I bought Luminar Neo after his last video about it and I was excited to use it but j hate to say that I was very disappointed. The software is very slow running and it doesn’t work well on most photos because it’s hard to do very specific edits. I still use it on a couple of photos but only as a plug-in for Lightroom.
I get excited thinking these things have moved on, then I remember my experiences like you of downloading, loading some photos up and it just not working properly at all.
It’s also very disappointing that they still do not have one of the features that is their biggest selling point on their ads. Background replacement. The ads boast about it and how easy it is to use bust still have not introduced it and still using ads promoting it.
@@XCatchAFire420X I use the older version of luminar ai, honestly I have no issues with background replacement. Its big problem is it hasn’t layerings, but for the most of cases it’s enough for me
I am so glad to see a professional of this caliber talking about NEO. I use it and I love it. It's amazing! (my opinion as a hobbyist beginner photographer ) I love the sky replacement feature. The ai tools are also great.
When lightroom first introduced sky as an AI mask/object in lightroom I tried it for a shot or two since I shoot a lot of sunset/sunrise where the sky is extremely bright and you almost always need to shoot bracket or HDR modes. But they weren't really good. I've since came to the conclusion that getting it right in camera is still much more important than software corrections you can have at this stage. I'm always inspired by the famous saying that photography is about making selections. You can't have, or capture everything you see in front of you. And the art evolves around you making a choice of including this or throw away that. We get serious about our craft, investing big bucks on lenses and hardware to allow us create with maximum quality. If you cheap it out and fell prey to laziness, it makes you no different to those with a phone merely point at things and touching.
Strong opinion 😂 Doing everything the right way is great. But sometimes you didn't have the time or the experience. In both cases is a simple and relative fast solution better than leaving it as it is just because the circumstances weren't perfect. And shouldn't you use your resources reasonable even when your goal it is to create "art"? I think this fits the saying "work smarter, not harder".
@@My123Tutorials That is no strong opinion. It is a blood basics that you get the RAW file right in camera before you go nuts about who has the best skills in lightroom/photoshop/etc. If you take that as opinion, I'm afraid photography isn't for you. No time, no experiecen, circumstances aren't perferct, are not problems related to my "opinion". They're a constant to any photograher and part of common struggle. And only through working your way around that struggle you develop your own style, your own touch. That there is the very own art of yours, which you literally just mocked upon, that you've been doing all this way along. What a shame. There is no such thing as "simple and fast" solution at this stage unless your camera sensor can do 30 plus stop of dynamic range, or your lens has an aperture of F0.1. As I already tested, lightroom/photoshop sky mask will not 100% always give the best result. You'd have much higher chance rather doing it right in camera at first than rely on those apps later. "No time, no experiecen, circumstances aren't perferct" are mere excuses that you being a typical human just chose the lazy easy way out than do your best. If the sky is overcast and dull, try to shoot something else and come back another day. Don't cheap it out with AI replacements. That is not photography. nor any "resource" available or "smart" act in this field.
Nah, I can make edits that are the same if not better than in camera shots. I would bet you 5k that I could edit my skies better than you can capture them.
I bought it after watching this video. I primarily use Affinity and have had great results with Affinity, however this application gives me the ability to help teach my kids about photo editing due to the relative ease of how it works. My kids went from, "Dang, dad is gonna be in his office for hours editing photos," to, "Dad's gonna let me click stuff and help." Total game changer for those that can't dedicate hours and hours toward processing projects.
I love Skylum products from the Luminar lineup. There are two issues though: 1. They are quite slow on my MacBook Pro. 2. Every year they release a new version that barely has a few extra features and ask you for more money (sure, you have a discount as an existing user, but this kinda becomes a yearly subscription model if you want all their new features). I personally stopped buying and I'm sticking with Luminar AI until they do some bigger new release and fix their performance issues
This is amazing! I love taking photos. I have since I was a little kid. I ended up buying a decent camera so I can take pictures as a hobby. However, after trying to edit photos with Lightroom and Photoshop. I got turned off and was really upset with myself because I just can't edit photos. I haven't taken pictures in so long because I hate the idea of trying to edit them. So this could be a GREAT option for me to try and get back in the swing of things.
