![]() Histogram for both luminosity and RGB (I consider this to be a very common tool and a requirement for photo editors). Review edits without having to move to a separate “Edits” tab. Masks and layers for multiple exposure blending (Currenlty mostly acts as a texture overlay).Ībililty to reduce layer opacity to lower the intensity of grouped edits all at once. For my Architectural and Real Estate Photography, the key features that are missing and preventing me from recommending the software are: However, at this point in time, it’s hard to recommend the software to intermediate and advanced editors who already use other editing programs. In short, I drank the cool-aid at the announcement of Luminar Neo, and I still really want to give Skylum a shot. The tools I used were the golden hour slider, relight AI, smart contrast, glow, and dust spot remover. Here’s an example edit where I applied Luminar Neo as a final step to tie all my edits together into a softer and warmer image. I’ll absolutely use this if I ever need to.Īlthough it’s possible to do all of these edits in Lightroom and Photoshop, the big selling factor is that it has the potential to do it much faster. ![]() Potential Use Case: Luckily I haven’t had this issue just yet where I had an incredible amount of dust on my lens however, this follows the same reasoning as the Powerline removal. Even if it takes only 75% of the power lines out, that’s still less cloning work that I’ll have to do in photoshop! Potential Use Case: This is pretty self explanatory but not having to clone all the pesky power lines is a great addition for architectural photographers. But, at the very least I I’m happy to see it providing a quicker method to create depth. Unfortunately, the Dodge & Burn tool isn’t released yet, so a proper test would be needed befoe commenting. I used Relight AI as a good alternative to quickly adjust brightness levels of the foreground without having to make multiple adjustment layers and masks in photoshop. Potential Use Case: To help draw the viewer in, I typically try to have the brightest part of the image closer to the back of the composition. This replaced the steps needed to create multiple adjustment layers to color grade in that early morning/later afternoon soft and warm look to tie the whole image together.Īdd depth with their Relight Ai and the Dodge & Burn tools Potential Use Case: One of the features I enjoyed using was the “Golden Hour” slider. If Luminar Neo worked like how Skylum promoted the software, I can see myself using it primarily as a complementary plugin with Lightroom and Photoshop to: As you can tell from above, I have a system in place, and changing that system should only be if it saves time or improves the quality of my photos. However, there definitely needs to be some fixes and updates to the program before doing so which I’ll go into detail below. ![]() So, you’re probably asking, “Where does Luminar Neo fit into all of this”? Well, after editing with the software for quite some time, here are my thoughts.Īs of today (), Luminar Neo has the potential in being added to my workflow. This really just depends on the day as both programs do the same thing. From here, I’ll typically go into Camera Raw or simply save the file back into Lightroom for final tweaks and adjustments for consistency. This covers my bases in terms of alignment of exposures, luminosity masking and blending, removing objects, sky replacements, adding in dynamic lighting, basic tonal adjustments, cloning, and vertical straightening. In Architectural and real estate photography, you’ll most likely have multiple exposures so I’ll also sync the varying exposures together for manual blending in PhotoshopĪdvanced Edits – This is where I do most of my heavy lifting. I do this so that only the photos I want to edit are there.īasic corrections – I keep things pretty simple and only account for lens correction, exposure, white balance, and minor tweaks to highlights and shadows. 4 or 5 stars are reserved for portfolio photos.įor Organizing my files into bins – After ranking, I’ll move each star category into separate folders and only upload the best photos to Lightroom. ![]() So for example, after the 3 passes I’ll have a selection of photos with 0, 1, 2, or 3 stars with 3 being the highest. For viewing raw files – On Windows 11 (yes…I’m a windows user), there isn’t a method to view raw files without downloading an extension such as Microsofts’ Raw Image Extension which I avoid as it tends to slow my file manager down.įor ranking my photos into categories – I use a 3 pass sytem where I sift through all my images and rank or “star” the images that stand out to me the most. ![]()
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