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Skylum Luminar 3

Many of the photo-editing programs on the market have been around for quite some time, but Luminar seems to have come from nowhere. Launched in 2016, it was originally a Mac-only software developed by a company that called itself MacPhun. In 2017 a Windows version was introduced and the company changed its name to Skylum. And then, in December 2018, came a major update as Luminar 2018 transformed from a regular, if clever, photo-editing application into Luminar 3, a full, non-destructive, all-in-one program that both organises your photos and enhances them.

This non-destructive approach means that you can make any changes you like to your photos and undo, alter or remove them at any point in the future. Your original photos remain unaltered and all your changes are stored in the Luminar library.

This is exactly how Adobe Lightroom works, but Luminar goes a step

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