Amateur Photographer

Reach for the Skylum

Skylum’s Luminar 4 software can be used as a standalone image-editing package or as a plug-in for software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom Classic. When used as a standalone, Luminar relies on your standard folder structure and there’s no need to import images, you can just open one to start editing. However, it can be helpful to import a folder of images as this enables you to scroll through your shots to select the ones you want to work on.

There are two main views in Luminar 4, the Library and the Edit view. The Library is the browser section while the Edit view gives access to all the adjustment controls.

The Library

To import images into Luminar 4's Library, click on the + in the top left corner of the screen and select the pictures to work on in the normal way. The Library has a column on the

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