The beauty is in the details: Luminar 4 introduces AI Structure tool
Luminar 4 to offer content-aware Structure tool that helps add detail to a photograph automatically without negatively affecting people or other subjects.
We’re excited to announce another new feature coming to Luminar 4 this fall! AI Structure will take advantage of Skylum’s continued investments in content-aware technology, enabling photographers to add detail and structure only where necessary.
The announcement comes after we revealed AI Sky Replacement last month, which will be the first tool of its kind to help photographers replace skies automatically.
We’re so excited to see Luminar 4 develop more and introduce new tools that we know will be helpful in boosting photographers’ creativity,” said Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum. “With the new AI Structure tool, we know photographers will love the control and content-aware technologies that let them enhance their photos like never before.”
Before Luminar 4, adding more Structure meant that photographers would get unpredictable results with very little control. For example, traditional tools would add more detail to a person’s skin, which was often unwanted. It meant that photographers would have to fine-tune the Structure controls and, oftentimes, even mask out parts of their image, making for a long and tedious editing process.
With the AI Structure filter, these are problems of the past. Luminar 4 provides photographers the ability to take advantage of content-aware algorithms to automatically enhance a photograph’s Structure without negatively impacting certain objects. It identifies objects like people and their faces, skin, skies, buildings and more, and improves them intelligently, instead of globally across the photograph. This new technology boosts hidden details and improves local contrast, making for results that are both expressive and natural.
With Luminar 4 and the new AI Structure filter, photographers no longer have to mask or brush out the effect. They can rely on AI Structure to get the job done the first time. Additionally, photographers can take advantage of special “Structure Boost Technology” controls, offering the ability to make extremely detailed photos for creative image looks.
This technology is truly one-of-a-kind — it’s unmatched in the world today. AI Structure is a tool that will make your photo not only expressive, but also help to transform it from flat to dramatic,” said Skylum CTO Dima Sytnik.
AI Structure works with any type of photo, and doesn’t add additional artifacts like noise or halos. It perfectly combines with other Luminar 4 filters, and removes the need to use manual settings of Structure, Clarity and Microstructure in most instances. AI Structure is a smarter filter, helping photographers bring out the details, but also knowing where and when to stop.
We’re so excited to introduce AI Structure to you in the upcoming Luminar 4! But that’s not all — in the coming months you can expect to see more features revealed for our most exciting release yet! You’ll also be able to join a pre-release beta program letting you have your say on the new Luminar. Stay tuned!
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I am not currently a Luminar user although I am interested. I use a Fuji camera and I need something that does a way better job than Lightroom. I would like to take advantage of some of the current sales which include the free upgrade to Luminar 4.
Here's my question. If I purchase the Luminar 3 + 4 early bird package, can that include the Flex module as well so I can still integrate with LR while I learn to use Luminar?
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@J.Ross, we can make a special offer for you. Please contact our team at https://skylum.com/support and paste the link to this thread into your request. We'll be looking forward to hearing back from you.
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Hi I'm a current Luminar 3 user. I got into Luminar by pre-ordering L3 and waiting for it. It has been less than a year and now a new version is coming out. I want to upgrade to L4 but I've received the pre-order deal however I have no interest in the bonus looks - I'd rather get a bigger discount on L4. Is this possible?
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Hi Taffy,
The looks are the freebies.
If you don't like them, you can simply disregard.
Nevertheless, you can contact us via http://www.skylum.com/support and we will try to figure out something for you.
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Does v 4 solve.. THIS ???? 382% cpu... or; 45 sec for a pic to 'load' . another 45 sec to see possible filters... IF the right set loads from last time (50/50 it doesn't). (whats the point of favs if it doesn't always show .. favs). and finally... still crashes worse than a driver at a crash derby.
(and these times are before i linked to my network drive .. just local images).
I love the filters, i love the sw... but its takes me 15 times longer to go thru a batch of pics than my prev sw.
I waited nearly a year - prebuying v3... being swindled i feel in to own beta sw for full price. now you are adding more .. and releasing a new AT cost to us v4?? It should be free for those of us who've done all your beta testing.
