**IMPORTANT** Since recording this Luminar Neo now ships with the HDR merge tool as standard. NO NEED TO DO THE SUBSCRIPTION - whoop whoop! You can get the lifetime license on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and the HDR tool is your foreveeeeeeeerrrrrrr. Nice. It also now does batch processing too which is great for our architecture workflow.
I was fired from my job and now I am starting to become a real estate freelance photographer. I'd like to learn more about editing your real estate photos :) thank you!
Sorry to hear you were fired. Hopefully though it will be a wonderful and freeing opportunity for you. I wish you all the best for your journey into real estate photography! Congrats on saying bye bye to a boss. Now you're the boss! 😀
What else? Love this use of Luminar NEO. New real estate photographer here and I am using hired editors to do most of the work, however I really want to nail down my own process and your videos are a HUGE help!
WHAT ELSE?? SHOW MEEE. This was great. It's time to refresh my workflow and hopefully get away from Photomatix and enfuse (yes... i've been doing it a long time) I loved the look of this demo you did with Luminar Neo
Haha, yeah, I was a photomatix user and abuser back in the day. Thanksfully the Aurora engine that NEO has acquired and used in its HDR extension is fantastic. Basically no user input needed for nice natural results. A real win! 😀
Great tips! My first jobs were in PS with mask painting, then I started doing HDR in Lightroom for friends. It looked good enough, but now I’m trying to speed up the process. I’ve been checking out new YT channels to learn more, but I’m mostly into car stuff, which is on my channel. Still, some extra work helps with how expensive life’s getting. Thanks for all the tips! Gotta binge-watch all your videos now.
Another great video - thanks so much for sharing. I'm not totally sold on Luminar Neo, so would love to hear about the other technique you mentioned at the end there!
The Neo HDR merge extension is really great. I have tried multiple others and found this to be by far the best. Bare in mind this is HDR and not flambient but still you get some really great results to start editing. Gone are the days with the old over cooked HDR look unless you do final edits to make it so. However it does sometimes kick out an image of 2 which may need redoing with different exposures but for the most part it does a fantastic job.
Thanks for all the great videos!! Do you need to shot these in HDR overlay to make this work or can you shot normal raw brackets then upload in something like Neo for HDR?
What else? I have just purchased Luminar Neo and hoping that this will provide me with a better result as I've been shooting flambient plus an exterior exposure, but it's very time consuming in post. Cheers Anthony
Would be so helpful if you showed a full workflow for this from how you import to lightroom and editing at least 2 groups of photos to export. I see everyone showing how to do one set of images at a time but is there not a bulk solution for many of these steps? Thanks for all you do youre one of the best sources out there I’m also trying to use both lrc and neo thanks to you and seeing the full picture would help tremendously
Question: In another video your workflow was: -Apply flat profile and a few adjustments to the 5 different exposures (you explained a specific preset) -HDR merging in LR -Send to PS -Lumenzia Masking - Final Merge and final touch with Nick Collection or Luminar Ai (don’t remember precisely :D Would you recommend hdr merging in Luminar Neo,then PS/Lumenzia photoshop for the Highlights and Shadows workflow? Also i am looking for the best method to streamline my workflow, Could you please make a tutorial on how to batch edit with actions for Ps/Lumenzia I am thinking at something like 1) LR Culling 2) Neo HDR merging 3) Batch import to PS with automatized Lumenzia masking 4) Manual Lumenzia Fine Adjustments 5) Nic Collection or Luminar Ai final Touch(which one you prefer?:) Thanks for your amazing videos, i am learning a lot ❤
This is such a brilliant workflow setup for editing real estate! I've been using luminary neo only but not quite satisfied with the results. This shows me exactly why thank you! Question, is there a similar way to do this using capture one instead of lightroom?
Hi Anthony. Thanks for making all your awesome videos over the years! I have Aurora HDR and use it for doing my real estate photos, HDR wise. I also use Lightroom and Photoshop. How does the work flow work with Aurora HDR instead of Luminar Neo? I usually edit the photos and then "export using Aurora HDR with Lightroom adjustments" pop up to get an HDR photo. Would that be the same as you did in this video but with Luminar Neo?
Hi Anthony - great video - I've just purchased Luminar using your link and have started this process. I must say - my tone mapped files imported back into LR from Luminar are quite dark, have a green cast and are noisy in the shadows. I've been back over the video but cant seem to work out what I'm doing wrong. LR image settings set to flat.
