Restore Low Quality Photos with Photo AI and Luminar Neo

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Жыл бұрын

If you're serious about improving the quality of your photos check out bit.ly/TopazPhotoAI. After improving noise, sharpening and increasing resolution I use Luminar Neo (bit.ly/Luminar-NEO discount ATNEO) to complete the edit.
In the past I've shown how I use Sharpen AI, Denoise AI and upscaling with Gigapixel which you can find here: bit.ly/TopazBundle It's amazing software for improving image quality, but I really love using bit.ly/TopazPhotoAI because it combines ALL of those technologies into one app. It's really simple to use too which is nice.
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@AnthonyTurnham Ай бұрын

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

@marywarner6555 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great comparison. It confirmed my own findings about the superiority of the Topaz tools vs. the Luminar extensions.

@kwdavids1 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the mini tutorial on Topaz Photo AI, a tool that I bought some time back, but have only used few times. I didn't realize it had a crop feature! I'm going to be using it more.

@Centauri27 11 ай бұрын

I'm so glad to have found this video, Anthony. It's so appropriate for me: I shoot Micro Four Thirds, and I use Neo and Topaz AI. I also do the bulk of my edits in Neo now and I agree that their extensions, while useful, are nowhere near as good as the world class ones from Topaz. I was a little skeptical when Topaz first released Photo AI, but since they gave it to me for free (as I already owned Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI), I gave it a shot. And WOW, what a tool it is! I'm constantly saying "Wow!" with everything I throw at it. I sure hope Luminar will support plugins eventually. That's one ability that's sorely missing now.

@yeungeric6347 Жыл бұрын

Great video in demonstrating comparison results of Luminar Extension and Topaz Photo AI. Thanks Anthony. Luminar had probably hired someone from Topaz and sell their features by collecting ext fees. At about the same period of time, TOPAZ had moved a step ahead in consolidated its Giga Pixel, Sharpen & Denoise into Photo AI and keep improving. Luminar hadn't improved its core engines of Mask AI. Hope they can improve.

@Greg_Ashley Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Thanks.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@FFVoyager Жыл бұрын

Really useful, thanks for that.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@jean-benoitdestaercke3638 Жыл бұрын

Hello ... I'm glad to see this video. I use Topaz Photo Ai and Lumiar Neo as well. As you show in this video I am very happy with the results I managed to get. Merci

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

De rien! Yeah topaz is sooooo good at sorting out noise, blur and low res photos. It's pretty insane what it can do!

@ziv2liv Жыл бұрын

Great video again, Anthony. I do use both Luminar Neo and Topaz Photo AI as my "go to" when it comes to photo editing and I have to admit, I learned new things, at least regarding Topaz Photo AI's masking and cropping which I usually do with Luminar and talking about masking, if anyone at Skylum is watching, you guys MUST improve your masking AI, it is horrendous. Also, it would be nice to have software integration like Adobe has with Lightroom so you don't have to get in and out of software, but rather use it as extension. Also, lens profile option would be a plus.

@kwdavids1 Жыл бұрын

Yes, integration and cataloging is the place where there is room to improve.

@Centauri27 11 ай бұрын

I agree--Mask AI is their least effective "AI" tool. They should just give us what Lightroom has: subject, background, sky masking. LR nails it every time. With Neo, it's a frustrating exercise to get it to select your subject. I usually give up and manually brush it in.

@kimraymond2749 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Anthony. I sent that photo of a sacred kingfisher because it was an extreme example. I tried the Luminar extensions and the trial version of Photo Ai without great success. So, it was great to see your workflow using both. Clearly there is a necessity for understanding the tool's limitations and strengths. It doesn't just happen. With the Olympus, shooting small birds I often have high iso because I use high shutter speeds in the bush. Shooting at 20fps I only got 3 frames of that bird the other two were as it left the perch. After sitting for several hours stalking that perch, it wasn't even the bird I was after. I was looking for an azure kingfisher! Thanks again. I will be thinking hard about whether as an amateur the cost of Photo AI is worth it given that I have DXO pure raw as well.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim. I really love the photo you sent in. Glad you like the result. 😀

@Centauri27 11 ай бұрын

I have both Topaz Photo AI and PureRAW (not the latest version though), and I'd choose Photo AI any day as it can do so much more (though the optical correction in PureRAW might be better). And though PureRAW is expensive, PhotoAI is even more expensive, but it does include all three of their class-leading tool, which work phenomenally well.

@AnthonyTurnham 3 ай бұрын

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

@geoffhirst5338 Жыл бұрын

This was amazing sir, superb work here. Really enjoyed this one, having been recently given a naff jpeg that looks like it has about 8 pixels to its make up. Needless to say, while LN made a reasonable job of at least making it possible to see WHO was in the picture, I think your PhotoAI recommendation might just make a better result. Cheers chap. Appreciated.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Geoff!

@evl8442 Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing. Recently purchased TPAI. Excellent presentation - thank you Anthony and much appreciated. Using TPAI or any of the Topaz products as stand-alones rather than a plug-in is awkward, somewhat clumsey. I'd love to see a tutorial on the file management end of using the two softwares parallel where you start editing your raw file with TPAI - and then going to Luminar Neo for final edits - I don't like having to put my TPAI processed image into Neo's "Add Image" section. I'm winding up with tons of images in that section. I'm not sure I even know how to explain what I want to do - just when using Neo I've only ever added a folder that Neo points to on my HD. Thanks ever so much - looking forward to more tutorials on the Topaz products.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

I think I get where you're coming from with the adding of photos vs having a file structure. I'll see what I can do....

