FREE: Luminar Al Photo (PC/Mac Digital Download)

Luminar Al Photo Editing Software (PC/Mac Digital Download)

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Many thanks for the heads up!

I just downloaded Luminar AI. Thanks for the heads up.

Are there any Luminar users out there who'd care to talk about their workflow? Are you using Luminar products as your primary editing tools, or as augmentation in a suite of software?

About a year or so ago, I accepted an offer for a free copy of Luminar 4. I installed it, played with it for about an hour, closed it and didn't open it again until today. (I installed the proffered update while I was in there.) I mainly opened it to check if it's different from the link above. It is.

Luminar AI and Luminar 4 are different products. AI is not an update of 4.

Luminar 4 seems to be a direct LRC competitor with cataloging and file management along with Camera Raw functionality, plus special proprietary AI editing functionality. But my entire portfolio lives in an LRC catalog, and I'm not going to mess with that to get easier sky replacement. So I wasn't interested in Luminar 4.

With Luminar AI, they stripped out a bunch of the cataloging features and shipped it with LRC and Photoshop plugins. Now it looks more like Topaz than Adobe. I have Topaz in my workflow. I could see using Luminar AI like that. Work the raw file in LRC until it's right, then move a copy to AI for specific final adjustments, like I do with Topaz.

Anybody else have any insights on Luminar, either veterans or first impressionists?

Thanks!
Great to try some new processing software!

Friday, First stab.

This is the original shot made at 3:37 in the afternoon in July. At this latitude, we've got another 5, 6 hours of daylight. Sun is still high in a hazy and cloudless sky. I took it as far as I know how in LRC and gave up. Yeah, no.

I think about post when I'm shooting. I know the sky's there, I just gotta get it on the histogram, then I can own it in post. But sometimes I can't pull it off at all. Not here, not now. That's this first shot.

Saturday, Second look.

Yesterday I was astonished and a little taken aback about how easy it is, with this tool, to make a picture out of nothing. I got a little defensive about it. A day later, that hasn't gone away.

Today I took a shot that already has good bones and asked AI what I should do with it.

Thanks a ton! Will try out this of which I have heard a lot.

Isn't this just a free trial just like you can get for pretty much every software? Says "enter trial mode" for me.

Bob_A wrote in post #19458156
Isn't this just a free trial just like you can get for pretty much every software? Says "enter trial mode" for me.

The same for me, thought I would look at it but ended up deleting it almost straight away. I do have Luminar 4 that is a free version and use that with Lightroom 5.6 (which I dont fully understand to get the best out of it) I dont have photoshop, or even know how to use it..Im not very good at understanding software !

Bob_A wrote in post #19458156
Isn't this just a free trial just like you can get for pretty much every software? Says "enter trial mode" for me.

Pantry42 wrote in post #19458160
The same for me, thought I would look at it but ended up deleting it almost straight away. I do have Luminar 4 that is a free version and use that with Lightroom 5.6 (which I dont fully understand to get the best out of it) I dont have photoshop, or even know how to use it..Im not very good at understanding software !

Pantry42 wrote in post #19458160
The same for me, thought I would look at it but ended up deleting it almost straight away. I do have Luminar 4 that is a free version and use that with Lightroom 5.6 (which I dont fully understand to get the best out of it) I dont have photoshop, or even know how to use it..Im not very good at understanding software !

I don't understand why you were unable to install an UN-fettered version pf this software. This is wghat I did.

1. Clicked the download link
   
2. Filled in my email address (and my name?)
   
3. Received and email with a download link and activation key number
   
4. Downloaded a small installation file
   
5. Installation started and more files were downloaded
   
6. I was then instructed to create a Skylum account which I did
   
7. The next step was to start up Luminar AI
   
8. I then had to login using my username/ email and password
   
9. Since then it has worked fine and as far as I can tell it is NOT a trial
   

Bob_A wrote in post #19458156
Isn't this just a free trial just like you can get for pretty much every software? Says "enter trial mode" for me.

There should be an option to enter the activation key that is sent to you from Skylum. There was for me.

Sorry, but I did not receive an activation key. Maybe it was delayed (I’ll check later).

Bob_A wrote in post #19458287
Sorry, but I did not receive an activation key. Maybe it was delayed (I’ll check later).

Did you receive a download link? If so, the activation key should be in the same email.

If not, start again from scratch.

I did exactly that. is working for me. No trial mode.

herculeorama wrote in post #19458474
I did exactly that. is working for me. No trial mode.

I have found a couple of people in another photo forum that think this Skylum offer is only a trial. Either (a) they did not receive an activation code or (b) there is a point in the process where a
misstep can be made.