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New to Luminar Mobile? This guide helps you get started quickly and start editing like a pro on your iPhone or iPad.
Welcome to the Knowledge Lab! We are thrilled to have you join us in this dynamic learning environment. Let's embark on this journey of discovery together!
Review the necessary system specifications for Luminar Mobile to run smoothly on iPhone, ensuring compatibility with your device’s capabilities.
Luminar Mobile requires IOS 17 to run.
The amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) on your device plays a crucial role in determining the size of images you can edit comfortably. RAM acts as a temporary workspace for your device, and having more RAM allows you to handle larger and more complex images without encountering performance issues.
Supported RAM capacities:
16GB
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The Photo Gallery is your starting point in Luminar. It’s where all the images stored on your device come together — clear, organized, and ready to edit.
When you open the app, you land here. It displays all the photos you’ve taken with your phone or imported from other sources. You can swipe through your images or explore specific albums. And if you’ve connected your cloud apps — like Google Photos — you’ll see those images, too.
Everything is designed to move quickly. Tap a photo once, and it opens directly in the Luminar editor. No extra steps. No waiting.
Use the Photo Gallery to:
Instantly access the images you want to edit
View your mobile albums
Connect to cloud-based media apps like Google Photos
Jump directly into the editing workflow with a single tap
If you're working with photos stored outside your gallery — downloads, SD cards, or cloud drives — the File Manager is where to go.
Luminar’s File Manager mirrors Android’s native file system. That means you can browse through folders on your device, just like you would in the default Files app. It also supports access to Google Drive and other connected cloud storage apps, so you can pull in images from almost anywhere.
To open the File Manager, tap the folder icon or use the menu. Once you’re inside, use the top navigation bar to jump between file locations. Find the photo you need, tap it, and Luminar loads it right into the editor.
This is ideal for:
Managing images in custom folders or storage devices
Accessing edited exports from other apps
Editing high-resolution photos saved to cloud storage
Sometimes, the moment is right in front of you. With Luminar’s Take a Photo feature, you can capture and edit in one seamless flow.
Tap the camera icon to launch your phone’s native camera app. Use all your usual camera tools — flash, zoom, timer, focus modes—and snap your shot.
As soon as you take the photo, Luminar opens it automatically in the editing interface. There are no import steps or manual transfers.
This is the fastest way to:
Capture spontaneous moments.
Ensure your photo is fresh, sharp, and high-quality.
Jump straight into the creative process while the moment is still fresh.
Also, in Luminar Mobile, you can review your Spaces, published via Luminar Neo. The link in the web browser will open instantly so that you can quickly access the public spaces. Click on the 🌐 symbol to expand the list of your Spaces.
Presets allow you to apply quick edits to your photo, receiving amazing results in seconds.
The Presets icon is located in the bottom menu bar, and it looks like two overlapping squares. When you click on it, it will open the presets tab for you with the list of all presets available in Luminar Mobile. Presets are divided by topic, such as Landscape, Portrait, Travel, etc.
Scroll the list and click on the preset to apply it. When the preset is applied, you’ll see a scrolling wheel with numbers that allow you to set the value of preset strength.
LUTs apply a complete, professional-grade look to your image with one tap. They’re perfect for speeding up your workflow or achieving a specific visual style consistently.
Browse LUTs – Swipe through available looks to preview how they affect your photo.
One-Tap Apply: Tap a preset to instantly apply the style to your image. Then, you can continue fine-tuning with other tools.
How to Use: Tap the filmstrip icon to open the Presets panel. Browse through the available styles and tap one to apply it. Use the Amount slider to adjust the intensity of the preset effect.
When to Use: Great for stylizing your photo, matching a brand aesthetic, or starting with a strong visual direction.
The Erase Tool allows you to remove unwanted objects, blemishes, or distractions from your photo using AI-powered content-aware fill.
Brush Size – Adjust the brush diameter by sliding left (smaller) or right (larger).
Undo/Redo – Use the back arrow to undo a stroke or the forward arrow to redo it.
Sky Replacement lets you swap out a dull or overexposed sky with a more dramatic one — blue skies, sunsets, storms, and more. Luminar detects the sky automatically and blends in a new one using AI.
Key points of this tool:
Sky Selection – Choose from built-in skies.
AI Detection – Automatically identifies the horizon and sky edges.
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X Icon – Cancel without saving.
How to Use: Tap the Erase icon. Resize the brush, then drag your finger across the object you want to erase. The selected area will be highlighted. Luminar uses nearby pixels to fill in the erased area with natural-looking texture. Tap the checkmark to apply or use Undo to refine.
When to Use: Ideal for removing small distractions (power lines, skin blemishes, dust spots), or even large objects like people or cars in the background.
Lighting Match – Adjusts the scene’s lighting to match the new sky for realism.
Reflections (when available) – Simulates sky reflections in water or glass.
How to Use: Tap the sky icon, select a sky from the library, and Luminar will automatically blend it into your photo with adjusted lighting and edge transitions.
When to Use: Ideal for travel and outdoor photography, especially when weather conditions didn’t cooperate or you want a more eye-catching backdrop.
