3 Beginner Editing Mistakes that Ruin Your Photos

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[colinmelhuish]

One of your best tutorials Jim. All made so much sense, Will incorporate your tips on my future editing.

[kevinrutter]

Very interesting article about Luminar Jim

[joeandjan]

Great advice Jim, thanks for sharing another useful video.

[markflanagan]

Nice and subtle touch Jim. It helps when one has a cracking photograph like this one👍

[pedelkamp]

Great Video as always, I'm sure I'll be watch it a few more times. You are the Best!

[fredbenjamin]

Thanks, Jim. One of the most useful NEO learning tools I’ve seen. Very focused, foundational process to get off on the right path. Also, very useful in preventing over processing. Great job!

[philbreton]

Thanks a lot Jim, very useful and clear presentation. Some kind of delicate dance between develop and supercontrast ;-)

[VolkmarMiehling]

Again, a great and interesting Video.
Thank you, Jim!

[RonaldBrown]

Because of your recent videos I have trained myself to start with develop raw, and it does lead to a better workflow. With less reliance on the AI tools. Great video Jim, thanks for sharing.

[gregorychard]

G'day Jim
The motto that I use all the time (to remind me always) is K.I.S.S. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
When I see a nice sunset photo, my mind goes haywire with the colour. I always have to refine my original over-coloured mess, to bring it back to a naturalise image.
I still tend to over-emphasise the colour a little, that's the way I like it, but it's not too noticeable.
My favourite tool for sunsets would have to be the golden hour.
I agree with you about the mistakes beginnings do, as you were going through it, my head was bobbing up and down, thinking of my passed errors.
That is the beauty of Neo, you don't touch the original RAW photo and you can redo (alot) of editing when you are more experience.
Havagooday mate
Greg

[danielpinchot]

Jim, My question for you is, I have Lightroom CC and Luminar Neo. Do you think I would need Topaz Studio 2? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[markflanagan]

Doh nearly forgot to ask you Jim, What colour space or working space does Luminar Neo use, when in Develop raw with a fresh raw file ?
eg, Pro photo RGB, Adobe RGB 1998 or Adobe sRGB or maybe something else, this question would be in regards to the colour gamut etc.

[pathfindercod]

Great video, thank you. I don't use Neo. I bought their Luminar 2018 and Luminar 4 programs as well as the Aurora HDR 2019. I was a little unhappy with the way they just abandoned the software after a short period of time. This looks like a promising program, I'll see if it's still around in another year before adding it to my arsenal.

[marclabro]

nice tuto. I just noticed "city splendor" presets on marketplace. Is it a brand new one ? Even if the 6 examples are self explanatory, can you tell us more ? You know i like your processing of night street photo, ...

[penmarch]

Jim, when you shoot raw on 3 exposures to use in HDR merge, you loose develop raw after. how do you edit? cheers

[rhiwderinraytube]

I have observed that most photographers, (especially Americans for some reason) Over Saturate the colour making them lurid and surreal. This combined with too much Contrast is unforgivable.

[vincepalmer]

I read that the iPhone RAW setting isn't actually RAW, do you know anything about that?

[OtocinclusAffinis]

I shoot on Canon M50 mark II, I don’t have access to develop RAW or any other RAW feature.

[Centauri]

I was waiting for your trademark "clown vomit" and it was finally uttered in the last minute of the video! 😆 But excellent reminders to start with RAW Develop and to "shape" the light. All those sexy "AI" tools are too alluring (unsurprisingly with Skylum pushing them so hard). Also good reinforcement to not use more than a couple of color tools. I find that I learn even more from these "don't do this" videos. 😄

[tlg]

Another good video, Jim. I would offer that you repeated your message of the value of first using Develop AI several times. I think we understood where you are coming from pretty quickly. Just one fans observation.