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

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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

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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!

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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

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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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How to Add Sun Rays to a Photo with Luminar

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In this video tutorial I’m going to show you how to add sun rays to your photo using Luminar from Skylum Software, and also explain which images work best for this kind of edit. Luminar has rapidly become my go-to Lightroom and Photoshop editing plugin, and with Luminar 2018 they added some cool new features that will help us with this task. Example Image The first image is the RAW file from my Fuji X100. The second image has gone through the process that is demonstrated in the YouTube video above. Click to view them larger. Whilst sunshine can be …

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The BEST Way to Move Files Between Lightroom and Luminar

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Luminar from Skylum Software is one of my absolute favourite photo editing applications. You can use it as a standalone editor, or you can integrate it into Lightroom in a couple of ways. Most people are aware of the regular way in which you can use Luminar as a Lightroom plugin, but in this video tutorial I’m going to show you a second way that gives you MUCH more control over how your images are opened in Luminar, and how the edits are then organized in Lightroom. If you’re a Lumniar user, it’s a quick one, don’t miss it. If …

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