Click on a heart symbol 💛 under the selected sky to mark it as a favourite. The favourite skies will be displayed at the beginning of the list.
Click Adjust at the top of the selected sky in the scrollable panel to refine the position of the new sky. Hold and drag the slider to move the sky horizontally or vertically. To make more precise corrections of the position, tap the dots around the circle to move the sky accordingly.
Scroll the panel to the right to access additional controls:
Brightness - adjust how bright or dark the sky appears.
Warmth - make the sky cooler or warmer in tone.
Defocus - slightly blur the sky for a more natural depth effect.
To adjust the masking of your sky, use the following sliders:
Global - controls the overall strength of the sky mask.
Close gaps - fills in small unmasked areas, especially around fine edges.
Fix details - improves blending around trees, buildings, and other complex details.
To add your custom sky, click on the cloud with a plus on the left side of the list. Your gallery will open. Navigate to the file that contains the sky you want to use in the photo. Click on the trash bin to delete the sky.
Cropping is more than trimming—it’s about composition. The Crop Tool helps you reframe your image to better focus on your subject, fit social media formats, or improve visual balance.
Rotate – Tap the rotate icon to spin the image clockwise by 90°.
Flip Vertically or Horizontally – Use the respective flip icons to mirror your photo in either direction.
Crop Presets – Choose from a list of aspect ratios:
Original – Maintain the current ratio.
Freeform – Drag corners to any dimension.
Square – 1:1 ratio for classic balance.
Instagram/Facebook – Optimized for posts and stories.
Checkmark – Apply your crop.
X Icon – Cancel cropping without applying.
How to Use: Tap the Crop icon, choose a preset or freeform, and adjust using the drag handles. Tap the checkmark when you’re satisfied.
When to Use: Useful for improving framing, fitting platform-specific dimensions, or removing distracting edges.
The Top Toolbar sits at the upper edge of the Edit screen and is always accessible while you're editing. It contains five essential icons that help you navigate, personalize, and finalize your editing experience.
Tap the back arrow to exit the Edit screen and return to your Photo Gallery or File Manager. Your work is non-destructive, so changes are saved automatically unless you explicitly discard them. Use this to switch images, return to browsing, or exit editing at any time.
Tap the undo arrow to remove your last change, or the redo arrow to reapply it. These tools help you quickly step backward or forward through your edits without losing progress.
This is your app settings and support center. Tap the three dots to open a menu with system-level options—ideal for customizing how Luminar responds to you and accessing helpful resources when needed.
This button opens the export panel (as covered in “Sharing Your Work”). It’s visible throughout editing, so you can share your final image the moment it’s ready.
Want to compare your edits to the original photo? After making adjustments, tap and hold anywhere on the image to see the original (Before) version. Release your finger to return to the edited (After) version.
This quick gesture helps you see exactly how far you’ve come — perfect for checking subtle or significant changes.
Tap the three dots (...) Settings button to open Luminar’s app-wide preferences and support tools. Here’s what each menu option does:
Click here to manage your subscription. This is where you check your license status, update the payment method & cancel the subscription.
Toggle sound effects on or off. This affects UI interactions like tapping buttons and adjusting sliders. Leave it on for audible feedback or turn it off for silent, focused editing—especially useful in quiet environments.
Enable or disable vibration feedback for your touch actions. Haptics provide subtle physical confirmation when interacting with sliders and tools. It’s a tactile way to feel your edits as you make them, but can be disabled if preferred.
Need help? Tap here to open the support portal. This includes FAQs, troubleshooting guides, and a way to contact Skylum’s customer support team directly. It’s a lifeline if you’re stuck or have questions about a tool or feature.
Access the full mobile guide inside the app. While you're reading this manual, the in-app version is always a tap away—great for referencing tool details or learning about features as you work.
Review Skylum’s policies on how your data is used, stored, and protected. Luminar Mobile is designed with privacy in mind, and this section outlines your rights and their responsibilities.
Read the terms and conditions for using Luminar Mobile. This legal overview helps you understand the rules for usage, content ownership, and limitations.
Learn about Skylum — the team behind Luminar. Discover their vision, history, and other tools like Luminar Neo. This section helps you connect with the creators of the software you’re using.
Once you've completed your edit, it's time to share your creation. Tap the Share icon at the top-right of the Edit screen to open the sharing panel. You then have three ways to export or share your image:
This saves a copy of your enhanced photo directly to your phone’s camera roll. The original image remains untouched, so you always have a version you can go back to. Use this if you want to keep a high-resolution, edited version on your device.
Choose a custom storage location. You can select a folder on your phone or send the image directly to Google Drive or another connected cloud app. This is perfect for organizing projects, backing up important edits, or sending images between devices.
Send a lightweight version of your image through any app installed on your phone — Messages, Gmail, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more. This version is optimized for quick sharing, so it sends fast while still looking great. Great for client previews, social posts, or real-time updates.
Android version
Android 11 and higher For ChromeOS, the minimum required version is Android Runtime.
