Luminar is a universal all-in-one photo app designed to offer everything a modern photographer needs for photo editing. With intelligent filters and over 100 presets, Luminar speeds up the photo editing workflow to deliver great results in less time. It also features some advanced tools like layers, masking and blending, lens correction and transform tools — to name just a few — that take image editing to the next level. The previous version of Luminar was honored with a TIPA award for Best Imaging Software 2017 and three weeks ago won the 2017 Best Software Plug-in at the Lucie Technical Awards at PhotoPlus Expo, NYC.

In 2018, Luminar will be updated with a new image browser & digital asset manager for efficient image library organization and management. Photographers will be able to sort, rate, organize, and backup their photos, in addition to tapping the award-winning editing power of Luminar. The new digital asset management platform in Luminar will work without a subscription and will arrive as a free update to all Luminar 2018 users.

What’s new in Luminar 2018:

NEW: RAW develop module that handles high-quality images faster and includes Lens Correction and Transform tools.
NEW: Brand new streamlined user interface that speeds up working with presets, filters, and masks.
NEW: Intelligent Sun Rays filter that recognizes objects and creates a natural yet impressive look.
NEW: LUT Mapping (Look Up Tables)* delivers creative color, perfect black and white conversions, and digital films looks in seconds.
NEW: Dodge & Burn filter is designed to selectively lighten or darken specific areas of an image.
NEW: Brilliance and Warmth filter adds a rich tone and warmth, or can be used with negative values to cool down an image for a more subtle look.
NEW: Matte Filter delivers a trendy vintage look with a silky matte finish.
NEW: Hue Shift lets you roll the hue in a photo for subtle or dramatic changes. A little is perfect to eliminate unwanted color tints while a big adjustment is perfect for dramatic stylizing.
NEW: Real-time noise removal that quickly fixes noisy (low-light) images.
NEW: Support of 3rd party Adobe plugins
NEW: Apple HEIF files support
IMPROVED: Advanced masking with filters
IMPROVED: Advanced Bi-Color Toning
IMPROVED: Advanced Cross Processing
IMPROVED: Advanced Image Radiance
IMPROVED: Advanced Structure and Microstructure
IMPROVED: Advanced Split Toning

* Workspaces, Clone & Stamp, blend modes for layers, luminosity masking, flip and rotate, as well as some other tools and features will be available in the Mac version at launch, and arrive in the PC version with free updates by the end of the year.

* Look-Up Table (LUT) – is mathematically precise way of taking specific RGB image values from a source image – and modifying them to new RGB values by changing the hue, saturation and brightness values of that source image. LUTs are used creatively to impose a specific ‘Look’ on a source image; tens of thousands are available from a variety of sources around the Internet.