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Polar Bear Photography Upgrade: LUMINAR NEO EDITION

30 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube tutorial, the presenter demonstrates a rapid editing workflow using Luminar Neo's Develop Raw Modular panel. They highlight the new "i" info button that reveals tool descriptions and a "Learn More" link to external resources. The step‑by‑step adjustments include lowering highlights, opening shadows, lifting blacks (especially around the bear's nose and eyes), raising whites to retain pure whites, and applying an optics correction. The tone is instructional and upbeat, emphasizing how easy and fast the process is with Luminar's latest update.

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So as usual, I always jump on over into the Develop Raw modular. That's my favorite one. Oh, and with Luminar's new update, you click the little i and it now will tell you what each one of the tools does. And you click Learn More and it will actually take you to the website and give you even more detail about it. So anyways, let's continue our little edit here. I want to just show you how quickly we can get this done. It's really easy with Luminar. First, we're just gonna kind of take the highlights down a little bit. We're gonna open up the shadows. We're gonna bring out the blacks so we make sure that the blacks on the nose and the eyes are good. Bring our whites up because we want our whites to stay white. We're gonna correct our optics, something like that, and that's it for the Develop Modular.