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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