Awesome content. No babble just simple and concise tutorial. You are now my goto Luminar Neo tutor. Thank you so much for sharing. Subscribed

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thanks for the update Skyler, interesting to see what goofy stuff Skylum is doing even though I no longer use Neo. Now that they are putting their efforts into costly gimmicks rather than working on existing tools like their sketchy masking Neo is no longer an app for serious photographers.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I agree DK. Thats why Lightroom and Photoshop are still the gold standard

@toserve

Жыл бұрын

yes and i find it comical that people like Jim nix still try to fool people by trying to push their products

Thanks a bunch, Skyler! Good to know these things.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Wow! I sure Luminar is working on getting this issue cleared up. I haven't used the sharpening tool yet but now I'll be watching my edits very closely. Thank you.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Yes, pay close attention

Wow glad I only bought the HDR Merge extension. Thanks for showing us this. I love your work by the way.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Hi Skyler, Thanks for the info.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi SR! Thank YOU and Happy New Year

Also, if you are upscaling a thumbnail photo, this stuff is gold. One should not be upscaling a full size correct image.

First of all, beautiful kids! Neo sure can get carried away. Good analysis.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

WOW! thanks for the info and the demo. I am new using NEO and I haven't sharpened any portraits photos yet. I use Luminar 4 and decided to get Neo for the AI enhancements, some I like and some I don't like. I use Topaz more but having extra options gives me different views to enhance my photos. I love learning from your videos, thank you for sharing!!!

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome!

Thanks again Skyler... Pete

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi Pete. You are welcome

Startling! 😮

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

:)

I think this is a good example of problems with AI. In this example it's not a mathematical sharpening algorithm being appled, but instead the AI's interpretation of sharpening. If you look at the latest AI advancements, you can see this issue everywhere. AI does not return factual information, it returns what it thinks you require. Many times its provides the correct information, but if it does not know the answer it makes stuff up that appears factual. In an image of a face, where we know the original, it's obvious that it's not real. Problem for society is we are really bad at judging what is or is not real.

Thank you Skyler! You have beautiful children and wonderful photos of them. This seems to be a constant problem with Skylum - nothing is ever fully developed before release. And ... Happy New Year to you and your family.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree! Happy New Year’s Henry

Wow, that's quite a change to the face! Thanks for showing this, Skyler. How does it do without the face enhancer checked? Skylum definitely needs to fix this. I don't have SuperSharp AI because I refuse to do a subscription, and pay the same as Lightroom and Photoshop. Your daughters are adorable, by the way.

Beautiful children. The AI changes did nothing to enhance their beauty. Love your in depth analysis of the product features, and pointing out both the good and bad things. To me, the old portrait enhancements in Luminar 4 allowed the user to apply certain features without the AI making wrong guesses. The only Luminar extensions that I find useful are HDR merge, focus stacking and background removal. Magic light is a not something that I need a lot. DXO Pure raw and Topaz products are much better denoise and sharpening tools, and Topaz AI provides all of those tools in one stop and does a better job with some of the facial recoveries.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Charles, I like the HDR merge and focus stacking a lot

@peterusher2020

Жыл бұрын

While unwanted face manipulation should not be part of the sharpening and up scaling tools, it can be useful in recovering blurred and faded historical images that cannot be easily saved by other means. My problem is the inordinate time Neo requires to complete each process. I don’t want to spend 20 minutes watching spiderwebs drift across my screen. Photoshop Neural filters do a faster and usually better job than Neo’s method.