Big shout out to the team at Skylum who are from the Ukraine and continue to make this fantastic software even with everything that's going on there, much respect 🇺🇦
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been using lumiinar editing software for a couple of years, they are my first choice software, i find I'm not using other software as luminar does most things, there's a lot more than Peter described, luts presets, layering etc, for the price its brilliant!!
I wanted to like Luminar Neo but it is ridiculously slow and while the convenience of features is meant to speed up my workflow, the apps slowness actually worsened the speed of my workflow. So I’m sticking to Lightroom until they find a way to fix it
@@DroningaboutIreland what computer are you using? I purchased the m1 Mac mini specifically for it and it gets bogged down but Neo a lot. Granted I work with a Leica Q2 and a Sony A7RIV so the file sizes are Huge
@@DroningaboutIreland really? I have an M1 Max and luminar is super slow. The slowness is my only complaint. My workflow is open in Lightroom, transfer to photoshop and use luminar plugin. Every time you make an adjustment to a layer with luminar it has to open the plugin and takes forever. Plus within luminar, actions take a long time to load.
Wow. I didn’t see this in my email account until a few days ago! I have replied to Pete via his Telegram account mentioned above. I hope I’m not to late. Regards Gary
What! I need this as a hobbyist, LR is time consuming and a little difficult. Thanks Peter and to think I was never going to follow you 🤣🤣🤣 seriously I wasn't but I came around😁
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I did the intro about 10 times to remind you that the “pwhat’s up” is important, Peter! Now your analytics will reflect that - you’re welcome, America!
I passed this video over at first but Glad I came back it and watched it in full.. Yes Peter, This app is Perfect for the hobbiest! Nice job..👍👍💙💙 Mikey
I am learning photoshop and damn a lot goes into it!! I am glad I am learning how to use it rather than a one click ! Although easy / quick edit options also can speed up your production time which can be good also .. I didn't realise how much can be done in editing but also I thought and was way off floating objects ! Would luminar be good for editing product photography the masking looks easier and a lot faster than using selection tools !
I'm a professional photographer and I own Neo and AI. On both programs I really like the tools to enhance faces, sky replacement, sun rays and the glow effects. But the software is currently too slow for a proper workflow integration. I hope that they will improve this part. But we should not forget that these people are based in Ukraine - where a Russian invasion is happening. So things must be difficult for them.
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I think, ‘learning from you is much more enjoyable’ than watching you vlogging around. I Don’t know. I started to think when you started doing vlog, spark isn’t there anymore. I like you more when you are teaching me (inspiring me) something. Still I love you mate. Just a suggestion from your ‘windless’ fan 😜
Bought the Luminar bundle a week ago and I'm glad i did (really don't see the difference between AI and Neo but it is what it is). Played around with some pictures from my Eos RP, Google 6 Pro, and some game pictures and Luminar blew my mind with all of them. It's easy and fun to use really happy i bought it.
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LOG is super easy to work with. Shoot in log, then download the Canon/Sony/Nikon log to Rec.709 LUT (Look up table), apply the LUT in your video editor, and it will convert the log footage to a normalized image. And now that I read what I wrote I see that working with LOG is not simple at all haha.
Yo Peter with the release of the new DJI gimbals I couldn't wait to see your version of the review. Was this not something you were considering reviewing/using? Just curious because I love/trust your opinions so much
Omg yes !!! It’s exactly why i asked for a refund months ago after days of using . I couldn’t accept the fact it took hours to edit 1 photo due to LACK of speed the system has unfortunately
Hey peter! You should demo ON1 Photo Raw. Its the best lightroom alternative. It includes importing, photo organization, ai denoise, presets. Its the whole ordeal and only $100 so its crazy. Especially for people who cant afford lightroom or dont want to pay for a subscription.
