Key Features and Benefits

• A scalable and adaptive user interface that let’s you work the way that you want.
• Powerful workspaces designed for specific types of photography such as Default, Black & White, Landscape, Portrait, or Street photography as well as the option to create your own custom workspaces
• Over 60 powerful one-click presets to quickly enhance your images.
• 50 image enhancement filters to refine your photos and solve image problems.
• Layers, brushes and masking provide the ultimate in selective editing.
• Customizable brushes plus a selective masking system to allow for precise control.
• A History panel to track which adjustments have been made to an image as well as quickly perform multiple undos.
• RAW, JPEG, TIFF and other popular files support for the greatest flexibility.
• Workflow tailored to any style with support for using as a standalone application or as a plug-in to popular host applications.
• Ability to host Photoshop plug-ins.
• Batch processing of photos to quickly improve multiple images. 

Key New & Improved Benefits of Luminar 2018

There are several new features as well as improvement in Luminar 2018 to help you create fantastic images in less time.

User Interface/Performance

• NEW: Quick Overlay Preset button
• NEW: Expand / Collapse mode for filters
• IMPROVED: Updated workspaces for increased efficiency
• IMPROVED: Innovative adaptive user interface, based on user needs and skill
• IMPROVED: up to 4x faster RAW image processing
• IMPROVED: up to 2x faster masking performance
• IMPROVED: Over 150% speed increase  

 Editing

• NEW: Dedicated Raw Develop filter
• NEW: New brush modes in layers
• NEW: Sun Rays filter
• NEW: LUT Mapping filter
• NEW: Dodge & Burn filter
• NEW: Hue Shift filter
• NEW: Matte Look filter
• NEW: Brilliance/Warmth filter
• NEW: Lens Correction tool
• NEW: Transform Tool
• NEW: Free Transform Tool
• NEW: Image Flip & Rotate
• NEW: Realtime noise reduction
• IMPROVED: RAW file handling (reveals more details in shadows/highlights, displays colors more accurately and reduces noise)
• IMPROVED: Crop tool
• IMPROVED: Advanced masking with filters
• IMPROVED: Advanced Bi-Color Toning
• IMPROVED: Advanced Cross Processing
• IMPROVED: Advanced Image Radiance
• IMPROVED: Advanced Microstructure
• IMPROVED: Advanced Split Toning
• IMPROVED: Advanced Structure  

Open/Plugin/Export

• NEW: Support other Skylum apps as plugins
• NEW: Support for many third-party Photoshop-style plugins
  
• NEW: Apple HEIF files support
• IMPROVED: Native RAW file support, including better DNG handling
• IMPROVED: Sharpen on export

Download the full Luminar 2018 User Guide for Mac in PDF Format

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