Holy cow!! I never got sharpen AI from them, now I see why. That is hilarious, when parts of the photo will be replaced with other images. Rarely I need to sharpen anyways, but if I still use Topaz Photo AI. And yes your kids are really beautiful

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Armin H

@linuxmarmalade

Жыл бұрын

If your GPU isnt supported AI tools just dont work. I guess that is a bug. If you see no difference go to file -> settings -> disable gpu acceleration

We actually did a group shot and Neo actually put glasses on two people

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha. That’s crazy… and funny

@DigitalPhotoMentor

Жыл бұрын

Oh how bizarre

I was a neo user in the beginning but they are to busy pushing the addons and subscription services.. they haven't added any real value to the program itself and I am disappointed and still love all the new things photoshop keeps adding making it the best for me

Gr8 catch Skyler! Personally I think Neo is getting too bloated not being able to handle API's correctly within the app. I'm sure Skylum will squish the bug. One of the many reasons why I don't like having all my eggs in one basket. For sharpness, enhancements and denoise, I prefer using the Topaz AI suite apps. They work gr8!

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I love Topaz

Hi Skyler. I'm curious about Luminar. I've used Photoshop professionally in visual effects for over 20 years. I'm not familiar with Luminar at all, I assume it's similar to Photoshop or lightroom and since is seems like you use both Photoshop and Luminar I'm curious which you prefer and how do you decide which program you're going to use when working on a photo or photos. I use some pretty high end software for doing VFX for feature films so not sure if Lumianr would work in my pipeline, but looking forward to hearing what you think. Thanks!

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

For me nothing will replace Lightroom and Photoshop. Neo is like Lightroom but not as good plus a few Photoshop like features like Layers

This is why I don't buy any product without testing it before. That said, we can use the brush to not "enhance" some parts of the photo. Including the eyes, the mouth, and everything else that you don't want to be "improved" by the AI. Also, I believe they are going to improve their AI over time. That's the problem that we have with developers, we pay for their piece of software before it's fully finished or at least works very well.

I think that's a bug that Skylum needs to squash ASAP! It's happened to me too.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I agree

With this, I certainly hope Skylume cleans up their act.

Does the same thing happen if Face Enhance is not checked?

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

No, only when face Enhance is checked

This is an issue with the recently added face enhance that they added to a couple of extensions with the last update. It looks like they are using AI to replace features instead of enhancing!!! Ridiculous

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I agree, Nigel

I think some other commentator has in my opinion also illustrated this quirk. It really is strange. I wonder if it has been reported Skylum because a batch file might make it hard to use goback perhaps.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi Joe! Skylum knows about the problem and doesn’t think is a problem. I got an email from them saying that the tool is designed for restoring old photos where parts of image is missing and so is filling in the parts with new images

@JoeB_BSc

Жыл бұрын

@@skylerewingphotography Uh-huh, and what do you feel about Skylum's view, Skyler, please? For anyone who recalls the person worked on, especially the changes between the photos before and after, may find it surprising in my opinion. Of course the effect can simply not be used.

Thankyou for sharing. I won't be using this AI feature.

What happens when unchecked the "Face Enhancer" ?

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Then it works just fine

I could not tell the difference, except for the earing.

Luminar NEO 1.6.2 is still slow and buggy. Face enhancement is totally fake as it tends to replace all parts of the original person's pic.

Supersharp Ai is fine in landscape but not in portrait.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this only happens in portrait when face enhanced is checked

I think your images are edited quite a bit before you dragged the image into. But I agree. It's not better

Skvělá recenze - Luminar Neo - Supersharp AI. OK

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. And Happy New Years!

What is then the problem :)

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

It’s just a setting people need to be aware of. Most beginners photographers click buttons without understanding what it does. Is good to know and be aware as one small click in a setting like this will ruin your photo and you might not even know why it happened. Notice I didn’t say this program will ruin your photo. I said this”setting “ :)

I think you have miss used the tool here. First exactly what were you attempting to correct/change in these photos? Why is Super Sharp AI the right tool for you to expect to get the result you originally wanted? Also, you have not destroyed your images! You can reset to original and start/try another approach/tool; perhaps masking in just those areas you want to effect. To me, it’s unreasonable for you to think that because the tool is AI that it with know what you want to achieve and produce that exactly as your minds-eye has in visioned it.

