
The Edit section is where the majority of the AI tools are to be found. It recognises landscapes, animal photos and portraits, suggesting a variety of treatments, usually including at least one monochrome one. Along with the name-change, their implementation here is much better, with an analysis of your image bringing up the sort of looks that might complement it best. Templates is the next step, which replaces the right-hand organization tools with a series of one-shot filters that Luminar 4 called Looks. The edits are stored in a database file, and only permanently applied when you export a new version of the image when you’re happy with your changes. Luminar is a non-destructive image editing app, which means your original files aren’t overwritten as you edit. Once it has imported your images, you can select one for editing, and any new images added to the folder will be imported.

The first of these, the + button, allows you to add a folder of images, or a single image, to the app catalog.

Menus such as File and Edit are accessed by clicking the Luminar logo in the top left, meaning that all the non-editing interface really consists of are the workflow buttons along the top. You get a zoom percentage, a question mark button that opens a browser window and takes you to Luminar’s video tutorial and, right in the bottom right corner, a clock face that opens a History palette, allowing you to step back through the edits you made to the current image. Otherwise, the new interface is a simpler one than before.

The new application, available as a standalone product for Mac and Windows and as a plug-in for Lightroom and Photos for MacOS, was built from the ground up and offers many of the traditional photo-editing features you’re probably familiar with from the likes of Lightroom. With Luminar AI, it is now launching a brand-new photo editor, starting at $79. Over the course of the last few years, Skylum made a name for itself with a set of photo-editing apps like Aurora HDR and Luminar.