RAM
4 GB or more
The amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) on your device plays a crucial role in determining the size of images you can edit comfortably. RAM acts as a temporary workspace for your device, and having more RAM allows you to handle larger and more complex images without encountering performance issues
Tap the Settings icon (⚙️) on your home screen or in the app drawer.
Scroll Down and Tap About Phone or About Device
Here you’ll typically find: Device name, Android version, RAM, etc.
Learn how to seamlessly erase unwanted elements in your photos using Luminar Mobile on iPad for quick, high-quality edits.
Capture moments without distractions by using the Erase Tool on your iPad. Eliminate unwanted elements like stray passersby or objects to perfect your photos. Adjust the tool size for precision, erase with ease, and use undo/redo for adjustments. Finalize edits with a tap, refining your images effortlessly.
The Erase Tool in Luminar Mobile simplifies removing distractions. Adjust the tool size, trace over unwanted areas, and correct mistakes with undo/redo. Tap done to complete your edits, ensuring a clean, focused image.
Learn how to clean up your iPhone photos with the mobile Erase tool to remove distractions and imperfections on the go.
Use the Erase Tool on your iPhone to capture moments without distractions. Eliminate unwanted elements like stray passersby or objects to perfect your photos.
Use the horizontal slider to adjust the tool size for precision.
Choose unwanted object
Once you stop drawing unwanted areas, they will be automatically removed
Use undo/redo to get the best results
✖️/ ✔️: : "Done" to apply erasing changes, "Cancel" to undo and continue editing.
Learn how to easily replace the sky in your photos on iPad with Luminar Mobile's advanced tools, selecting from a range of presets or uploading your own.
Sky Replacement in Luminar Mobile changes photo moods by swapping skies. Enhance landscapes or cityscapes with dramatic, beautiful skies. A few taps let you select and adjust skies for the perfect backdrop, bringing your vision to life.
Using Sky Replacement
Effortlessly change skies in Luminar Mobile. Explore sky options, save favorites, and adjust placement for a seamless blend. Reset skies or undo changes to explore creative possibilities, ensuring your photo's mood matches your vision.
This guide walks you through redeeming a coupon in Luminar Mobile on iPhone so you can unlock premium editing features.
To apply a discount code, please follow these steps:
1. Open Luminar. 2. In the top left corner, click on the Redeem button.
3. Paste the code into the corresponding field. 4. Click on the Redeem button:
Feel free to reach our support team if any assistance is needed!
When you edit in Luminar Mobile, your photos and adjustments are saved automatically to your private Luminar Space. When you open Luminar Neo on your desktop, your images will appear with every edit intact. You can refine, enhance, or transform without having to start over. There is no need to move files or rebuild adjustments. Everything simply follows you.
Edit your photos flawlessly, and then return to the main gallery view to check whether the synchronization is complete. The cloud in the top right corner will show the status of the sync progress.
To use the cross-device editing feature, in Luminar Mobile settings, make sure that synchronization between devices
Find out the system requirements for Luminar Mobile on iPad to ensure seamless editing with all the latest features and high-quality performance.
Luminar Mobile for iPad requires iPadOS 17 to run.
The amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) on your device plays a crucial role in determining the size of images you can edit comfortably. RAM acts as a temporary workspace for your device, and having more RAM allows you to handle larger and more complex images without encountering performance issues.
Explore how to navigate and manage your photo library in Luminar Mobile for iPhone, making it easy to access and edit your images anytime, anywhere.
The Luminar Mobile Photo Library is the heart of your visual journey. It serves as the initial step in your creative process, allowing you to seize new moments, import cherished favorites, edit with ease, and seamlessly share your creations. Discover how the Image Library optimizes your photographic workflow.
Learn how to access and apply presets on your iPhone to enhance photos with consistent styles effortlessly.
Presets allow you to apply quick edits to your photo, receiving amazing results in seconds. The functionality of presets also allows you to save custom presets and apply your own set of adjustments to other photos.
The Presets icon is located in the bottom menu bar, and it looks like two overlapping squares. When you click on it, it will open the presets tab for you with the list of all presets available in Luminar Mobile. Presets are divided by topic, such as Landscape, Portrait, Travel, etc.
Scroll the list and click on the preset to apply it. When the preset is applied, you’ll see a scrolling wheel with numbers that allow you to set the value of preset strength.
A step-by-step guide to begin your photo editing journey on iPhone using Luminar Mobile, starting with simple adjustments and progressing to advanced features.
Learn how to adjust and enhance the sky in your images using Luminar Mobile’s intuitive editing tools on your iPhone for stunning results.
Sky Replacement in Luminar Mobile revolutionizes your photos by seamlessly swapping out skies, allowing you to transform landscapes or cityscapes with breathtaking, dramatic skies. With just a few taps, you can select and adjust the perfect backdrop, bringing your creative vision to life.
Scroll through the available sky options to find the perfect match for your photo. Simply tap on your preferred sky to apply it, and if you particularly like one, you can mark it as a favorite to easily access it later. Additionally, you have the option to upload your own sky by scrolling to the top right and pressing the "+" button.
