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Skylum’s Luminar Neo has been released as of 2/17/2022
Release pricing and options.
You have the option to choose between a 1-year subscription or a lifetime license of Luminar Neo. Details on pricing and what is offered are.
Subscription includes ⚬ All future updates ⚬ All new feature add-ons ⚬ Workflow designed for creative photo editing ⚬ Unique AI tools to simplify repetitive tasks ⚬ Built-in library of Textures & Overlays ⚬ 30-day money-back guarantee ⚬ 24/7 technical support
Lifetime license
Luminar Neo 1 seat for $79
Luminar Neo 2 seats for $99
Lifetime license includes ⚬ Update with AI Masking and Portrait Background Removal ⚬ Performance and stability updates ⚬ Workflow designed for creative photo editing ⚬ Built-in library of Textures & Overlays ⚬ Unique AI tools to simplify repetitive tasks ⚬ Lifetime license ⚬ 30-day money-back guarantee ⚬ 24/7 technical support
Lifetime license offer for users who own Luminar or Aurora pricing is
More to come on Luminar Neo at a later date once I’ve had some more time to test things out. There has already been a dot release for Luminar Neo, so if you have already purchased, make sure to check for updates in the app.
I usually don’t post vendor emails or notices directly here, but this one is important for users of select GFX and X series Fuji camera that also use Mac OS as it could lead to a loss of your valuable images.
Important notice for consumers processing FUJIFILM digital camera files using macOS
FUJIFILM Corporation has identified a firmware incompatibility between specific X Series and GFX System cameras and computers operating macOS. This incompatibility can result in macOS users being unable to directly access files if they were initially saved to SDXC memory cards in-camera.
To prevent this anomaly, Fujifilm is creating a firmware patch, which will be made available for free download by X Series and GFX System users as soon as it is completed.
READ THE NOTICE to see if your particular camera is effected.
Although a fix is in the works, it is not here yet. Read the notice above to determine if it effects your camera and what precautions you can take now to avoid losing your images.
If you plan to order, don’t forget to use my On1 Coupon Code of MDODD20 to save up to an extra 20% even on this pre-order.
Disclaimer: I may affiliate with a product mentioned on this page. As a result, I may receive some compensation from the vendor. This affiliation does not influence any of my commentary on any product that I may write about, nor does clicking on the affiliate links cost you anything, in fact, you may save some money.
Skylum is continuing it’s Pre-Oder offers for Luminar Neo
What is Luminar Neo
It is a creative image editor that is powered by AI technologies. They are building upon the AI technologies that currently exist in Luminar AI but tout this as AI technologies of the future that enable you to fulfill your wildest ideas. Along with the AI technologies it includes a flexible workflow, high-quality editing results. It is based on an entirely new software engine to accomplish your creative tasks with maximum performance and flexibility.
What’s New
Layers – let you effortlessly combine two or more images and manipulate them to achieve your desired effect. – Yes Layers are back in Luminar Neo
Portrait Background RemovalAI – allows you to remove an unwanted background from your portrait in seconds thanks to AI.
RelightAI – is a tool for controlling the light in your photos based on image depth as determined by AI, allowing you to easily and effortlessly fix photos that need fill lighting.
MaskAI – allows you to easily detect and select elements of your photo for precise control over how tools are applied.
Pre-Order
This product is due to ship sometime this winter at the moment, and thus that can mean late 2021 or earlier 2022 at this point. This early bird pricing is has ended and they are now on their standard Pre-Order pricing.
This product is due to ship sometime this winter at the moment, and thus that can mean late 2021 or earlier 2022 at this point, but if you want to pre-order at the best possible pricing, that can be done now. This early bird pricing is limited to the first 30,000 orders worldwide. After that, back up to regular pricing for the pre-order
By pre-ordering you will also get early access to the software as they will release it to you first.
Coupon codes like mine will not be usable during the pre-order period as they are already giving you the best price possible.
$44 for 1-seat license for Luminar Neo $59 for 2-seats license for Luminar Neo
$73 for 1-seat license for Luminar AI + Luminar Neo $98 for 2-seats license for Luminar AI + Luminar Neo
Seats are defined as the number of computers that the app can be installed on.
