Luminar 3.1.2 update

Mac

• “On this day” feature. Photographs are all about memories. With the latest update, we let you see what pictures you took on this day in past years. To walk down memory lane with Luminar, simply click the “On this day” button in the menu.
• Improved Import from flash card. Luminar 3 now brings you the fastest importing from your flash card ever. Less time waiting and more time for creativity!
• Support for Nik Collection plugins. Now you can easily add plugins from the Nik Collection to your workflow and fully enjoy what they offer alongside all the tools in Luminar 3.
• Overall performance and stability improvements. Improving Luminar’s performance is one of our team’s top priorities. With every new update, we try our best to make Luminar faster and more seamless so you can have amazing potential to express your creativity.

Windows

• “On this day” feature. Photographs are all about memories. With the latest update, we let you see what pictures you took on this day in past years. To walk down memory lane with Luminar, simply click the “On this day” button in the menu.
• Faster scrolling. With this version of Luminar 3, we’ve tried our best to make this simple yet important action as seamless as possible. Now you can go through all the photos in your Library as fast as you like even in Single Image view!
• Improved switching between Single and Gallery views. It shouldn’t take long to switch between these two views while editing. And we know that. With this update, you’ll definitely notice a significant improvement.
• Fixed crash with Japanese calendar. For our Japanese users, we fixed the issue with the system calendar. So no more crashes.
• Overall performance and stability improvements. Improving Luminar’s performance is one of our team’s top priorities. With every new update, we try our best to make Luminar faster and more seamless so you can have amazing potential to express your creativity.

AI Sky Replacement

AI-Powered Portrait & Skin Enhancement

• Face-aware Lighting: Adjust lighting for a face that doesn't impact the rest of the scene. Get the emulation of a flash or reflector aimed at a face.
• Eye Improvement: Enhance and make a person's eyes more expressive and sharp as well as whiten pupils.
• Dark Circle Removal: Easily remove dark circles or shadows below the eye.
• Red Eye: Fix red-eye problems caused by flash.
• Face Contouring: Make the face thinner, achieving more attractive results in your portrait.
• Eye Enlargement: Is your portrait subject not fully awake yet? Squinting in bright light? Bring their eyes to life by gently increasing the size of their eyes.
• Eyebrows: Thicken and darken brows for stronger framing of the eyes.
• Lips and Teeth Enhancement: Bring more color and depth to a person's lips, and take advantage of teeth whitening tools.

First time I've looked at this program: funny, all the "improvements" that Luminar claims in the examples look terribly artificial to my "old-school" eyes! Why does everything have to be HDR-video-game style to be valid as a "pleasing" image? Details, where your own eyes would never see them, then the other extreme direction: smoothing so that everyone resembles an avantar more than an original human being. Everything so "vibrant". Life just ain't like that. Crazy.

Is it all those years of manufacturers of screens/cameras cranking up saturation, contrast, sharpness that have ruined all critical eyes?

Sky replacement demo

Preorder at special price started

https://skylum.com/luminar

Skylum is pleased to announce additional enhancements coming to Luminar 4 to be shipped on November 18, 2019. The release intends to change the way photographers approach photo editing, offering several tools informed by extensive machine-learning and a new streamlined interface to make photo editing more accessible than ever before.

Luminar 4 isn't just another photo editor ---it brings time-saving, creative photo processing to everyone in an easy-to-use approach. Skylum wants people to enjoy not only the taking of photos, but also the processing images which is typically where many photographers have the most frustration.

With Luminar 4, anyone can create a masterpiece.With a refreshed interface and workflow, Luminar 4 shifts from being a tool-based approach to one that is purpose-based. It shortens the learning process, helping any photographer experiment creatively and expand their vision. While the software incorporates complex tools, they're completely customizable and easy to use, whether you're a beginner or seasoned professional.

For example, in Luminar 4, photographers will experience the power of AI Sky Replacement ---the first automated sky replacement tool in the market. AI Structure provides photographers with a tool to adjust fine details in their photographs, without destroying relevant subjects. Finally, tools like AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer will take an everyday portrait and turn it into a masterpiece!

With these groundbreaking tools, photographers can achieve amazing results with just the click of a button.

"Luminar 4 will be our biggest release yet," said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum. "The changes we've made to the interface and workflow will make the photo editing process faster, and open up new possibilities to photographers everywhere. With new tools fueled by machine-learning, AI Sky Replacement, we make photo editing more accessible and approachable than ever before, Tsepko concluded

"Photographers no longer haveto think about the 'how do I do this?,' instead they can focus solely on their creativity and lasting results."

Filters get changed to Tools in Luminar 4

Luminar 4 is the biggest update in the program's history. Based on user feedback and data that the company has studied, the software has received significant improvements and refinements.

