Since creating this video Luminar Neo has been updated and improved. You can get the newest version on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and maybe save more with coupon: ATNEO10 (sometimes Skylum de-activate the code if there's already a promotion running but worth giving a go!)
Hey team, thanks so much for the emails and messages while I've been taking this extended break from youtube. I really appreciate so many of you checking in and wishing me well. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you all but please know that I truly appreciated the support! I'm really looking forward to creating more photo editing tutorials again. If there's any burning questions or things you'd like me to cover please let me know here in the comments!
This video by far is the most helpful of all your videos to me. Layers are something I had avoided. Now I know how to do all sorts of things, from resizing to masking. I just came back to watch it again this morning. That AI selection saved me massive amounts of time, and worked better than I could have done it.
Thanks. Yeah, it's a shame it's not there yet. Seems like a simple thing when compared to the complexity of some of the other tools they release. Oh well, they know how I feel about it, so hopefully a future update sees that addressed.
Welcome back, mate. Brilliant tutorial again. When you mention your scaling to match your family. I think the easiest and most accurate way would do the scaling using the tree stump, not you.and do a very minor change to adjust the distance. Havagooday Greg
Hi Greg. Good to be back. Yes, spot on. The tree stump is exactly the element we should use for the scaling reference. I thought I'd done that, but perhaps that was in my practice run through before I hit record... cheers for the useful tip 😀
Another excellent vid Anthony....and yes, I for one was wondering if you were OK as we haven't seen you for a while. I have to say, each time I see one of your videos I always learn something. Love how you structure these....too many others are based on having to watch someone pull some sliders and edit there own stuff. Your approach is much more educational and easy to follow. Looking forward to more now you are back!! Take care
Thanks Anthony, I only use Photoshop for these purposes, but as I see it can be done in Luminar neo. There are still some tools better in photoshop - sand cleaning.
Anthony glad to have you back love your videos I find them very helpful. I used your method to create one of my own people liked it, but I had people commenting on the same thing, everyone could tell I added a separate. Hopefully, you can help with my problem. No shadow, when I watched this video again I noticed you do not have a shadow either. Could you do a video on adding shadows when adding one image to another? I think that would be great, just a thought. One other thing is it true that Vampires don't cast a shadow, is that why you do not have a shadow in the photo? (a joke). Once again thank you for the great video.
Yeah, thankfully for me in this one my shadow falls behind the tree stump as the sun was very close to overhead, just ever so slightly behind (which is how I position portraits when it's midday sun to avoid squint and hot spots on the face. Okay I'll bare in mind adding a shadow for a future video :) Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks Lottie. Thankfully I didn't have to worry about my shadow as the sun was almost straight overhead and my blob of a shadow would have been hidden behind the tree trunk. It would have been a slightly abnormal ellipse under my feet though.
Anthony, good to see you again. I've been doing this technique for a while but as usual you bring even more cool tricks to the table. More learning once again. 😄 Hey, on cloning, is it ever possible not to have the source point following the mouse? Sometimes I want a specific color throughout. Thanks, Matt
Hi Matt, at the moment the clone will always track the mouse sample point. Stealing texture only and no colour info would be a great addition to the tool!
Sooo many good tips. I'll have to watch many times to take it all in. But why not do the composite first so you didn't have to do the additional step of copy/ pasting the develop settings to the second layer?
I always want to use develop raw first. If I did a flattened composite the data is no longer raw, so it has less versatility for correcting and editing.
Love the video but I also believe that it works because it's easy to mask out the background because it's such a contrast from the foreground but I suspect that if it were a busier background it would be more difficult.
True. But the background removal tool has gotten much more accurate. But yes if you have a particularly complex and busy background you may need to do a little more manual work on the mask. Similar to how I showed around the gap between my daughter's arm and body.
Great Video Anthony, but I have a question, why duplicate the image of you in layers, am I missing something, but why not do the edit to the single image?