@ronwilson9855 Жыл бұрын

Great video, it was good to see wildlife editing, no one is doing this, there's loads of us shooting bird pictures, yet everyone is focusing on landscape editing, occasionally they will mention photoshop, but never explain, and photoshop can be a generic name like hoover but using a Dyson. More bird editing with Neo please.

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

Hi Ron. Yes, I enjoyed doing this one. It's different from my normal genres so it was a nice change. I don't photograph birds so if you have some images (raw preferably) you'd like me to consider editing for a video tutorial you can send them through to anthonyeditsyourphotos@gmail.com. A brief description of what you want to achieve or are struggling with is always helpful.

@ronwilson9855 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Anthony, an image is on its way, difficult to pick an example that may be worth keeping, but I would be interested in any advice.

@davidcooke2737 8 ай бұрын

Great video as always, so much information carefully presented. I have a query. I normally upscale before I edit perhaps because the upscale program is in the catalog section of the program. I then Denise and sharpen etc. You do it the other way around, does the order matter? Keep up the great work.

@jonicolton Жыл бұрын

new subscriber here! not polishing apples, you're an incredibly talented educator. bar none. no doubt i speak for hundreds of thousands of aspiring content creators when i say, "who's the anthony turnham of davinci resolve?" get your ass over to the video side my friend!!!!! 🤟🏼

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

Aw thanks man. Very kind of you to say. 😀

@romiemiller7876 11 ай бұрын

Iuse all the Topz apps.

@smd1uk Жыл бұрын

Great video showing excellent results but sadly the software is way out of my limited budget.

@bernardboissonneault6889 Ай бұрын

Very interesting tutorial as always. Thank you so much for helping us improve and better understand our edits. Regarding workflow, In the "old days", using Luminar 4, Topaz Denoise and Sharpen could be used as a plugin on Luminar. Doesn't seem to be a possibility with Neo. I would think it would make things easier to do the raw edits on Neo, send it to Topaz through plugin and finish off the edits on Neo ... not forgetting to add "mystical" at the end for good measure :) Any thoughts?

@AnthonyTurnham Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's a solid workflow idea. Nice. And yeah, don't forget mystical 😜

@Debby-hy7fo Ай бұрын

You convinced me! I just bought Topaz Photo AI using your link. Question: Should I use Photo AI on the RAW photo BEFORE using Luminar Neo on the exported TIFF? If I do that, I no longer have access to Develop RAW in Luminar Neo, right? In a previous video of the Milky Way above a canyon, you did the Luminar Neo edit first (including Develop RAW) before exporting and running it through Topaz DeNoise . The Topaz website recommends using it on the RAW photo, as you did in this video. What do you generally recommend?

@AnthonyTurnham Ай бұрын

Firstly thanks for using the link. It helps me out with the channel. 🙏 So it actually depends on the image. Personally I like to get the most out of my raw file using developRaw first. - for most cases. I would actually recommend doing a simple side by side workflow comparison. It'll reveal the benefis of each method and help you understand what's going on with each step. Then you'll be able to choose the approach based on your knowledge and experience.

@Debby-hy7fo Ай бұрын

@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks! I'll do that. I'm a relative newbie at photo editing (never used Photoshop or Lightroom---started with Luminar 4, then AI, and now Neo as a hobbyist), and I have REALLY learned a lot with your videos. Thank you for what you do. Cheers!

@LenSaPrinz 8 ай бұрын

Anthony Turnham on this video you demo you use the Luminar Neo or Luminar Neo AI thanks

@AnthonyTurnham 8 ай бұрын

Hi. This is Luminar Neo. The predecessor was just called Luminar AI.

@felixthecat1882 Жыл бұрын

Hi Anthony! I've yet to get Topaz AI's combined package, so I have the old stye 3 apps version. I did mail you some photos from Shetland that I could not do anything with😾. Did you get them? I would be nice to know whether you could edit them with Luminar Neo, they are all RAW files. Please get back to me if you have not received them as a download. Thanks! Regards from Felix the Cat. 🐱

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

Hi. Yes I downloaded them the other day. I had a play around with them but as you mentioned due to the fog/mist the visibility was pretty poor and therefore there's not as much detail captured on the sensor to do that much with. Did you have an idea of what it was you were hoping to achieve with the edits? Regardless, I bet you had a nice time! I'd love to visit at some point.

@felixthecat1882 Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyTurnham Yes Anthony, I hoped you could clean up the image and give it more definition. Btw, yesterday I bought Topaz's Photo AI and it's great! Do you think you could use it to improve the definition of those photos? Regards from Felix the Cat! 😺

@Centauri27 11 ай бұрын

If you have a current subscription for the three apps, I believe Topaz gives you Photo AI for free (that's how I got mine). But if you let your subscription lapse, then it's not free.

@limboigah 11 ай бұрын

Mystical 😂

@arpearce4416 Жыл бұрын

Great really appreciated this. Any chance of doing a more detailed look at photo AI?

@AnthonyTurnham Жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do. I'm really enjoying using it so it certainly something I'll consider featuring more in future.

@torsrive8920 6 ай бұрын

Luminar has terrible AI tools. I bought the program but I am super unhappy with it. Topaz is much better, but actually I do not use non of those software. Still using just and only Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for all of my work.