Luminar 3.1.0: Accent AI 2.0 + More Usability & Stability
We’ve been hard at work on Luminar and we’ve got a significant update to share with you. With Luminar 3.1.0 you’ll find several new improvements for both Mac and Windows. The next generation of Accent AI makes enhancing your images easier than ever before. Plus some performance and usability enhancements will make your editing workflow even faster.
Accent AI 2.0. Reimagined.
The improved Accent AI filter lets you get natural-looking results in less time. New “human-aware” technology recognizes people in your photos and applies adjustments selectively for more realistic images.
With Accent AI 2.0, you can make dozens of adjustments (done quickly) with just one slider. Fix tone, detail, exposure, depth, color, and more thanks to behind-the-scenes AI. In less than a second, your photos can look their absolute best. Make Accent AI 2.0 your go-to filter. (Tip: It can even replace the Develop step for most photographers!) For beautiful photos, rely on Accent AI 2.0 as your starting point.
Follow your style.
Whether you’re working with the Library to organize your images or using the QuickEdit command, it’s now even easier to get the results you want. Take advantage of image-aware filters and professionally designed Luminar Looks to unlock the best image possible. Once you’ve created the perfect style, apply it to all shots in your series with the improved Adjustment Sync. You can now select multiple photos and apply the same adjustments in just one click. Filters and Looks are transferred in just one click, while image-specific changes like cloning and cropping are ignored.
RAW shooters can stay organized.
If you capture RAW and JPEG at the same time, it’s even easier to stay organized in Luminar 3. When you import RAW and JPEG pairs, you can decide which files to see. View just RAW or just JPEG for a less cluttered library, or see both and use the JPEG file as a reference while you edit. Edits to JPEG and RAW files are independent but can be easily synced. Use the View menu to control which images are shown for a clutter-free library.
Better Sorting.
Using the Gallery view to get organized or search for that perfect image? Now when you sort using a method like File Type or Color Label, a second organization is also applied. When you sort your images they are sorted by the new category first and then automatically sorted by date.
Trust your editing to Luminar.
Thanks to our users for reporting different issues. This version of Luminar offers general stability improvements. We’ve made hundreds of under-the-hood performance improvements based on user feedback. Windows users, in particular, will see tons of new features that bring Luminar for Mac and Windows into close alignment. Improved stability and performance along with robust catalog backups help keep your images and edits safe.
Luminar Updates for Windows Users
The Windows version of Luminar receives several updates with version 3.1.0 We hope you enjoy this new release of Luminar and appreciate your feedback and reports.
New features
IMPORT IMAGES. You can now import images from a memory card or hard drive and copy them to a folder. You can also choose to include subfolders when importing
SMUGMUG SHARING. The ability to post images to SmugMug has now been added to Luminar for Windows.
SHORTCUTS. Folders and user albums can be added to the Shortcuts list. Just right-click for a context menu or drag & drop them into the list.
IMPROVED SELECTIONS. Want to choose a range of photos in the Gallery view? Try the Shift or Ctrl key to select a range or group of images. You can also deselect images from a multiselection by Ctrl+clicking on an image.
ROTATE IN GALLERY. Images selected in the gallery can be quickly rotated left or right by 90 ̊increments with no need to switch to edit view. Just use the Image > Rotate menu or just right-click.
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS SUPPORT. We’ve added Photoshop Elements support to the Windows platform. Just choose the Install Plugins command if you want to load Luminar as a plugin. For future versions of Luminar, plugin users should switch to Luminar Flex.
Performance Improvements
Get additional speed and performance from the Luminar update.
IMPROVED HISTORY. Undo a Sync/Copy/Paste adjustments with one step in the History list.
HIDDEN FILES. Luminar does a better job of filtering hidden folders and photo. Additionally, unwanted items like Backups, History, Previews, and Caches won’t be shown when opening Luminar Catalogs.
Luminar Updates for Mac Users
Several performance improvements, as well as new features, await Mac users. We hope you enjoy this new release of Luminar and appreciate your feedback and reports.
PROGRESS BAR. Keep better track of what’s happening when working with Luminar. You’ll see a progress bar when using tools like Erase or when running Luminar as a third-party filter.
How to Update
Updating your Luminar software is easy. Be sure to also rerun the plugin installer if using Luminar as a plugin for Photoshop or Lightroom Classic.
Mac – Please, launch Luminar 3, then in the Top Menu Bar choose Luminar 3> Check for updates.
Windows – Please, launch Luminar 3, then in the Top Menu Bar choose Help > Check for updates.
We hope you enjoy these improvements. We’re hard at work on more performance updates and features. Be sure to view our roadmap – click here.
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Hi Mary,
I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Please open info mode and you will be able to see not only the name of the image but full info.
Regarding support request, please scroll the page and you will be able to create the request and attach the crash reports, see the screenshot: http://prntscr.com/nmgzb7
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Improvements in some areas to be sure, undocumented surprises in others. It's crashed multiple times for me since updating. Also in this latest release they actually took away the ability to copy a crop and apply it to another image. So, it's no longer possible to "lift & stamp" between images via copy and paste.
For example, if you shoot a high-speed burst and wish to apply the identical crop to multiple photos, there's no way to do so.
Speaking of cropping, it's designed for single use, rather than any workflow. In other words, if you shot an event and are going to crop a bunch of images, the number of clicks that it takes is amazing. For example, if you crop and select a ratio like 4:5, the next time you crop, you have to select the ratio again, resulting in tons of unnecessary clicks. Aperture was so nice in that way. It would simply remember your last selection, allowing you to keep it until you explicitly changed it. If I recall, it did reset to "Original" between uses...
I like the fact that they're improving, but the slowness still makes it really hard for me to use as part of an event workflow.
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Hi. Please contact us via https://skylum.com/support and we will figure something out.
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I agree with Mary that the basic file info should be
"respectfully it should be below the pic when its open for editing at all times - not in some other tab" (As is done in Aperture)
I suspect that they we making room in the UI for when the application can deal with the more expansive metadata sets like IPTC.
Regards,
John
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Hi Mary,
Please contact us at www.skylum.com/support and we'll investigate this issue.
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Hi Mary! It seems you have never sent us your RAW + JPEG pairs. We need to test them on our side.
- Visit https://wetransfer.com/
- If it's your first time visiting this website, it may ask you to purchase a subscription. Simply select to proceed with the free version.
- Click Add your files.
- Select the file(s) on your computer.
- After you see all the files you need to send appear in the list, click the icon to the left of the Transfer button (the icon looks like a circle with three dots in it).
- In Send As select Link.
- Click Transfer.
- After the files have finished uploading, click Copy Link and paste it into an email to our support team (or support form here: https://skylum.com/support).
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Batch processing:
I wanted to select images and apply a filter to them (i.e. i know they are all under exposed or some such) ....
But i select the photos - - chose a filter - no acknowledgement that it applied to all 20.
So i look around - choose batch processing from menu.. and pop up... "drag images" ???? from where... not from the app i PAID for to SEE the images .. nope i cant drag from luminar's browser. nor its file path on right... ... so now i have to go to Finder??? and use my mac finder to drag the images over?? i should be able to drag over from luminar's browser.
Since i cant use the file path on the right - i cant even say; preview them and put them in their own album to batch.
I did find right click sync adjusments.. closest i can find.
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Hi Mary,
Syncing adjustments is the way to go if you wish to apply a preset to more than one image. Glad you found that feature.
As for the other issue described where favorites is not staying on favorites, please contact us at www.skylum.com/support and we'll look into the issue.
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