Hmmm, seems odd. I'm not sure where you're going wrong but if there are any casts in the photos, use LR to kill them before doing an HDR merge in Neo. Also use an appropriate amount of noise reduction in LR too so the files aren't noisy. Basically, we want to be handing Neo technically sound images to work its magic with. I hope that helps a bit. Currently I'm right in the throws of creating a Luminar Neo Mastery course and it's consuming ALL of my time. But once I'm done I'll see if I can revisit this concept for a more in-depth video.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for your response. That is the strange thing - there is no cast in the images prior to them going to Luminar. I've hit the noise as well. Thanks for your response.
Hi again Anthony - thanks for your reply yesterday. I've discovered two things - firstly - if I open the files directly from Luminar I do not get the colour shift and I do get a better HDR result and TIFF file. Secondly, I noticed in your video (I've watched it a few times now) that when you 'exported' your images from LR to Luminar, it skipped a step that occurs for me, which is the section where it shows you the 3 original files, and then gives you the ability to apply de-ghosting and image align. How did you go straight to the apply setting in Luminar? Thanks. PS - when exporting to LR my combined image comes out much darker than with Luminar direct.
What else? I have lumenzia in PS and was wondering if this is a better workflow for processing HDR photos or going through your Lumenzia workflow. Whats better/more efficient for RE photography?
Hmmm that is a great question. I think the HDR extension will be the best bet for the speed of edit. For ultimate control it's Lumenzia for the win. However, having both in your arsenal is a great idea. Being able to call on the two options during your workflow will give you a complete solution.
@@AnthonyTurnham I had a feeling you were going to say that ;) Guess ill have to buy this as well then! Appreciete your reply and your videos - Ive learned a great deal and my images have greatly improved after your tutoring. Nice one
They're both good but they're different beasts. Neo is a full editor with the excellent hdr feature as an extension. Lumenzia kicks ass as a Photoshop plugin, great for exposure blending. Neither is "better" they're too different to compare.
Hello, thank you for your great Video. But since the last Luminar update to version 1.19.1, I've been having an issue with your export variant from Lightroom where the HDR tone mapping no longer works properly; the shadows remain far too dark. However, if I export directly from Lightroom (where you said dont do this) to Luminar, it works with the Tone Mapping, but unfortunately, my White Balance and everything else are not carried over. Could you please check if you're experiencing the same issue? I'm desperate. Thank you very much.
I really like your videos, thank you very much for them. The question is, what is the best way to take real estate photos? I want to achieve the best quality, speed is not in the first place. And not to use flash. The editing process itself, to get the best, what should it be?
Hi Alex, thanks for the question. TBH there is no "right" answer to that. Different situations call for different approaches. I would just recommend diving deep into the subject, learn what you can from youtube, courses, books etc and of course practicing. With time you'll discover your own answer to that question and also have picked up a huge wealth of skills along the way. Best of luck!
Luminar Neo has an excellent HDR merge extension. I import all my RAW images into Neo, merge and then export and open in LR to do final colour correction. I go as far a merging 3-5 images + 1 camera mounted flash image in Neo which yields a great starting point for LR editing. The only downfall of Neo is that you can only merge 1 room with multiple exposures at a time unlike Skylum Aurora where you could import an entire home and let it run its course before final edits in your preferred software. It would be great if Neo could look at reintroducing the multiple merging like Aurora did. It would be the only software that I am aware of that could do this and save editors a lot of time to work on other images/projects whilst it is doing it's thing in the back ground. Skylum have the ability and have taken a large leap forward with their HDR merge software but have also taken a large step back by not being able to merge like Aurora did. Neo has much better HDR merge than LR with better results. Even a single image using the HDR extension presents some great results for a single exposure exterior real estate photo.
What else? I am an old student of Trey Ratcliff and have done HDR the good old way since 2008. Nicely done tutorial. Let’s see what that next secret sauce is!
What Else! It did a nice job of the interior but I am wondering how it would go on an image with a large window and an epic sea view as the image you worked on only had a very small window and even in the final image the detail in the window still looked to be blown out.
Glad you noticed. I'm hoping to do a follow up to showcase how it handles windows too. The reason the small window wasn't recovered was simply because I hadn't taken my dark exposure low enough to give the tool the correct data. If I had taken a -3ev or maybe -4ev frame I'm confident it would have been fine.
Nice edit. Do you have a video on the edit of the photo shown in the video 10 seconds in? Would really like to see you edit something that has more windows or bigger windows with more light coming in.
As I understand it, That's an optimiser for HDR monitors. If you're not using a HDR enabled screen or aren't outputting for them specifically. Im not sure it'll benefit you much
Hi Anthonoy! When exporting to Luminar following all your steps I get a warning message in Luminar saying "Please add 1 image at a time", did you get something similar at some point? Thanks in advance!
