Tethering, perspective control, complete DNG workflow, mobile and cloud version, just a couple of things I believe it's still lacking. But a great update in the right direction. Great work.
For professionals yes there is still some growth that needs to happen. BUT, for the average user Luminar Neo is simpler to use and a LOT cheaper in the long run.
You did in less than 15 minutes what a person who actually knew how to use all the Photoshopt Tools could do in the better part of s day. But who really wants to take 20 steps to do what can be done with a few clicks and sliders. The problem I have is knowing what is subtle and what is not. This looks like a really fun program to just enjoy the process and experiment. Me thinks me has to have!
Best demo I have seen for this NEW version, the older Luminar I always thought was a joke. I use Capture one, after years of lightroom. I notice all videos of this never show CATALOGING mode in this, very important to see. I want to find a demo of this
I installed it and tried to edit a family photo I recently took. It did a horrible job handling faces. Working off M1 Pro. These videos always convince me to try it again. Will stick with Lightroom/photoshop for the foreseeable future
Hey Mark, nice informative video besides questioning us if we need LR or PS. What are your thoughts about ON1. Have you ever used it? If so which one have you liked?
I’m having a problem I wonder you can help me out with when I open the software where the tools and editing is all it is doing is blinking off and on. There’s nothing I can click to make it stop. How do I use the right hand of this panel with this problem?
question...when ur done with edits how do u get the edited file back into lightroom? when I click "apply" it just goes back to the unedited pic in lightroom
Been trying to use it and at times its so so so so so slow. Really frustrating tbh. Sometimes doing a simple on/off preview of original photo vs edits just doesn't work.
Maybe I don't understand it, but the masking tool is crap. If you switch to the editing tool, you can't go back and edit the mask. Am I missing something? Can someone explain to me how to edit the masks afterwards? Thx. Great video nonetheless.
Luminar only edits, Lightroom's strength is as a DAM. Add in that you can't name layers or add keywords in Luminar. Use LR with Luminar as a plugin seems a marriage made in heaven
@MarkMcGeephotos are you switching 100% to Luminar Neo? Is so do you plan on redoing some of your editing videos using Luminar? Great video as always! Keep up the great work.
Great video Mark. I've been using Bridge & Photoshop from many years and often think about switching to Luminar Neo. I'm a bit confused around the extras that they sell along side the main program. What would I need to purchase to have something similar to Photoshop ? Thanks Mark.
Stay with Adobe. Luminar is a great tool for beginners, but if you need specific and precise features it lacks and, sometimes, the results you have with it are terrible
Couple of comments on the advert - the dodge and burn tools affect saturation, not just luminosity, so they pretty much suck. The mask editing functionality is useless. Once you've clicked to commit an edit, your mask becomes a raster object that you can only adjust with a brush, not adjust gradients etc. One thing your video does show very well is how easy it is to overcook an image with just a few clicks, so well done for that.
Hate the fact it blurs the photo when you're moving any sliders around, so you cannot see what it's actually done until you stop. Plus never adding what they said they would, just bought out a new version every time. Waste of money, bad practice business wise.
Excellent video! I kept lightroom and photoshop around for a while, then found myself never using them, always went to Luminar Neo first. So I ended up cancelling my subscription and never looked back. Luminar Neo is easier, more accurate, offers more and fun to use.
If you’re just a photo editor then yes. Otherwise no, don’t get rid of photoshop/lightroom. Plus this video is an incentivised review from Luminar, it’s highly biased.
@@WanderFeetChronicles Regardless of the video, I was also using Premier Pro, then I tried DaVinci Resolve (Free Version) and found it to be superior to all others. I bought the Pro Version of Resolve, it's basically Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premier etc are great, however, but there are other software products that are better depending on what you want and do.
Its Skylum so therefore no thanks. Have been bitten before by their awful business practices - releasing software at huge discount then sunsetting it straight afterwards with no upgrade path, promising features that never get added then releasing a new product with said features. Just no.
You're right. They did this in the past a LOT. I have three or four older programs they simply dropped. I almost didn't get Neo, but so far, they've done what they said and seem to be sticking with this program. I like it quite a lot (I also use PS, ON1, and various Topaz modules). It's now part of my workflow. Even if they stopped improving it tomorrow, at it's current level of development, I'd consider it worth my time and money investment.
While what you say is true, Adobe has done much worse. I finally gave up my Adobe subscription and I’m not going back. I now use my camera native program to download and organize the raw files and then Luminar for everything extra.
With Gen Expand, you took 9 seconds to show it, but didn't go into depth about the resolution quality etc so kinda pointless especially when you are trying to say you don't need PS anymore.... where is the actual derailed comparison? Seems very much like a sponsored video
Thank you for this video; but I do not like the way Luminar tries to take money away from our pockets; I'm tired of their "money practice" , always trying to sell us more and more and more things / with Photoshop+Lightroom I pay a fixed amount/month since many many many years, and that's all
Tried it once and it has some interesting features, but I dont live overedited stuff and it is VERY easy to overdo it with luminar. Also I think everyone should probably have a basic workflow which can be replicated with several apps, not relying on fancy stuff too heavily. But its a nice little toy, which will never replace something like lightroom for me though.
