User's Manual

Table of Contents
1. Welcome to Luminar 4 ....................................................................................................................4
2. Bene<ts of Luminar 4 .....................................................................................................................6
2.1. New & Improved features in Luminar 4 ..................................................................................................8
3. Installing & Activating Luminar...................................................................................................... 18
3.1. Installing & Activating Luminar for Windows .......................................................................................19
3.2. Installing & Activating Luminar for macOS...........................................................................................21
3.2.1. Installing Luminar from the Mac App Store..................................................................................23
3.3. Upgrading from Luminar 3....................................................................................................................24
4. Technical Requirements ............................................................................................................... 25
5. How Can You Use Luminar? ........................................................................................................... 28
5.1. Supported File Types ............................................................................................................................29
5.2. Using Luminar as a Single Image editor...............................................................................................31
5.3. Using Luminar with other software.......................................................................................................34
5.3.1. Installing Plug-ins .........................................................................................................................35
5.3.2. Using Luminar with Adobe Photoshop .........................................................................................36
5.3.3. Using Luminar with Adobe Lightroom Classic .............................................................................39
5.3.4. Using Luminar with Adobe Photoshop Elements .........................................................................42
5.3.5. Using Luminar as a Photos for macOS Extension........................................................................44
5.3.6. Using Luminar with Apple Aperture ..............................................................................................47
5.4. Using Luminar as an external editor.....................................................................................................48
5.4.1. How to User Skylum’s Luminar 4 with Capture One .....................................................................49
6. User Interface Overview................................................................................................................ 57
6.1. Library View...........................................................................................................................................58
6.1.1. Library Toolbar ..............................................................................................................................59
6.1.2. Library Sidebar ..............................................................................................................................65
6.2. Edit View ...............................................................................................................................................67
6.2.1. Edit Toolbar ...................................................................................................................................68
6.2.2. Edit Sidebar ...................................................................................................................................74
6.2.2.1. Histogram .............................................................................................................................76
6.2.2.2. Current Photo Actions...........................................................................................................78
6.2.2.3. History...................................................................................................................................79
6.2.3. Additional Tool Controls ...............................................................................................................80
6.3. Info View ...............................................................................................................................................81
6.4. Filter to Tool Migration..........................................................................................................................82
7. Opening Images for Editing ........................................................................................................... 84
7.1. Editing a Single Image ..........................................................................................................................85