Luminar 2018 is the new full-featured image editor that adapts to the way you edit photos. Over 300 essential tools to fix, edit, and enhance your photos with comfort. The future of photo editing is here.

Features

• Adaptive Interface Inspires You Do to More - While other photo editors make you adapt to their interface, Luminar adapts to your skill level. There is no need to face dozens of sliders if you simply want to remove an object from an image or apply a preset. But if you do need to perform some serious tasks, you can easily access all the advanced features.
• Powerful Tools Allow You to Do More - Luminar lets you remove unwanted objects, color casts and digital noise. It helps you retouch skin and reveals the hidden details in your photos. It features layers with blend modes, texture overlays and powerful image masking. Easily edit upper and lower sections of the image without having to make any selections. And so much more!
• State-of-the-Art Darkroom You Design Yourself - The workspaces in Luminar reveal only the most essential photo filters for a specific type of photo. Enjoy default workspaces and effects for landscape, portrait, street and B-and-W images. Or create your own, based on your preferences.
• New Approach to Pro Photo Editing - Luminar combines all kinds of pro-level photo effects and tools in one package. It brings layers, luminosity masks, radial and gradient masking, histogram, blend modes, brushes for selective editing, color mixer, split toning and a lot more.
• Fast Raw file support
• Dozens of photo filters
• Presets for instant results
• Layers
• Blend modes
• Custom textures
• Workspaces
• Adaptive UI
• History menu
• B-and-W photo tools
• Noise reduction
• Object removal
• Face retouching
• Foliage enhancer
• Grain engine
• Polarize filter
• Crop and Transform
• Editing brush
• Luminosity masking
• Toning
• Structure
• Sharpening
• Bi-Color
• Fog
• Gradient and Radial masking
• Clarity, Detail, Structure
• Soft Glow and Focus
• Orton effect
• Vignette
• Social sharing
• And much more

Version 1.1.1:

Note: Luminar 2018 is a paid upgrade. To learn more about upgrade pricing, go here.

• Improved Raw Support: We’ve improved RAW Develop support and added Leica Monochrom .DNG , HEIC formats. We’ve also improved support for Hasselblad and several other cameras.
• Photos for Mac: Luminar works even better as an extension for Photos for Mac.
• Adobe plug-in improvements: The plugins for Adobe products have been performance tuned.
• Improved cross-platform files: We’ve fixed an issue with the Dodge & Burn filter masks for documents created on Windows.

Super helpful. I was looking for LR replacement for a long time. If these guys will add DAM tool (as they're promising) that would be a killer! I'm using Luminar with Apple Photos and I LOVE it.

I bought this on pre-order and it’s a shoulder shrug. It’s promising, don’t get me wrong, but it is NOT there yet. It’s basically Apple Photos on steroids, building on that GUI philosophy and pushing it toward the power of Aperture/Photoshop territory. Ironically, while it fills out a lot of the shortcomings of Apple’s built in Photos app it replaces those limitations with ones of its own.

For example, I downloaded Luminar, started it up, imported an image, and immediately needed to rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise. Now… how do you do that? Because you’d think it was in the ‘transform’ tool, which does in fact let you rotate it, but not the canvas! So now the photo resides in a vertical box with the sides chopped off. Okay, how about the ‘crop’ tool? Nope, that’ll only rotate it to a maximum of 45 degrees. Such a basic tool and it’s completely missing here. I mean, maybe it does, but do I need to spend a half hour and several Google searches on finding it? Unbelievable. Can we all just agree that the software manager at Macphun who said ‘it wasn’t important and they needed to ship’ should be fired now? Come on, these are THE BASICS, people. (FWIW I did email Macphun who confirmed that image rotation was NOT a feature in this app.)

It processed my Sony RX100 RAW images okay, if a little roughly. It doesn’t take much for some of the filters to really tear apart an image so you have to be judicious about using them. The denoiser is okay, but not great and tends to give pics that plastic look quickly. I wish I could use my Topaz Denoise plugin as an extension; it certainly has much better results than the built in one. I guess what I’m saying is that plugin support would help this app immensely. Also, while some of the filters are powerful and look good they can have some strange fringing where I found the automatic masking can’t quite parse correctly, so you get a weird halo around people’s faces, etc. I suppose you could go in and clone that away, but it’s funny to see how well it handles a tree in the background while utterly dropping the ball on the human in the foreground.

Like I said, it seems promising., Maybe in v2 or v3 they’ll hit their stride. But after a few days of messing around and getting nowhere I just pulled it from my dock and forgot about it. I’ll check back on a later version.

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