Hi Ron. The duplication is so we have 3 layers . One for the background, one to add me onto that background, and one o add my family and the tree stump back over the top. This way we can leverage the AI masks to quickly layer up the composite. Regarding editing the image of family and image of me separately and then combining: two reasons, 1) to make sure the colour balance, exposure and contrast match. Although taken in the same spot, by the time my daughter took the image of me it had become slightly overcast causing less contrast in the shadows and a bluer colour shift. 2) by editing the raw files separately we get to benefit from using raw editing at the start. If we only edit the composited shot we lose that ability as the raw data is no longer available, because the composite is no longer raw. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for this! For some reason, Luminar Neo shows no camera profiles on my Fuji raw files. Only options are Luminar Default, and "Add custom DCP." Have you heard about problems with Fuji raw files in Neo? I can edit the files just fine. There's just no selection for camera profiles.
I believe fuji decided to use .cube profiles rather than .dcp You can still get the profiles from the fuji website but they'd only work through the LUTs section rather than directly in the camera profile section.
if you have the ear of the CEO - please can you ask for this feature! I often create a mask in one tool and apply an edit to a portion of the image. I then go to another tool and would like to apply the new effect to the same portion of the image, but now I have to recreate the mask again (which can be time-consuming). It would be great if we could temporarily store masks for use between tools. Do you think this would be useful? Am I missing something that we can do already? Thanks. Jim [nice to have you back!]
Thankfully we don't need to trouble the CEO (That was a one off session for him to pick my brains on workflow rather than the norm). There is already a function to copy masks! In the mask actions section at the bottom of the mask panel you'll see one of six buttons that says "copy" and another one that says "paste"! Bingo! And it's good to be back! 😀
Hi Anthony, just tried following this layer tutorial, but on my Luminar Neo Ver.1.18.2 the masking option under layer properties is not there. Any suggestions?
@@AnthonyTurnham Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I did contact them and had to remove and reinstall Neo. I am guessing something went wrong during updates when opening SW. can guarantee if there are are any flaws In SW I will find them 😞. Anyway all ok now and I can resume editing. Thanks again.
How do u delete photos in the catalog without eliminating them from your original file folder. It always takes my images to the trash can and leave my original file folder empty. I dont need this program keeping all my work when i am not needing to go back and edit those images after i export them. Any hep would be great thank you in advance!
Couple of options, move the photos on your OS to a new location or folder, or rename the folder that you no longer want Neo to access and it'll no longer have a valid path to it. E.g. "Landscapes for editing" Once editing is completed change the name to "Landscapes". Or create a "completed" folder that you drag your finished files to. Then manually remove them from there using the operating system.
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
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Since creating this video Luminar Neo has been updated and improved. You can get the newest version on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and maybe save more with coupon: ATNEO10 (sometimes Skylum de-activate the code if there's already a promotion running but worth giving a go!)
Hey team, thanks so much for the emails and messages while I've been taking this extended break from youtube. I really appreciate so many of you checking in and wishing me well. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you all but please know that I truly appreciated the support! I'm really looking forward to creating more photo editing tutorials again. If there's any burning questions or things you'd like me to cover please let me know here in the comments!
I usually prefer to remove myself from photographs...
Really glad you're back, Anthony.
Welcome back Anthony, nice to see you again.
Welcome back Anthony. Nice video and really hope that the stamp layer facility comes along soon - it would make compositing so much easier and faster.
You and me both! Fingers crossed we're not waiting too long.
Nice to have you back. Great tutorial as ever.
Great to see you back with another tutorial video. And a very useful video it is too.
Fab to have you back with us Anthony, wishing you well mate👍😎
This video by far is the most helpful of all your videos to me. Layers are something I had avoided. Now I know how to do all sorts of things, from resizing to masking. I just came back to watch it again this morning. That AI selection saved me massive amounts of time, and worked better than I could have done it.
Great to hear!
Ability to merge down is LONG overdue, frustrating QOL oversight by Skylum.
