AI Photo Editing - Awesome and Faster: Luminar AI

The first image editor fully powered by artificial intelligence. Skylum aims to reinvent traditional photo editing, announces Luminar AI. Everyone can create amazing images faster while having fun. Luminar AI empowers visual communicators to make great photos with unique AI.

This morning, Skylum unveiled a revolutionary approach to photo editing, Luminar AI. Unlike other photo editors that take a time-consuming approach based on tools, Luminar AI focuses on results. This revolutionary application and plug-in will be released this holiday season.

Luminar Artificial Intelligence

Your story matters – not the process. Let’s face it — traditional photo editing can be boring and time-consuming. Luminar AI is all about the result, not the process. It automates the most common manual tasks and simplifies complexity so that you have more time to create an engaging story.

Deliver photos faster with the new templates system. As soon as you open an image in the new Luminar AI, the image is analyzed for the subject matter right on your computer. An intelligent AI assistant can suggest a perfect template to start your edit. With Templates, you can achieve the desired result in no time flat.

Luminar AI makes complex editing easier than ever before thanks to unique AI-powered tools. Luminar AI removes boring and complex tasks without sacrificing professional quality. Artificial intelligence lets the visual artist focus on results and not the process. Everyone can make amazing photos free of complexity, yet full of creativity, thanks to artificial intelligence.

“Luminar AI will bring an entirely new, non-conventional approach to the world of photo editing, focusing on the results instead of the process,” said Dima Sytnik, CPO of Skylum. “We’ve designed Luminar AI from the ground up to change how people interact with their images. We’re really excited to see what Luminar AI can do for creatives everywhere.”

Depending On The Image, Luminar AI Can Suggest a Template That Will Work Best

For example, if you have a person in your photo, it will suggest Templates that are most suitable for portraits or group photos. If you have a photo of your pet, it will suggest a Template best suited for animals or wildlife. And for landscapes, you will get a great Template recommendation that helps reveal all the details of the scene.

Luminar AI is designed for visual communicators, everyday people, and professional photographers alike. It’s made for those who rely on pictures to communicate their important messages and grow their opportunities or reputation: Bloggers, entrepreneurs, educators, marketers, small and medium-sized businesses, and many others. It lets everyone tell their story with rich and expressive images like never before. With Luminar AI everyone can make amazing images in an efficient way.

Give a Magic Touch For People and Portraits

The revolutionary AI works magic on faces and bodies of all shapes, ages, and colors. The best part? You don’t perform manual selections, masking, layering, and other tedious tasks of traditional photo editors.

Unlock New Possibilities

Want to get any sky you want? Select the weather you want? Naturally perfect details of your subject’s face and body? Do all of it — in seconds. With Luminar AI you’ll enter a new world of creative possibilities. Compared to traditional image editors, Luminar AI offers a completely different approach. Built from the ground up to leverage artificial intelligence, Luminar AI simplifies complex tasks and removes boring manual work.

Start by selecting a recommended Template, or pick any from dozens more, created in collaboration with professional photographers. Easily dial it down a bit, or edit it further to create your own unique look. You can save your edits to make a new template at any time. Or, if you are working on a set of photos for a photo book or a web gallery, apply your favorite style across a group of images for a uniform look.

Portraits Take On New Life

• Use Body AI and Face AI to gently sculpt and refine a portrait.
• Create eyes that are rich and expressive with Iris AI.
• Remove blemishes and imperfections naturally with Skin AI.

Landscape Photography Has Never Looked Better

• Add depth and detail to skies with Atmosphere AI and Sky Enhancer.
• Transform a photo and add an all-new sky in seconds with Sky AI.
• Bring warmth with Golden Hour or even enhance the sun with Sunrays.

Professional Finishing With Less Hassle

• Looking for more detail and texture? Then Structure AI is the perfect addition.
• Get the perfect crop with Composition AI and fix crooked images.
• With Accent AI, a photo has perfect exposure and color.

