. I'm still no expert, but I'm finally starting to like my edits. Hope this helps you.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Thanks much Tom and yes less is more most of the time because the edits tend to be cumulative and adding edit on top of edit just ends up looking a bit cooked most of the time. Thanks much!

@marcrjacobs Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim; Very interesting workflow... I like it.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much Marc!

@ronleckie Жыл бұрын

Very informational video, Jim! Resulted in a much more dramatic shot - beautiful!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

@RonaldBrown59 Жыл бұрын

Great edit Jim, and I learned a couple of good tricks and can put to use right away. Thanks for sharing my friend.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching Ron!

@jean-francoisdamon4847 Жыл бұрын

très bon travail ,a mettre en pratique dès que possible,excellent workflow,merci Jim.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you Jean-Francois!

@davidchandler4788 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jim. Nice example of stacking the different edits. Very helpful!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

@deyelaw4809 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the inspiration Jim! Your tips really help me to understand the possibilities of NEO. Now I need to crack down and get some editing done!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

awesome, glad this helps and thanks for watching!

@stanlituchy2206 Жыл бұрын

Great video. I learned a lot. Very comprehensive with tips I will use.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you Stan!

@cynical1952 Жыл бұрын

Another good video Jim and the edit is super.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much Steve!

@griffjohnson8263 Жыл бұрын

Excellent stuff! Thanks for sharing!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching Griff!

@fenraven Жыл бұрын

Nicely done! I like the many ways you can use NEO tools to achieve the look you're after in a picture. And suddenly I want to go back through my old bracket sets and redo them. Heh.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

haha me too Theo, so many old pics to fix, and new ones to still get to! (good problem to have)

@Lykzabet Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed watching that thx Jim

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks much Lykz!

@CarolinePicking Жыл бұрын

That was excellent!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

glad you liked it Caroline, thanks for watching!

@nigelchase2407 Жыл бұрын

Very well done, Love it.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you Nigel!

@StuartSchaefer Жыл бұрын

Jim to be honest I was not going to get this Neo Special since I already had Neo but no extensions. However after looking at the deal with 18 months plus you get all the Extensions and updates for $79 minus $10 with your coupon (it did work) it"s now $69 for 18 months. Just could not pass that deal up. Besides I can alway cancel my subscription in 18 months. Did wait until the last few hours to get this deal. Thanks for doing the videos and for getting the coupon. Cheers!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks Stuart and yes that is a great deal, and thanks so much for using my coupon code, and for watching my video!

@NOTLeavingLV Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I purchased Neo yesterday because Aurora isn’t supported any longer and I was super disappointed, there are no HDR controls like Photomatix and Aurora, so hoping I can learn how to use it and avoid a $99 buyers remorse.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Yes, the HDR Merge function inside of Neo does a good job on alignment and tone mapping, but you cannot customize the tonemapping settings. But once it is merged, you have all the filters and tools in Neo to customize the image as needed. I haven't really had any issues adapting my workflow to this, but I can understand if it isn't ideal for someone's workflow.

@NOTLeavingLV Жыл бұрын

@@JimNix hope I can hear back regarding this - I think all the same controls are there but they’re renamed and made to sound “cool” and “cutting edge.” I find that so long as I am working with a raw file I have enough latitude to get great results Eden from a single image, and interior shots Photomatix is better, outdoors with skies Aurora looks more natural. Each application has its… application. Does that make sense? I wish the ghosting detection was better in Neo/Aurora. I often find myself starting over to try and get that right so moving subjects I almost always use Photomatix and since I’m in Vegas there are always people in the shot.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

@@NOTLeavingLV hi and yes that makes sense. There are way more tools in Neo than Aurora ever had, but as mentioned earlier you don't have the same functionality in terms of tonemapping etc. Yes I use HDR Merge in Neo for single exposures a lot and it works great. Yep lots of folks in LV for sure. I have shot there at 6am several times and it's empty then of course, or at least nearly empty.

@mauriceprokaziuk337 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful location. As you say, a little adjustment goes a long way.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks so much Maurice!

