Admittedly, I almost exclusively shoot landscape but it suggested some different presets when I uploaded a photo of a fox cub I had photographed in my garden. It knows the genre of your image and I have found the recommendations to be very useful. The AI, and Neo uses some very clever AI (artificial intelligence), suggests some preset collections that might suit your image. ‘Nature’ and ‘Sunsets’ are my particular favourites. It has, top right of the workspace, a different collections of presets. ![]() If you really don’t enjoy processing and spend time getting things right in camera then you will love Neo. Once into the catalogue (the library tab of Neo) though, Neo comes back strongly. So 1-0 to LR albeit without much extra ‘possession’ (sorry, I’ve moved onto football analogies now) I don’t, as a rule, like to delete files on the back of the camera as first of all it’s hard to examine them fully without taking a lot of time zooming and panning and I’ve deleted files by mistake using that method. Importing straight into a folder is fine if you import every image but if you only like to import the files that you are going to use then looking at them on the card on your computer is going to be slower and a bit more fiddly. My only problem with that personally is that I cull any substandard images by viewing them in the LR import module before pressing ‘import’. The disadvantages compared with LR at the start of the workflow is that you have to import the images from your card into the folder of your choice yourself. If you are new to photography, or find LR confusing and unhelpful then using Luminar Neo as a standalone product in your workflow is seriously worth thinking about. I’ll do a review of it as a plugin over on my YouTube channel in a few weeks so go and have a look (and subscribe while you’re there) in a few weeks. You can use Neo as a plugin for LR or as a standalone product and I’ll attempt to go through it as a standalone product in this blog. Whether or not you have lots of experience with LR and PS will influence your decision but, in my opinion, if you are the latter you should still consider it. Whether or not Luminar Neo is right for you will depend on you and your experience of processing. It can also be a completely different type of coffee. They have given me a 10% discount code to give to you (use DAVE10 at checkout) or click on this link HERE and I will earn a small commission as well so it’s a win/win situation.īut should you buy it? Sauce is not a lot of money but can make a big difference to your enjoyment of a meal. In fact, they are keen to have a bit of feedback. I have been asked by the guys and gals from Skylum to review Luminar Neo, but they have not told me what to write. Or…it’s just a black coffee with sugar!įull disclosure here before we continue. Luminar Neo is the sauce to LR’s bacon sarnie, or sauce on your chips. A bit like a plain bacon sarnie or a bowl of chips… but who wants to settle for that?Īnd so we come to my point. LR and PS are very powerful and once you understand how to use them they do everything any professional photographer needs. Over the years I have got better and better at it but I must admit it’s not been easy. A click on ‘save’ and it reopens in LR where I will make any other small adjustments, then sharpening and exporting it as a JPEG. PS is used to do any cloning, removing the odd leaf or branch in the wrong place and create a frame if I want to present it that way. ![]() Sometimes, but rarely, I will then look at some presets but usually this is because I’m not happy with the final result and things don’t look quite right (hold that thought, I’ll get back to sauce in a minute).īy the time I click ‘Edit in Photoshop’ the image is pretty much looking about how I want it. I use masks to lighten/darken individual sections and almost always work on skies using them. They are now a major part of my workflow. I’m loving the new masking tools and LR does a fantastic job at this. Then exposure and so on down the tools on the right hand side. ![]() I usually start with a crop, I crop almost all of my images. I shoot in Raw so that I have full control and my workflow is - LR to import onto an external drive (Lacie if you must know) I look at each image before importing nowadays as 46mp files will quickly fill up space. You see, for the last… who knows how many years I have been using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to process my images. ![]() But what on earth has this got to do with photography? Indulge me. Forgive me if you are a vegetarian but what’s your choice of sauce for a bacon sandwich? And on chips? Personally, the answer is brown… What about coffee? Milk? Sugar? Just white please.
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