Once you've chosen and applied your desired sky, press the Adjust button at the top to access more settings. Swipe left or right to switch between different adjustment sections.
A comprehensive guide to utilizing Luminar Mobile's editing tools on the iPad, tailored for touch-based workflows.
Luminar's suite of tools presents a user-friendly interface designed to streamline the photo editing process, making it accessible and efficient for users of all skill levels. Here's a breakdown of how these features enhance the photo editing experience
Learn how to utilize presets on your iPad for quick and cohesive photo editing across your projects.
You can find Presets on the dial at the left of your screen. Scroll the dial until you see two overlapping squares. The Presets tab will open with the list of available default presets on the right side. Presets are divided by topic, such as Landscape, Portrait, Travel, etc.
Scroll the list and click on the preset to apply it. At the top of the list, you’ll see a scrolling wheel with numbers that allow you to set the value of preset strength.
Learn how to crop photos on your iPad using Luminar Mobile's intuitive tools to enhance your compositions.
The Crop Tool's inclusion of predefined aspect ratios caters to various display formats, acknowledging the diverse platforms where images are shared today. This feature helps users optimize their photos for social media, print, or digital displays, enhancing the photo's appeal across different mediums.
Undo/Redo: Tap the Undo icon to reverse a recent edit. To reinstate the change, use the Redo icon. These functions facilitate efficient edit management, supporting uninterrupted creative workflow.
Straighten: Use the Straighten tool to align photos accurately. Tap the straighten icon to correct tilts or uneven horizons. Ideal for aligning horizons.
Rotate to the Left: Tap the rotate icon to turn your photos left. Continue tapping to achieve the desired angle, from slight adjustments to a full 90-degree rotation.
Flip Horizontally: Mirrors your image side to side, swapping left and right. Ideal for adjusting composition flow or creating symmetrical visuals. A simple touch transforms photos, unveiling symmetrical elegance.
Flip Vertically: Instantly inverts your photo, mimicking a reflection across a horizontal axis. Ideal for unique perspectives or composition corrections. Offers a fresh angle with a quick tap.
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Manual Crop – Drag any edge or corner to crop precisely.
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Suitable for working with sizable images
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Erase, Sky AI, Relight AI
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You can turn cellular data on and off in the Luminar Space settings for mobile network usage during online synchronization to avoid unexpected charges, such as data overages or roaming fees.
If you have a Luminar Neo license tied to one email address and your Luminar Mobile purchase was made with a different email address, no worries - you can merge your accounts to enjoy the cross-device editing functionality.
Follow these steps to merge the accounts:
Open Luminar Mobile and click the three dots menu at the top right corner.
Click "Your Account" to access account management.
Select the option "Merge Accounts" from the list.
A new window with an email field will open. Type in your other email address.
Click "Link my apps" to proceed.
Check the inbox of an email you typed in previously. Open the verification email and click "Verify additional email".
All done! Now, your accounts are merged. Check out the cross-device functionality.
Your iPhone acts as a gateway to endless inspiration. A simple tap of the camera icon opens up a world of possibilities.
Broaden your creative scope by importing images from your Apple system library or external platforms such as iCloud Drive or Dropbox. This seamless integration enriches your Image Library with a diverse range of visuals, ready for your editing touch.
Also, in Luminar Mobile, you can review your Spaces, published via Luminar Neo. The link in the web browser will open instantly so that you can quickly access the public spaces. Click on the 🌐 symbol to expand the list of your Spaces.
You can add the Preset you frequently use to the Favorites section for quick access. When a preset is chosen and applied, click the heart symbol, and it will mark the preset as Favorite. The Favorites section is displayed first in the list.
To save your own adjustments as a preset, you need to open the Preset tab after finishing all the edits in your photo. Click the button “Save as preset” to add preset to your custom presets. You can find all your custom presets after the ones you marked as Favorites.
There is also an option to save your set of adjustments as a preset in a quick way. When you’ve edited the photo, open the menu (it looks like three dots), and choose “Save as Preset” option.
You can save your custom preset during export, too. You’ll see an option “Save as Preset” in the export menu to save this editing as a preset.
If you don’t want your custom preset anymore, you can delete it by selecting the preset and clicking the trash bin. Confirm your action by pressing “Delete” on the warning pop-up. Deletion of presets is permanent, and they cannot be restored.
Position: you can use the centered area or tap the white buttons for more precise positioning of the sky.
Flip Horizontally: option mirrors the sky from left to right, providing versatility in your compositions.
Power Icon: is a small yet significant feature that allows you to quickly preview the sky effect on your image, facilitating decision-making and enabling rapid creative iterations.
Global: setting affects how the texture of the new sky blends into the scene
Close Gaps: fills in small details or holes not initially covered by the replaced sky. Adjust this setting as needed, especially if your image contains intricate details like trees or wires.
Fix Details: address any imperfections around the edges of your new sky, ensuring a seamless integration with the rest of the scene.
Brightness: allows you to adjust the lightness or darkness of the new sky, ensuring it matches the overall tone of your photo.