In Luminar 4, filters are now called "tools," making for a simpler understanding of the software. These have been organized into six tabs for their intended purpose, making it easy for users to locate and understand what they do:

• Tools: Basic tools to work with, including Crop, Transform and Erase
• Essentials: Everything necessary for basic Color and Tone Correction
• Creative: Photo processing tools that allow photographers to take their photos to the next level, including AI Sky Replacement
• Portrait: Tools oriented for processing portraits, including AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer
• Pro: Sophisticated tools for professional photo processing
• Deprecated: Tools left for compatibility of presets that have been created within earlier versions of Luminar.. These tools are no longer relevant due to new technologies in Luminar 4 and will be removed in future versions

Also, some general interface improvements have been made. These include enlarged fonts, increased spacing between elements to improve readability, increased availability of basic functional elements, enlarged sliders and better optimized contrast of interface elements.

Luminar 4 can adapt to any workflow

While Luminar 4 will be available as a standalone application, it will also shine as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop Elements, as well as Apple Photos for macOS and Aperture. By offering users a variety of ways to edit theirphotos, Luminar 4 will be accessible and fit into any photographers' workflow!

Pricing and availability

Luminar 4 is set to be released on November 18, 2019. Pre-orders include a bonus one-year plan to SmugMug (worth $180) and costs $79/€79/£72 for a new purchase and $69/€69/£64for an upgrade. When released on November 18, the price will jump to $89/€89/£81 new and $69/€69/£64 for an upgrade.

PR

Skylum is pleased to announce that Luminar 4  is now shipping. The release intends to change the way photographers approach photo editing, offering several tools informed by extensive machine-learning and a new streamlined interface to make photo editing more accessible than ever before. With its easy-to-use interface and sensible workflows, Luminar 4 is a great choice for creatives looking to move their photography forward.

Luminar 4 isn't just another photo editor --- it brings time-saving, creative photo processing to everyone in an easy-to-use approach. Skylum wants people to enjoy not only the taking of photos, but also the processing images which is typically where many photographers have the most frustration. With Luminar 4, anyone can create a masterpiece.

With a refreshed interface and workflow, Luminar 4 shifts from being a tool-based approach to one that is purpose-based. It shortens the learning process, helping any photographer experiment creatively and expand their vision. While the software incorporates complex tools, they're completely customizable and easy to use, whether you're a beginner or seasoned professional.

Skylum continues to push innovations forward through machine learning tools and introduces the newest AI-powered tools to Luminar 4: AI Sky Replacement, AI Structure, AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer.

AI Sky Replacement works by automatically detecting not only the sky, but also objects in a photograph's scene. This helps make sure the photo ends up being as realistic as possible once you insert a new sky. It removes things like halos, artifacts and edges of transitions, problems that often were present in existing sky replacement techniques. With the AI Sky Replacement you will also be able to adjust the sky to fit the rest of an image --- things like depth of field, tone, exposure and color --- making it great for not only landscapes, but also portraits.

AI Structure in Luminar 4 automatically identifies objects like people and their faces, skin, sky, buildings and more, and improves them intelligently, instead of globally across the photograph. It adds detail and clarity to areas that otherwise wouldn't have much, boosting the structure and making for a much more pleasing image. What this means is that instead of adding Structure to an entire photograph, it selectively does so, meaning photographers no longer have to mask or brush out the effect.

Skin Enhancer allows photographers to automatically remove various skin imperfections like acne, freckles and moles, in addition to smoothing the skin. At the same time, skin pores and other small details like hair and eyelashes are preserved.

Portrait Enhancer takes your portraits to the next level, through several customization tools that were previously not accessible, even to professional retouchers. With Portrait Enhancer, it is now possible to highlight and improve primary features of a person's face and achieve a professional-looking portrait and make facial features more expressive with just the click of a button.

With these groundbreaking tools, photographers can achieve amazing results with just the click of a button.

"Luminar 4 is our biggest release yet," said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum. "The changes we've made to the interface and workflow will make the photo editing process faster, and open up new possibilities to photographers everywhere. With new tools fueled by machine- learning, like AI Sky Replacement and AI Skin Enhancer, we make photo editing more accessible and approachable than ever before, Tsepko concluded

"Photographers no longer have to think about the 'how do I do this?,' instead they can focus solely on their creativity and lasting results."

Luminar 4 can adapt to any workflow

While Luminar 4 will be available as a standalone application, it will also shine as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop Elements, as well as Apple Photos for macOS and Aperture. By offering users a variety of ways to edit their photos, Luminar 4 will be accessible and fit into any photographers' workflow!

Skylum's Luminar 4 sends data on usage and analytics to facebook. Skylum claims the tracking is anonymous. Blocking the traffic seems not to adversly affect the software so far.

Not much of surprise as companies want to get any possible income and such data can be also sold.