Missed the videos :) glad you're back
Thanks. Yeah, it's a shame it's not there yet. Seems like a simple thing when compared to the complexity of some of the other tools they release. Oh well, they know how I feel about it, so hopefully a future update sees that addressed.
Welcome back Anthony! I have missed your videos a lot. It's great to see you back in the game.
Thanks! 😀
Nice to see you back on the Tube!
Thanks 😀 Nice to be back!
Amazing tutorial with all those details and refinements. Thank you Anthony! I won't ever have figured that out by myself 🙌
Thanks Amaud
@@AnthonyTurnham Of course! You are teaching me, in a perfect way, things i’ve never been able to achieve, ever 👍👏👍👏👍👏
Glad to see a new video drop. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
Welcome back, mate.
Brilliant tutorial again. When you mention your scaling to match your family.
I think the easiest and most accurate way would do the scaling using the tree stump, not you.and do a very minor change to adjust the distance.
Havagooday
Greg
Hi Greg. Good to be back. Yes, spot on. The tree stump is exactly the element we should use for the scaling reference. I thought I'd done that, but perhaps that was in my practice run through before I hit record... cheers for the useful tip 😀
Thank you! Learned something!!!!
Another excellent vid Anthony....and yes, I for one was wondering if you were OK as we haven't seen you for a while. I have to say, each time I see one of your videos I always learn something. Love how you structure these....too many others are based on having to watch someone pull some sliders and edit there own stuff. Your approach is much more educational and easy to follow. Looking forward to more now you are back!! Take care
Thanks. That's nice feedback 😀 It's a hard balance between being educational and not boring the $*#% out of people 😆 I try as best I can.
Brilliant video. Thank you Anthony for all the very useful information 👍
Very welcome Phil
Brilliant! Your best tutorial ever!!
Wow, thanks!
Missed you Anthony. Hope that you're back for good and, that whatever it was, is over. Great tutorial as usual.
Thanks mate. I do hope I can keep posting more frequently going forward. That's my intention anyway.
Thanks Anthony, I only use Photoshop for these purposes, but as I see it can be done in Luminar neo. There are still some tools better in photoshop - sand cleaning.
well done. so very informative
Anthony glad to have you back love your videos I find them very helpful.
I used your method to create one of my own people liked it, but I had people commenting on the same thing, everyone could tell I added a separate. Hopefully, you can help with my problem. No shadow, when I watched this video again I noticed you do not have a shadow either. Could you do a video on adding shadows when adding one image to another? I think that would be great, just a thought.
One other thing is it true that Vampires don't cast a shadow, is that why you do not have a shadow in the photo? (a joke).
Once again thank you for the great video.
Yeah, thankfully for me in this one my shadow falls behind the tree stump as the sun was very close to overhead, just ever so slightly behind (which is how I position portraits when it's midday sun to avoid squint and hot spots on the face.
Okay I'll bare in mind adding a shadow for a future video :) Thanks for the suggestion.
Amazing video, a learned a lot. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Superb video Anthony, very well worked out. Hope the blending facility soon comes. What do you think your shadow would look like?
Thanks Lottie. Thankfully I didn't have to worry about my shadow as the sun was almost straight overhead and my blob of a shadow would have been hidden behind the tree trunk. It would have been a slightly abnormal ellipse under my feet though.
Anthony, good to see you again. I've been doing this technique for a while but as usual you bring even more cool tricks to the table. More learning once again. 😄 Hey, on cloning, is it ever possible not to have the source point following the mouse? Sometimes I want a specific color throughout.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt, at the moment the clone will always track the mouse sample point. Stealing texture only and no colour info would be a great addition to the tool!
Sooo many good tips. I'll have to watch many times to take it all in. But why not do the composite first so you didn't have to do the additional step of copy/ pasting the develop settings to the second layer?
I always want to use develop raw first. If I did a flattened composite the data is no longer raw, so it has less versatility for correcting and editing.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks. Think you've shared that tip before. I'm always at fault by editing jpegs.
