Luminar 4 A Smart Photo Editor Part I

A month ago, we reviewed Affinity Photo – a full-featured yet cost-effective photo editor.

- Ashok Kandimalla

This month we will look at Luminar 4 post-processing software that has won several awards (from TIPA, EISA, and many others). Its claim to fame is that it brings new technologies that make post-processing easy for photographers who do not want to get bogged down by increasingly complex commands and other complications. Luminar, in its current avatar (called Version 4) achieves this by using smart algorithms, based on AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology.

While you can adjust the usual parameters like, exposure, contrast, saturation, white balance, etc., the same are executed intelligently, in the sense that Luminar analyses the image and does its best to prevent overcorrections. If you want more automation, Luminar also offers single-click solutions. If you use these, Luminar analyses the image and then presents you with several different ‘pre-cooked’ outputs, called ‘Looks’ which are shown as thumbnails. All you need to do is click on the one you like. That is all! Many complex editing steps can thus be performed with a single click. You can further tweak the result to suit your needs.

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