A Beginners Guide To Luminar Neo's Catalog

A Beginners Guide To Luminar Neo's Catalog. I admit, it's not the most interesting topic but very important to ensure you have a good workflow when editing your photos. Luminar Neo's catalog isn't the most advanced but it's simple enough to use to organize your photos within Neo. I'll go over some folder/file prep, adding folders and albums, viewing and sorting options and more. This is the first video of my Beginners Guide To Luminar Neo, perfect for those of you who are new to photo editing in Luminar Neo.

⏲Time Stamps
0:00 Preperation
1:30 Creating a new catalog
1:52 Organizing folders
3:05 Import a single image
4:04 Import Folders
4:31 Shortcut Section
5:42 Folder options
8:07 Creating Albums
9:15 Viewing & Sorting
11:17 Search by Keyword
11:44 Export options
12:00 Info Panel (EXIF Data)

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[MonzonMedia]

Hi everyone! It's been a long time coming but this is the first video of a Luminar Neo "Beginners Guide" series I'll be working on this summer. Sound good?👍

[perfasting]

New to Luminar Neo (after so much struggling with Lightroom's organizing), so this is extremely helpful! Thank you!

[mikepenny]

The best review of the catalog set up I’ve seen so well done .prior to this I was in a real muddle

[gordw]

Finally a Neo Windows Channel
Finally a Neo from the beginning
Very informative, great Pace, thank you.

[dronesiviews]

Great tutorial. To the point, practical, need to know information. Thanks!

[Jacotte]

Very informative ! Thank you. Luminar Neo catalog has always been a mystery to me.

[ph]

Soon giving up on Luminar. The space usage is completely ridiculous

[SaraahMode]

Absolutely fantastic released my friend ! ❤

[warmgun]

I have neo 1.18. I don't have a catalog. I select an image and I want to expand it using the Generative Expand but I can't see this option anywhere. Is there a specific tutorial to indicate how to use this tool. Why is it that all of the options aren't on the right had side so that you can use them as you need them instead of going through a song and dance trying to find them.

[phlotographer]

this is one video I have been waiting for. Not all I want to know but better than anything else. I would like to know if I can simply do a drag/drop of my Pictures folder into the Luminar NEO location path (need that on too but may prefer too put the drive letter to my Data Drive. I tried something once and just got a real mess after 22 hours of time that was taken to copy 9-K+ but then showed by date taken (useless and not the way my Explorer folders are arranged which prefer.
Any info in this regard would be appreciated.
I also think that I will have to go through the video again and add the info to my .rtf file of NEO tips I am creating so that I can easily have the info at my fingertips rather than having to keep going through the video. Much easier to search using Ctrl + F.
TIA

[vicentepallamare]

Unable to compare say 2-3-4 images side by side is not nice ;(

[harrysmiles]

Great video thanks. Do you know if you have a folder added into Neo, then you add a subfolder to that, will it automatically get added in?

[andrewbailey]

I just purchased Neo and was starting to migrate AI to it when I realized, for the first time, that Ai (and I suppose Neo will too) had a separate catalog. Typically, I only keep a photo in the edit of AI or Neo to work on it until I'm satisfied. Then I export it with a slight addition to the end of the tag (usually an F) next to the file of origin photo, in a file created outside of Luminar for the original photos (a-la my Nikon camera program). Then I right click and send the edit window version in Luminar to the trash.

It was only as I began to migrate that I understood AI had its own file, which explained why less than half a terabyte was almost exhausting my one TB of SSD. I really wish we had the option of a simple, one step wipe of Neo or AI after we're satisfied and save apart from the program. As it sits, I guess I'll have to go into the files and do it manually, though I'm worried about losing the skies when I do.

[alexc]

New to NEO and definitely needed this video - best on this topic. Question: due to storage space and organization purpose, can I assign the NEW CATALOG on an SSD but the RAW files (after transfer from camera) on a larger regular 4T HDD? My SSD should have enough capacity for processing and JPG export (write faster & temporary anyway) but I can put all the photo files on a 4T HDD. Or should I have the RAW photo files and NEO CATALOG folder on the same SSD drive ? I'm afraid my SSD with only 200+ GB capacity would only last me for a year or so (I also have other work on that drive as well) and then I have to consider migration etc which for me is a real headache. Thx very much indeed!