Love the video but I also believe that it works because it's easy to mask out the background because it's such a contrast from the foreground but I suspect that if it were a busier background it would be more difficult.
True. But the background removal tool has gotten much more accurate. But yes if you have a particularly complex and busy background you may need to do a little more manual work on the mask. Similar to how I showed around the gap between my daughter's arm and body.
Thanks!
And thank you John! 🙏
Good job ! 👍
Great Video Anthony, but I have a question, why duplicate the image of you in layers, am I missing something, but why not do the edit to the single image?
Hi Ron. The duplication is so we have 3 layers . One for the background, one to add me onto that background, and one o add my family and the tree stump back over the top. This way we can leverage the AI masks to quickly layer up the composite. Regarding editing the image of family and image of me separately and then combining: two reasons, 1) to make sure the colour balance, exposure and contrast match. Although taken in the same spot, by the time my daughter took the image of me it had become slightly overcast causing less contrast in the shadows and a bluer colour shift. 2) by editing the raw files separately we get to benefit from using raw editing at the start. If we only edit the composited shot we lose that ability as the raw data is no longer available, because the composite is no longer raw. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for this! For some reason, Luminar Neo shows no camera profiles on my Fuji raw files. Only options are Luminar Default, and "Add custom DCP." Have you heard about problems with Fuji raw files in Neo? I can edit the files just fine. There's just no selection for camera profiles.
I believe fuji decided to use .cube profiles rather than .dcp You can still get the profiles from the fuji website but they'd only work through the LUTs section rather than directly in the camera profile section.
if you have the ear of the CEO - please can you ask for this feature! I often create a mask in one tool and apply an edit to a portion of the image. I then go to another tool and would like to apply the new effect to the same portion of the image, but now I have to recreate the mask again (which can be time-consuming). It would be great if we could temporarily store masks for use between tools. Do you think this would be useful? Am I missing something that we can do already? Thanks. Jim [nice to have you back!]
Thankfully we don't need to trouble the CEO (That was a one off session for him to pick my brains on workflow rather than the norm). There is already a function to copy masks! In the mask actions section at the bottom of the mask panel you'll see one of six buttons that says "copy" and another one that says "paste"! Bingo!
And it's good to be back! 😀
Hi Anthony, just tried following this layer tutorial, but on my Luminar Neo Ver.1.18.2 the masking option under layer properties is not there. Any suggestions?
Hmmm, no sounds odd. I'd reach out to Skylum support.
@@AnthonyTurnham Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I did contact them and had to remove and reinstall Neo. I am guessing something went wrong during updates when opening SW. can guarantee if there are are any flaws In SW I will find them 😞.
Anyway all ok now and I can resume editing.
Thanks again.
How do u delete photos in the catalog without eliminating them from your original file folder. It always takes my images to the trash can and leave my original file folder empty. I dont need this program keeping all my work when i am not needing to go back and edit those images after i export them. Any hep would be great thank you in advance!
Couple of options, move the photos on your OS to a new location or folder, or rename the folder that you no longer want Neo to access and it'll no longer have a valid path to it. E.g. "Landscapes for editing" Once editing is completed change the name to "Landscapes". Or create a "completed" folder that you drag your finished files to. Then manually remove them from there using the operating system.
I don't have a refinement brush tool in my version for some reason
This photo would look cool with an Adamski effect.
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
The current best deal for Luminar Neo can be found here bit.ly/Luminar-NEO. You can try code ATNEO10 for an additional discount.
luminar neo on Windows 24H2 ... pré instaled
Hi mate, not sure what you mean here? Cheers.
@@AnthonyTurnham the new version of win11 have luminar neo pré instaled on it :) ,,,just an info
wtf... just use photoshop!!!!
Yeah, but it's a Luminar Neo tutorial for people who use Neo. I do photoshop tutorials for photoshop users and neo tutorials for Neo users.