Warmth: alters the color temperature of the sky.
Defocus: blurs the sky, particularly useful when working with a shallow depth of field and foreground objects.
You can add the Preset you frequently use to the Favorites section for quick access. When a preset is chosen and applied, click the heart symbol, and it will mark the preset as Favorite. This section is displayed first in the list under “Your Presets”.
To save your own adjustments as a preset, you need to open the Preset tab after finishing all the edits in your photo. Click the button “Save as preset” to add preset to your custom presets.
There is also an option to save your set of adjustments as a preset in a quick way. When you’ve edited the photo, open the menu (it looks like three dots), and choose “Save as Preset” option.
Important: the option to save a preset will be greyed out and inactive if no changes were applied to the photo, so there is nothing to save, or you have selected a preset from the default list and didn’t modify the default adjustments.
If you don’t want your custom preset anymore, you can delete it by selecting the preset and clicking the trash bin. Confirm your action by pressing “Delete” on the warning pop-up. Deletion of presets is permanent, and they cannot be restored.
Rotating Dial: Precisely align photos by rotating to the exact angle needed. Ideal for straightening horizons or adjusting angles. Offers control for fine-tuning, ensuring balanced and professional-looking images.
Done/Cancel: "Done" to apply cropping changes, "Cancel" to undo and continue editing. Offers flexibility in the editing process, allowing exploration of cropping options until perfection is achieved.
Understand the functions and navigation of the menu bar in Luminar's iPhone interface for streamlined editing.
The menu bar in Luminar Mobile provides quick access to essential options like undoing changes, managing settings, and exporting your edits. Here’s a breakdown of the key features:
Tap the Return Arrow to access undo options:
Undo – Reverses the last edit.
Redo – Restores the last undone change.
Revert to Original – Removes all edits and restores the original image.
Press and hold on the image to temporarily preview the original file. This feature allows you to quickly compare before and after versions, helping you better understand how each adjustment impacts your photo.
Tap the three dots (...) Settings button to access:
Your Account – Manage your Skylum account, contact support, copy system info, or sign out
If you need assistance, choose Support. You might need to copy System Info to provide when contacting support for faster assistance.
App Settings – Toggle Sound and Haptic Feedback on or off, or delete your own presets.
Tap the Export button to choose how to save or share your image:
Save to Photos – Overwrites the original image (can be reverted).
Share – Opens the iOS share menu to send your image to other apps.
Save as Preset – Saves your current adjustments as a preset.
Save a Copy – Creates a duplicate of the image with edits applied.
With these features, Luminar Mobile ensures you have full control over your editing workflow, making adjustments seamless and customizable.
Enhance your images effortlessly with the filters in Luminar Mobile. Simply scroll through the options, select the desired filter, and apply it with a tap to instantly change the mood or tone of your photo. When applying a filter, you can tap the heart icon to favorite it, ensuring that the LUT will be prioritized and displayed at the top of the list for easy access. Additionally, once you've selected your preferred filter, you can adjust the intensity to achieve the perfect effect.
Learn how to easily crop photos on your iPhone using Luminar Mobile to improve framing and focus in just a few taps.
The Crop Tool's inclusion of predefined aspect ratios caters to various display formats, acknowledging the diverse platforms where images are shared today. This feature helps users optimize their photos for social media, print, or digital displays, enhancing the photo's appeal across different mediums.
Crop to Aspect Ratios: Reshape images to fit various platforms with ease. Select from original, free-form, square, or social media-optimized ratios (Instagram posts, Facebook posts, Instagram stories, Facebook covers). Ensures your photos look their best across all platforms.
More options: press the tree dots button to check more crop abilities.
Lock/Unlock - best option to avoid miss rotation when you are changing the size.
Horizon Alignment - use the tool to align photos accurately. Tap the icon to correct tilts or uneven horizons.
Rotate - with each click, your photo will be rotated to the left
Flip Horizontally - mirrors your image side to side, swapping left and right. Ideal for adjusting composition flow or creating symmetrical visuals.
Flip Vertically - instantly inverts your photo, mimicking a reflection across a horizontal axis. Ideal for unique perspectives or composition corrections.
Undo/Redo: Tap the Undo icon to reverse a recent edit. To reinstate the change, use the Redo icon. These functions facilitate efficient edit management, supporting uninterrupted creative workflow.
✖️/ ✔️: "Done" to apply cropping changes, "Cancel" to undo and continue editing. Offers flexibility in the editing process, allowing exploration of cropping options until perfection is achieved.
When you edit in Luminar Mobile, your photos and adjustments are saved automatically to your private Luminar Space. When you open Luminar Neo on your desktop, your images will appear with every edit intact. You can refine, enhance, or transform without having to start over. There is no need to move files or rebuild adjustments. Everything simply follows you.
Edit your photos flawlessly, and then return to the main gallery view to check whether the synchronization is complete. The cloud in the top right corner will show the status of the sync progress.
To use the cross-device editing feature, in Luminar Mobile settings, make sure that synchronization between devices is turned on:
You can turn cellular data on and off in the Luminar Space settings for mobile network usage during online synchronization to avoid unexpected charges, such as data overages or roaming fees.