Sample images
Below are sample images using Luminar AI and the type of imagery that Skylum envisions you can create with the all-new Luminar Neo and shows some of the new features in Luminar Neo
Features
Some before and after samples of the various features.
Open window to the back yard with blue wall.
Open window to the back yard with blue wall.
Palouse Landscape in November, WA
Palouse Landscape in November, WA
Traveler Photograph Journey Tourist Girl Lady Concept
Traveler Photograph Journey Tourist Girl Lady Concept
As with most pre-order products, my coupon code does not work for Luminar Neo, but if you are adding Luminar AI or Aurora HDR, please use the Coupon Code of MARKDODD
Disclaimer: I may affiliate with a product mentioned on this page. As a result, I may receive some compensation from the vendor. This affiliation does not influence any of my commentary on any product that I may write about, nor does clicking on the affiliate links cost you anything, in fact, you may save some money.
I haven’t been out on a photography only trip in awhile, so even when I just go out for other reasons I try to take my camera with me now.
So on a recent trip to a relatives house, on the way back I decided to take a new route home and was finally able to get some round bales in the field. Why I say finally is the farmers around here are just to quick for me. They have been baling their hay and picking it up as they go.
Round Bales in the Field
Other news
On another front, I am now able to offer those that are interested in On1 products such as On1 Photo Raw 2021 or an On1 Plus subscription, or even the brand new On1 No Noise AI application that is releasing this month a bigger discount.
I am now able to offer you a 30% off order discount. This is the first time they have offered such a high discount for a coupon code, so I’d say if you are interested, use it now, as they may reduce it on me at any time.
Use On1 Coupon code of MDODD20 to get your 30% off.
Disclaimer: I may affiliate with a product mentioned on this page. As a result, I may receive some compensation from the vendor. This affiliation does not influence any of my commentary on any product that I may write about, nor does clicking on the affiliate links cost you anything, in fact, you may save some money.
Disclaimer: I may affiliate with a product mentioned on this page. As a result, I may receive some compensation from the vendor. This affiliation does not influence any of my commentary on any product that I may write about, nor does clicking on the affiliate links cost you anything, in fact, you may save some money.
It’s Memorial Day weekend 2021. We have made it through to the end of May and the unofficial beginning of summer. On this holiday weekend, photography and utility software vendors are offering specials on their software or soon-to-be-released products. Since there are many, I’m just going to summaries them for you here.
This new product from On1 is separate from On1 Photo Raw and is dedicated Noise reduction software. Current owners of On1 products can pre-order at $30 off using the coupon code of “NONOISE30″ which expires May 31, 2021. It will ship in June of 2021.
As a member of the Carroll County Artists Guild, I’m participating in their exhibit at the Carroll County Artists Council. A collection of works created by members of the Carroll County Artists Guild.
Come see my latest Gallery exhibit at the Carroll County Arts Council. I’m sharing this exhibit with John Carter. So the above image has two of my images and two of John’s. Come to the Gallery to see whose is whose.
Located in the Community Gallery of the Carroll Arts Center at 91 West Main Street Westminster, MD 21157 United States Google Map
The show runs from Monday, May 3rd to Saturday, June 12th, 2021
Disclaimer: I may affiliate with a product mentioned on this page. As a result, I may receive some compensation from the vendor. This affiliation does not influence any of my commentary on any product that I may write about, nor does clicking on the affiliate links cost you anything, in fact, you may save some money.
Skylum announces a free update to Luminar AI today and includes many updated features that folks have been asking for.
Main updates
Improved SkyAI with reflections and more
Transformable Texture Overlays
Improved Templates experience
Improved camera support
SkyAI
This is the update I have been waiting for. I’ve got a series of images that I’ve always wanted to replace the sky in, but they had water in the image. Up to now, Luminar AI would replace the sky, but you would not get a matching reflection in the water. With Update 2 of Luminar AI, that is no longer an issue. But that is not the only update. In addition to reflections in water, there is also Scene relighting, relighting of humans in your image to match the scene, new sky orientation options such as Rotation and Horizontal offset, and lastly, easier sky selections. It has a much-improved image processing especially around the edges of items in your image and the sky. No more halos 🙂
A great example of both the reflection and the relighting of the human in the image to match the lightning of the sky chosen in the adjustment.
