How to make transparent background?

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Marcin Wilczynski

• January 16, 2019 20:02

Hi,

Can you advice how to make a transparent background in these files?

1. RAW photo

2. PNG scan of painting.

Went through few tutorials and articles but all of the shows how to replace background using layers not how to make it transparent.

I have Luminar 3 and old Luminar 1.2.2

Thanks,

Marcin

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  Steve Ratts

  • January 16, 2019 22:16
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  Marcin I don’t think Luminar handles transparent backgrounds. This limitation affects inserting graphical signatures and watermarks. You can find videos that teach how to overcome the limitation in the case of adding a watermark but I don’t think there’s any way to actually deal with let alone create transparency in Luminar. I hope they fix that soon as it’s really annoying at times

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  Marcin Wilczynski

  • January 17, 2019 16:56

  Thanks Steve. You right it’s frustrating. Especially that most competition has it. So, at the moment I use 3 SWs to deal with one photo only.
  Aperture for DAM, Luminar 3 is personally to me too messy and all over the place for it.
  Luminar for editing works mostly as a charm for my needs
  Gimp for transparency
  Awkward

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  Angela Andrieux

  • January 18, 2019 17:55

  Hi Marcin,

  At the moment Luminar doesn't support transparencies. I'll share your request with our developers and hopefully we can add it in the future.

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  Alan Marks

  • June 15, 2019 23:07

  +1 for this feature. I'm working on photo collages, and can't really see a good workflow for that. I just want to drop in an already trimmed image with a transparent background on to a base image. 

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  Phil Hayes

  • October 16, 2020 23:10

  Angela

  You comment that Luminar does not support transparencies & that "hopefully we can add it in the future." is now 2 years old. I have Luminar 4 & it still seems it is not added. Is it ever going to be added? It is a very badly needed feature

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  Victoria Grace

  • October 17, 2020 06:59

  Hi  Phil,

  We're currently counting all the requests so that we could see what are the most required features for future updates.

  So our product team are aware of this transparency feature request and we'll consider adding it in the future. However, there is no ETA for it. Thanks for your understanding.

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