Angie Birmingham shows how to use Luminar Neo's Black & White tool to convert images to monochrome and selectively restore color, then demonstrates the Details tool's four sharpening modes. She masks the eye and antler on a deer photo to sharpen specific features while avoiding over‑sharpening the fur.
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Jeff and Angie Photography. So we are still in Discovering the Power of Luminar Neo, so stay tuned, we'll jump in and explore a couple more tools. All right, so welcome back. I hope you're learning lots during my series. Just trying to share my knowledge of Luminar Neo and what I think of it. I think it's amazing. I use it mainly as a standalone program. But anyways, so today we are on part 7 and we are going to go over black and white and details, basically the sharpening tool and the black and white tool. So So let's jump on over to Neo and let's kind of explore and see what we can do to this deer. Alright, so here we are. We've got our deer open and we've got our black and white tool open. So basically on black and white, it basically converts a color photo to black and white. So then we can also mask and all that in this tool as well. But let's just go ahead and just play with the basics for right now. So we'll go ahead and convert to black and white. And by doing that, I just click this button right here, convert to black and white, and then we can use our different tools here. Luminance, this button right here, when it's selected, the red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta color sliders control the brightness of each of those colors as it converted to black and white. So on this one, because we have a lot of yellow, we We could brighten it up. Oh, I'm on the wrong tab. There we go. Now I'm on luminance. So yellow really brightened up the black and white image by moving the yellow slider to the right, or we could darken it up by moving the yellow slider to the left. Basically, the definition is the same. As it was in the color. And then over here you got the saturation, and this is where you can actually bring some colors back. So you can bring the yellows back, you could bring the greens back. Maybe even the reds. You could tone them down a bunch, or you could just get rid of them all. Or you could have a lot of fun and just say you want to just mask out the deer's face. You want to make that deer. Then we'll invert it, and then we'll go over to Adjustments, Convert to Black and White, and everything now is black and white except for the area I masked. So it's a pretty cool little tool. I don't use it very often. But it's nice to have it in there just in case you like black and whites. So on the detail tool, when you open that up, you're going to see all these different options. You got small detail, medium, large, and sharpen. So you're sharpening Basically, the sharpening here on small detail is all your little fine, fine details. You'll see them really, really sharpen up all the fine details. You see that? I don't know if you can see that out there on TV land. Then you got your medium. And then you got your large details, and then you got your sharpen, which is overall sharpen. And you'll notice when you over-sharpen something, you can kind of tell that it's getting, it's getting these weird super sharp hairlines, especially in animals. Usually when you are sharpening and stuff, you need to make sure you look usually right around the nose or right around the chin. You'll see a lot of the sharpening, over-sharpening of the hair. And then we got a few more here. Let's see. Typically this is how I use masking. As I go in, or not masking, this is how I use sharpening. I'll go in and I will just sharpen, mask the areas that I really want to sharpen up. In this particular image, because I have this big blur spot going down the face, I'm not going to worry about the whole face. I'm just going to do that eyeball. So we'll go back over here to Adjustments and we'll do a little small detail, a little large, a little medium, a little large, and then we'll sharpen up that eye. And then we'll do before and after. If you watch this area right here on the eye, you'll see the difference. And then the detail up here in the, in the antler sharpened up as well. So that is your black and white and your sharpen. I hope y'all are enjoying the videos. I hope y'all are enjoying all the videos that I've put together for you on the getting to know Neo and the power of Luminar Neo. Don't forget to like the video, subscribe, ring my bell so you get notified the next time I post a video. And also down below, I've got my, my codes. I got AV15 for 15% off. Just follow the link below. There's also a link below for a 14-day free trial, and after 14 days, if you like it, use the AV15 and you can have 15% off at that time. And I also got the link to my workshops. Come and join me and we can talk Neo, we can talk photography, or we can just shoot, whatever you want to do. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it. Stay tuned, there's one more left.
