Luminar
New powerful photo editing station packed with over 300 useful tools and versatile features.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
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Meet the most innovative professional photo editor built by photographers for photographers. Luminar brings everything you need to make perfect photos in less time!
We designed Luminar to be the best photo software for modern photographers. This may sound like a bold claim, but we listen to photographers and hear their requests & needs every day. Over 40 professional photographers helped us create this version of Luminar.
Right of the bat, get amazing images with the improved Raw engine. Remove flaws with Lens Correction & Transform tools. Stylize and enhance with new intelligent filters, including the unique Sun Rays filter. You can even bring your Adobe Photoshop plugins into Luminar. And much more.
LUMINAR IS POWERFUL
*Over 40 non-destructive filters
*Over 50 professional presets + custom presets
*Support of Adobe Photoshop plugins
*Flawless RAW support
*Layers with blending modes
*Masking
*Lens correction and Transform
*Object removal
*Dodge & Burn
*HSL & Curves
*One-click presets
*Pro color grading with Lookup Tables
*History panel
*Custom Textures
*Dedicated workspaces for all kinds of photos
*Fully non-destructive image editing
*And much more...
LUMINAR IS INTUITIVE & EASY-TO-USE
*Get started in less than a minute
*Adjust User Interface to your liking
*Quickly access the necessary tools with workspaces
*Get instant results with dozens of presets
*And much more...
LUMINAR IS FULL OF CREATIVITY
*Accent Filter - enhance photos with Artificial Intelligence
*Sun Rays - add realistic sunlight & rays
*Matte, Grain, Cross process - emulate film styles & vintage looks
*Orton Effect - beautiful portraits with a twist
*Black & White panel - professional monochrome photo editing
*Polarizing Filter - dramatically enhance skies
*Golden Hour for the perfect light any time of the day
*And much more...
We designed Luminar to be the best photo software for modern photographers. This may sound like a bold claim, but we listen to photographers and hear their requests & needs every day. Over 40 professional photographers helped us create this version of Luminar.
Right of the bat, get amazing images with the improved Raw engine. Remove flaws with Lens Correction & Transform tools. Stylize and enhance with new intelligent filters, including the unique Sun Rays filter. You can even bring your Adobe Photoshop plugins into Luminar. And much more.
LUMINAR IS POWERFUL
*Over 40 non-destructive filters
*Over 50 professional presets + custom presets
*Support of Adobe Photoshop plugins
*Flawless RAW support
*Layers with blending modes
*Masking
*Lens correction and Transform
*Object removal
*Dodge & Burn
*HSL & Curves
*One-click presets
*Pro color grading with Lookup Tables
*History panel
*Custom Textures
*Dedicated workspaces for all kinds of photos
*Fully non-destructive image editing
*And much more...
LUMINAR IS INTUITIVE & EASY-TO-USE
*Get started in less than a minute
*Adjust User Interface to your liking
*Quickly access the necessary tools with workspaces
*Get instant results with dozens of presets
*And much more...
LUMINAR IS FULL OF CREATIVITY
*Accent Filter - enhance photos with Artificial Intelligence
*Sun Rays - add realistic sunlight & rays
*Matte, Grain, Cross process - emulate film styles & vintage looks
*Orton Effect - beautiful portraits with a twist
*Black & White panel - professional monochrome photo editing
*Polarizing Filter - dramatically enhance skies
*Golden Hour for the perfect light any time of the day
*And much more...
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Mac: 10.10 or newer
Windows: Windows 7 or newer
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Luminar, and it has gotten 20 likes
- Developed by Skylum
- Proprietary and Freemium product.
- One time purchase that cost about $100, and / or subscription that costs between $5 and $10.
- Average rating of 3.7
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Fantastic alternative to PS and LR. For amateurs and professionals alike. Seriously, give it a try
It is nice as you can use AI and get quite good result.
However the app is using too much marketing. For instance they promote a new revolution software called Luminar AI which in reality is a couple of new models added. So it s rather an update of luminar 4 than a big improvement. Same story is true from luinar3 to luminar4.
Another big issue is speed. Even with a recent machine it takes ages to save a picture and they do not use the gpu at all unless lightroom...
Looks like a well made product, with some powerful features that are easy to use, but all of these features they're promoting are for drastically changing your images (IMO). I do plenty of compositing and extreme changes to my own and others' photos, but this program seems to promote modifying the base image in your typical workflow, vs slightly adjusting the curves/white balance. Nothing wrong with it, but it just grinds my gears for some reason if people are putting a lot of time into the photography itself to then use something like this and replace the entire sky, turn an overcast day into a sunset, and then pass it off as the original shot. I know how "get off my lawn" I sound, but can't help it.

Very cool program though, haha!
The editing capabilities are quite good. It has some filters and effects that would require significant work in other applications.
But they over-marketed and over-sold their digital asset mgmt (think catalog) in 2017. They failed to deliver it until a year later and even then it is not a true DAM. Users are very angry with Skylum, and many including me have gone to another product for DAM. I still use it as a plug in.