Bought the Luminar Neo, but feeling a bit frustrated that I have been trying for hours to Export and Export (...) with the sync adjusted files, and when I do the export there is no visible merge. Any idea on this. I really appreciate it.
WHAT ELSE??? Thanks for this video, love it. I really need tricks to work faster and smarter, it takes me a lifetime to do my job (RE). Really not efficient. Thanks in advance! :)
Great video! I've been working on RS photography for a while and I always used the HDR merge method on LR; I've just subscribed to Liminar NEO (using your coupon code 😉) and I'm happily surprised by the results. The only concern I have is the time it will take to manually export every bracketed batch to NEO and then get the file back to LR, is there any way to do this more efficiently like in LR?
Hi Thierry. That's one of the issues I have with the plugin in it's current state is the lack of automation. I'm going to be speaking with the techs at Skylum though and try to get this kind of functionality prioritised in a future update. Watch this space.
What else !!! another great video information you can’t find anywhere else. I’m new to Lightroom. Would love to see you do more videos on Lightroom as well. Thank you.
Always good to see your videos, keep it up! 🙋♂️ Btw, are you currently seeking video editors or a thumbnail designer to enhance viewers, retention, or CTR? If yes, May I send you a previous work sample?
I have a Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR lens, which I often use to shoot apartment real estate, typically at 16mm. What is the simplest way to apply lens correction (to eliminate the fisheye effect) to all my images and then batch HDR merge them in Luminar NEO? When I try this, the lens correction doesn’t appear in the HDR image.
You'd need to prep your files first using developRAW or if you have Lightroom use the profile corrections there first. You can export the photos even as jpegs and use those as the brackets for HDR merge and the results should be good.
Hi Anthony I enjoy watching your channel. I am always trying to speed up my work flow and perfect my images. Whilst my final images are pretty good I feel that I may be doing things the long way around. Please see if you agree with my workflow. 📸 Import all images into Neo and batch merge (4 to 5 brackets with single flash shot) 📸 Export images from Neo and save to HDR folder. 📸 Exported as a TIFF, sRGB @ 16bit 📸 Import into Lightroom Classic and use a preset and correct WB. 📸 Edit in Photoshop should the need be required. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Gwia
Nice. Personally, as you have access to LR I'd start my edit by using LR to apply the correct profile and lens correction (as this does a much better job at this than Neo) I'd also be doing my white balance at the start rather than the end. Then I'd correct geometry, e.g. straighten verticals and horizontals where necesarry. Then I'd export either tiffs or jpegs that were used as the brackets for the HDR merge and proceed from there. You can throw all those LR exports away once you have the HDR merges.
@@archiphoto I have tried the way you show however the files don't export to Neo. LR says that it is uploading files to Luminar Neo but Neo does not open. I am quite intrigued to see the difference between the way I do and your way. My thoughts as to why the export isn't working? TIA
@southernstylesa hi. You don't specifically have to export to neo. You could export to a folder and as long as Neo knows about that folder, ie the folder was added to neo. Neo should see your images as they export from LR and populate the folder.
@@AnthonyTurnham HI Anthony. Perhaphs I am having a momentary lapse of talent and not fully understanding. Is this what you mean?... Import the RAW files into LR and do the slight adjustments etc. After adgustments, export from all images from LR as TIFF to folder and the import those TIFF's into NEO for batch merge. Then export the HDR's as TIFF's to a folder and reopen those TIFF's in LR for final colour correction using my presets?
That's about it 😃 Don't move shadows / highlights etc before initial export. And jpegs without compression still get good results providing you cover all the dynamic range with your bracketed sets.
So is this your newest workflow that you use for client work? I’m a bit surprised to see you not using Lumenzia. Curious if you even think Lumenzia is worth using anymore 🤔
Yes mate. Lumenzia is STILL a hugely valuable piece of my editing workflow (bit.ly/3dpGeub) it's a beast for taking manual control of exposure blending. TBH I wouldn't be without it. BUT, this is an alternative technique that is very effective. The good news now is that since recording this Skylum now include the HHDR plugin as part of the bas program. So no need for buying extras. They also currently have a mad 82% summer sale discount running here: bit.ly/NeoSale
Unfortunately not at the moment. Most of the shoots I do are for clients so I can't really distribute the images. At some point I intend to go do a shoot purely for helping educate people. When I do I'll be able to share the files. I just struggle to find the time I'm currently swamped making a full course on editing for a software company.
Has the new Tiff file been saved into the original folder with the raw files? It sounds like Lightroom is not importing the new image into your catalog.
