You can click to test out different options.Īnd as soon as you find a template you like, you can hit the Export button – at which point, well, you’re done! As soon as you open an image, you can proceed to the Templates view, which will offer templates for that specific photo. You have just five tabs across the top of the program:Īnd you don’t have to enter the Edit view if you don’t want to that’s the beauty of the “AI” in “Luminar AI,” and it’s what makes the program spectacularly effective for folks who have never even touched a photo editing slider before. Unlike Lightroom, which offers an overwhelming number of tabs, tools, and panels, the Luminar interface is wonderfully minimalistic. Luminar AI is ridiculously simple to use. Now let’s take a closer look at Luminar AI, and really dive into the individual features and performance. So for those who like the power of Luminar AI but aren’t ready to ditch their Lightroom catalog, Luminar AI is still an option. On the other hand, Luminar AI does offer quite a few tools that you can’t find anywhere else on the market, plus you can always use Luminar as a Lightroom plugin.

This isn’t a dealbreaker, especially if you’re more of a content creator than a photographer, but if you were hoping for an improvement over Luminar 4, then you’re out of luck.

…Luminar AI performance is even more disappointing on this front because several of its most useful DAM features seem to have been lost, presumably in service to speed or simplicity (or maybe both). While previous iterations of Luminar never offered an especially comprehensive system for digital asset management (i.e., organizing your photos)… In fact, I’d like to get one of the most serious omissions out in the open right away: Interestingly, Skylum claims that Luminar AI is not a successor to Luminar 4, though Luminar AI seems to have inherited most of its editing tools, albeit with a few frustrating omissions.

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