#Skylum luminar ai review software#

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#Skylum luminar ai review software#

Great for ideas, a couple of the shots I experimented with were not ideally framed, the software made a better job of it. Each one has a rollback option so this is an easy software to experiment with.įirst, Composition – this is clever, the software will suggest a crop (or not) depending on whether it thinks it can improve the photograph. Pro offers some more sophisticated options around colour and colour harmony, dodging and burning, cloning etc. I’m not a portrait photographer so I can’t comment on the effectiveness of this section. Portrait offers a set of tools applying effects and corrections to the skin, and intriguingly body shape. On the right, the options are Essentials which gives me access to the basic grading tools, Creative which opens up a world of replacement skies, sun rays and other atmospheric effects. Here I can see Light, Enhance and Structure have been altered. So I can go in and see what edits the template has applied to my RAW image. I’ve chosen the template from the category the software suggested and the edit categories have a little bullet point next to them. This is where Skylum have been very clever. Luminar 4 is the first program to use AI to make creative decisions based on input from hundreds of Photographers. It is already used by DxO in PhotoLab 4 and Adobe are ploughing many research dollars into bringing AI to bear on Photoshop. Luminar AI Review What is Luminar AI?Īrtificial intelligence is a means by which software can make informed choices on behalf of the user.

Having said that, we only promote software that we like and use ourselves. Now I’ve had a chance to see what it can do, and I have to say, I’m impressed.ĭisclaimer: We are affiliated with Skylum Software, so if you buy from a link in this article we will get some small reward. I’ve been looking forward to writing a Luminar AI review, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I could lay my hands on a copy of the software.