Actually it‘s SDR or mapping the dynamic range of HDR into SDR. Nothig wrong with that, the only problem is that meanwhile there are real HDR image formats and it‘s very difficult to find videos about that due to the misleading use of the term HDR in photography.
Thank you for this video, really helpful! I just bought Luminar near through your link. I want to give it a try, but the way you show to export the files from LrC to Luminar Neo doesn't let it keep the chances I see.. Am I doing something wrong?
You need to export as a tiff file to hold all the pixel goodness from your lrC edit. The tools from a raw edit won't transfer directly between programs because they have a different toolset.
You can tone map using camera raw in LR after HDR merge. Do you think you get better/faster results using Luminar? My thing is real estate photography, and I am looking to automate my process as fast as possible. This workflow seems to add more processes, not sure.
Yes it does, and its results are very poor by comparison. Often to get good results you have to do quite a lot of work with the sliders. Personally I love the way Luminar gives us a good result straight out of the box.
Hey! 😂 thanks for the great question. No of course not. I use a plethora of software for my editing. Neo's HDR just happens to be the best tool for a realistic and simple exposure blend.
Hello Anthony and thank you very much for one more helpful tutorial. I got a question though. I can't find the hdr image from luminar Neo when i click apply on Luminar Neo.
Hmmm... okay. Not sure without seeing what's going on but sometimes edited tiffs such as those coming back from the Neo plugin end up in the same folder but added at the end of the thumbnail list. Another thought is that they may have been exported via the apply command in Neo plugin but hasn't been added back into the catalogue. If you right click on the folder in the library module and choose "synchronize folder..." may fix it. Another approach may be to go into Windows Explorer or Mac Finder and just search the filename + tiff extension and see if it's been sent somewhere strange - perhaps directly to the HDR merge folder the Luminar Neo app sets up. Let me know how you get on. Worst case, reach out to Skylum's support and ask? They may have a solution...
**IMPORTANT** Since recording this Luminar Neo now ships with the HDR merge tool as standard. NO NEED TO DO THE SUBSCRIPTION - whoop whoop! You can get the lifetime license on sale here: bit.ly/NeoSale and the HDR tool is your foreveeeeeeeerrrrrrr. Nice. It also now does batch processing too which is great for our architecture workflow.
I was fired from my job and now I am starting to become a real estate freelance photographer. I'd like to learn more about editing your real estate photos :) thank you!
Sorry to hear you were fired. Hopefully though it will be a wonderful and freeing opportunity for you. I wish you all the best for your journey into real estate photography! Congrats on saying bye bye to a boss. Now you're the boss! 😀
You have come to the right place. All the best!
What else? That would be great Anthony...your posted tutorials have always provided immensely useful information...Thanks for this latest segment!
What else? Love this use of Luminar NEO. New real estate photographer here and I am using hired editors to do most of the work, however I really want to nail down my own process and your videos are a HUGE help!
Hello, do you need an editor to handle a daily workload of 500-1000 real estate photos? If necessary, please contact me, thank you!
Great video, thank you so much for shearing. i would Love to hear the second tecnique
WHAT ELSE?? SHOW MEEE. This was great. It's time to refresh my workflow and hopefully get away from Photomatix and enfuse (yes... i've been doing it a long time) I loved the look of this demo you did with Luminar Neo
Haha, yeah, I was a photomatix user and abuser back in the day. Thanksfully the Aurora engine that NEO has acquired and used in its HDR extension is fantastic. Basically no user input needed for nice natural results. A real win! 😀
Great tips! My first jobs were in PS with mask painting, then I started doing HDR in Lightroom for friends. It looked good enough, but now I’m trying to speed up the process. I’ve been checking out new YT channels to learn more, but I’m mostly into car stuff, which is on my channel. Still, some extra work helps with how expensive life’s getting.
Thanks for all the tips! Gotta binge-watch all your videos now.
Another great video - thanks so much for sharing. I'm not totally sold on Luminar Neo, so would love to hear about the other technique you mentioned at the end there!
What Else! 😊 I learned a few cool things watching this, I like your delivery a lot. Thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see you adding to this channel again. Please keep doing so .
Thanks Peter. I intend to.
Gran aporte, me gustaría aprender la técnica por completo 👌 gracias!
That is the first time I am nicely surprised with HDR. Usually I stay away from it at all cost, but I can see it can be useful now.
The Neo HDR merge extension is really great. I have tried multiple others and found this to be by far the best. Bare in mind this is HDR and not flambient but still you get some really great results to start editing. Gone are the days with the old over cooked HDR look unless you do final edits to make it so. However it does sometimes kick out an image of 2 which may need redoing with different exposures but for the most part it does a fantastic job.
