When the ‘Looks’ option is activated, Luminar shows a series of thumbnail previews under the main image. The Layer control lets you combine images, adjustments and textures, use blending modes and apply masks. There’s also a clock icon that reveals the editing history. Clicking on the appropriate icon reveals the tools in the adjacent column. The controls are arranged by category: ‘Layers’, ‘Canvas’, ‘Essentials’, ‘Creative’, ‘Portrait’, ‘Pro’ and ‘Legacy’. The Editing panel sits over on the right side of the screen. There’s also an icon to reveal the Luminar ‘Looks’ and buttons to switch between the single image and gallery view. This arranges thumbnails of your images in a column to the left of a larger preview of the selected shot.Īt the top of the screen there’s a bar with a small collection of tools including a zoom control to magnify the image and a crop tool that lets you level the horizon as well as adjust the composition of the image. Once you’ve selected an image that you want to adjust, click on the ‘Edit’ button in the top right corner of the screen to open it in the Edit area. Now use the sliding controls to adjust the Luminance of each of the six colour channels. Next, click on the ‘Convert to B&W’ button to switch the image to monochrome. It’s possible to make a one-click black & white conversion of a colour image using Luminar’s Looks, but if you want to take control you need to head to the Essentials section of the Edit panel and select ‘B&W Conversion’. Credit: Angela Nicholson Convert to black & white Impressive black & white conversions are just a few clicks away. Hit the ‘Advanced Settings’ to control the Hue, Saturation and Luminance of eight colour channels independently. The Color panel also gives control over the Saturation and Vibrance, and there’s a slider for removing a colour cast. The latter lets you manipulate the exposure and contrast. However, you can also take control yourself with exposure and white balance adjustments (and a white balance dropper tool) plus the curves control that’s revealed by hitting the ‘Advanced Settings’ option in the Light panel. There are also ‘AI Accent’ and ‘AI Structure’ controls that assess the image and allow you to determine the degree of adjustment. The Essentials section gives control of exposure, white balance and colour. Just select and drag additional images to the album to add them. It’s also possible to create virtual albums of images simply by selecting them in the Library and clicking on the + next to ‘Albums’ in the folder structure. Clicking on the heart that appears in the bottom right corner of images as you hover over them in the Library adds them to the Favourites folder. There are also icons to reveal the images you most recently added or edited in Luminar. As well as the structure of the folders that you’ve imported into Luminar 4, the Library organises the images by date, so you can quickly locate images captured on a specific day just by clicking on the relevant folder. Clicking on the ‘Info’ button reveals essential image data. Clicking on the ‘Library’ button at the top right of the screen hides and reveals the organisation column. The Library has a column on the right that shows the file organisation structure while thumbnails of images are everywhere to the left of that. To import images into Luminar 4’s Library, click on the + in the top left corner of the screen and select the pictures to work on in the normal way.
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