Unfortunately the pricing structure is awful so no thanks. I thnk the answer is yes we need Photoshop. Still love your channel but prefer the ones not product based.
Luminar Neo still does not support Nikon High Efficiency format RAW files. They will not process refunds if you purchased expecting file support like you get from all the other apps like Lightroom. They promise they will add the support in the "future" but will not let you pause your subscription until that happens. NIKON SHOOTERS STAY AWAY.
I just upgraded from Luminar 4 to Neo - Biggest waste of money I have ever done... The LUMINAR 4 is a great package with logical and pleasure to work with INTERFACE, NEO is a complete mess, question is WHAT WERE THEY THINKING... I wish is spent my money more wisely... It's a shame... DO not buy NEO if you have LUMINAR 4
The crop of the womans hair is bad... She looks like she got pasted in from a bad selection. If you dont know what im talking about, look at the difference between before-after at the end of the edit (after adding the after glow); there youll see some orphin hairs that are completely cut off which makes it look copy-pasted
l.skylum.com/Luminar-mark - 10% Discount - MCGEE10
One of the best videos of Neo's updates with clear explanations of the new features, thanks! Please do some more videos on Luminar Neo.
Wasn't sure when the video was all about landscapes, but when you transitioned to luminosity masks and gen erase, I'm sold! Brilliant stuff
Great video Mark, thank you.... I will be spending some time with Luminar this week.
Tethering, perspective control, complete DNG workflow, mobile and cloud version, just a couple of things I believe it's still lacking. But a great update in the right direction. Great work.
For professionals yes there is still some growth that needs to happen. BUT, for the average user Luminar Neo is simpler to use and a LOT cheaper in the long run.
@@CreativeFocus365 i got the lifetime license at a discount for 90$ so it's definitively cheaper than lightroom
You are very engaging and a joy to watch... subscribed!
You did in less than 15 minutes what a person who actually knew how to use all the Photoshopt Tools could do in the better part of s day. But who really wants to take 20 steps to do what can be done with a few clicks and sliders. The problem I have is knowing what is subtle and what is not. This looks like a really fun program to just enjoy the process and experiment. Me thinks me has to have!
thank you for the discount code! :D just bought this and is exactly what i was looking for
Best demo I have seen for this NEW version, the older Luminar I always thought was a joke. I use Capture one, after years of lightroom. I notice all videos of this never show CATALOGING mode in this, very important to see. I want to find a demo of this
You forgot to mention that this is a paid advertisement I don't want to see you accidentally getting in trouble.
I installed it and tried to edit a family photo I recently took. It did a horrible job handling faces. Working off M1 Pro. These videos always convince me to try it again. Will stick with Lightroom/photoshop for the foreseeable future
capture one best!
Hey Mark, nice informative video besides questioning us if we need LR or PS. What are your thoughts about ON1. Have you ever used it? If so which one have you liked?
I’m having a problem I wonder you can help me out with when I open the software where the tools and editing is all it is doing is blinking off and on. There’s nothing I can click to make it stop. How do I use the right hand of this panel with this problem?
Wonderful!
What about SPEED in Luminar vs Lightroom?! From editing to exporting multiple RAW files?
question...when ur done with edits how do u get the edited file back into lightroom? when I click "apply" it just goes back to the unedited pic in lightroom
Thanks for the content. off topic I want to ask. Which graphics tablet do you use?
Been trying to use it and at times its so so so so so slow. Really frustrating tbh. Sometimes doing a simple on/off preview of original photo vs edits just doesn't work.
Can I use Luminar to remove small dust spots on scanned negatives?
Does it have liquify?
Thank you for discount. And videas 🙂
Are you able to print from neo with colour management and paper profiles etc? Thanks
Which version of Luminar Neo is it?
Thank you my friend!!!📸📸
Maybe I don't understand it, but the masking tool is crap. If you switch to the editing tool, you can't go back and edit the mask. Am I missing something? Can someone explain to me how to edit the masks afterwards? Thx. Great video nonetheless.
Luminar only edits, Lightroom's strength is as a DAM. Add in that you can't name layers or add keywords in Luminar. Use LR with Luminar as a plugin seems a marriage made in heaven
is it possible to trial this software?
Love you mark you are so helpful Loved all of your videos.
Great, informative video. Thanks Phil AKA Keepclickingphotography
Unfortunately, I think your monitor is off a bit... that water 'value' in the first portion, looks entirely unrealistically over 'greened'.
@MarkMcGeephotos are you switching 100% to Luminar Neo? Is so do you plan on redoing some of your editing videos using Luminar? Great video as always! Keep up the great work.
There's no way any pro would exclusively use this
Great video Mark. I've been using Bridge & Photoshop from many years and often think about switching to Luminar Neo. I'm a bit confused around the extras that they sell along side the main program. What would I need to purchase to have something similar to Photoshop ? Thanks Mark.