Another great videos as always. Love to see what else is possible.
Awesome. This was very helpful, especially the bit about using export to TIFF in the workflow. Thanks.
Good to see you uploading to this channel again brother! Would love to see "what else" you have up your sleeve! 😁
Thanks a lot! Much appreciated! 😁
Thanks for all the great videos!!
Do you need to shot these in HDR overlay to make this work or can you shot normal raw brackets then upload in something like Neo for HDR?
Raw brackets is fine 👍
What else? I have just purchased Luminar Neo and hoping that this will provide me with a better result as I've been shooting flambient plus an exterior exposure, but it's very time consuming in post. Cheers Anthony
Would be so helpful if you showed a full workflow for this from how you import to lightroom and editing at least 2 groups of photos to export.
I see everyone showing how to do one set of images at a time but is there not a bulk solution for many of these steps? Thanks for all you do youre one of the best sources out there
I’m also trying to use both lrc and neo thanks to you and seeing the full picture would help tremendously
Duly noted! I've taken a slight pause from the architecture work but when I get back into it, I'll try and do a more comprehensive video.
Great video! I'm going to try adding this to my HDR workflow. Now, what else??
Question:
In another video your workflow was:
-Apply flat profile and a few adjustments to the 5 different exposures (you explained a specific preset)
-HDR merging in LR
-Send to PS
-Lumenzia Masking
- Final Merge and final touch with Nick Collection or Luminar Ai (don’t remember precisely :D
Would you recommend hdr merging in Luminar Neo,then PS/Lumenzia photoshop for the Highlights and Shadows workflow?
Also i am looking for the best method to streamline my workflow,
Could you please make a tutorial on how to batch edit with actions for Ps/Lumenzia
I am thinking at something like
1) LR Culling
2) Neo HDR merging
3) Batch import to PS with automatized Lumenzia masking
4) Manual Lumenzia Fine Adjustments
5) Nic Collection or Luminar Ai final Touch(which one you prefer?:)
Thanks for your amazing videos, i am learning a lot ❤
This is such a brilliant workflow setup for editing real estate! I've been using luminary neo only but not quite satisfied with the results. This shows me exactly why thank you! Question, is there a similar way to do this using capture one instead of lightroom?
Hi Anthony. Thanks for making all your awesome videos over the years! I have Aurora HDR and use it for doing my real estate photos, HDR wise. I also use Lightroom and Photoshop. How does the work flow work with Aurora HDR instead of Luminar Neo? I usually edit the photos and then "export using Aurora HDR with Lightroom adjustments" pop up to get an HDR photo. Would that be the same as you did in this video but with Luminar Neo?
Very similar I'm sure. It's nice that the clean HDR processing of Aurora lives on in Luminar's HDR extension.
im having trouble with the export… when i follow your steps.. luminar brings up the darkest image in my stack. what am i doing wrong?
i have the same problem
Aaaaaaaay! Welcome back Antknee!
Hi Anthony - great video - I've just purchased Luminar using your link and have started this process. I must say - my tone mapped files imported back into LR from Luminar are quite dark, have a green cast and are noisy in the shadows. I've been back over the video but cant seem to work out what I'm doing wrong. LR image settings set to flat.
Hmmm, seems odd. I'm not sure where you're going wrong but if there are any casts in the photos, use LR to kill them before doing an HDR merge in Neo. Also use an appropriate amount of noise reduction in LR too so the files aren't noisy. Basically, we want to be handing Neo technically sound images to work its magic with. I hope that helps a bit. Currently I'm right in the throws of creating a Luminar Neo Mastery course and it's consuming ALL of my time. But once I'm done I'll see if I can revisit this concept for a more in-depth video.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks for your response. That is the strange thing - there is no cast in the images prior to them going to Luminar. I've hit the noise as well. Thanks for your response.
Hi again Anthony - thanks for your reply yesterday. I've discovered two things - firstly - if I open the files directly from Luminar I do not get the colour shift and I do get a better HDR result and TIFF file. Secondly, I noticed in your video (I've watched it a few times now) that when you 'exported' your images from LR to Luminar, it skipped a step that occurs for me, which is the section where it shows you the 3 original files, and then gives you the ability to apply de-ghosting and image align. How did you go straight to the apply setting in Luminar? Thanks. PS - when exporting to LR my combined image comes out much darker than with Luminar direct.
This is the tutorial I needed😍Awesome work! WHAT ELSE?
What else?
I have lumenzia in PS and was wondering if this is a better workflow for processing HDR photos or going through your Lumenzia workflow. Whats better/more efficient for RE photography?