On the above take note of the change in lighting on the women in the picture to match the color and tone of the sky selected. Not only on her skin, but her clothing is also changed. Like it determined that the back of her dress should be darker now since it is in the shadow.
Demo of the Sky AI interface with additional options. Shows how easy it is to select and adjust.
One thing to point out on the above beach image is that the reflection on the water on the beach is not just a mirror image of the sky choose, but it adapts to the surface of the water, making changes to the perspective, ripples in the water and color matching. This is what the AI feature of Sky AI does for you.
Texture Overlays
Now supporting PNG overlays from PNG files with transparency. Updates placement tools that let you easily moving, flip, rotate, resize so you can place the overlay exactly where you want it. For those of you that like to Watermark your image and put it in a certain location, you can now do that. Now that you can easily create your own overlay you can save that overlay as it’s own template or sync it across multiple images. Again for those that WaterMark you images, you can save your WaterMark overlay as a template and apply it to any new image. Or sync the setting across your current images
Improved Template Experience
Skylum is always taking feedback on how things can be improved and this would be one area they have done that. Templates are now easier to access by improving how you find and use all the templates and your favorite, purchased, and legacy templates are all found in the main Templates tab just beneath “For this Photo”. Template group previews now show in a uniform size. Any templates purchase from the Luminar Marketplace now are automatically added to the “For This Photo” section and maybe presented by Luminar AI when suggesting enhancements if the purchased Template matches well with your photo.
More Camera’s and File Formats now supported.
New Cameras: Canon EOS R5, Canon EOS R6, EOS 850D, EOS-1D X Mark III (lossy compressed files), Fujifilm X-S10, Leica M10-R, S3, SL2-S, Nikon Z 5, Z 6 II, Z 7 II, Olympus E-M10 Mark IV, Panasonic DC-G100 / G110, DC-S5, Sony ILCE-7C (A7C), ILCE-7SM3 (A7S III) and Zeiss ZX1. New File Formats: Lossy compressed CR3 files and Lossy compressed RAF files.
How to get the Luminar AI Update 2 details
As mentioned before, this is a free update to existing owners of Luminar AI. Use your App’s option to check for updates.
If you are running LuminarAI as a plugin with Photoshop, Lightroom Classic or Photoshop Elements, it’s also recommended you rerun the plugin installer.
There is still time to sign up for this great yearly event. It is also the yearly fundraiser for the Maryland Photography Alliance. So go ahead and sign up and help support a great organization.
Costs is $35 and you get a $30 Gift card, so it is really just costing you $5 for a full day of great photography information
April 17, 2021 – 10:30 AM to 1:45 PM EST
I belong to a local camera club here in Maryland and it is one of the clubs that make up the Maryland Photography Alliance. Every year the MPA puts on a great conference as part of their yearly fundraiser activities.
This year they are going virtual with a Webinar and thus can handle a much larger audience. This has alway been a great event and I expect this year to be the same. Since it is open to the public and now can go world wide, please consider signing up.
Here are the details.
MPA’s Premier Educational Event of the Year! From the organization that brings you “Artist Spotlight”, MPA is incredibly pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 2021 “Odyssey of Light” Webinar.
Internationally known photographers Nevada Wier and David duCheminwill inspire and motivate photographers of all levels. Both presentations will be recorded and made available only to ticket purchasers. Nevada will present “Creativity and Travel Photography”, and David will discuss how you can create more engaging images in his presentation “The Heart of the Photograph”.
Your price for the webinar is only $35, and through Nations Photo Lab, all ticket holders will receive a $30 Gift Card. This is an unbeatable value proposition! And if your photography club is a member of MPA, you will save money on the ticket price. Your club will communicate information to you on how to obtain the discount.
“Odyssey of Light” is MPA’s only fund raiser of the year and it supports all the great programs MPA does like “Artist Spotlight” and raising money for the Maryland Food Bank. We hope you will be able to attend this exciting webinar and help support MPA!
For more information and to order tickets: CLICK HERE
“Odyssey of Light” is being sponsored this year by Canon, Capital Photography Center, Fuji, Nations Photo Lab, Nikon, Pro Master, Photographic Society of America, Service Photo, Sony and Tamron.
