![]() You can go into the filter settings, shown here, to make changes yourself, but the whole ‘Template’ experience still feels distinctly flat. Luminar’s Templates do not offer the variety or inspiration of other effects-based software. Clearly Skylum has monetisation plans beyond simple software sales. You can also go to the Luminar marketplace to buy and download more, or subscribe to Luminar X membership. ![]() You can see the full list of template categories by scrolling down the sidebar. You’re not stuck with the template categories Luminar suggests. These are split into categories – Luminar will suggest some categories in a swipeable carousel at the top of the sidebar. When you open an image, Luminar AI will use artificial intelligence to work out what it’s a picture of and then suggest suitable templates to give it a particular look. These sound like they are all part of the same thing, but in fact they operate differently. Luminar AI users artificial intelligence in two main areas: 1) templates and adjustments, 2) AI effects. (Image credit: Skylum) Here’s another food shot, but this time Luminar’s AI decided it might fit in the Objects Collection instead. Not a bad call! (Image credit: Skylum) It then offered some Influencer templates, but you have to click on them to see the effect – there are no thumbnail previews to help you choose. ![]() Templates and adjustments Once this photo had loaded fully (this can take a few seconds for a RAW file), Luminar’s AI figured out that this might need an ‘Influencer’ template – see the sidebar, top right. The header shoot of Pisa is mine, as is the one of the water tower at the end, but Skylum has been kind enough to supply sample images for reviewers, so I’ve used those elsewhere for variety and to help demonstrate the portrait AI features. It’s not a Lightroom rival, though, which may disappoint photographers who were following this software’s previous trajectory. It also has basic but effective image browsing tools. ![]() It does do basic image enhancements, but that’s not really its main purpose and they are typically added as part of an editing template. It sheds a lot of the technical depth of control of Luminar 4, putting almost all its faith in machine learning AI to reach a new, larger audience that Skylum believes has no time for sliders and technicalities and just want spectacular results fast. Luminar AI is officially the replacement for Luminar 4 but spears off in a whole new direction. It can even suggest templates (‘looks’) based on the contents of your images and has some pretty impressive sky replacement and portrait enhancement capabilities. You can share your thoughts at the TDS Facebook page, where I'll post this story for discussion.Luminar AI is a photo editor that uses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate many photo editing tasks. It's fun, and I promise, you will learn a lot. You learn all the ins and outs of Luminar 2018 via my Essential Training on and on LinkedIn Learning. Rock Luminar with my new Essential Training You can see all of the shortcuts on the Skylum Luminar User Manual page, but these will get you headed in the right direction. So if you're using Luminar in conjunction with Photos for macOS, then you can accelerate your workflow there as well. What's interesting is that most of these shortcuts work with the editing extension version of Luminar as well. F Show a full-screen preview of just the image.When I get in a zone with brushing, I just want to work fast. / Show current layer mask in the form of red transparent image imposition.X Switching between painting/erasing modes.They are super handy because the functions are otherwise buried in slower popup menus. The two I use the most from these favs are the B and the C keys. I've been using this more lately because it displays my my image with a less distracting interface. The key will activate previously shown windows. Tab Show/Hide the Preset panel at the bottom of the window and Side panel along right edge. This is much faster than moving the mouse pointer up to the top toolbar. Releasing the key will reveal the enhanced image. When the key is pressed, the original image will be shown. (These and others are from the Skylum Luminar User Manual page. I have my favorites that I use all of the time, and I thought that you might want to learn these as well. And keyboard shortcuts really help with that. As a result, efficiency is more important than ever. For many of us, Luminar has evolved from an app that we use some of the time for special images, to most of the time in our daily workflow.
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