
Issue Fixers - Bring out more detail in your imageĬlarity - Adjusts overall clarity, and hardness between edges. When applied will brighten the specific color and darken the opposite color of the spectrum. Also includes a color filter which simulates glass filters in front of the lens. Two benefits to Luminar is you can adjust center brightness and have the option to place the vignettes center wherever you like.īlack & White Conversion - Includes luminance controls to adjust brightness dependent on each color. Vignette - Darkens or Lightens the edges of your image.

Tone - A precise way to adjust global contrast and brightness. This is one tool to get an HDR effect without bracketing shots. Structure - Effects image detail and clarity. Saturation increases all colors while vibrance increases only muted colors while ignoring those that are well saturated. Saturation & Vibrance - Increases the intensity of colors in the image.
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**In my experience it is one of the most effective tools in the program and possibly worth the upgrade alone. The Essentials - What you should start withĪccent AI - One of the key features of Luminar 2018, Accent AI is a complex automatic calculation of the image in realtime which adjusts highlights, shadows and contrast and saturation among others. Below is a breakdown of each individual tool and how it can be used.
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There is a history drop down menu top center to backstep through edits if you realize you've gone the wrong way with your edit.Įssential, Issue Fixers, Creative, Professional and Utility together consist of 50 individual tools to do just about anything to your image.
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Other controls (below) include a drop down "Tools" bar at the top which has Crop, Free Transform, Clone & Stamp and Erase tools. This creates endless opportunities for processing and leaves Lightroom in the dust. This is fantastic because you can make major edits to an entire layer, create a new adjustment layer and keep going or blend the two variations together. I was wrong, after I changed workspaces all my edits were saved into a NEW layer directly under the Layers dropdown menu on the upper right. When the image seemed to lose all my edits from before I thought this was a major oversight and you couldn't keep them. **At first when experimenting with workspaces I changed workspaces from the default to the Professional and began adding new Filters. I should clarify that a Filter is the same as an Adjustment. The upside to this is that it is as fast as Lightroom to make an adjustment but with the power and control of Photoshop. Want to dehaze on just two sides of the image, add a gradient mask on both sides and your done. Want to only sharpen just a small part of the image? Add a layer mask to that specific "Filter" and paint where you want it to happen. What does this mean? You are no longer hindered to making global adjustments as in Lightroom. Yes with Luminar you can work in real layers just like Photoshop or Affinity. On the right you have your histogram and below that an option for Layers. The main interface is a hybrid between Photoshop and Affinity.
