Luminar Neo tutorial: cinematic portrait editing

Anthony Turnham edits a daylight portrait in Luminar Neo, using a photo lit with a single hard off-camera flash. The workflow starts by reducing bright highlights, warming the temperature and shifting the tint toward magenta. Lower saturation keeps the orange cast restrained. The speaker then uses the Clone tool to remove distractions behind glass and crops the image to 16:9.

For a rougher portrait texture, he combines Structure with the Details tool and uses Mask AI to select the person. He explains that Structure largely avoids skin, so Details provides another way to emphasize facial texture. A second Develop pass adds contrast and refines the color. Curves lift the black point for a matte finish, while a lower shadow point restores some contrast.

The Dramatic tool adds further contrast. The speaker recommends reducing local contrast when halos appear and settles on an overall amount near 30 for this image. A soft vignette directs attention toward the subject and his reflection.

The final section applies film grain through a luminosity mask, concentrating it in shadows and tapering it toward highlights. The speaker says Luminar Neo previews grain with a rendering shortcut and that the exported result looks cleaner. He finishes with a grain amount around 40. These settings belong to the example portrait; the tutorial encourages adjusting detail and grain to suit the image.