I need to crop, resize and export screenshots of software user interfaces for these Cam Tech articles and Luminar has become my software of choice for its elegant user interface and simplicity. Of the lower five tools in the screenshot at far right, Transform is the one I use the least as its main function seems to be stretching or compressing image height or width. These are simplifications but they’re useful enough.īeginner is perfect for those who don’t need processing beyond noise reduction, cropping, spot removal and retouching, cloning for clean-up and transform. In traditional terms, they are beginner, intermediate and advanced. Three Luminars in OneĪs the images above show, Luminar has three different user interfaces serving three different user bases. I have barely scratched the surface with it but I am looking for opportunities to push it as far as it will go. The concepts seen in those early versions were amazing, and now that we are in Luminar’s post-launch phase, the software continues to impress. So when Macphun’s Luminar software was first announced, I was keen to try it out and was very kindly sent access to the beta versions. Mind you, that hard-won knowledge of Photoshop’s more abstract concepts continues to come in handy when using other raw processing and image editing software, and I am grateful for that. It means I don’t have qualms about trying something new in image editing, because I know something of the technical underpinnings and can usually understand what is going in beneath the surface.
Best to stick with what I need to know and do every day, process my photographs in a mostly realist, and sometimes anti-realist pictorialist, manner.
I have never come close to mastering Photoshop’s more designer-oriented capabilities but then I would rather leave that up to the experts. It took me years to get to the point where I felt comfortable enough in Photoshop and its Lightroom spin-off to be really productive and get the results I had visualized when making the exposure in the first place. Then there is the more advanced option that allows you to dig down deep. Consider this Luminar’s intermediate form. Macphun’s Luminar raw-processing and image-editing software essentially has three different user interfaces. Counter-intuitive concepts and tools like histograms, curves, levels, layers, selections, blend modes and more often leave them confused, even angry. One of the most common complaints I hear from new digital photographers is how image editing and raw processing software is so difficult to use.
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