![]() The workflow of the software is more similar to Photoshop in that sense. You can open more than one image in Luminar but note that it is not meant to catalogue and sort your pictures like Adobe Lightroom. The history tab is a welcome addition to Macphun software. This means you will be able to access all the adjustments you made at any time by just opening the Luminar file. lmrn file and the history will be saved as well. You can save all the settings and layers applied to your photograph as a proprietary. A partial workaround as suggested in the comments is to use the opacity or blend mode settings. However Luminar doesn’t recognise transparency on a PNG or TIFF file when imported as an image layer. A work-around could have been to insert a separate png or other transparent file as an image layer before exporting the file. The only option that the export image window doesn’t have is the possibility to include a watermark. You can export the image in various formats, share it to a social network account or send it to another Macphun or third party app like Photoshop or Lightroom (for the last two you need to install the add-ons that come built-in with the software). In fact most of the images you see in this article were edited from RAW files using various mirrorless cameras. Layout with Histogram, Layers and Filters panelĪnother relevant point to highlight is that Luminar is compatible with RAW files, meaning it can act as a RAW developer software as well. This is where you activate the side panel that displays the histogram, layers and all the individual settings that in Luminar are called Filters (more on this in the next chapter). Overall the presets are a good starting point for beginners but as soon as you become more familiar with the software, you will want to have more control. Some of these presets are quite punchy and will give you strong vignetting, cross process, colour tint or monochrome effects while others are more subtle. More will be available to download from the Macphun website. You can choose from 50 different presets subdivided in different categories (outdoor, travel, street, portrait etc). Like Aurora, you can vary the intensity of the presets with the dedicated slider on the thumbnail. Similar to the ones you can find in Aurora HDR, presets give your image a distinctive look with just one click. This is where the Preset panel comes in handy. However you might want to post process your image quickly without dealing with individual settings. ![]() The interface above is pretty basic if you just want to do some cropping and don’t want to bother with more complicated actions involving masks and layers. On the right, you will find tools such as masks (paint, gradient and radial), transform, clone & stamp, erase, denoise and crop tools. The history tab is an excellent addition and one thing I miss from Aurora HDR. You can undo or redo the settings applied or display the history tab. With the top grey bar you can open or share a photo, zoom in or out, visualise the image at 100%, see a quick preview of the original image or compare it to the post-processed version. It is very straight-forward, elegant and well-organised. If not, it won’t take long to learn how to use it. If you are using other Macphun software, the interface of Luminar will be pretty familiar to you. To know more about our ethics, you can visit our full disclosure page. If you buy something after clicking the link, we will receive a small commission. Within the article, there are Macphun affiliate links. All opinions we express regarding Luminar are our own. We were not asked to write anything specific about the software in exchange for the opportunity and were not provided any other compensation of any kind to publish this article.
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