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Enhance AI is your go-to tool for fast, intelligent improvement. It uses Luminar’s AI engine to analyze your photo and apply a balanced set of enhancements across exposure, contrast, color, detail, and tone.
How to Use: Tap the Enhance AI icon. Use the slider to sweep from 0 to 100. The changes are cumulative and subtle — meant to improve without overdoing it. When to Use: Perfect for quick edits, test versions, or as a smart base layer before applying more detailed adjustments.
This tool gives you manual control over how light behaves in your photo. Use it to recover lost detail, brighten shadows, or create a more natural light balance.
Highlights: Bring back details from blown-out areas like skies or shiny surfaces.
Whites: Define how bright the brightest parts of your image appear.
Shadows: Reveal hidden information in darker areas.
Blacks: Control how deep your darkest areas get.
Exposure: Adjust the overall brightness of your image.
How to Use: Tap the Light icon, then tap any sub-tool you wish to adjust. Use the slider to move up or down and control the effect. Each setting responds independently, giving you precise control over the tonal balance of your photo.
When to Use: Ideal for correcting lighting imbalances, brightening underexposed photos, or adding punch to a flat image.
Contrast determines the separation between light and dark tones in your photo.
Slide Left: Reduces contrast, creating a flatter, softer look.
Slide Right: Increases contrast, adding depth and drama.
How to Use: Tap the Contrast icon, then drag the slider.
When to Use: Great for setting the mood—low contrast for a dreamy, minimal feel; high contrast for bold, dramatic visuals.
This tool adjusts your photo’s white balance and overall tone through:
Temperature: Warms (orange) or cools (blue) your photo.
Tint: Adds a green or magenta shift to correct color cast.
How to Use: Tap the Color icon and use the sliders to shift temperature and tint.
When to Use: Fix photos taken under odd lighting (like fluorescent bulbs), or give your photo a stylized color cast.
Adjusts how vivid the colors in your photo appear.
Saturation: Affects all colors equally.
Vibrance: Boosts muted tones without oversaturating already-bright colors.
How to Use: Slide along a two-axis grid to adjust both saturation and vibrance simultaneously.
When to Use: Useful for making colors pop or toning them down for a more refined, natural look.
Structure AI enhances the fine details and textures in your image, intelligently increasing clarity while protecting skin and other soft areas from becoming harsh or over-sharpened.
How to Use: Tap the Structure AI icon. Use the dial to apply more or less structure. As you increase the value, edges and surfaces become crisper while faces remain smooth and natural.
When to Use: Ideal for landscapes, architecture, product shots, or any image where you want to enhance textures like foliage, stone, or fabric—without making people look over-edited.
Relight AI is a powerful tool that adjusts brightness based on depth—brightening the foreground, background, or both depending on where light is needed.
Near Slider: Brightens or darkens the foreground.
Far Slider: Adjusts the background lighting separately.
Depth Dial: Controls where the transition happens between near and far.
How to Use: Tap the Relight AI icon. Tap on any of the three controls—Near, Far, or Depth—and use the slider to move up or down to adjust lighting based on your subject’s position in the scene.
When to Use: Perfect for correcting uneven lighting, such as a person in shadow with a bright background. Also great for bringing attention to the subject by subtly darkening or brightening different image zones.
This tool subtly (or dramatically) darkens or brightens the corners of your image, drawing attention toward the center.
Slide Left: Creates a darker, more classic vignette.
Slide Right: Adds a soft glow effect around the edges.
How to Use: Tap the Vignette icon and move the slider to adjust strength. The effect centers automatically on your subject but can be repositioned in future versions.
When to Use: Ideal for portraits, still life, or whenever you want to gently guide the viewer’s eye to the heart of your composition.
Skin AI automatically activates when a human face is detected in your image. It’s a portrait-specific tool designed to smooth skin while preserving natural texture and character.
A Slider: Controls the amount of skin smoothing. Reduces small imperfections without making the skin look overly processed or plasticky.
S Slider: Controls shine removal—helpful for glossy skin caused by lighting.
Blemish Toggle (Middle Button): Turns blemish removal on or off.
How to Use: Tap the Skin AI icon when editing a portrait. Use the sliders and toggle to adjust the level of skin enhancement.
When to Use: Great for retouching selfies, headshots, or group portraits where you want people to look their best—quickly and naturally.
Body AI gives you subtle tools to shape the human body in a photograph without warping or distortion.
A Slider (Abdomen): Adjusts the appearance of the waist and stomach area.
S Slider (Shape): Alters the overall body shape in width and proportion.
How to Use: Tap the Body AI icon when editing an image with a visible body. Slide A and S to gently refine shape.
When to Use: Best used for fashion, lifestyle, or posed photography when you want to apply flattering adjustments while preserving the integrity of the image.
This toolset is purpose-built for outdoor photography. It enhances natural light, boosts greenery, and cuts through haze.
Golden Hour – Adds warm, amber tones to mimic sunset lighting. Drag the slider to the right to increase the warmth.
Foliage Enhancer – Intensifies greens and adds life to plants, trees, and grass. Drag the slider to the right to boost greenery.
Dehaze – Clears fog, glare, or low-contrast haze for crisp, vivid detail. Drag to the right to remove haze or to the left to add a soft, atmospheric fog.
How to Use: Tap the Landscape icon, then tap any control and use the slider to move up or down. Each adjustment is applied individually for targeted enhancements.
When to Use: Essential for travel, nature, and scenic photography—especially when lighting or weather conditions weren’t ideal.
This tool allows for precise sharpening across three detail levels, plus an overall sharpening control.
S (Small Details): Boosts texture in skin, grain, or hair.
M (Medium Details): Sharpens elements like clothing, leaves, or fur.
L (Large Details): Accentuates outlines and big shapes—buildings, eyes, edges.
Center Slider: Controls global sharpening across the image.
How to Use: Tap Details, then use circular finger motions on the image to enhance S, M, or L. Use the horizontal slider for overall sharpness.
When to Use: Great for high-resolution images where you want every surface and edge to feel crisp without looking over-processed.
Turn any color photo into a black and white masterpiece. But this tool goes further—letting you apply different monochrome filters that simulate the effect of classic photography techniques.
Slide Left or Right: Browse different color-channel filters (e.g., red filter darkens skies, green brightens foliage, etc.)
How to Use: Tap the Monochrome icon and slide to test different B&W styles.
When to Use: Ideal for dramatic compositions, fine art edits, emotional portraits, or when you want the focus on tone and contrast over color.
