Dear all, welcome to this new tutorial on the newest Skylum's LuminarNEO,
the first advanced photo-editor powered by artificial intelligence
algorithms! In just 11 minutes we are going to see the most important
features you need to understand to use this software, even if you start
as an absolute beginner!
LuminarNEO is perfect for all photographers that want to get the most and
the best from their photos in the shortest time. It comes for both Windows
and MacOS with a perpetual license and it is a definitive upgrade from
LuminarAI.
Make sure to watch our tutorial on LuminarAI to see how this differs.
LuminarNEO shows two main workspaces above: with Catalog you import,
collect and manage your photo collections; with Edit you correct and
enhnance any specific photo selected with the tools on the right.
The Catalog section previews all the photos collected in the selected
category from the left, such as all the photos imported on LuminarNEO, the
Sample Images offered or your most recent photos added with the Add Photos
button, browsing for the single image or an entire folder. This import is
made with a direct link and not a physical copy, so any folder can show new
or less photos if you update it.
From the left side you can right-click on any folder to rename, unlink from
the Catalog or remove it from your computer.
When browsing each folder you can adjust the zoom level from the top right
corner and double-click on any photo to preview it. Use your mouse wheel to
zoom in and out and click and drag to pan and check the details.
LuminarNEO is also able to playback videos but does not offer tools to
correct and enhance them.
At the bottom you can mark any photo to either reject or favorite it.
Double-click on the preview to come back to the main preview list.
Now let's see how to edit and enhance photos! Select any photo from the
list and switch to the Edit workspace.
On the right you get all the tools and features to correct and manipulate.
Open Presets to apply any ready template to match a particular mood or
enhance the photo subject, adjusting its intensity. This gets listed under
Edits, with the possibility to hide its effect with Discard Edits at the
bottom or even remove it definitely with the bin button. Pay attention
that you can apply only one preset per time.
Make sure to check the official Luminar marketplace to download and install
more professional presets for LuminarNEO!
Whereas switch to Tools to apply single corrections with maximum control.
With Crop you can resize the photo and remove any non-necessary part from
it. Click on Crop AI to leave the job to the AI algorithm or do all
manually by selecting aspect ratio (including 1:1, 16:9 and several
Facebook standards) and editing the grid on the preview freely. In this
case click and drag it to move it, use its nodes to resize it and drag
outside it to rotate it.
On the right you can also rotate the photo by 90 degrees or flip it
vertically or horizontally. To apply the crop, just open another tool.
Below the Crop you have several kinds of adjustments collected into four
sections, complete with sliders and buttons inside to set intensity and
options. At this point further buttons appear above, such as the eye button
to disable the effect temporarily or the Reset button to revert the tool to
its original setup. We are going to see the mask option in a while.
With Develop you correct exposure, contrast and brightness on highlights
and shadows or apply advanced color curves. You can also enhance colors
with temperature and tint and set color intensity with Saturation and
Vibrance.
Make sure to pick the right color with the eyedropper to apply white
balance automatically.
You can also improve details with Sharpness, apply Noise Reduction and make
lens correction and deformation with Transform if you need.
With Enhance you can improve the general lights and the sky colors to fit
the environment and the subject.
Open Erase to remove unwanted details from the photo. Set the brush Size
and click and drag on the photo to define a red area, switching to Deselect
to refine the region if necessary. When you click on Erase all within such
red area gets removed, without leaving imperfections.
Other features such as Remove Powerlines and Dust Spots, perform an
automatic removal when these are detected by LuminarNEO.
With Structure you can make corrections on the details only where it is
needed, instead of the entire photo as seen with Develop.
Open Color to specifically manage your photo colors with Saturation and
Vibrance. With HSL you can adjust the color range (Hue), intensity
(Saturation) and brightness (Luminance) for each single color range.
Switch to Black and White to make your photo black and white, correcting
brightness and color intensity for each original color range.
With Details and Denoise you can refine the details and remove noise from
the photo.
Open Landscape to remove haze and fog with Dehaze, add a warm sunlight with
Golden Hour and refine grass and vegetation with Foliage Enhancer. Whereas
add Vignette to apply a cool vignetting effect on the photo.
With the new Relight tool you can change the brightness levels on backlit
or darken photos! Open Sky to replace the original sky with another one,
adjusting its position, masking, light options and much more!
Apply Atmosphere to manipulate the environment by adding fog, mist and haze
as you like. Switch to Sunrays to add amazing sunrays to set in placement,
intensity, glow, ray levels and warmth; and apply Dramatic and Mood to
change the photo mood with heavy color grading and cinematic effects.
With Toning you can add color filters to both shadows and highlights. You
can also apply other tools from Matte to Film Grain to get outstanding
visual effects over your photos! Check these out!
Inside Portrait you find several corrections for portraits and face
expressions. With the newest Portrait Bokeh you can apply blurriness on the
background to enhance the portrait. LuminarNEO automatically detects the
subject within a red area that you can extend with Focus and refine with
Defocus. You can also edit the background by acting on its brightness
and colors.
Switch to Face to make adjustments on face, eyes and mouth, correcting
lights, size and colors as you need. Whereas open Skin to correct all skin
imperfections and defects and use Body and High Key to reshape bodies and
improve general brightness and contrast levels.
At the bottom apply Supercontrast to set different contrast levels on the
photo highlights, midtones or shadows. Whereas open Color Harmony to
improve the photo colors according to their luminance, and not on the whole
photo.
The Edits section collects all the corrections applied on the current
photo.
In particular a new adjustment gets listed each time you edit its tool, so
make sure to check this section to avoid unnecessary duplications.
You can also click on Add mask to define a red masking area in order to
apply the current tool only within such region. For example with Paint Mask
you can build the mask by brushing on the photo, showing the result with
Show Mask.
Moreover set brush size, its feather with Softness and its strength and
switch to the Erase mode to refine or remove the masking area instead.
You can also click on Fill to spread the mask over the whole photo; on
Invert to invert the mask or on Clear to remove it completely.
With LuminarNEO you can include powerful layer overlays on the left. By
default the current photo is an independent layer but you can click on the
plus button to add layers applying flares, lights, sparklers and much more,
with the option to set opacity and blending mode. These can be modified
just like standard photos, with all the tools and the masking options we
have just seen.
If the photo looks good, you can export and save it by selecting it and
then going to LuminarNEO, File, Export... Set where to save it, its file
name and all its properties such as file format, size, resolution and
quality!
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