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- What's up, guys.
So, in today's video,
I wanna show you how you can edit
your GoPro photos like a pro,
using an incredible AI software
by the team at Skylum called Luminar Neo.
Now, you may already be well aware,
or acquainted with Luminar 4,
or even Luminar AI, which is other software
that Skylum have already out on the market.
However, we were super fortunate,
or I've been super fortunate, to be able to get my hands
on the beta version of Luminar Neo.
So everything that you see in today's video,
will possibly look and maybe feel slightly different
when it is set to come out on the market in February, 2022.
So, at the time of the recording, this is December, 2021.
However, by the time...
And it is currently available for pre-order.
However, I do have to mention
that this is a beta version of Luminar Neo,
and the look and feel of it may drastically change,
by the time that it hits the market.
In today's video,
I wanted to run through some of the features
that the software is boasting,
like dust and spot removal.
Specifically for those of you
that love capturing dome images,
with your action cameras.
You know, just the power of the AI editing features,
the sky replacement tool.
If you checked out my Instagram,
earlier this week.
You probably already saw this image.
But yeah, let's dive in and let's check out
some of these incredible editing features.
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We've put the GoPro HERO10 in here,
into the Dome, into the TELESIN Dome.
And we are gonna take some Dome photos.
How's the mop on the lad?
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Ready, three, two, one go.
(water splashing) (camera clicking)
- We got some content creators on the beach right there.
(Boy laughs)
They're going in hard.
- They're French.
It's our French content creators.
They are making the content, here in Greece.
So, one of the things that absolutely annoys me
when I take Dome or action camera photos.
Is the dust.
These evidence of water or water droplets,
which you know, are often really hard to avoid.
You know, whether you,
you know, put some solution on front of the Dome,
or whether you dunk the Dome.
There's still this probability that they'll be on the lens.
And that's where software like Luminar Neo,
can really improve the overall look
and final version of your photos.
So, this supposedly can be cleaned up
with a single click in Luminar Neo.
Now again, this is a beta software,
but let's test this out.
Over here in our tools, we have this ability to Erase.
And at the bottom, there is this Objects Removal.
I can click Remove Dust here,
which I'm hoping will also remove the water.
Removing, removing, removing, removing.
It just, did you see that?
Okay, so there was a stick there,
and there was, okay.
It hasn't done an incredible job,
but it's done a pretty good first take.
Now, if I wanna then further clean up these
extra bits of water that are still here,
I guess I have this brush,
and I can just click through here,
and I can erase.
Wow!
Amazing!
There, that's gone.
Let's get rid of these little bits too.
Erase.
Bam!
And the dust is gone.
And I guess, I can really be as meticulous,
as I like, that's gone.
So, one of the processes that we like to go through,
or I like to specifically go through.
When I'm editing my action camera photos,
is a workflow of crop, as in cropping the image.
Mostly to a 4:5 aspect ratio,
if I'm publishing on Instagram.
Then I like to color it.
And this is the last phase, this is what I call clean.
You can use the acronym CCC, take it, run with it.
We teach it to you, in the action camera masterclass.
But yeah, this is something
that I would go through at the very end and I'd clean up.
I'd even go through and clean up these little dots.
And just make sure that the image looks,
and erase them.
Just looks pristine.
Come on distract, Bam!
And the distractions are gone.
So that is super powerful,
and something that I think Luminar Neo does very seamlessly,
and it's very easy to do.
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So, Luminar Neo has a bunch of other
incredible creative features like color treatment.
You can be really specific
about addressing particular colors.
You've got powerline removal, AI software,
and also things like Portrait Bokeh.
I wanna jump in and show you this Portrait Bokeh,
'cause I think it's freaking wild.
Let's have a look at this image here,
thank you Cody for sending it in.
So, in History, I'm gonna go back to the Original.
Now maybe you saw this at the start of the video,
and you weren't quite sure of,
how much the photo was edited.
Quite a subtle edit, to be honest,
but something incredibly cool is this Portrait Bokeh.
In the tools down in the portrait section,
I've got this AI feature called Portrait Bokeh.
And as soon as I slide the slider.
You'll notice how it makes the background blurry.
It's keeping everything here in the foreground in focus.
As I zoom in, onto Cody's hair, you can see.
Yeah, like, it's done an incredible job
of AI masking him out and going, you know what?
I'm gonna make this lens, not like a 200, 300 dollar lens.
For those of you that know,
and that shoot a lot of action camera content, you'll know,
it's almost like an infinite depth of field,
and to get this bokeh or this blurry background, you need.
You know, you need a DSLR,
where you can change the focal point,
or software like Luminar,
where you can quite simply,
create that bokeh in post production.
Now, I think this is awesome and there's a lot of,
you know, further tweaks that you can make.
You can change the Depth Correction.
So, let's say you were like,
Depth Correction is almost like changing the lens.
It's like going.
Oh, maybe I'll make it like,
you know, a 1.8 or a 2.8 or even a 5.6 depth of field.
Like, and so, you can really go in there and tweak it.
But with this image,
what I also have done is I've added a LUT,
which is kinda cool.
You can go in here to the Mood, in the Creative panel,
and you can either choose some of the LUTs,
some of the lookup tables that Luminar have,
which come with the software.
Basically, all of these are just presets,
so if I click on Genius,
it's creative and look if I increase the amount you can see,
it's like, created this tone.
I'm not so stoked on that.
I'm not so stoked on Involve, Kodack chrome 3,
not so stoked on that.
