hi recently i got back into still photography now there are plenty of editing apps out there but a
lot of them don't really offer anything different from the other and that's until the awesome people
of luminar neo reached out and asked me if i wanted to take a look at their software but
first we need some new portraits because i haven't shot any in a long time in order to truly test out
this software so let's go grab some the audio from this clip was absolutely terrible because it was
super noisy outside and i was using the iphone's microphone but i think i can give you the gist
of what i was saying my lovely wife decided to model for me i'm shooting on my canon eos r and
instead of using cheap photo lenses because that's pretty much all i have i borrowed the dzo vespid
cyber brand new lens 35 millimeter and the dream effects filter on top for some added character
there was a car that was super loud and revving next to us anyways let's go take some portraits
real quick if you're a fan of sony give this video a like but if you're a fan of canon go
ahead and make sure you're subscribed let's see which one gets more votes by the end of
the video all right so we have neo opened up here and i've imported all the photos that i really
liked from the shoot so these are uh let's see nine different keepers so first let's just take
one of these i like this one a lot just like the colors okay we've got a whole bunch of presets
here i'm not gonna lie like usually i'm not one for like these sort of presets uh a lot of times
they can look kind of amateurish but like if you if you like this style like it's very well done
all right so obviously there are a ton of different tools here i just want to go over some
of my favorites that we kind of play around with first of all this was one of my major questions
when i first opened this is do i still have basic editing tools and of course you do if you go under
the essentials and then develop tab you have all of your basic tools that you'd see in a normal
photo editor this edits tab right here shows everything that's been done to the image so far
so if i go to the bottom of the picture i can see this little eye here and if i press and hold that
it shows me the raw image again and once you let go it shows you everything that's been
adjusted so first thing we're going to look at is let's say skin skin defects removal
oh that is sweet that is cool because a lot of times i don't like to go crazy with
uh face like skin smoothing and all that so if your face is a little too
dark in your raw image you can make it stand out by relighting it and it automatically knows what
to mask if you ever need to add to your masking almost all these adjustments have a masking tab
and you can just either use a brush or you can use gradient filters or let the ai take care of it
so i can simply go in here and say this is all the skin i want to re-light all this
it literally took no time at all and then you can just re-light that slim face so that's
cool but to check out some of the more portrait features let me go back to the catalog and find
another picture here let's try like this one here let's check out eyes can you actually change
oh
and you can even add as if you had a like a bounce underneath the eyes uh for like portrait stuff i
bet that looks great is that believable if i like take it all the way down almost improve eyebrows
don't tell my wife that so that's original that's after so i definitely see darker eyebrows
obviously blue eyes if you saw this picture would you be like those eyes are fake i think that
looks pretty good michelle if you're listening i love your brown eyes this was just an experiment
all right let's go back to this image because i shot this one on purpose because i knew there was
some sky enhancements and that's where one of the powerhouse features of neo here so obviously the
sky is super overblown here the eos r does not have the best dynamic range so i'm hoping that
this software can help me out she's also a bit underexposed exposed uh so let's go in here and
first let's go to the sky so we see the ai here so first thing we got to do is select our sky
this one's kind of believable now i know what you're thinking that doesn't look believable
at all but that is because she's in focus and then my technical background is out of focus but then
the sky is in focus don't worry you can fix all that because look how many adjustments we have
and we want to defocus to essentially match the focus of our of our natural background and
immediately it looks way better way more realistic let me go back to portrait and re-light the face
so it's going to bring just her up look at that overblown sky underexposed her and now we've fixed
both of those problems if you saw this image for the first time if i posted this if someone sent
this to you you would not be like that sky looks fake let's see this is one that i didn't know
if we could make look cool super underexposed the angle is kind of weird but i think if we can make
this one look decent in any way that's it this software is a success that's how that works right
first let's bring up the exposure can we retain the highlights we can but you know what maybe
maybe a different sky would look better alright so adjusting the gaps that completely brought back
that guy right there that line all right so then if we go under develop again
and her dress was white so i can just grab that selection dramatic mood
oh i like 1990s for this and then i'm going to jump into my edits where i can see all the things
i've added i'm going to make some adjustments to the sky because i don't feel too sunsetty
maybe i should go with a blue sky on this one i like this one this one looks way more realistic
it's kind of veggie right like i mean that's it's pretty processed pretty intense but i
like it and i'm the photographer so i get to choose what looks good that's where we
started that's how we're finishing i like it it's super dramatic but like that looks sweet
alright so that one you know i did a lot of things manually but let's say you're starting out and you
just want to see how fast and easy you can get a cool image so with this one we're gonna see how
fast we can get like our final image so for this i'm going to go to our presets i'm going to go to
portraits what do we want maybe nature i don't really want black and white
let's see what we can kind of like this one i like added some grain
it's still warm but it's a little bit more muted see i don't want to bring up all the shadows
i'm i'm thinking as if i'm in a normal editing program but i'm not
i can i just want to bring up her face it touch so i'm going to go to portrait and then face light
that's exactly what i want i didn't want to relight everything
okay there this is where we started here's where we ended up
not super dramatic of a change but that looks so uh i love it so much now if i go to export these
i can send this to my phone so i can go to share device it brings up a qr code and then
you want to download luminar share i'm going to hit open so i'm going to scan my qr code
connected so now if i go to share on the computer again haha that's so cool iphone
connected send to device and then i can just see that that photo it's cool and then i can
also choose to send photos to luminar the this image is from a recent short film i did
so you can say send to and then wow within like half a second just showed up full res
on the computer all right that was pretty awesome whether you're just getting into
photography whether it's on your phone or your camera or you've been doing photography forever
i highly recommend downloading luminar neo because it's just a fun new experience for
photo editing and if you want to save a couple bucks there's a code in the description again
huge thanks to skylum for sponsoring this video and showing me what luminar neo is capable of
let me know in the comments have you ever played with this software before what are your thoughts
don't forget to subscribe thanks so much for watching see you in the next video