Powerful Portrait Editing With Luminar Neo (But avoid THESE Tools!) 

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Excellent video! Your obvious skill with the product is obvious. I really like that you don’t think that every option is amazing and can thoughtfully discourage use of certain features. Thanks!

Great video with lots of good info. Nice and clear and to the point. Love your friendly no B/S manner! 🙂

I got luminar neo because of you and really like it. Would love for you to do a video on hdr brackets and workflow for using both neo and Lightroom Classic.

Excellent tutorial. Covered the basics but learned so many useful tips from tools I hadn’t used before. Many thanks indeed. Really looking forward to Barcelona.

Another great video Anthony. Keep up the good work. Have a lovely week.

I just love your tutorials. Thank you for the time and work you put into this.

That was fab, chockful of useful info

Excellent, Tony. Thank you!

Great video as ever Anthony - thank you kindly 🙏

Great tutorial, Anthony. Thank you!

you are a great educater

Loved to editing process, Anthony. I'm not a portrait photographer, but was able to appreciate other insights you covered. Thanks!!

Anthony, thank you for this tutorial. Fantastic explanation on what to do with protraits that could use adjustments. Your knowledge sharing is greatly appreciated. I have had Luminar Neo for months and never used it till recently due to your videos. You are the best!

Excellent again, mate.

Great, very well done.

Umpa lumpa hahaha love the tutorial!!

Darn man! You are really good! I've enjoyed all of your presentations and have learned so much from you. Still you keep knocking it out of the ballpark. Your presentations just keep getting belter and better. I can hardly wait until you give us your Barcelona update when you get it. Thank you.

Great tutorial as usual Anthony. I don’t do a lot of portraits, but have been doing more recently, so this was really useful.

brilliant, Anthony

Another terrific tutorial!

Excellent

Thank you!

Hi Anthony, new portrait AI technology on the way! Can't wait! 😸 Regards from, Felix the Cat. 😺

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just on the edit alone, perhaps it might be suggested to crop the image to a vertical or even rotate the image so the subject is on an angle -- not overly aggressive. This will get rid of the heavy amount of brightness of the background. Alternatively, keep in mind about selection of the background at the time of camera exposure. Move the subject in this situation to her left and that will change the background and also increase the contrast between highlight and shadow. Additionally, if one uses a feminine attitude which means to turn the subject beginning with a 2/3 body position and with the body facing to her left and then turn the head toward the light which results in a nice S curve shape to the subject. By turning the subject to a 2/3 facial view this gives a nice look to the subject. The 2/3 view contains the eye inside the orbit when the nose is rotated one direction or the other and the nose will not pass the inner edge of the eye toward which the nose turns. Next one can address the use of the hand. In this image, it appears that there is 2 & 1/2 fingers amputated and the back of the hand is showing and there also is a strong amount of highlight on part of the hand. It is a good idea to use the edge of the hand and also based upon the direction of the camera the posed hand or "show" hand generally looks best if it is the hand closest to the camera. Make the fingers long and tall with a slight curve to them. A good method of learning how to pose hands is to take a pen and place it between the thumb and the index finger and just let it rest there while holding it vertically while also bending the hand at the wrist back toward the forearm of yourself and then just translate that to the subject from her position. Keep in mind this idea is for females and men are posed somewhat differently. You are likely to find that women will say that they don't have nice hands and can't pose them very well. Assure then that with the technique you know and understand the use of, the subject will be pleasantly surprised at the result. Practice on yourself or a family member or friend. For older subjects, don't try to get too creative with hands and try to use a masculine pose rather than the feminine pose. As usual, AT does a nice job of showing how and why various tools available in NEO will assist the final result of a portrait.

Excellent comprehensive masterclass on portrait editing, Anthony! Many good tips--I never thought of using the Tilt-shift blur this way. One comment: it seems the masking for the portrait bokeh AI is "backwards" in this case. Normally the red mask indicates *where* the effect is applied, but here it indicates where the effect is *excluded*.

Great walk-through as usual. I noticed that you didn't touch on shine removal though. I was hoping you may have some tips and tricks with this as I struggle with getting the tool to actually work on portraits that obviously have shine that could be reduced. Its pretty hit or miss with whether the tool decides to work or not on any given portrait. Either way, enjoy the content and looking forward to your next one.

Fabulous tutorial as always. Appreciate if you can provide the link on how to add own camera profile to Neo. Thanks

This is one of the BEST Luminar portrait edting videos I’ve ever seen. It’s so COMPREHENSIVE. One question plase, can I create a mask for the eyes & adjust the sharpness of this area only? Thank Anthony for such an Excellent job!

Anthony, love your channel! Any chance you can do a fine art portrait/painterly tutorial for Neo? I cannot find one just for portraits and would appreciate it!

A long video like that should be named each section.

Thanks for the nive video, Anthony. Have you ever tried Face AI with people in shadows people having a darker/browner or asian skin? I had an issue with it yesterday with pictures from Thailand. Luminar Neo finds the body but not the face. I even had issues with Studio Light AI. I don't understand why Skylum does not adapt their features (or create new tools) for pets and other animals, wildlife etc. Maybe you could have a word with Skylum about that? I would love people to prove me wrong...

Wow. That was VERY instructive. (Among other things: I've FINALLY understood the difference between saturation and vibrance!) I'm curious: Would the results have been much different if you'd used the separate sharpening and noise reduction tools? Also: The AI erase tool? BTW, I'm not in love with the studio light. It's results tend to be ... interesting. I can sometimes get something I like, but it doesn't seem like the engine does a terrific job of creating a 3d model.

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If portrait editing is something you do regularly you might want to check out Skylum's newly announced portrait editing software. It's aimed at professionals though so it's not going to be right for everyone. You can find out more here: bit.ly/ApertyPortrait Please note they've only got a limited number of pre-release licences available. I also did a video about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-geT97U7ZEtU.html

New camera and new lens it is, the money truck is coming! 😂

Superb demo, thanks. I have lens question/opinion: Given that tele-lenses tend the flatten a subject and compress - and wide tend to do the opposite and enlarge features that are close to the camera - what are your go-to portrait lenses or “mm” if using a zoom lens?

Thanks for this video really helpful. I saw one of your older video about working on layers and because Neo has no merge layer option, you exported a photo to Neo itself. How did you do that? I asked Skylum about it but they were not helpful. Appreciate it if you could help me with that? thank you.

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I'm not sure the before/after of the hair, for example, on her forehead looks very good. I think this is one of the many reasons I've moved away from Neo to Evoto for portraits/headshots. Evoto is much more intuitive with these types of photos. Evoto is faster and cleaner in so many areas of touch up. Photoshop of course does this better too, albeit slower at times. Thanks for your wonderful work.

Hello Anthony, Do you Mainly/only edit with Neo? I'm guessing you use to use Lightroom and moved to Neo? Main reason for leaving Lightroom?

That's Yasia! When did you photograph her? Were you at one of the Skylum tours?

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What about the fly away hairs ?

I have Luminar Neo version 1.20.0 (17855). What version do you have? I'm trying to follow this tutorial and my version is different from yours. I don't see a section for camera profiles.

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really screwed up the hair removal.

For the love of me, I can't fully understand masking concept. Sometimes you apply a change and go to the mask and I don't quite understand what the mask is painting with....

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