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My New Photography Workflow

I think it’s important for artists to always try new tools. It keeps the brain very plastic and, counterintuitively, I am sure after decades of experience that it is important to stay “uncomfortable” and always try new things. I think there is something in the ever-changing brain that needs this discomfort. It shakes things up. It makes you look at things in a new way. It makes you experiment with new aspects of post-processing that may never have occurred to you before.

I've used Luminar Neo exclusively for the last three months as I slowly decouple myself from Lightroom! I had grown so accustomed to LR and their way of doing things that I was always a bit lazy about switching to a new tool. But now I am glad I am using Neo all the time!

In addition to that, it's been a few years now since the latest version my collaboration with Skylum, Aurora HDR, was released. There was limited functionality between previous Luminar and Auroras in the past but now HDR is an optional add-on (extension) in Luminar Neo so it's a much more rounded experience with support for all the latest cameras, etc all added in.

Oh, and if you're interested in Luminar Neo you can use the code TREY10 to get $10 off the yearly or lifetime plans. For those of you who are existing Aurora HDR users, that entitles you to grab the HDR extension for Neo, on offer. For some of you that may even mean free! Just be sure to sign up for Neo with the same email you used to register Aurora HDR to get the best price. :)

Before we go any further, here's a little selection of images I've recently processed with Neo...

My favorite feature? You can do, hrmmm, probably 20x more things in Neo than you can in Lightroom. This can also be a bit scary via the old paralysis-by-analysis paradigm, but this is a situation I quite like! My least favorite aspect? Luminar doesn't yet have a way to manage images as thoroughly as Lightroom, but I can live with that and the results of the processing (and flexibility of processing) far outweigh the downside.

Well, i guess that's the basics. For a bit more detail on the software itself and my thoughts on it, head to my review over on the blog where you can skip to the screenshot section. Enjoy!

A Quick Reminder

If you saw last week's newsletter, you'll have seen that I've bundled pretty much every item in my store into one mega bundle. That's Lightroom presets, Tutorials, ebooks and more all for the quite crazy price of $24.99. Yup, 10yrs or so of work for the price of one preset pack! This is just a reminder that the offer expires soon (next week, maybe) when it will rise to $49.99 and at some point soon-ish they'll all probably all disappear forever. Grab the bundle here.

StuckInCustoms.com is a personal blog where Trey puts up a new unique photo every day and writes about the art, the technology, and the story of the adventures. Actually, this is Trey writing about this in third person. Both Trey and I appreciate your support very much!

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