The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4

In The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Skylum's Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs.

Skylum’s Luminar 4 is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as layers, masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place.

Luminar 4 is deceptively deep, and in The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs. From importing your images to editing, managing, and exporting your files, Jeff showcases the power, precision, and control of Luminar while teaching you to work quickly and efficiently. In this book, he walks you through real-world landscape and portrait edits, and covers every tool and feature with the goal of helping you understand how to make Luminar improve your images.

In this book you’ll learn all about:

  • AI editing: Luminar 4’s many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes.
  • Expert editing: Take advantage of Luminar’s many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar’s RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits.
  • Advanced editing: Use layers, masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects.
  • Creativity: Open your imagination with Luminar’s creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.
  • Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables): Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work.
  • Luminar Library: Organize and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that’s on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup.
  • Luminar plug-ins: If you already use other applications to organize your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar 4 also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place.
  • Sharing images: Whether you’re printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.
  • Bonus Content: Includes an exclusive offer and free download from Skylum for creative add-ons.
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The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4

In The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Skylum's Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs.

Skylum’s Luminar 4 is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as layers, masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place.

Luminar 4 is deceptively deep, and in The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs. From importing your images to editing, managing, and exporting your files, Jeff showcases the power, precision, and control of Luminar while teaching you to work quickly and efficiently. In this book, he walks you through real-world landscape and portrait edits, and covers every tool and feature with the goal of helping you understand how to make Luminar improve your images.

In this book you’ll learn all about:

  • AI editing: Luminar 4’s many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes.
  • Expert editing: Take advantage of Luminar’s many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar’s RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits.
  • Advanced editing: Use layers, masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects.
  • Creativity: Open your imagination with Luminar’s creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.
  • Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables): Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work.
  • Luminar Library: Organize and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that’s on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup.
  • Luminar plug-ins: If you already use other applications to organize your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar 4 also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place.
  • Sharing images: Whether you’re printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.
  • Bonus Content: Includes an exclusive offer and free download from Skylum for creative add-ons.
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The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4

by Jeff Carlson
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In The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Skylum's Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs.

Skylum’s Luminar 4 is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as layers, masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place.

Luminar 4 is deceptively deep, and in The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs. From importing your images to editing, managing, and exporting your files, Jeff showcases the power, precision, and control of Luminar while teaching you to work quickly and efficiently. In this book, he walks you through real-world landscape and portrait edits, and covers every tool and feature with the goal of helping you understand how to make Luminar improve your images.

In this book you’ll learn all about:

  • AI editing: Luminar 4’s many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes.
  • Expert editing: Take advantage of Luminar’s many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar’s RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits.
  • Advanced editing: Use layers, masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects.
  • Creativity: Open your imagination with Luminar’s creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.
  • Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables): Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work.
  • Luminar Library: Organize and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that’s on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup.
  • Luminar plug-ins: If you already use other applications to organize your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar 4 also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place.
  • Sharing images: Whether you’re printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.
  • Bonus Content: Includes an exclusive offer and free download from Skylum for creative add-ons.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681984063
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Publication date: 03/30/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 48 MB
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About the Author

Author and photographer Jeff Carlson is a columnist for the Seattle Times, a contributing editor for TidBITS, and writes for outlets such as Macworld.

He is the author of numerous books, including Take Control of Your Digital Photos; Aurora HDR and Aurora HDR Professional: A Photoversity Guide; Photos for OS X and iOS; Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course; The iPad for Photographers; iPad and iPhone Video; and The Connected Apple Family. Visit Jeff online at jeffcarlson.com.


Author and photographer Jeff Carlson is a columnist for the Seattle Times, a contributing editor for TidBITS, and writes for outlets such as Macworld.

He is the author of numerous books, including Take Control of Your Digital Photos; Aurora HDR and Aurora HDR Professional: A Photoversity Guide; Photos for OS X and iOS; Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course; The iPad for Photographers; iPad and iPhone Video; and The Connected Apple Family. Visit Jeff online at jeffcarlson.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

How to Read This Book x

1 The Luminar Studio 1

The Sidebar 2

Edit Tools 3

The Histogram 3

Quick Preview and Compare 4

Hide/Show All Panels and Full Screen Preview 5

The Looks Panel 6

Zoom 7

The Canvas Panel 7

History 8

The Library 9

The Info Panel 11

Change the Background Color 11

2 The Paths to Luminar 13

Edit a Single Image 14

Edit a Photo from Another Application 16

Edit a Photo in the Luminar Library 22

Add New Photos to the Library 27

3 Landscape Walkthrough 31

Evaluate the Photo 32

Get Luminar's Opinion 33

Adjust Exposure 34

Adjust White Balance 37

Punch Up the Foliage 38

Draw Attention Away from the Rocks 39

Adjust the Waterfalls 41

Add Effects and Final Touches 42

Enhance Details 44

Remove the Person 44

Before and After 45

4 Portrait Walkthrough 47

Evaluate the First Photo 48

Edit Tone and Color 49

Enhance the Skin 50

Enhance the Face 51

Apply Spot Touch-Ups 52

First Photo Before and After 53

Evaluate the Second Photo 54

Let Luminar Do (Much of) the Work 55

Enhance the Skin and Face 56

Brighten the Subject 57

Correct Skin Tones 59

Fix the Eye Reflection and Apply Touch-ups 60

Second Photo Before and After 61

5 Editing Tools 63

Editing Tool Fundamentals 64

Understand the Histogram 66

Essentials Tools 68

Creative Tools 94

Portrait Tools 115

Professional Tools 124

Deprecated Tools 134

6 Canvas Tools 141

Crop & Rotate 142

Erase 146

Clone & Stamp 148

Lens & Geometry 150

7 Luminar Looks 155

Apply Looks 156

Create Your Own Looks 158

Export and Import Looks 160

8 Layers 163

Layers Fundamentals 164

Work with Layers 168

Blend Modes 170

Layer Transform 174

Blend Modes and Layer Transform: Add a Watermark 176

9 Advanced Editing 181

Masking 182

Layer Compositing 196

Sync Adjustments 197

Deal with Sky Reflections in Al Sky Replacement 198

Automating with Photoshop Actions 201

Strategies for Speeding Up Luminar 202

10 Luminar Library 205

Use Library Shortcuts 206

Rate and Flag Photos 207

Sort Photos 210

Filter Photos 210

Work with Albums 212

Remove Photos from the Library 214

Locate Missing Folders and Edits 216

Back Up and Restore the Catalog 218

Work with Multiple Catalogs 219

11 Sharing Photos 221

Export to Image 222

Share to Services 228

Open in Other Applications (macOS) 229

Batch Process Multiple Photos 230

Index 233

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