Hurry! Luminar Summer Sales Ends Today. Don’t Miss It

Today is the final day to save on Luminar 4 in the Skylum Summer Sale, including a deal that includes both Luminar and Aurora HDR. These are the best prices yet to get your hands on Luminar 4! 3 Different Deals Luminar 4 Inspiration Edition – Luminar 4 + Amazing Planets – US$69 (old US$138, savings of US$69) Luminar 4 Plus Edition – Luminar 4 + Amazing Planets + Power of Nature – US$84 (old US$167, savings of US$83) Luminar 4 Max Edition – Luminar 4 + Aurora HDR + Amazing Planets + Power of Nature – US$139 (old US$266, …

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Skylum Software Tease Luminar Update With Lightroom-Style Library Features

There’s no doubt that Skylum Software’s Luminar is one of the most powerful and popular Lightroom alternatives when it comes to actually editing photos. Whilst I test a great many applications so that I am knowledgeable for my work on Shutter Muse, Luminar is the only one that seems regular usage outside of my usual Lightroom and Photoshop routines. The major thing that has been lacking from Luminar is some form of asset management. Continuous updates to Luminar over the last couple of years have brought the editing side of things up to a very high standard, but for many …

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Luminar Flash Sale: Lock In the Lowest Price Yet!

Luminar from Skylum Software has been making waves in the world of photo editing software in the last year or so. Not only is it powerful, but it’s also incredibly fun and quick to use. You only have to take a look at my tutorial for adding sun rays to a photo in Luminar, to see how simple they have made it to add effects that would take ten times longer in something like Photoshop. This weekend they are having a flash sale to get Luminar for just $49, which is the cheapest it has ever been. But you really …

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How to Correctly Open RAW Files in Luminar from Lightroom Classic

Another quick Luminar tutorial for you guys today, and this time we’re looking at how to open RAW files. Just like Lightroom, Luminar is a fully fledged RAW photo editor but unless you open the RAW files directly into Luminar from your file browser, it can be a little confusing. If you don’t do things quite right you might end up editing a converted TIFF of your image, instead of the original RAW file. This would definitely degrade the final image quality and you wouldn’t be pulling all of the available dynamic range out of the RAW file. Luminar RAW …

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