One image with a pair of enormous dust spots failed completely, with Neo unable to detect or remove them. Where we had nothing but untrammeled success for removing powerlines, removing dust proved a little more hit and miss. Under the same set of erasing tools you also get automatic dust spot removal. Not only did Luminar Neo accurately detect powerlines – including one case where the cables faded into an area of over-exposure – but it made an exceedingly decent fist of removing them as well, deleting the lines and leaving no trace of the efforts made to conceal them. We tried this on four or five images, with powerlines that featured either prominently or diminutively in the composition, and came away impressed. For example, there’s the specific but frequently helpful option to remove powerlines, the blight of landscape photographers everywhere. Take, for example, the AI crop tool, which attempts to detect your subject and then line it up in the frame in a pleasing way or Luminar’s famed 'sky replacement', which will swap out your gunmetal-grey winter clouds for something with a bit more pizazz.īoth of those are present in Luminar AI, though – Luminar Neo brings with it a whole new set of tricks and toys. What makes Luminar Neo interesting is its AI tools, which claim to relieve you, the retoucher, of much of the technical strain of image editing, and even some of the creative choices you’ll have to make. Industry standards such as curves, white balance and so on are all in here, allowing you to do the simple stuff, like punching up colors and contrast, correcting color balance, cropping images to get your compositions right and so on.Īll of which, of course, you can do in just about any image editor.
For that I say thank you very much.Whether you buy the AI hype or not, Luminar Neo has a strong set of image editing tools. I will show you the way” and boy did she ever.ĭarlene dealt with all the nuances in such a manner that OLD MINDS could follow and understand. Darlene said to the masses “walk with me.
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Wow, that opened my eyes and I could see how I could enhance the context of my photographs from replacing blown out skies to control over specific items that were not quite right in my minds eye.īut now, NEO came along and double WOW it opens another level of imagination of what your post processing could look like.īut again, I wondered if I could handle the intricacies of learning another software system. Well I enjoyed using that software I wasn’t completely happy.Īnd then one day the opportunity came from DPM to have a look at Luminar AI. I thought that light room would fit the bill but didn’t wanna pay a monthly subscription, so I purchased the last version of Lightroom classic. I was not at all interested in Photoshop the learning curve is very steep. I followed Darlene and others where I gleaned what I could. I worked my way through photo and subsequent Apple products but nothing was giving me the right edge. My goal was to take pictures that needed a little if any editing. I have been a photographer for several years migrating from negative to digital with enthusiasm. Darlene’s FaceBook site, is another invaluable tool… a place to upload you work, and receive valuable, one-on-one input from Darlene and also your peers! On a scale of 1 to 10… this class far exceeded expectations, and yes, it was way off the charts, meaning way over a 10!!! Thanks for a most positive learning opportunity. Darlene’s Zoom presentations dissected each lesson into easy to understand language, complete with collaboration with with peers to gain a better understanding the Luminar Neo software. The tools within the software were very intuitive to use. The classes were concise, not about how great her photography was, and packed with useable information to you up and running in no time. In a very short time Darlene’s class got me from a person that has never used any Skylum product… into a person that believes that Luminar Neo was meant for me. In essence I only use a fraction of their capabilities.
The reality is both those softwares are amazing, but much too deep for my needs. I have some experience with using Lightroom and Photoshop. I consider myself a beginner/Intermediate photographer. I’ve just finished Darlene’s Luminar Neo Class.
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