So what I can do,
is I can go and I can load my own custom LUTs.
Now, me personally,
I use LUTs or lookup tables for video editing.
But, you can also, if you've got a bunch of LUTs.
You can also include them or import them into Luminar Neo,
and add them onto your photos, which is really cool.
So here, this is the LUT bundle.
It was on sale a couple of years ago.
and I've got a bunch of different creator's LUTs.
Let's go into Sam Kolder's and let's try SK 7 underwater.
It's an underwater LUT, and let's increase the amount.
Has that done anything?
I don't think that's done anything,
let's try that again.
Let's load a custom LUT, let's go SK 5.
Okay, there we go.
That's done something.
And if we increase the amount,
you'll see, it's like this autumn sort of warmer hue.
Let's go, let's try his.
Let's try SK 6, let's try that one.
That's very yellow,
it's more of like a yellow, blue hue.
Anyway, I kinda liked,
I think it was SK 7 when I first tried this.
No, it's definitely not SK 7.
(laughs)
It must be 5.
That's it, it's a nice autumn sort of feel.
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Then the last thing I wanted to run you through,
is just my editing workflow.
Thank you to Diksha for sending this image in,
it's a great image, it's got great bones,
but I wanna show you how we can take this image
to the next level.
So, this is how you could edit like a pro.
So my workflow is crop, color, clean.
So, let's start with a crop.
As I said, you can do the AI crop feature,
which I think it just predicts based on.
Yeah, rule of thirds and other photography techniques.
However, I want to make mine 4:5,
so let's go 4:5 .
And yeah, that's pretty good.
Making sure that, that tower is in the middle,
so let's go Enter, that's a nice crop.
The first thing that I wanna do with this image,
is I wanna make the sky cooler.
So, I'm gonna go into the Sky AI,
and I'm gonna choose the night sky.
So, if I go to the Galaxy options,
I've got, the first galaxy,
which is very purple, but super cool.
And the second galaxy.
Which I think just makes this image look wildly cool.
Again, for those of you that are like,
"Yeah, but that's just,
it's just like,
not at all how the photo was taken."
I get it, but like,
look at NFTs, look at digital art.
Like, there's so much to celebrate about these tools,
and about you know, playing around with editing.
Now, what I'm gonna do is,
I wanna flip the Sky Orientation,
and I wanna move the Milky Way a little bit more,
just a little bit over.
So, I can change the Horizontal Position of it, if I want.
Like, maybe I can put it here.
And in the Mask Refinement,
I can also, fix the details a bit.
Again, I think that's working around here,
this part of the image.
And,
yeah, it is pretty good.
(speaking in foreign language)
Not bad.
There's something you'll notice,
because this was captured on a GoPro or wide angle lens,
there's like, these sort of,
you know, these bending lines.
So, in the developing window at the very top,
you've got this ability to auto-correct the optics,
or you can manually correct the optics.
Now this was shot with a GoPro,
so, it's very wide angled.
Let's change the Lens Distortion.
That is wild.
What's happening right now, if you can see,
it's like stretching out the distortion of the image
to make it sort of more flat.
I can go the other way, if I want too,
which is kind of crazy.
It's like opening up another world
into the universe, as I do this.
But I think somewhere in here,
like 12 or 19, look at that,
it's kind of wildly stretching this left side of the image,
but at the top, it's sort of straightening out that line.
I just think that's super fascinating.
And I guess you can tweak the amount of it,
if you come in here and you play around
with the devignetting tool.
Now, the next thing I would do,
is I just wanna add a little bit more
saturation and color to this.
So, I'm gonna go down to the Supercontrast area
and just have a look at these highlights,
the midtones,
and the shadows.
Shadows I think I'm gonna keep down.
Color Harmony, we'll go in and bring it
a little bit warmer, I think.
I like that nice and warm,
and the amount, let's...
Yeah, it's really, really saturated.
It's like, "Wow, how did you shoot this photo?
What are your camera settings?"
And then maybe I wanna add just a little vignette.
It's a wide angle lens, so I'll bring the Vignette,
bring the edges darker.
So, we're really pushing into the night sky,
and we can change the size of it.
And there we go.
The last thing that I would do is,
I would clean up,
like, erase anything that I didn't like.
So I might come in here and with the brush.
Make sure the brush is selected, yeah.
And see how there's these little bits here?
I'll just Command, Plus to zoom in.
Command, Plus to zoom in.
I might just take the brush off.
So, I can move the image and show you.
So, in here there's like, bits of grass,
which I'm not totally stoked on.
I can just come into the Erase window with my brush,
and just hopefully just paint that in.
And it sort of like, makes it green.
Let's see.
Is it gonna do it?
Oh wait, I gotta click Erase.
(laughing)
Erase, is it gonna do it for me?
Is it gonna do it?
Is it gonna do?
I don't know, did that do anything?
I think it did.
I think I did some, or maybe not.
Anyway, again, using the beta version of Luminar Neo.
The one tool,
that I have found challenging
throughout this beta testing,
has been these Erase and the AI features for dust removal.
It's working sometimes, it's working not others.
Anyway, hopefully by the time
that you get your hands on a copy of it in February,
if you've already pre-ordered.
It will have ironed out all of these bugs.
Guys, thank you so much for checking out this video.
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If you are looking to get your hands
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Top link of the description,
you can just click on that and you'll be good to go.
Thank you for watching the video,
and I'll see you guys in the next upload.
Jay out, peace!
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