Hmmm that is a great question. I think the HDR extension will be the best bet for the speed of edit. For ultimate control it's Lumenzia for the win. However, having both in your arsenal is a great idea. Being able to call on the two options during your workflow will give you a complete solution.
@@AnthonyTurnham I had a feeling you were going to say that ;) Guess ill have to buy this as well then! Appreciete your reply and your videos - Ive learned a great deal and my images have greatly improved after your tutoring. Nice one
Which is better, Lumenzia or Luminar Neo?
They're both good but they're different beasts. Neo is a full editor with the excellent hdr feature as an extension. Lumenzia kicks ass as a Photoshop plugin, great for exposure blending. Neither is "better" they're too different to compare.
what else please! love this video! thank you
Great tutorial! Thanks to comparing to HDR merging in LR.
No worries. The way LR does its HDR merge is a common misconception.
Great video, succinct and very helpful, I learned a better merge technique from this. Thank you!
Very nice job!!
Thank you!
Hello, thank you for your great Video. But since the last Luminar update to version 1.19.1, I've been having an issue with your export variant from Lightroom where the HDR tone mapping no longer works properly; the shadows remain far too dark. However, if I export directly from Lightroom (where you said dont do this) to Luminar, it works with the Tone Mapping, but unfortunately, my White Balance and everything else are not carried over. Could you please check if you're experiencing the same issue? I'm desperate. Thank you very much.
Hi. I'd love to check for you but I'm currently travelling overseas so no access to check. Sorry
@@AnthonyTurnham Ah ok thank you, but maybe you could keep it in Mind. Have a great Travel
what else Anthony? great video, you improve my photography, thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
My pleasure!
What else. Very Helpful. Thank you! M
Great vid and nice to see NEO as a leader in HDR Merge - So, What Else?????
Great tutorial! Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Ok you have me interested, what's the second reason for luminar?
What else? 🤔 I always learn something new and helpful with your tutorials. Thank you. 🤙🏽
What else? Love you workflow...
great explaination of the aurora engine vs lightroom. now what else
great video, thank you
Thanks for the video. Do you try to keep all your finishing crops the same ratio? Or just custom every time?
I really like your videos, thank you very much for them. The question is, what is the best way to take real estate photos? I want to achieve the best quality, speed is not in the first place. And not to use flash. The editing process itself, to get the best, what should it be?
Hi Alex, thanks for the question. TBH there is no "right" answer to that. Different situations call for different approaches. I would just recommend diving deep into the subject, learn what you can from youtube, courses, books etc and of course practicing. With time you'll discover your own answer to that question and also have picked up a huge wealth of skills along the way. Best of luck!
I would love to know what else u can do with it
Luminar Neo has an excellent HDR merge extension. I import all my RAW images into Neo, merge and then export and open in LR to do final colour correction. I go as far a merging 3-5 images + 1 camera mounted flash image in Neo which yields a great starting point for LR editing.
The only downfall of Neo is that you can only merge 1 room with multiple exposures at a time unlike Skylum Aurora where you could import an entire home and let it run its course before final edits in your preferred software.
It would be great if Neo could look at reintroducing the multiple merging like Aurora did. It would be the only software that I am aware of that could do this and save editors a lot of time to work on other images/projects whilst it is doing it's thing in the back ground.
Skylum have the ability and have taken a large leap forward with their HDR merge software but have also taken a large step back by not being able to merge like Aurora did.
Neo has much better HDR merge than LR with better results. Even a single image using the HDR extension presents some great results for a single exposure exterior real estate photo.
Great video! What else? I would love to know this second utility you mentioned.
What else?
Great video Anthony
Nice tutorial , Cheers ...
Can you make a video expaining us the camera settings for a succesful blend?
Good idea 💡
Great video as always! What else?
What else? I am an old student of Trey Ratcliff and have done HDR the good old way since 2008. Nicely done tutorial. Let’s see what that next secret sauce is!
Thank you for saving my life… 🙏🏽
😃 glad it's been helpful.
What Else! It did a nice job of the interior but I am wondering how it would go on an image with a large window and an epic sea view as the image you worked on only had a very small window and even in the final image the detail in the window still looked to be blown out.
Glad you noticed. I'm hoping to do a follow up to showcase how it handles windows too. The reason the small window wasn't recovered was simply because I hadn't taken my dark exposure low enough to give the tool the correct data. If I had taken a -3ev or maybe -4ev frame I'm confident it would have been fine.
@@archiphoto I would like to see that if you can put together that video.
bruh.... what else... lol thanks for sharing, very concise and very useful. No gatekeeping like others, PEACE!
