Looks naming import from Luminar 4 to Luminar AI Legacy

This is kind of tedious fix for the random appearing Looks import from previous versions of Luminar to Luminar AI. This is only for a PC running windows. I don’t know what the folders are in a MAC, but should be something similar and whatever app is equivalent to Notepad in Windows. I have seen others complaining about the naming structure of the Looks and likewise, I like mine a little more organized and can’t always remember the specific name of a Look, but know what group it was in.

The fix has to be done for each of the groups and saved using Notepad. DO NOT edit any other lines than what is shown or you could have undesirable results when using the Looks in the Templates of Luminar AI.

I am just going to use the “Magical Forests by Albert Dros” as an example, but it will be the same procedure for all files that you want to have organized.

This is what the templates look like before making the change under the Legacy section of the templates:

This is what it looks like after:

To make this change follow these steps. When done, restart Luminar AI and go to your Templates, The start on the right side, and then Legacy.

Open “This PC” and navigate to “C:\Users\"YOURUSERNAMEHERE"\AppData\Roaming\Luminar AI\Data\Templates\Legacy” Make sure to subsitute your user name, ie. John, Family, etc. where it says "YOURUSERNAMEHERE" without the quotes.
You should see something similar to this:
Remember the name of the set of Looks that you want the name of. In this case it is Magical Forests. Open that folder.
You now will have some folders similar to this. Each folder will have to be opened one at a time. In that folder will be a file called “template.lmp”. This is the file that will have to be edited.
Right click on “template.lmp” and choose “Open With”. To make life easier, check “Always use this app to open .lmp files”. If Notepad is not showing as an option, click on “More apps” and scroll down to “Notepad”. After doing this the first time, you will be able to just double click on the “template.lmp” to open it.
A script file will open. Scroll clear to the end and you will see some lines like this. Notice the highlighted line. This is the one that you will need to change.
In this case we are going to add “Magical Forests” without the quotes.
Go up to top right corner of Notepad and click on the “X” to close Notepad. Click on “Save”.
Do steps 4 through 8 for each of the folders in step 4.
This will have to be done for each of the groups of Looks in step 2. This is a long and tedious process, but the end result, you will know which of the looks are in each group. I experimented with several procedures, but this was the only one that I could come up with.

Hope this is of help to some.

Roy Blackwell

December 27, 2020 20:46
Edited

I took a different route, though neither way is something users should have to do to get their migrated looks organized.

https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360010170959/comments/360002591719

Denver Page

December 28, 2020 13:30
Edited

I tried similar Roy, on the pc, but each look comes up as a separate group and contains a name like 4bds-59af-... etc. No reference to the actual name. I agree that this shouldn't have to be done. I noticed when browsing through each script file, that when the import occurred, "Luminar AI" was added in the script, so it should have not been a problem to add the associated group name to the file name or add just the group name and list the names under it.

Terry Luckings

December 28, 2020 13:03

Quite agree with you all, this is something WE should not have to do.

I have tried Denver's method and it does work but trying to match up over 1200 Looks this way they will be on L6 before I finish.

Has anyone bought a new AI Templates pack? How is this delivered file wise? Are they supplied individually in a .lmt folder with each template as a .lmp file? or do they come as a 'collection'?

Once you can see that you may be able to create a new plist file and group them just as you did in L4. If anyone can supply a screen shot of a new template package that would be great (I'm not asking for the actual file).

I have finally got a response to my question with support and I quote 'As for the Looks, there is no way to group or sort them, but I will pass on your request to our tech team for further consideration.' So don't hold your breathe waiting for Skylum to resolve this, I think it is down to us to find the remedy.

December 28, 2020 15:40
Edited

Terry Luckings: See the link I posted above. I did not detail how I replicated the structure of a purchased Luminar AI template collection (kinda tedious) but I did this so far on three of my purchased Luminar 4 looks collections that were auto migrated into Luminar AI. AI template collections make use of json, not a plist file. The advantage of using this structure is that these Looks collections now appear under the purchased label in an organized manner.

Basic Purchased AI Template Structure:

long alpha numeric named folder
config subfolder
config.json
long alpha numeric named subfolder
config.json
multiple .lmt folders
.lmp file in each lmt folder

The second config.json references all the lmt folders.

December 28, 2020 15:49

Thanks Roy Blackwell, I'll have to have a play around with that.

Looks naming import from Luminar 4 to Luminar AI Legacy

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