Add Luminar to right-click menu in Windows

When Luminar installs, there's no easy right click "Edit with Luminar" context menu. Since Luminar isn't really a good photo "viewer," it doesn't make sense to associate the default action of viewing a photo with it. For anyone with a couple photo editors, the "Open With" list becomes a bit unwieldy and time consuming to use.

To fix this, Skylum could add the option of adding an "Edit with Luminar" context menu to the setup process. I created he registry entries manually (shared below), but it would be nice for future iterations if this was done automatically.

This should add the option for multiple image file extensions (whatever Windows considers an "image"). I've tested it with JPG, JPE, JPEG, PNG, and BMP. I also tested it with RAW, JP2, but neither are recognized by Windows as "images" by default. I've manually created additional entries to handle those two formats. You could use the same method for any additional formats as well.

Images (JPG, JPE, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\Edit with Luminar]
"Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\",0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\Edit with Luminar\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\" \"%1\""

JP2 (extension did not exist in registry, create top level key):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jp2]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jp2\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jp2\shell\Edit with Luminar]
"Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\",0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jp2\shell\Edit with Luminar\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\" \"%1\""

RAW (top level key existed, only added shell sub-key):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.raw\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.raw\shell\Edit with Luminar]
"Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\",0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.raw\shell\Edit with Luminar\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skylum\\Luminar 2018\\Luminar 2018.exe\" \"%1\""

Overall pattern:

1) In this key... HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations

2) Look for the extension you're looking for (e.g. ".raw"), or "image"

3) Create "shell" sub-key if it doesn't already exist

4) Create "Edit with Luminar" sub-key if it doesn't already exist

5) Add new "String Value" under Edit with Luminar named "Icon"

6) Set the value of "Icon" to: "C:\Program Files\Skylum\Luminar 2018\Luminar 2018.exe",0

NOTE: Set path to the location of your Luminar install

NOTE: Include the quotes and ",0" on the end

7) Create "command" sub-key under "Edit with Luminar"

8) Set the value of "Default" to: "C:\Program Files\Skylum\Luminar 2018\Luminar 2018.exe"  "%1"

NOTE: Use your own Luminar install path, if it differs

NOTE: Install all quotes and spaces. Additional quotes were not added.

9) When you right click on an image file in Explorer, you should see an "Edit with Luminar" option along with the Luminar icon.