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On a slightly different subject , Luminar neo automatically colour grades my raw drone footage even though it notices its a DJI drone and the camera settings I used. I also have the Adobe converter installed as mentioned in one of your previous videos. Keep up the good work I've learnt a lot from your vids.

Great video as ever Anthony - thank you kindly 🙏

I'm not sure the before/after of the hair, for example, on her forehead looks very good. I think this is one of the many reasons I've moved away from Neo to Evoto for portraits/headshots. Evoto is much more intuitive with these types of photos. Evoto is faster and cleaner in so many areas of touch up. Photoshop of course does this better too, albeit slower at times. Thanks for your wonderful work.

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An excellent video Anthony showcasing the benefits of using Luminar Neo especially for beginners. I am just wondering if you have used ON1 2024? If so, which is better - ON1 or Luminar Neo?

As of today, June 10, 2024 this is the BEST Panorama stitching technique I've ever seen. This is because you demonstrate how to adjust the RAW files to my heart's content first. Then export them as TIFF files BEFORE stitching them in Luminar Neo to get the best result. The only thing missing is you don't mention if this video is sponsored or not. Thank Anthony for such a HELPFUL video.

Great walk-through as usual. I noticed that you didn't touch on shine removal though. I was hoping you may have some tips and tricks with this as I struggle with getting the tool to actually work on portraits that obviously have shine that could be reduced. Its pretty hit or miss with whether the tool decides to work or not on any given portrait. Either way, enjoy the content and looking forward to your next one.

Sony RAW PICTURES CAN WE EDIT 😊

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Hmm I have to disagree with you on one point - Luminar Neo is not doing destructive editing because it never alters the original file or saves over it. All the edits are in the catalog or database and you can always go back or revert to the original. Unlike Photoshop for example, if you open a raw file, use Develop raw, then open that as a JPG and apply any edits directly to that JPG like curves, etc - how you're doing destructive editing.

Fabulous tutorial as always. Appreciate if you can provide the link on how to add own camera profile to Neo. Thanks

I must be stupid, you always lose me early on. Lookup table? Colour grading/Toning? When it comes to editing I'm clueless. Thanks for the order at the end, I'm doing the raw edit 1st which you said is the correct thing to do, thanks

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Hi Anthony! This is what I call a very useful and great tutorial! Beautiful examples and very well explained! Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your techniques. I really appreciate and learn a lot from this video. ❤❤❤

Bye Adobe! Finally after 30 years.....

Darn man! You are really good! I've enjoyed all of your presentations and have learned so much from you. Still you keep knocking it out of the ballpark. Your presentations just keep getting belter and better. I can hardly wait until you give us your Barcelona update when you get it. Thank you.

That was fab, chockful of useful info

I always learn something new from these videos! Thank You! I love my Luminar Neo! Now I need to go shoot some bracketed exposure scenes to try this!

any video showing the after using Lr then editing in Luminar AI?

I haven't been using Neo for B&W as I thought it only had a few presets. This really opens up the door for me. Do you have a link for another video that shows how to use a local color mask? (Example leave color as is , but just change a car's color?) Thanks, Anthony.

how do i get camera matching profile?

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❤❤❤ this!

Such a great tip! And so easy! Love it!!

Hi Anthony, an excellent tutorial mate, really useful info and so well presented. The batch processing is a great tip and will save a vast amount of time. I love the black and white photography, makes me look at things differently I find. Looking forward to your next vid, stay safe mate. 👍😎

Excellent tutorial. Covered the basics but learned so many useful tips from tools I hadn’t used before. Many thanks indeed. Really looking forward to Barcelona.

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Lovely!!!

Great, going on a trip to Europe with cameras and lenses. I’ll take my iPad Pro with Luminar and an external HD. for storing and backup. This way I can publish photos on the fly. Using Fuji cameras with their great jpg film sims so jpg not a problem. So gonna give it all a test run here at home to get the flow right. So fingers crossed.