If you have a Luminar Neo license tied to one email address and your Luminar Mobile purchase was made with a different email address, no worries - you can merge your accounts to enjoy the cross-device editing functionality.
Follow these steps to merge the accounts:
Open Luminar Mobile and click the three dots menu at the top right corner.
Click "Your Account" to access account management.
Select the option "Merge Accounts" from the list.
A new window with an email field will open. Type in your other email address.
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.
Explore and customize the Luminar iPad workspace for a mobile editing experience that’s intuitive and powerful.
Top Toolbar: Your Editing Command Center
The top toolbar in Luminar Mobile on iPad is designed to streamline your editing process, making it straightforward and efficient. Here's how it supports your creativity:
Camera Settings (available in Landscape mode only): Instantly view important details like ISO, focal length, and shutter speed to understand the conditions of your shot better and inform your editing approach.
Undo and Redo: Easily navigate through your edits with simple taps to undo or redo changes, allowing for fearless experimentation.
Help & Legal – Review the User Guide, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and About Us for more information about Luminar Mobile.
Choose a Format – Select from JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or HEIF.
Quality – Adjust the image quality using a percentage slider.
Click "Link my apps" to proceed.
Check the inbox of an email you typed in previously. Open the verification email and click "Verify additional email".
All done! Now, your accounts are merged. Check out the cross-device functionality.
Pro Tip: Use Enhance AI as your first step. It lays a smart foundation, making every adjustment after more effective.
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.
Curves are essential for adjusting brightness, darkness, contrast, or color in your photos. It's a powerful tool for subtly shaping the mood and feel of your images.
Color Selectors: The Curves tool allows you to adjust brightness using white, red, green, and blue selectors, enabling channel-specific enhancements. To enhance the sky in your photo, utilize the blue selector to adjust the curve for desired effects. These selectors facilitate adjustments for the entire image or individual color channels, providing precise fine-tuning capabilities.
Control Points: You can use up to 10 control points to adjust specific areas of your image. Each point acts as a tool for enhancing different aspects. To add drama and depth, drag a point up to darken and increase contrast. To lighten the mood, pull a point down. Placing multiple points across the curve allows for nuanced adjustments to convey your desired story through the image.
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.
Cropping: Direct access to cropping lets you adjust composition or remove distractions with ease, ensuring your photo matches your vision.
Erase: Clean up imperfections or distractions with the erase tool, making your subject stand out.
Dropdown Menu: The hamburger icon opens up more options, including account settings, sound preferences, support, and more.
Share: Once your photo is ready, share your work with the world or friends with just a tap.
The top toolbar is your partner in creativity, packed with features to refine your photos with confidence.
Mode Dial: Navigate Your Creative Options
The Mode Dial is central to your photo editing on Luminar Mobile on iPad, offering three main modes to enhance your images:
Edit Mode: Unleash your creativity with a comprehensive set of tools for detailed adjustments.
Filters: Quickly apply changes to enhance mood or atmosphere with minimal effort.
Sky Replacement: Change skies with ease, adding drama or clear weather to your landscapes.
Presets: apply instant edits to your photo with pre-set adjustments.
Switching between modes is as simple as a swipe, with each mode presenting relevant tools and features.
The Mode Dial and top toolbar together create a seamless and powerful editing experience, enabling you to bring your creative vision to life with simplicity and joy.
The design philosophy behind Luminar's tools emphasizes ease of use. Users can adjust settings by sliding or rotating controls, providing immediate visual feedback. This approach demystifies the editing process, making it approachable for beginners while offering the precision that experienced editors appreciate.
Preview Original
The ability to check the original file instantly by pressing and holding on the image is a thoughtful feature. It allows users to quickly gauge the impact of their edits, fostering a deeper understanding of how each adjustment affects the overall look of their photo. This immediate feedback loop is invaluable for fine-tuning edits.
The Power Icon
Each tool's power icon button is a small but significant feature that adds flexibility to the editing workflow. It enables users to quickly preview the effect of each tool on their image, aiding in decision-making and allowing for rapid iterations of creative ideas.
Double-Tap to Reset
The double-tap reset functionality simplifies the process of reverting changes, encouraging experimentation. Users can freely explore different settings, knowing they can quickly return to the starting point without navigating through complex menus.
Importing Images
The streamlined process for importing images into Luminar sets the stage for editing by organizing photos efficiently. This ease of importing supports a seamless transition from capturing to editing, ensuring that users can focus on creativity rather than file management.
How to import images into your library
Bringing your images into Luminar iPad is straightforward. Begin by tapping the folder icon to open the import window. From here, you can easily upload photos directly from your iPad or online sources. This ensures a smooth workflow and allows your creativity to flourish. With this simple step, you're prepared to explore the world of photo editing with all your images readily available.
Learn how to use Luminar Mobile's essential tools on iPad to create beautifully edited photos with minimal effort.
