Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4

The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4, authored by photographer Jeff Carlson, helps you unlock the best features of Skylum's Luminar 4 to fulfill all your photography needs. Luminar 4 is an excellent solution for both professional and amateur photographers seeking to quickly create stunning images.

Luminar's advanced AI-based tools streamline traditional editing tasks, whether you're applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to delve deeper into editing, powerful tools provide full control over RAW and JPEG images, including features such as layers, masks, blend modes, and lens correction.

Luminar also functions as a plug-in for other applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, enabling round-trip editing and seamless integration with existing workflows.

In this book, Jeff Carlson guides you through Luminar 4's best features, helping you leverage the program's power, precision, and control to improve your images. He covers the entire editing process, from importing your images to managing and exporting your files, showcasing real-world landscape and portrait edits to illustrate the use of each tool and feature.

You'll learn about Luminar 4's AI-based editing capabilities, which can eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Enhance overall tone and color with a single slider, and upgrade a sky using another without building masks or layers. Luminar's sky replacement feature can realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude.

The book also explores Luminar's professional-level editing tools, enabling you to bring out the best in your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodge and burn, and utilize tools designed for specific image types, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B&W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches, while the RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening capabilities, all non-destructively.

Dive into Luminar's advanced editing features, including layers, masks, blend modes, and lens corrections, to combine edits and effects. Unlock your creativity with Luminar's tools for adding glow, texture, dramatic looks, and incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.

Discover the power of Luminar Looks presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables) to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work. Manage your photo library in Luminar's central library, where your source images can reside on your hard disk, network volume, or local cloud services folders.

If you use other applications for photo organization or editing, Luminar 4 can integrate seamlessly as a plug-in, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with your existing workflows.

Finally, learn how to prepare your images for various output solutions, whether you're printing or sharing them online, to ensure your photos look their best.

Bonus content includes an exclusive offer and free download from Skylum for creative add-ons, further expanding your Luminar 4 experience.

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