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just on the edit alone, perhaps it might be suggested to crop the image to a vertical or even rotate the image so the subject is on an angle -- not overly aggressive. This will get rid of the heavy amount of brightness of the background. Alternatively, keep in mind about selection of the background at the time of camera exposure. Move the subject in this situation to her left and that will change the background and also increase the contrast between highlight and shadow. Additionally, if one uses a feminine attitude which means to turn the subject beginning with a 2/3 body position and with the body facing to her left and then turn the head toward the light which results in a nice S curve shape to the subject. By turning the subject to a 2/3 facial view this gives a nice look to the subject. The 2/3 view contains the eye inside the orbit when the nose is rotated one direction or the other and the nose will not pass the inner edge of the eye toward which the nose turns. Next one can address the use of the hand. In this image, it appears that there is 2 & 1/2 fingers amputated and the back of the hand is showing and there also is a strong amount of highlight on part of the hand. It is a good idea to use the edge of the hand and also based upon the direction of the camera the posed hand or "show" hand generally looks best if it is the hand closest to the camera. Make the fingers long and tall with a slight curve to them. A good method of learning how to pose hands is to take a pen and place it between the thumb and the index finger and just let it rest there while holding it vertically while also bending the hand at the wrist back toward the forearm of yourself and then just translate that to the subject from her position. Keep in mind this idea is for females and men are posed somewhat differently. You are likely to find that women will say that they don't have nice hands and can't pose them very well. Assure then that with the technique you know and understand the use of, the subject will be pleasantly surprised at the result. Practice on yourself or a family member or friend. For older subjects, don't try to get too creative with hands and try to use a masculine pose rather than the feminine pose. As usual, AT does a nice job of showing how and why various tools available in NEO will assist the final result of a portrait.

Thank you Anthony, an interesting approach, I will give it a try. I usually played around with the saturation sliders of the B&W tool after the color grading with a LUT. Gave me more control over individual color saturation and letting me take out certain colours completely while retaining others. I can also recommend the High Key tool after the B&W conversion, nice effects there. Great video!

Great info! I think I had seen an earlier version of one of your edit videos and you had talked a bit about this and that's how I started to do all my edits. And for the most part, I am following your guidelines, except for the vignette tool placement. I'll now end with that if it needs it. But I wasn't too far off really. This sort of content is very helpful to me!

Love this tutorial! I have been using LN for a couple months now and I'm loving the results. I believe I've discovered "My Look," but I'm always open to learning more from your videos. Thanks for this!

Hi Anthony. Love the concept. made the preset but when I go to catalogue and right click the photo I wanted to end the group of photos which highlighted 6 photos i wanted use the effect on , but when I right clicked on adjustments it wouldn't open the sync adjustments tab as its greyed out. any suggestions?

Interesting idea to introduce a little bit of color into a B&W. I've been using the camera preset for black and white and tweaking it with the curves adjustment, etc. This was very helpful so thanks as always!

Lol, that is one heckuva way to skin a cat. Brilliant and such an easy process, Anthony! Without needing to mess with masks or anything. But now you got me thinking about the consistent look thing--I hope my varied styles in my Instagram feed don't make me look amateurish!

Anthony As ever interesting but don't you get the same effect by using the Black and White tool and varying the luminosity and saturation? Are there any pros and cons to either route. Hugh

Today My MacBook air had the profiles in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Adobe Standard Press CMD-Shift-. (point) to see hidden files. Reboot!

Looks like one way to get Agfa Portriga. I am going to try that. BTW: What camera are you using?

Thanks for sharing Anthony very helpful and speeds of the process of converting

How is a LUT different to a Preset in this instance?

How do you create profiles? Please

Thank you Anthony! That is very informative! You're the man!!!

Genius, thank you! Have to admit that I've been finding Neo a bit confusing lately so I'm all for the simple approach.

excellent, simple, straight forward teaching ... Keep it Up!

Superb demo, thanks. I have lens question/opinion: Given that tele-lenses tend the flatten a subject and compress - and wide tend to do the opposite and enlarge features that are close to the camera - what are your go-to portrait lenses or “mm” if using a zoom lens?

Really like the quick tips. Never thought of this approach to B&W. Cool. Thanks.

This is great!