I don’t see this program replacing Lightroom or Capture One or Photoshop. It’s a lot easier to understand its capabilities when you see it in action.

My video below will give you a good introduction to just what Luminar AI is capable of. This program can do in minutes what it takes me hours to do, especially when it comes to portrait retouching or sky replacements. It really is pretty amazing what Luminar AI is capable of. In a nutshell: I am impressed, more so than I expected. I managed to obtain a beta copy of Luminar AI and have been using it for a while now.

They provide good starting points to begin my processing for photos from that area or of that type. For instance, I have a number of presets for shooting Antarctica or icebergs. These, however, are usually used as a starting point for similar scenes that I shoot. I will admit that I have created my own presets and styles in Capture One. Frankly, if I can’t move a few sliders, curves, etc., around to create my own look, then I am not much of a photographer. I regret not jumping onto the preset bandwagon, as I could have at least made some money selling them. Others, however, seem to buy presets like they are candy, loading their machines up with hundreds of presets and (in the end) only using a few. I have never been one to buy into presets or styles, because I like to have control of creating the look that I want. Based on what I am hearing, the number of people in the second category is rather large. For others, who have never processed an image due to being intimidated by the RAW processors out there, this is big. For artists, this a pretty serious claim, as most of us want to know that we had our hands in the creation of an image. AI, as we know, stands for Artificial Intelligence, and what is implied by this name is that Luminar AI uses AI to process your images. Luminar AI was recently introduced to the post-production market.

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