I’m looking for a good editing app that is not slow ! Any other suggestions ? I’m currently using Lightroom but it has been very slow and the support team was not much help.
I am a part time pro shooting portraits, headshots and weddings. Luminar PRO (not neo) is AMAZING got people edits. I HAAAAATE PS for skin retouching and L4P makes it one click done. I edited a whole wedding with 2 presets I created. For $79, SOOOO good !!!
Hey Pete, great vid! I’m more of a hobbyist for just photography but I’d be interested in hearing how you and Kurt deal with photo storage and that part of the workflow process. I’m getting to the point where I’ve filled my machine and my Lightroom cloud storage so I’m in need a good solution. I’d love to know how you store and keep all of your bangers! Thanks!
@@Captain_foss yeah but I wouldn’t. Ind seeing what he does for Lightroom, not Lightroom classic. Things have changed with the adobe stuff and there isn’t much out there so seeing a professional workflow and data management would be good.
@@JustinRY yeah I’m debating doing my own NAS or utilizing the upcoming prime day. I’m just interested in the entire flow since there isn’t much that I can kind for Lightroom (not classic). I have an external already but I want to see how to scale and Pete or Kurt probably have a nifty solution for all levels of photographers. I do have my pictures already saved in the cloud and locally, at least 3 different place but it could be more efficient
I use 2 types of external harddrives for my professional and private camera work. External HDDs (usually WesternDigital 4TB) for archiving stuff (as they are cheap but slow) and external SSDs (Samsung T7) for projects I still need to edit (as they are fast af but more pricey). A NAS would be another option, but I'm pretty happy with my way for now.
Thank you always looking for editing tips. Please do more. Quick question. What a good lens for outdoor Portrait/family photos? Starting small.. thank you for your time.
great info, great app, ill stick to lightroom once i find where i can buy a battery for my nikon d5100 battetry (en-el14 battery) that isnt still 100$ (its a decade old camera)
I think a pro can use this as a jumping off point with photos…it’s no different than using LUTs or presets as starting points. Also would be great with batch editing.
I liked Luninar for a while but it got several issues, the biggest one for me was when I render a photo directly/indirectly( indirectly through Photoshop coz direct render mostly fails), the colors are washed out after a while when I transfer the image to my iPhone or another windows laptop, I am sure it’s something related to the color chart but it was hard for me to fix. I left Luminar. Additionally, the image size is too much and you need a photoshop to export your image through I guess it was heavy for my system I use iMac 27 inch core i7 though. Not sure if you guys have experienced the same problem.
Always loved Luminar. But switched to Lightroom because Luminar is just way way too slow for batch editing which is most of my photo editing. An album that I can edit in one hour will probably take three hours on Luminar. Same thing when it comes to exporting. Large file size means it takes like 5 times as long as Lightroom to export. Now I will only use Luminar if I want to edit like just one or two photos.
I did the trail on the Luminar AI and was impressed by its ability but I cannot help but feel as if it’s cheating when I did the sky replacement on a couple photos. It did improve the photos but I just felt like I was doing something wrong.
I tried luminar and i would say it's a good tool for a beginner who doesn't know/doesn't want to spend to much time on editing photos. It will never be able to replace lightroom
You should do a pro vs pro video with Parker walbeck from full time Filmaker and see who can make the better video. His channel does this all the time and it is very fun to watch. You and Parker are the best filmmakers imo.
Been a supporter of Luminar since their beta in 2017, but beware that they've started to promise updates that then turn into new standalone products that you have to buy separately!
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Hey Pete! Amazing vids as usual! An unrelated question, I was wondering if you could tell me how big are the picture frames to your side? I wish to have a similar wall of pictures. Cheers!
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