Filters in Luminar Mobile provide a quick way to enhance your images. Scroll, select, and apply filters to change the mood or tone with a tap. Adjust intensity for the perfect effect and save favorites for quick access, making photo enhancement effortless.
Explore and apply filters in Luminar Mobile for creative transformations. Adjust intensity with a spin feature, save favorites, and streamline your editing workflow for imaginative photo enhancement.
The Develop tool is essential for transforming your photos, offering a wide range of color and tone adjustments. It's like a Swiss Army knife for photo editing, perfect for enhancing skies or sunsets on your iPad. With its help, you can easily refine and enhance your images.
The Develop tool offers an intuitive interface for photo adjustments. Slide or rotate its controls to modify white and black tones, contrast, saturation, or vibrance, and watch your image update instantly. This tool combines ease of use with powerful editing capabilities, functioning like a portable photo lab:
Let's learn more about the tools showcased in the screenshot from top to bottom: Temperature and Tint: Adjust to fine-tune the mood, from cool blues to warm yellows and correct color casts for true-to-life hues. Highlights & Shadows: Manage the brightness of the lightest and darkest parts of your image, revealing or concealing details as needed.
Exposure: Control the overall brightness and darkness levels of your image to achieve the desired lighting effect. Adjusting exposure allows you to enhance or diminish the brightness of the entire image, bringing out or toning down details accordingly.
White & Black Tone: Set the extreme points of brightness and darkness for dynamic range control.
Contrast: Enhances the visual depth by amplifying the difference between light and dark areas.
Vignette: Darkens photo edges to subtly focus attention on the subject.
Saturation & Vibrance: Increases color intensity overall or boosts muted colors while preserving natural skin tones and vibrant colors.
These tools collectively empower you to adjust the atmosphere of your photos, ensuring they convey the intended emotion and story.
The Enhance AI tool is crafted to give your images a distinctive boost and fine-tune color, detail, tone, and depth with ease. Ideal for enhancing the appeal of vacation photos or adding finesse to portraits, Enhance AI ensures your pictures stand out. This tool simplifies the editing workflow, allowing your images to capture attention and express their mood more effectively.
Using the Enhance AI tool is straightforward—rotate the dial on your iPad's screen to the right to amplify the enhancement effects. This adjustment enriches the colors, sharpens the details, and balances the image's tone, essentially bringing your photo to vibrant life with each incremental change.
Structure AI on your iPad elevates your photos through subtle adjustments, allowing you to unveil intricate details in textures or achieve a smoother look for cleaner, more serene visuals. This tool is indispensable for intensifying the drama in landscapes or maintaining the natural elegance of portraits. Structure AI functions as an intelligent assistant, adeptly enhancing clarity or softness as needed while distinguishing between subjects and their surroundings. It ensures targeted enhancements that preserve the natural beauty of subjects, avoiding the overly processed appearance common in many photos, especially in terms of skin texture. With Structure AI, your photographs achieve an ideal balance of detail and refinement, ensuring a professional and appealing result without the harshness of overprocessing.
To adjust the effect, turn the dial to the right to increase contrast and detail for a sharper image. For a softer appearance, rotate it to the left, which softens the image for a dreamy effect. This feature is ideal for both enhancing textures in landscapes and preserving the natural look in portraits. Structure AI provides flexible control, easily adapting to your creative needs with a simple gesture.
Relight AI in Luminar turns your device into a sophisticated tool for manipulating light in photos, simulating the control of a 3D lighting studio with just swipes and taps. It analyzes photos in a unique way, creating a virtual 3D map to distribute light naturally and realistically across the scene. This advanced feature enhances your images with photorealistic lighting effects, making it perfect for illuminating subjects in shadows or adding warmth to features. It's an intuitive solution for improving lighting in your photos, ideal for both amateur photographers and enthusiasts looking to correct or enhance lighting without complex equipment.
Adjusting Background and Foreground Lighting: You'll see two light icons with a slider. The top slider controls the light in the background, adding depth and dimension with a swipe. The bottom slider adjusts the foreground lighting, brightening up or toning down the light on subjects closer to the camera.
Fine-Tuning Light Depth: Alongside the sliders, there's a dial. Rotating this dial left or right adjusts the depth of the light, allowing you to control precisely how the light falls within the scene. It's similar to moving a light source closer or further away in a real 3D space.
Designed for landscape, real estate, travel, and nature photography, this tool enhances your images with just a few taps, making them stand out.
When you open the Landscape tool, you'll find three distinct symbols, each serving a unique purpose in your photo editing arsenal.
Golden Hour: Bring the warm, soft glow of the golden hour to your photos, enhancing the ambiance without having to wait for that perfect time of day.
Foliage Enhancer: Turn the greens in your photos from drab to fab. This slider is a game-changer for nature shots, automatically boosting the vibrancy and natural beauty of foliage and greenery.
Fog/Dehaze: Clear away the mist and unveil the scene beneath. Ideal for cityscapes, landscapes, and aerial shots obscured by fog or haze, this tool adjusts contrast, clarity, and color to reveal the hidden details.
