A carpet of brightly-colored flowers leads the eye toward the solitary tree, and the sun setting behind it on the Boundary Trail, Johnson Ridge Observatory, Mount St. Helens. Photographer Cody Wilson says he originally walked past this scene in his search for the perfect image. He wanted a shot with flowers in the foreground and […]
Wildlife photography requires some serious patience and dedication. As George Turner, the photographer of the image below, says: “It took months of planning, five days of patience, and two seconds to get the shot!” It was worth it, though: Turner, a professional wildlife photographer based in the UK, spent four months last year shooting all […]
Using dodge & burn as part of your editing workflow in the Luminar Photo Editor can really help refine your image and allow you far greater control over the areas you adjust. Dodging and burning is an old darkroom technique, and it’s simply lightening or darkening certain areas of a photograph while leaving the other areas […]
We’ve all been there. You come back from your latest photo trip, eagerly upload your images to your computer, and then realize that they’re just too dark! Photos that are too dark, or underexposed, but are otherwise good used to be a bit of a problem to fix. Sure, you can just pull the exposure […]
Sometimes you have a great landscape or seascape photo, but it just seems to be lacking that extra-special something. What can you do to fix it? In this article, we’ll be looking at enriching your seascapes and landscapes with bi-color toning and adjustable gradients using the tools in Luminar (which is currently on sale for […]
Related reminder: only a little while left to Pre-Order Luminar 4 at a Discount You might think you need to master post-processing to get incredible results with your image editing. And there are certainly people out there who successfully work through complicated manual adjustments and retouching. But you don’t need to be an editing expert […]
Related reminder: only a little while left to Pre-Order Luminar 4 at a Discount The internet is filled with landscape photos, and more are added every day. You want your photos to catch the eye and not blend into the background with all the others. So how do you make your landscape images stand out? […]
Travel photos are always exciting, bringing back memories of your journeys and the people you met. But have you ever looked at them when you got home and wished that the colors were more vibrant and exotic? Today we are going to try to accomplish that using Creative LUTs and Looks in Luminar 3. I’m […]
The original Accent AI from Skylum Software was groundbreaking in its use of artificial intelligence to give one-slider image editing, and now Accent AI 2.0 has just been launched. Accent AI was good, but how is this new version even better? Today, I’m going to put Accent AI 2.0 through its paces and see how […]
Did you realize that you can make high-quality black and white image conversions in Luminar 3? Maybe you were under the impression that Luminar only catered to color images, but today we’re going to look at how you can use the Black & White Filter to create bespoke monochrome images. For best results, you should […]