Also - support for appending and Viewing GPS.. heck the entire meta data ... should be there already. As should support for adding copyright metadata. The limited info you provide for exif / metadata is silly.
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Hi Mary,
Please, contact us at support@skylum.com.
We'll investigate the issue.
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Hi Skylum folks. I have been a loyal Macphun and Skylum customer since CK2016. I bought Luminar, 2018, Flex and upgraded to L3, as well as Aurora HDR 2018. I feel that I have invested quite a lot of money with you, and I have cancelled my Adobe CC membership in the hope that Luminar would be a better model. But I now would have to pay another £54 to buy L4, when L3 is still buggy. How often will you be asking for more payments? This is a subscription service by another name. I am seriously considering going back to Adobe. At least I got frequent improvements to Lightroom that way, and a rock-solid DAM.
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Hi Martin! Please note that Luminar 3 upgrade was free for all Luminar 2018 users.
Also, Luminar 4 upgrade is optional. You can stick to your current version. We will continue to support Luminar 3. Check out our roadmap:
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Please try this link: https://skylum.com/luminar/roadmap
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It would be good that you put a higher priority on virtual copies.
Luminar 3 is so buggy when you use layers that you end up with loosing all your edits quite often (and, no, undo doesn't always work correctly in that matter). At least virtual copies would allow to have some "backups" of the image edit.
Adding fancy AI powered feature is probably requested by marketing as you advertise this a lot. But what is the use if I cannot have a decently robust editing software as well. I came to Luminar 3 because my version of Lightroom Classic was not running anymore on my mac and I didn't want the CC edition. But if you guys don't recognize that speed and stability is an issue with Luminar, I assume many will go back to Lightroom (which is a shame, as Luminar is gives quite good images at the end).
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Hello,
I have been to this forum many times but his time I'm trying really hard to not come here to post any negative comments, but before I get there, let me start by saying that I really like the interface of the new Luminar 4. I like how you can add AI edits and improvements without "damaging" the image. I like the interface. In general I like this idea or this dream software that it would be Luminar 4. But it really is unusable if I bring a RAW file and it takes absolutely forever to make an edit with any of the tools, with any mask. When applying edits to a mask with any brush, every time I click on the photo, not only my computer sounds like it's taking off, but I literally have to wait about a minute or two (or three), not per image -PER CLICK! It is absolutely ridiculous. I have to clarify that when I use Photoshop, there is absolutely no lag, no wait time at all since I have 16 Gigs of RAM. I can use Photoshop without any problem, butter smooth all the way. I must add that when I use Luminar 4 as a Plug-In it works a little bit faster. But like most users, I don't want to pay for a subscription plan. That's the reason why we look elsewhere for solutions. It seems like Luminar would work better with very light photos. Perhaps phone photos. Which means, this software is not for professionals, and if you're a professional and shoot RAW, you're going to spend a day editing just one photo. I really, really want to like this software because I know it has a lot of potential. That is the reason why I have hung in there patiently waiting since the beginning of Luminar 3, listening to all the promises, but what good does it do to me if I can't use it?
My suggestion to Skylum, on behave of EVERYONE is, please listen to the feedback. Stop for a minute and listen. Stop adding features and make this software faster. A lot faster. Work on the features that you already have. Work on retaining the users that you already have since we will be the loyal customers of the future, but if you try to attract more possible customers while neglecting the software and your customers of today, I can assure you that it is not a sustainable idea. Because while attracting new customers the current ones will be gone and your life cycle days will be counted.
I hope you understand I come from a good place and wish you guys to succeed. I am rooting for you. Because if you succeed, we all succeed.
Thank you for listening and good luck.
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I agree wholeheartedly with “Member”’s comment above. Stop adding bells and whistles and get the performance and stability fixed. I’ve resubscribed to Adobe CC as I can’t handle the crashes and glitches in Luminar 3, and I definitely wasn’t going to lay out more money on L4 for features I don’t need. But Flex works nicely as a Lightroom plugin so maybe I’ll just stick with that.
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