We’ll discuss where everything is and what they do but, just in case something doesn’t make sense, and you’re not sure what each icon does, hover your cursor over it. Let’s take a quick look at the top toolbar inside Luminar. Or select Edit in > Luminar and choose “Edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments” from the options. ![]() If you made adjustments to your image in Lightroom such as lens corrections, cropping, straightening, spot removal or noise reduction – instead of choosing Open Original Image, choose “Use. Note: you can also select Edit in > Luminar. If you prefer to start in Lightroom, right-click on your image, select Export > Luminar > Open Original Image. Click the blue button to open a Finder (or Explorer) window, navigate to your chosen image, select it, and click open. The initial screen asks you to Open Image. In just a few paragraphs, you’ll have some great ideas on how to use Luminar to edit your own photos. After that, we’ll dive in with some basic editing techniques. In this article, I’ll upload some images and take a whirl around the user interface so that you can understand where all the tools are, and what they do. It’s simple to the point of being just too simple.Cropped and edited in Luminar using Mild Image Enhancer Preset at 85 opacity, plus a white balance adjustment. This is an impressive and innovative app, and maybe the first thing you see shouldn’t be a simple ‘Load Image’ splash screen. Maybe MacPhun should take another look at Luminar’s first impressions, too. It could take a while to figure out just what this program can do and where it could take you, and you almost get the impression that MacPhun hasn’t fully understood its potential either – the default presets are OK as far as they go, but it would be worth spending some time hand-crafting some really strong photographic looks. Other features worth mentioning are the clone stamp tool, the content-aware erase tool and the denoise tool. It even works directly with raw files – it doesn’t have the finesse of Lightroom for highlight recovery, for example, but it’s not bad. The deeper you dig into Luminar’s tools, the more you realise that underneath that simple, innocuous exterior is a serious image-editing application with real power. You can combine separate images into composites using layers, masks and blend modes In addition to adjustment layers, it also supports image layers – you can add a new image as a new layer, resize and position it using Luminar’s Transform tool and then use the masking tools, blend modes and layer opacity control to produce complex, multi-layered image montages. The masking tools are much simpler than Photoshop’s and rather like Lightroom’s, consisting of a brush, gradient and radial filter tools, but it’s enough to blend in localised adjustments smoothly and seamlessly. ![]() You can use layers and masks to add filter effects to specific areas of the photo only, rather than the whole thing – it’s like using adjustment layers in Photoshop, but with a much wider range of effects to choose from. Indeed, this is only the start, because Luminar also supports layers, layer masks and layer blending modes. There’s a lot to explore here, and after a while you start to wonder if Luminar’s catalog of special effects presets really does justice to what these filter combinations can do. Luminar has noise reduction tools – they look a lot like those in MacPhun's Noiseless app ![]() Luminar comes with ready-made workspaces for black and white, landscape, portrait and street photography – each workspace is simply a specially chosen collection of filters for that particular genre.įor example, the B & W workspace contains Luminar’s B&W Conversion, Structure, Curves, Split Toning, Soft Glow, Texture Overlay, Vignette and Grain filters – all the tools you’re most likely to need for creative black and white. In effect, you can choose specific filters to create different workspaces for different jobs. This is where MacPhun’s reference to Luminar’s ‘adaptive’ interface comes in. Or you can take the next step and design your own from scratch. You can remove filters you don’t need, add new ones and then save what you’ve done as a new user preset. So it’s pretty easy to examine the filter settings for any presets you like, figure out how it’s been done and make adjustments to tweak the results. In fact, Luminar comes with 38 different filters, which can be used in a combination to create a huge range of different effects. There are lots of these, including ‘Adjustable Gradient’, ‘Color Balance’, ‘Clarity’, ‘Grain’ and a whole lot more. Once you’ve chosen a preset effect, the tools display on the right shows all the filters used to create the effect.
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