![]() You can also go to the Luminar marketplace to buy and download more, or subscribe to Luminar X membership. ![]() You can see the full list of template categories by scrolling down the sidebar. You’re not stuck with the template categories Luminar suggests. These are split into categories – Luminar will suggest some categories in a swipeable carousel at the top of the sidebar. When you open an image, Luminar AI will use artificial intelligence to work out what it’s a picture of and then suggest suitable templates to give it a particular look. These sound like they are all part of the same thing, but in fact they operate differently. Luminar AI users artificial intelligence in two main areas: 1) templates and adjustments, 2) AI effects. (Image credit: Skylum) Here’s another food shot, but this time Luminar’s AI decided it might fit in the Objects Collection instead. Not a bad call! (Image credit: Skylum) It then offered some Influencer templates, but you have to click on them to see the effect – there are no thumbnail previews to help you choose. Templates and adjustments Once this photo had loaded fully (this can take a few seconds for a RAW file), Luminar’s AI figured out that this might need an ‘Influencer’ template – see the sidebar, top right. The header shoot of Pisa is mine, as is the one of the water tower at the end, but Skylum has been kind enough to supply sample images for reviewers, so I’ve used those elsewhere for variety and to help demonstrate the portrait AI features. It’s not a Lightroom rival, though, which may disappoint photographers who were following this software’s previous trajectory. It also has basic but effective image browsing tools. It does do basic image enhancements, but that’s not really its main purpose and they are typically added as part of an editing template. It sheds a lot of the technical depth of control of Luminar 4, putting almost all its faith in machine learning AI to reach a new, larger audience that Skylum believes has no time for sliders and technicalities and just want spectacular results fast. Luminar AI is officially the replacement for Luminar 4 but spears off in a whole new direction. It can even suggest templates (‘looks’) based on the contents of your images and has some pretty impressive sky replacement and portrait enhancement capabilities. ![]() ![]() Sad, they could have been so much better.Luminar AI is a photo editor that uses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate many photo editing tasks. They, instead, just seem to periodically repackage their existing product, adding a few new features – and call it some something different, so that you need purchase it new again. Notably, Skylum never “upgrade” their products or provide a proper upgrade path for their end-users. It’s just that customer service has never ever been a priority for Skylum. Sure … I know they have a war there in Ukraine, but the company also has development teams elsewhere so they can’t blame everything on that. The migration tool was promised over a year ago but still waiting and no response from Skylum. Problem is that I could never move the Luminar 4 catalog across into Neo as it means losing all edits. However, despite having Neo since its initial release I hardly use it. introducing “Portrait AI” which was never that great) but lacked some heavy duty features on the catalogue side. I’d skipped Luminar AI … since it was treated as an entirely separate product stream from the old Luminar 3 and Luminar 4 products. Every other developer tests and updates their apps except Skylum … at which point no Mac user can use the product for a month till Skylum release a patch. Typically their products will stop working whenever Apple releases a MacOS update – and even though Apple gives many months’ notice with Betas available. They promise a lot but frequently fail to deliver. Skylum’s customer service (or lack thereof) has always been the killer.
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