#Luminar 3 upgrade full#

#Luminar 3 upgrade full#

You're unlikely to want to leave your editing there, nor use it to its full 100% setting as this can bring out noise in many shadow areas, but it’s a great thing to play with and it also worth calling on when you can see an image might benefit from a touch of something but you’re not quite sure what that is.How is Luminar Neo Different to Luminar 4? 1. The Accent AI Filter also does a great job to pull back highlights, lift shadows, boost contrast and tweak saturation with a simple slider. The AI Sky Enhancer, for example, does a remarkable job to boost the blues in the skies while leaving the remained of the scene relatively untroubled, although it works very well to bring out clouds in overcast conditions where no sky is visible.

There's a comprehensive selection of LOOKs available for instant effects, but you can toggle the workspace to remove this panel, which in turn gives you a larger image previewįeeling lazy? Various AI tools are on hand to make processing fast and straightforward, and while some of these may be a little too automated for the target audience, they can work impressively well. Sure, you could perhaps squeeze a few extra options in this space to get the most out of it, but this clutter-free design makes a lot of sense. You can quickly amend the workspace to add or remove panels, zoom in and out of images, crop and transform all from the same general area, although you’ll find the odd keyboard shortcut makes things faster here and there. In addition to those for general navigation, an eye button gives you a quick and convenient before-and-after view, while a slider control next to it lets you view this affect across different parts of the image as you swipe across. The interface presented when editing images has a row of controls lining the top of the workspace.

Images can be viewed as Favourites, Recently edited and so on.

Assuming your camera’s raw files are supported, you also have your camera’s profiles and the option to import your own DCP profiles if you’ve created any. Further Lens and Transform tabs allow you to iron out optical aberrations and adjust perspective, scale and so on. With regards to raw file processing, all expected key options are on offer, from exposure and white balance through to curves and split toning and vignetting. The expected assortment of processing options are logically grouped, and this includes support for camera profiles

What is lacks in advanced controls it easily makes up in fun, ease of use and intunitiveness.

Overall, if you just want to pay a one-off fee and have a good level of control over processing your images while keeping everything organised, Luminar 3 is worth checking out. The included filters – or 'LOOKs' as they're called here – for portraits, landscapes and street screens among others are a lot of fun. Adjustments are made quickly, however, and whole there's a little lagging here and there in general operation, speed isn't as much of an issue as we've found in previous Luminar iterations. When processing images manually, you have a very good level of control over all aspects of editing, although we'd like to see specific lens profiles and control over chromatic aberration beyond a simple checkbox. The AI Sky Enhancer does a wonderful job to find the sky and boost its colour (or definition of clouds) without affecting the rest of the image too greatly, while the Accent AI Filter works well to spruce up a raw file to a far more agreeable colour, exposure and balance between areas of light and dark, with sliders for both features on hand to regulate the strength of adjustment. In use, these AI controls can work impressively well.