Haven’t unboxed the new version of Luminar 2018 yet? Act fast, because you’ll find a completely new AI-based tool to get the best-looking skies in all your outdoor photographs.

Discover the easiest, quickest and most effective way to improve your skies with just a single slider and learn how the new AI Sky Enhancer filter in Luminar works and how it can improve your skies in this informative video.


(12 min. 17 sec.)

What is improved in Luminar 2018 1.3.2 for MAC:

  • NEW AI Sky Enhancer. The AI Sky Enhancer allows you to get beautiful skies almost instantly with artificial intelligence and a single slider. Luminar analyzes and detects the sky in an image to improve the texture, tone, and colors of the sky itself. The filter can recognize sky in most photos as well as distinguish between water and other elements in a photograph. It also detects the objects in the foreground and their edges for perfect masking. 
    Note: if the controls are grayed out after applying the filter, the artificial intelligence couldn’t recognize the sky in the photo. Skies that are very out of focus or blurred may not be detected automatically. It may also be grayed out if the filter determines that the sky does not need enhancement. If you want to stylize the sky, explore filters such as Golden Hour, Polarizer, Vibrancy, and HSL.
  • IMPROVED Luminosity Masks. Improved performance when opening up existing documents with Luminosity masks.
  • IMPROVED TIFF Files. Increased stability exporting TIFF files with 8 bits per channel bit depth.
  • IMPROVED Filters B&W Conversion, Bi-Color Toning, Photo Filter. The controls Luminance and Saturation are available when these filters are added a second time.
  • IMPROVED Grain effect. All filters and Looks which include Grain effect work properly.
  • IMPROVED Speed of sliders.
  • IMPROVED Crop tool in Photos Extension. 
  • IMPROVED Crop Tool. Properly see a grid view while changing the angle of the image in Crop tool.
  • CHANGED Sharing to Facebook and Twitter. Due to the recent changes in personal security with Facebook and Twitter, the ability to post directly to a social network from Luminar has been temporarily removed for users on MacOS Mojave 

Richard Harrington

Pro Photographer

https://www.richardharrington.com

Richard Harrington regularly explores the fusion of photography and video. He is also the founder of RHED Pixel, a visual communications company based in Washington, D.C. and a well-known author. Rich has published over 150 courses on Lynda.com. Rich has authored several books including From Still to Motion, Understanding Photoshop, and Creating DSLR Video.

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