{"id":4402,"date":"2020-10-16T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:09:45","slug":"luminar-photo-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/tips\/luminar-photo-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminar Photo Editing &#8211; Honest Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4402\" class=\"elementor elementor-4402\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c3bc768 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section\" data-id=\"7c3bc768\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f34414d elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column\" data-id=\"1f34414d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap  elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ccfb5cb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ccfb5cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this article, we would be talking about the latest edition of Luminar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/picture-editor\/\">Photo Editing Tool<\/a>. If you are new to Luminar 4, you will be amazed by its interface. It is fresh and modern! It has an easy image organisation process, one-click \u2018Looks\u2019, legit portrait enhancement tools and stunning AI Sky Replacement feature. We will talk about it in details!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you\u2019re an existing Luminar 3 (or earlier) user, you are more likely to be excited by the new interface. It also has another dramatic shift in direction which you will realise while using it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For long-term users, Luminar is proving a bit of a roller-coaster ride!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>About the App<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar certainly ranks amongst the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/\">photo editing software<\/a> you can get right now in the market. We are in a time where image editing tools are heading in different exciting directions. The former tools like Adobe Photoshop are no longer the only way to edit your photos. Photo editing has become much easier and efficient to do without consuming much time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/mobile-photo-editing\/alternatives-to-photoshop-the-best-image-editing-software\/\">other Photoshop alternatives <\/a>aren&#8217;t much expensive. There are a few free alternatives, and the best free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/picture-editing-tools\/top-photo-editing-software-for-photographers\/\">photo editors<\/a> aren&#8217;t bad. It&#8217;s worth digging into your pocket and spending some money on it for a proper platform which is worth working on.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":4403} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-4403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Luminar Photo Editing\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/model-5624660_1920.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Some Amazing Features<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The AI Sky Replacement is the most spectacular tool and a distinctive feature of this app. As the name suggests, it identifies the sky in an outdoor scene. It precisely selects all the tiny bits between branches, around trees, the edges of buildings, rooftops, hillsides, and mountains and recognises all these bits of the sky. All of it without even a single mouse click!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is different from the other regular auto-selection tools. Sidestepping all that tedious and precise selecting, it can even eliminate edge halos, edge artefacts and transitions feathering. The other unique features are edge shifting, edge masking. It will surely amaze you with the amazing precision on which it works!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Waiting for the surprise? Here it is!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar\u2019s AI Sky Replacement tool goes a step further to stun you where it offers you a library of replacement skies to drop into your pictures. You can also select for loading one of your images.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is not all that Luminar does! It\u2019s more than just a photo-enhancer.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A powerful image editing tool in the classic sense which offers:<\/span>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:list -->\n<ul>\n<li>Regular tones.<\/li>\n<li>Colour tools<\/li>\n<li>Cropping tools<\/li>\n<li>Geometric corrections<\/li>\n<li>Raw processing<\/li>\n<li>Image layers<\/li>\n<li>Masking<\/li>\n<li>A whole range of new creative effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You can apply these adjustments manually using its newly-streamlined workspaces. You also have the options of single-click \u2018Looks\u2019 with presets consisting of combinations of filters and effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is a great way to get ideas for effects for applying them on your images. You\u2019ll soon build a list of favourite presets and you can create and also add your own.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should also talk about Luminar\u2019s integrated image browsing feature along with its cataloguing tools. These are fast and greatly effective. While they\u2019re not as sophisticated as Lightroom\u2019s, they\u2019re efficient enough for casual users (more specifically beginners).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar also offers non-destructive editing, so that even after closing an image or even quitting the software, you don\u2019t lose the image. You can go back later and change\/remove any of your pre-defined settings. It helps a lot when you want to revert the edits you have done before.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This has become a standard way of working for many programs, not only Lightroom but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/mobile-photo-editing\/photo-editing-apps\/popular-online-filters-for-photo-editing\/\">other photo editing apps<\/a> such as Exposure X5, ON1 Photo RAW 2020, and Capture One Pro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":4407} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" class=\"wp-image-4407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tiger-3248779_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Drawbacks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar 4 has some minor drawbacks. It misses a couple of key features that the others have. Firstly, it doesn\u2019t yet offer \u2018virtual copies\u2019, so you can\u2019t create different versions of a picture with different \u2018looks\u2019 while working simultaneously.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Second, with non-destructive photo editors like these, you need to \u2018export\u2019 a processed image if you want to publish it or share it. You cannot share it directly from the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar doesn\u2019t offer you the option of exporting an image back to the primary folder where the original image is stored. You have to navigate to the folder you want to export manually. It may sound like a small point, but it does make the whole export process more tiresome. Also contradicts the whole point of saving time while editing images.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Luminar 4 can also edit images which are not currently imported into the library. But it goes about this in a rather different way. You can drag single images on to the app icon to open them, but they are automatically imported into a special album and your editing changes are still stored non-destructively within the Library.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So actually, you are still importing these images for editing, but with no separate option for saving an image as an individual Luminar file. You must be familiar to this one if you are a Photoshop user. The old Luminar file format for single re-editable images seems to have gone!\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":4408} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-4408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Luminar Photo Editing\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lighthouse-168132_1920.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The ability to use Luminar 4 as a plug-in is another bonus! Very often you may want to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureeditor.com\/design\/uncategorized\/lightroom-tips-and-tricks-of-photo-editing-app-you-should-know\/\">Lightroom for organising and processing your images<\/a> and just switch to Luminar later for its creative effects. Similarly, you may use Photoshop for layers and subtle retouching and use Luminar at the end to add a specific \u2018look\u2019. All of it makes sense! It\u2019s just a process of hit and trial until you realise the best one!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Comment down your experience with Luminar!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Happy Editing!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, we would be talking about the latest edition of Luminar Photo Editing Tool. 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