Also, what else!? I would love more info on your technique!
What Else? This was a great video - thanks for the info!
My pleasure!
Nice edit. Do you have a video on the edit of the photo shown in the video 10 seconds in? Would really like to see you edit something that has more windows or bigger windows with more light coming in.
how do you get luminar to send the merged photo back into lightroom
What else? Thanks Anthony, this is great information
What else? Thanks for sharing!
Also, I'm confused, why haven't you selected HDR mode in Lightroom?
As I understand it, That's an optimiser for HDR monitors. If you're not using a HDR enabled screen or aren't outputting for them specifically. Im not sure it'll benefit you much
What else?? Loved this one.
Great video Anthony. I would like to see What Else.
What else? Wonderful video, BTW.
Hi Anthonoy! When exporting to Luminar following all your steps I get a warning message in Luminar saying "Please add 1 image at a time", did you get something similar at some point? Thanks in advance!
No. That seems odd. Hmmm. I'd fire your question through to the Skylum helpdesk.
great tip for how to import to Neo as I made that mistake lol What else?
Bought the Luminar Neo, but feeling a bit frustrated that I have been trying for hours to Export and Export (...) with the sync adjusted files, and when I do the export there is no visible merge. Any idea on this. I really appreciate it.
Amazing! what else?
WHAT ELSE??? Thanks for this video, love it. I really need tricks to work faster and smarter, it takes me a lifetime to do my job (RE). Really not efficient. Thanks in advance! :)
Can you show your final product export method of choice?
Great video!
I've been working on RS photography for a while and I always used the HDR merge method on LR; I've just subscribed to Liminar NEO (using your coupon code 😉) and I'm happily surprised by the results. The only concern I have is the time it will take to manually export every bracketed batch to NEO and then get the file back to LR, is there any way to do this more efficiently like in LR?
Hi Thierry. That's one of the issues I have with the plugin in it's current state is the lack of automation. I'm going to be speaking with the techs at Skylum though and try to get this kind of functionality prioritised in a future update. Watch this space.
What else !!! another great video information you can’t find anywhere else. I’m new to Lightroom. Would love to see you do more videos on Lightroom as well. Thank you.
Always good to see your videos, keep it up! 🙋♂️
Btw, are you currently seeking video editors or a thumbnail designer to enhance viewers, retention, or CTR?
If yes, May I send you a previous work sample?
Ah the next water down product. A&design... wooohoooo
Can you elaborate? I have no idea what you're referring to. Thanks
Hi Anthony, thanks for a great tutorial! What else? ;)
How did you get multiple exposure shots from HDR to blend manually like this? My Nikon D7200 blends the HDR multiples together automatically.
excellent
What Else!
What else? Thanks for great video!
I have a Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR lens, which I often use to shoot apartment real estate, typically at 16mm. What is the simplest way to apply lens correction (to eliminate the fisheye effect) to all my images and then batch HDR merge them in Luminar NEO? When I try this, the lens correction doesn’t appear in the HDR image.
You'd need to prep your files first using developRAW or if you have Lightroom use the profile corrections there first. You can export the photos even as jpegs and use those as the brackets for HDR merge and the results should be good.
Hi Anthony
I enjoy watching your channel.
I am always trying to speed up my work flow and perfect my images.
Whilst my final images are pretty good I feel that I may be doing things the long way around.
Please see if you agree with my workflow.
📸 Import all images into Neo and batch merge (4 to 5 brackets with single flash shot)
📸 Export images from Neo and save to HDR folder.
📸 Exported as a TIFF, sRGB @ 16bit
📸 Import into Lightroom Classic and use a preset and correct WB.
📸 Edit in Photoshop should the need be required.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Gwia
Nice. Personally, as you have access to LR I'd start my edit by using LR to apply the correct profile and lens correction (as this does a much better job at this than Neo) I'd also be doing my white balance at the start rather than the end. Then I'd correct geometry, e.g. straighten verticals and horizontals where necesarry. Then I'd export either tiffs or jpegs that were used as the brackets for the HDR merge and proceed from there. You can throw all those LR exports away once you have the HDR merges.
@@archiphoto I have tried the way you show however the files don't export to Neo.
LR says that it is uploading files to Luminar Neo but Neo does not open.
I am quite intrigued to see the difference between the way I do and your way.
My thoughts as to why the export isn't working?
TIA
@southernstylesa hi. You don't specifically have to export to neo. You could export to a folder and as long as Neo knows about that folder, ie the folder was added to neo. Neo should see your images as they export from LR and populate the folder.
