Angie Birmingham shows how to use Luminar Neo's Structure tool to enhance fine details in photos. She masks around a deer's face and antlers, then adjusts the slider to about 20 for subtle sharpening that avoids the overdone look.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Jeff and Angie Photography. Today we are still in our series. All right, so here we are back, and thanks for sticking around and listening to me. Hopefully you are learning something from this series. So here we go, we are going to open up Neo and we're going to jump into Structure, which is another one of my favorite tools. All right, so let me go over here and open up Neo. All right, so we are still in the Essentials, and we've gone through Develop, Enhance, Erase, and now we are in Structure. And we still got this crazy old mule deer. We're going to work on him through the whole set segment. Alright, or I should say through the whole series just so that you can see a beginning to end on the same image. Alright, so on Structure, just like the Enhance, you can do it globally, but it adds a whole lot of— it just brings your background into focus kind of if you see what's going on there. So we're gonna not do it globally. Oh, let me show you what it does globally. There you go, there's an extreme. And then if you boost it, it just really adds more overall, like, fine details, brings out all the itty-bitty fines, fine details. So typically what I do is I mask again. I use the brush— no, No, I don't. I use the radial. And I'm going to put it again right around his face like so. And then I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna take the brush and I'm going to brush in his antlers because I really want the texture in his antlers to come out. You notice I don't really have to be real careful to color inside the lines with this particular tool. So we'll go into our Adjust, and let me zoom in here so you can kind of see what it's doing, and kind of go from one extreme to the next. So that's nothing, but I typically don't do that much. I usually do maybe around 20, just kind of give it a little subtle effect and then kind of boost up those fine details. But you want to make sure you don't get too much Because then your animal starts to look, or your subject starts to look, over-sharpened. So there you go. There is your before and after. Just subtle details. Alright, so once again, this is a short video. Make sure you like, subscribe, ring my bell. Check the links below for your 15% off, your 14-day free trial, and the links to my current workshops. And oh, also my GoFundMe for my new book that I'm trying to get money together to publish. And anybody that donates gets a, um, $20 or more gets a free book. Paperback. All right, thanks for joining in.
