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Learn how to use Luminar, the powerful and affordable image-editing software for Mac and Windows, to enhance and retouch photos.
Luminar, from Skylum, is a powerful but affordable image-editing app for Mac and Windows. In this course, photographer, educator, and author Derrick Story steps through the essential features of Luminar, showing how to navigate and customize the interface, work with layers, and perform common tasks, such as retouching and replacing skies. Learn how to enhance images with its creative filters and presets, and perform more advanced techniques such as LUT mapping and converting to black and white. Derrick also includes a quick-start chapter to get experienced digital pros up and running with Luminar in minutes.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Windows and Mac requirements
- Standalone or plugin?
- A word about exercise files
- Open the image and apply a preset
- Fine-tune the preset filters
- Crop the image
- Save the document as a Luminar file
- Export the completed image to your desktop
- A tour of the interface
- Choose the right workspace for you
- How filters and presets work together
- Introduction to layers
- Batch processing
- Tap the power of the History popup
- Interface tips and shortcuts
- Accent-AI filter
- Vignette filter
- Sharpening filters
- Softening filters
- Denoise filter
- RAW Develop
- Color filters
- Adjustable Gradient filter
- Top & Bottom Lighting filter
- Tone
- Move and organize filters
- Create and configure adjustments layers
- Use a brush for localized editing
- Merge layers with a stamped layer
- Use gradient and radial masks
- Use an image layer to replace a sky
- Use a duplicate layer to save time
- LUT mapping
- Use the Erase tool
- Clone and stamp
- Convert to black and white
- Use toning filters
- Warm up your tones
- Reduce noise
- Next steps