Stay with Adobe. Luminar is a great tool for beginners, but if you need specific and precise features it lacks and, sometimes, the results you have with it are terrible
a couple of years with this, and I can surely switch from LRc.
I just uodate and is crashing down
Couple of comments on the advert - the dodge and burn tools affect saturation, not just luminosity, so they pretty much suck. The mask editing functionality is useless. Once you've clicked to commit an edit, your mask becomes a raster object that you can only adjust with a brush, not adjust gradients etc. One thing your video does show very well is how easy it is to overcook an image with just a few clicks, so well done for that.
Yes we do, anyone having trouble updating the Lightroom plug in?
Only 1 year AI access for lifetime software?
For the generative AI tool, I don’t know any software that has unlimited access.
everyone says it sucks because of the constant upsells and ads...has this been changed to be less annoying?
Hate the fact it blurs the photo when you're moving any sliders around, so you cannot see what it's actually done until you stop. Plus never adding what they said they would, just bought out a new version every time. Waste of money, bad practice business wise.
Excellent video! I kept lightroom and photoshop around for a while, then found myself never using them, always went to Luminar Neo first. So I ended up cancelling my subscription and never looked back. Luminar Neo is easier, more accurate, offers more and fun to use.
If you’re just a photo editor then yes. Otherwise no, don’t get rid of photoshop/lightroom.
Plus this video is an incentivised review from Luminar, it’s highly biased.
@@WanderFeetChronicles Regardless of the video, I was also using Premier Pro, then I tried DaVinci Resolve (Free Version) and found it to be superior to all others. I bought the Pro Version of Resolve, it's basically Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premier etc are great, however, but there are other software products that are better depending on what you want and do.
From skeptic to believer in 13:32 minutes! Great, on point video.
no space color available like adobe RGB ...... unusable for professional photography and prints......
Its Skylum so therefore no thanks. Have been bitten before by their awful business practices - releasing software at huge discount then sunsetting it straight afterwards with no upgrade path, promising features that never get added then releasing a new product with said features. Just no.
You're right. They did this in the past a LOT. I have three or four older programs they simply dropped. I almost didn't get Neo, but so far, they've done what they said and seem to be sticking with this program. I like it quite a lot (I also use PS, ON1, and various Topaz modules). It's now part of my workflow. Even if they stopped improving it tomorrow, at it's current level of development, I'd consider it worth my time and money investment.
So your preference is lightroom photoshop, I have a preference to pay up front and not pay rental
They have not ripped me of
Cheers have a great day
Because Adobe have never been shady lol
While what you say is true, Adobe has done much worse. I finally gave up my Adobe subscription and I’m not going back. I now use my camera native program to download and organize the raw files and then Luminar for everything extra.
its called pirate
With Gen Expand, you took 9 seconds to show it, but didn't go into depth about the resolution quality etc so kinda pointless especially when you are trying to say you don't need PS anymore.... where is the actual derailed comparison?
Seems very much like a sponsored video
Thank you for this video; but I do not like the way Luminar tries to take money away from our pockets; I'm tired of their "money practice" , always trying to sell us more and more and more things / with Photoshop+Lightroom I pay a fixed amount/month since many many many years, and that's all
Used to love your channel for the techniques and editing you showed us ..... however been totally put off lately by your Luminar Neo advertorials ...
It's 100% fine to have sponsored videos as long as the video is not about the sponsored product.
I don't rent software, I will only buy it.
Tried it once and it has some interesting features, but I dont live overedited stuff and it is VERY easy to overdo it with luminar. Also I think everyone should probably have a basic workflow which can be replicated with several apps, not relying on fancy stuff too heavily. But its a nice little toy, which will never replace something like lightroom for me though.
It's not pink, it's mauve.
Unfortunately the pricing structure is awful so no thanks. I thnk the answer is yes we need Photoshop. Still love your channel but prefer the ones not product based.
Luminar Neo still does not support Nikon High Efficiency format RAW files. They will not process refunds if you purchased expecting file support like you get from all the other apps like Lightroom. They promise they will add the support in the "future" but will not let you pause your subscription until that happens. NIKON SHOOTERS STAY AWAY.
I think photos after being edited are ruined and look dreadful, sorry but I do.
I just upgraded from Luminar 4 to Neo - Biggest waste of money I have ever done... The LUMINAR 4 is a great package with logical and pleasure to work with INTERFACE, NEO is a complete mess, question is WHAT WERE THEY THINKING... I wish is spent my money more wisely... It's a shame... DO not buy NEO if you have LUMINAR 4
The crop of the womans hair is bad... She looks like she got pasted in from a bad selection. If you dont know what im talking about, look at the difference between before-after at the end of the edit (after adding the after glow); there youll see some orphin hairs that are completely cut off which makes it look copy-pasted
Luminar was putting banding on peoples faces their necks I stopped using it
they could fix the AI servers first...
Goodbye Lightroom