@@AnthonyTurnham HI Anthony.
Perhaphs I am having a momentary lapse of talent and not fully understanding.
Is this what you mean?...
Import the RAW files into LR and do the slight adjustments etc.
After adgustments, export from all images from LR as TIFF to folder and the import those TIFF's into NEO for batch merge.
Then export the HDR's as TIFF's to a folder and reopen those TIFF's in LR for final colour correction using my presets?
That's about it 😃
Don't move shadows / highlights etc before initial export. And jpegs without compression still get good results providing you cover all the dynamic range with your bracketed sets.
What else. Great video
Great video thanks - Can you use. the same workflow but export from Bridge and edit in Camera raw?
yeah sure. Just sub lightroom steps for bridge + camera raw.
So is this your newest workflow that you use for client work? I’m a bit surprised to see you not using Lumenzia. Curious if you even think Lumenzia is worth using anymore 🤔
Yes mate. Lumenzia is STILL a hugely valuable piece of my editing workflow (bit.ly/3dpGeub) it's a beast for taking manual control of exposure blending. TBH I wouldn't be without it. BUT, this is an alternative technique that is very effective. The good news now is that since recording this Skylum now include the HHDR plugin as part of the bas program. So no need for buying extras. They also currently have a mad 82% summer sale discount running here: bit.ly/NeoSale
Hi. Do you have raw image downloads available for me to practice?
Wishing you the best.
Thanks.
Unfortunately not at the moment. Most of the shoots I do are for clients so I can't really distribute the images. At some point I intend to go do a shoot purely for helping educate people. When I do I'll be able to share the files. I just struggle to find the time I'm currently swamped making a full course on editing for a software company.
real pro, thx!
i don't see the flat profile, please help me out.
Everything worked great until I hit Apply. The image disappears from LR. It says no image available? What Happened? Thanks
Hi. Erm no, that seems odd. Not come across that before. Skylum have got a helpdesk that it'd be worth reaching out to.
Has the new Tiff file been saved into the original folder with the raw files? It sounds like Lightroom is not importing the new image into your catalog.
I'd love to see it compared to LR enfuse plugin !
Hi. Unfortunately I don't have access to the lightroom enfuse plugin to do a comparison.
Actually it‘s SDR or mapping the dynamic range of HDR into SDR. Nothig wrong with that, the only problem is that meanwhile there are real HDR image formats and it‘s very difficult to find videos about that due to the misleading use of the term HDR in photography.
what else mate...sharing is caring
Thank you for this video, really helpful! I just bought Luminar near through your link. I want to give it a try, but the way you show to export the files from LrC to Luminar Neo doesn't let it keep the chances I see.. Am I doing something wrong?
You need to export as a tiff file to hold all the pixel goodness from your lrC edit. The tools from a raw edit won't transfer directly between programs because they have a different toolset.
You can tone map using camera raw in LR after HDR merge. Do you think you get better/faster results using Luminar? My thing is real estate photography, and I am looking to automate my process as fast as possible. This workflow seems to add more processes, not sure.
Did you find an answer to this please?
What else!!
What else? Doesn’t the hdr function in Photoshop tone map?
Yes it does, and its results are very poor by comparison. Often to get good results you have to do quite a lot of work with the sliders. Personally I love the way Luminar gives us a good result straight out of the box.
Thanks for your reply. @@archiphoto
HDR works with Luminar better (more realistic) than any other program I have used. And what else?
100%. I love the Aurora engine that they migrated into Luminar. It's the natural results straight out of the box that I really like.
Hey you think you can do all that in only Luminar neo ?
Hey! 😂 thanks for the great question.
No of course not. I use a plethora of software for my editing. Neo's HDR just happens to be the best tool for a realistic and simple exposure blend.
What else… much appreciated
Hello Anthony and thank you very much for one more helpful tutorial. I got a question though. I can't find the hdr image from luminar Neo when i click apply on Luminar Neo.
Same problem here
Hmmm... okay. Not sure without seeing what's going on but sometimes edited tiffs such as those coming back from the Neo plugin end up in the same folder but added at the end of the thumbnail list. Another thought is that they may have been exported via the apply command in Neo plugin but hasn't been added back into the catalogue. If you right click on the folder in the library module and choose "synchronize folder..." may fix it. Another approach may be to go into Windows Explorer or Mac Finder and just search the filename + tiff extension and see if it's been sent somewhere strange - perhaps directly to the HDR merge folder the Luminar Neo app sets up. Let me know how you get on.
Worst case, reach out to Skylum's support and ask? They may have a solution...
Correct @ush45
What else? (Real Estate Listing Photograher Here)