For complete control over your image, professional filters allow for precise adjustments. These filters offer more control for fine adjustments in an image.
Precisely adjusts tonal contrast with six distinct controls spanning highlights, midtones and shadows, making for more detailed results.
Digital images are comprised of Red, Green, and Blue information. These components are called channels and if they are not balanced properly an image can show color casts. By modifying channels you can choose to emphasize or deemphasize certain details. The Channel Mixer filter allows fine-tuning adjustments and mixing of the Red, Green, and Blue color channels (RGB) to create highly customized images. Many users will also use the effect in combination with their black & white conversions workflows.
The Color Balance filter is useful to change the overall mixture of colors in an image for general color correction. It can also be used for creative control within different tonal regions of an image.
This filter lets you choose a color range to which to apply contrast. The color selected will cause objects of that color to become lighter, while opposite colors on the color wheel will become darker. This effect can help make flat images pop based on the colors in the image.
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Double click on any slider name resets the value to the default. In most cases, double-clicking returns it to 0.
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One of the most powerful tools for adjusting tones to brighten, darken, add contrast and shift colors. Curves can usually be applied to all channels together in an image, or to each channel individually. Curves can help you manually fine-tune the brightness and contrast of the image.
Most users will either use Curves a lot or they won’t use it at all. The Curves interface is a bit complex and allows for up to 10 control points. This can significantly open up more options when adjusting color and exposure. The primary advantage of Curves is that you have precise control over which points get mapped for tonal adjustment.
Dodge & Burn tools are known as toning tools. They allow for finer control over lightening or darkening an image. These tools simulate traditional techniques used by photographers. In a darkroom, the photographer would regulate the amount of light on a particular area of a print.
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This is a tool that is meant to be used creatively and by feeling. It is more about the looks and results than it is specific numbers and sliders. Feel free to experiment as you can always adjust the mask of the Dodge & Burn effect as well as its overall opacity.
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Selectively adjusts Hue (color), Saturation (color purity), and Luminance (intensity) of individual colors in the image for color correction to balance tones and explore creative possibilities. Allows you to create unique looks with selective coloring.
There are 3 tabs present in the Color Filter panel.
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This is a powerful tool for fine-tuning of colors in the image as well as a means for creative image processing. Examples of using this tool:
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Use professional lookup tables to change the appearance of your photo quickly. Choose from film stocks, black and white looks, and create color grades to unlock a new style in seconds. You’ll find several built-in stylize in the pop-up list, you can also load your own lookup tables in the .cube format.
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If you choose a custom LUT it will automatically be stored with your saved Luminar file or embedded into any custom Luminar Look that you create.
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Improves the sharpening of your image in small areas of fine detail and texture. Advanced parameters allow you to fine-tune this subtle yet dramatic effect. Use this tool to get some creative, HDR-like effects.
This filter simulates color filters that traditionally are attached to a camera lens. Professional photographers often place glass filters in front of the camera lens to “cool” or “warm” a picture, or to add special effects. These can also be used to accentuate complementary colors and add creative toning to your photos.
This filter can be used to selectively enhances cool and warm tones in your image. Allows you to get increased color contrast and vibrancy or create creative toning effects. You can separately adjust the Warm Colors and Cool Colors.