@leonfisher Жыл бұрын

Nice edit!

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you Leon!

@gossedejong9248 Жыл бұрын

thank you!@

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@Centauri27 Жыл бұрын

I enjoy hearing your thoughts as usual Jim! These "full workflow" videos are very helpful. One thing I notice is that many of your finer "before/after" adjustments are barely (or not at all) visible in your KZfaq video. Did you consider dodging the stream of water to make it pull in your eyes some more? Finally your advice: If I need to further adjust an edit I did earlier, is it better to look it up in the Edit panel and adjust it from there? Or just go ahead and create another adjustment? Quite often I'd like to adjust a mask, but finding it in the list is rather cumbersome.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Hi Carl and thanks for watching. Yes some changes are minor enough that they may be hard to see unless you were sitting here with me. I can tell, but I realize a viewer may not always be able to. On lots of my recent waterfall shots I have been dodging a lot, but generally only when it is a bigger part of the photo. I actually have a video planned showing some of that, coming soonish. As far as adjusting a previous edit, I am not sure it matters. For Develop RAW, I go back and use that one if I need to, but otherwise I generally just open up a new instance of a tool. And yes I hope someday we can name the edits in the edit panel to make it easier to find things. Thanks!

@marketguy2 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thanks so much. I would give you 10 thumbs up if I could.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

haha thanks so much Bryan!

@chrisbhoy8855 10 ай бұрын

This is an amazing video!! Do you also have a video like this for lightroom Jim as I use both neo and LR ?

@JimNix 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I am glad you enjoyed this one. I do not have anything like this for LR though, but I may create one at some point. Thanks.

@TC_Conner Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous edit and photo Jim. What were your camera settings? F/10 or 11? I'm still getting used to having a new edit layer each time you use develop. Lightroom Classic doesn't work like that, and I've been using Lr since V4 so transitioning over to LN or ON1 or AP2 and seeing the differences in each of those compared to Lr is taking some time getting used to.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks TC and actually this was f/22 (although I probably didn't need to go that far), 3 exposure bracket set, ISO 100 etc - and yes coming from LR there are adjustments but you can do so much with Neo!

@TC_Conner Жыл бұрын

@@JimNix “But you can do so much with Neo.” Indeed I can! 😎

@stephenjane8193 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim steve no

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@colin-4794 Жыл бұрын

👌👍

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

thanks Colin!

@YoSpiff Жыл бұрын

Has Neo improved to where I should consider it again? I tried an early version and it was seriously lacking, so I went back to Luminar 4.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Well, it works great for me, and I love the results I am getting. Maybe get a trial and see?

@YoSpiff Жыл бұрын

@@JimNix I already have a license purchased at a discount prior to release. I'll give it another try, thanks.

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

@@YoSpiff ok cool

@andrewmckinney3053 Жыл бұрын

Worth trying again!!!! :)

@alangauld6079 Жыл бұрын

I tried it when it first came out and gave up but a few months ago | tried again(I'd bought a new Mac mini in the interim!) and the difference was huge, both in reliability(crashes) and performance(mainly due to the new Mac I guess!) The only big thing missing from L4 is luminosity masks. And you have to get used to the new way of using the tools multiple times and going back through the edits to tweak them. But I'm now enjoying Neo.

@MM-ob8ti Жыл бұрын

Hey Jim, what laptop or computer are you using with luminar neo?

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Hi there, I have a Macbook Pro, 8-core Intel i9 with 64GB RAM.

@marcvdb5555 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jim, I respect you as a pro guy and I sometimes follow your advice. But, "a little bit more of this" and a "little bit less of that" is completely reciculous. I Mostly don't even like your 'final results'. I think everyone should experiment for themselves. But it is good thing you show us what is possible. Best, Marc

@JimNix Жыл бұрын

Hey Marc, no worries and totally understand. I don't expect everyone to like every edit/image I share. And totally agree, we need to experiment for ourselves in order to learn the tools, learn what is possible, find our own creative voice, etc. This is just how I am doing it. Thanks for sharing.