Yikes that looks even worse than the Topaz sharpen AI option I tried a year ago. I think these are best suited to landscapes or wildlife photography and don't have any training on portrait examples.

Cray!!

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

:)

tks :) beautiful daughters

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too

I m from India , I have seen some of your videos,i m also new into KZread ,but you should use good music,quick transitions,little transitions in speaking slow & fast,you will get more views because right now you are doing too much professional teaching style like high school teacher ..I wish it will help you

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips!

@phlotographer

Жыл бұрын

@@skylerewingphotography the tips offered are worth ignoring. Your style is excellent as usual. My other comment is to Skylum -- for this the extension is worth spending money? I think I have viewed most if not all of your NEO videos but might have missed some during the past 4+ months due to hospitalization and recovery from a car accident. Disappointed that NEO was not updated with all of the extensions but certainly glad no extra $ were spent on this particular one.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

@@phlotographer so sorry to hear about you car accident! How scary! I hope you are fully recovered and feeling better -Skyler

@phlotographer

Жыл бұрын

@@skylerewingphotography Not fully recovered yet. Starting to do more walking but not for long distances and the ones I do kind of put me on the sidelines for a couple days. Also, Winter is here so I don't go out much in the cold and avoid the snow which we don't have at the moment but more will come I think. At least I can now sit at the computer for about a couple of hours sometimes without creating more pain in my right leg. I am still glad I can look at videos from you folks as I now mostly enjoy re-working or adding to images I have done in the last 13 of 23 years being retired from being a pro wedding/portrait photographer -- MPA.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

@@phlotographer that sounds pretty awful. Glad wasn’t worse. Wish you speedy recovery

Maybe it's sharpening something that actually doesn't need sharping. Why do it !!!

Your kids are beautiful , don't need retouching . The AI it's destroying the photos . But you need report to Luminar tell what's going on in the photos to they fix it .

I've bought most of their software and a tad disappointed to say the least. Someone must be held accountable for constantly rushing out all of luminar's software before it is properly tested and bug fixed. Profit before proper performance will be the death of luminar.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you, Paul

If you photographed some ugly kids, these would be considered upgrades!!!

That is terrible and not at all what a application should do to an image.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@Pierceb2

Жыл бұрын

Then is not AI to me but rather substituting facial parts like they were sticker and then scaling them to match the face, then blending them in. I’m no expert but I have wondered up until now how a relatively small program with some proprietary algorithms could do this all on a PC and not go out to some supercomputer to do this magic. Some in the past have said that what we call AI is just very good guessing. In your excellent examples and some of the others comments even the guessing isn’t very good as you illustrated Either they needs to refine and rework their “AI” tool in this instance or disclose that the result is a composite of other individuals parts to create an “ideal” version based on their reference model of the ideal of your persons face that isn’t real but just a close approximation. How can the AI not even detect the eye color?

@ThePNWRiderWA

Жыл бұрын

@@Pierceb2 yes that’s what I saw as well with some test images. I have no idea how they could have released this as it’s useless other than novelty use.

This is being widely reported.

Skylum has turned into a scammers den. They are tapping into peoples sympathy and feelings. Not good. If we do the math we are saving more with an Adobe subscription. plus lightroom its lightyears ahead of Luminar. I am done with them.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

Adobe has a plan that is cheaper then Neo and includes Lightroom and Photoshop

@edmondrusso2831

Жыл бұрын

@@skylerewingphotography Lol! True. Plus masking has become a breeze in LR. I really wanted to support Skylum.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

@@edmondrusso2831 I like the people that work at Skylum, but the program needs a lot of work. I could never replace Lightroom and Photoshop

I stopped using Luminar at version 4. It's just a complete silly, useless program that does nothing beneficial. A way over priced , complete joke of a software company.

@skylerewingphotography

Жыл бұрын

I think was really good for the price they used to have. Now is not worth the new price since the program quality is a step up from free apps

That's cray. It's not the same person. I love Luminar Neo but I use it for architecture and skies. Thanks for posting