Templates allow you to get results faster, and inspire you to explore your creative vision. They let you see what your photo could become, without having to follow multiple tedious steps. Body AI: Make bodies appear lighter or add weight where needed, for a realistic and stunning effect. Iris AI: Create expressive and breathtaking eyes, with a natural spark that brings a face to life.

Accent AI: Get natural lighting and life-like color for every portrait with a single “magic” slider. Bokeh AI: Emulate the stunning background haziness of a high-quality lens. Let the person in the photo stand out.Face AI: Improve faces naturally, enhance lips, teeth; remove unwanted dark circles, and more. Skin AI: Instantly remove blemishes while preserving pores, texture, and hair.

Create Landscapes So Real You Can Feel The Wind

Incredible tools to reveal the enchantment of outdoor photography. With Luminar AI, amazing photos are just two clicks away. Templates are at the very core of the new Luminar AI. Luminar AI recognizes the contents of a photo, suggesting the best templates to speed up the editing process. Each template collection helps tell a story. These edits can be applied and refined instantly.

While artificial intelligence guides the way, throughout the entire editing process, artists retain complete control over the edits they make, the tools they choose, and how they interact with their photos. Great photography is for everyone, and with the brand-new Luminar AI, digital artists across the globe can tell their stories through photography. Luminar AI simplifies photo editing without sacrificing quality and creativity.

Atmosphere AI: Add realistic atmospheric effects with 3D depth — fog, mist, haze, steam, drizzle — with atmosphere AI. Create a magical mood without masks and layers. Mood: Bring color to life with our Mood tool. Experiment with new color palettes that transform the style and emotion of your image.

Structure AI: Enhance details in all the right places, without overdoing it. Structure AI recognizes people, water, skies, and objects. Add depth and clarity to a scene to just the needed areas. Super contrast: Adding detail brings new depth to a photo. Precisely adjust the tone with six controls spanning highlights, mid-tones, and shadows.

Color Harmony

Move beyond Saturation and Vibrance. Take complete control over color depth and refine color for balance. The perfect finishing touch. Sky AI: Сhange the sky in your photo in seconds and create a whole new mood. It works perfectly even with tiny details intersecting your sky. Relight the entire photo so the colors of the original image shift to match the lighting and colors of your new sky.

Achieve Great Composition From Any Angle

You’ll always get the perfect crop with composition AI. The smart engine blends the golden rules of composition plus the expertise of the world’s best photographers. LuminarAI will be available as a stand-alone application and plug-in for macOS and Windows. To learn more about LuminarAI and to sign up for updates, visit skylum.com.

“LuminarAI will help make image editing easier for everyone. We’ve removed the boring and difficult parts of photo editing without sacrificing creativity. LuminarAI will be a great tool in a creator’s workflow. They can focus on great results — not on the process of editing,” said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum.

Yes. It’s that easy.

Luminar AI may be the world’s first editor that doesn’t require you to watch tutorials. It’s hard to believe it until you try it. So go ahead. Get started.

About Skylum Software

Skylum is a global imaging technology company focused on creating tools that make it easier for creatives to get things done. Skylum’s Luminar platform unleashes creativity through the innovative use of automated and intelligent image processing which still allows the artist complete control over the final product. Skylum has won the Red Dot Award, Apple’s Best of Year, “Best Imaging Software” by TIPA and EISA as well as several other top industry awards. To learn more about Skylum, visit skylum.com.

System Requirements

MacOS: Mac Model: MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini. MacOS: macOS 10.13.6 or higher. RAM: Memory 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended). Disk space: Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance. Display: 1280×768 size or better. Windows: Hardware: Windows-based hardware PC with mouse or similar input device. Graphics: Open GL 3.3 or later compatible Graphics Cards. Processor: CPU Intel® Core™ i5 or better, AMD Ryzen™ 5 or better. OS: Operating System Windows 10 (only 64-bit OS). RAM: Memory 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended) . Disk space: Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance. Display: 1280×768 size or better.