The Details tool enhances good photos into breathtaking ones. It sharpens and clarifies your images, bringing out life-like detail. Whether refining a landscape or portrait shot, mastering this tool can transform your photos from nice to exceptional.
Small Details Slider: The Small Details slider enhances intricate patterns and textures in your photos. Starting at 0, where there's no effect, sliding to the right gradually brings out the smallest details. It's akin to adjusting a microscope to reveal hidden elements. However, be cautious not to slide too far to the left, as it may make your photo appear washed out.
Medium Details Slider: The Medium Details slider refines broader strokes in your image, such as tree bark or fabric folds. Starting at 0, where there's no effect, sliding to the right sharpens these medium-sized details, enhancing texture and depth. Conversely, sliding to the left softens these details, which is useful for achieving a dreamlike or ethereal effect.
Large Details Slider: The Large Details slider fine-tunes the sharpness of your photo's global contours, like the horizon line in a sunset or skyline silhouette. At 0, your image remains untouched. Moving it right enhances the crispness of object outlines, giving the photo a defined look. Sliding left softens these contours, often creating a more subtle, painterly feel.
Sharpen Tool: The Sharpen tool adds a finishing touch to ensure everything in your frame is in perfect focus. It's great for drawing attention to specific elements and enhancing overall clarity. However, be cautious: excessive sharpening can introduce graininess, resembling digital dust. Use this tool carefully to maintain clear, crisp images without turning them into grainy memories.
Curves are essential for adjusting brightness, darkness, contrast, or color in your photos. It's a powerful tool for subtly shaping the mood and feel of your images.
Color Selectors: The Curves tool allows you to adjust brightness using white, red, green, and blue selectors, enabling channel-specific enhancements. To enhance the sky in your photo, utilize the blue selector to adjust the curve for desired effects. These selectors facilitate adjustments for the entire image or individual color channels, providing precise fine-tuning capabilities.
Control Points: You can use up to 10 control points to adjust specific areas of your image. Each point acts as a tool for enhancing different aspects. To add drama and depth, drag a point up to darken and increase contrast. To lighten the mood, pull a point down. Placing multiple points across the curve allows for nuanced adjustments to convey your desired story through the image.
The Monochrome tool unlocks the timeless elegance of black-and-white photography. Whether you're drawn to classic cinema or seek to add drama to your photos, this tool is essential. It transforms colorful images into stunning black-and-white masterpieces. But it's more than a conversion; it's a canvas for creativity. You control how each color translates into shades of gray, empowering you to highlight the beauty hidden in contrasts and textures.
When you use the Monochrome tool, you'll find sliders for Cyan, Red, Yellow, Green, Magenta, and Blue. Adjust them left or right to control the brightness of each color as it's converted to black and white. This allows you to guide viewers' focus, evoke emotions, and set the mood. Experiment with each slider to see its effect on different elements in your photo. Remember, in black and white, nuances matter most.
Get to know the essential editing features of Luminar Mobile for iPhone, perfect for fast, stunning results.
Enhance AI
Using the Enhance AI tool is straightforward—rotate the dial on your iPhone's screen to the right to amplify the enhancement effects. The Enhance AI tool is crafted to give your images a distinctive boost and fine-tune color, detail, tone, and depth with ease. Ideal for enhancing the appeal of vacation photos or adding finesse to portraits, Enhance AI ensures your pictures stand out. This tool simplifies the editing workflow, allowing your images to capture attention and express their mood more effectively.
The Develop tool is essential for transforming your photos, offering a wide range of color and tone adjustments. It's like a Swiss Army knife for photo editing, perfect for enhancing skies or sunsets on your iPad. With its help, you can easily refine and enhance your images.
Exposure: Control the overall brightness and darkness levels of your image to achieve the desired lighting effect. Adjusting exposure allows you to enhance or diminish the brightness of the entire image, bringing out or toning down details accordingly.
Highlights & Shadows: Manage the brightness of the lightest and darkest parts of your image, revealing or concealing details as needed.
White & Black Tone: Set the extreme points of brightness and darkness for dynamic range control.
By adjusting the contrast, you can effectively deepen shadows and highlights, giving your photos more depth and dimension. With a simple slider control, you can fine-tune the contrast to achieve the desired effect, whether you're looking to create bold, dramatic images or subtle, nuanced tones. Experiment with different settings to find the perfect balance for your photos and elevate your editing game.
With the Temperature and Tint controls, you have the power to finely adjust the mood of your images, transitioning effortlessly from cool, serene blues to inviting, warm yellows. Correct color casts with precision, ensuring your photos portray true-to-life hues that captivate viewers and evoke authentic emotions. Whether you're aiming for a chilly winter landscape or a cozy sunset glow, these intuitive adjustments allow you to perfect the color balance and infuse your images with the desired atmosphere.
With the Saturation & Vibrance controls, you can elevate the color intensity of your photos to create vivid and eye-catching visuals. Whether you want to enhance the overall saturation for a more vibrant look or specifically boost muted colors, these tools offer precise adjustments while ensuring natural skin tones and vibrant colors remain unaffected. Strike the perfect balance between intensity and authenticity, breathing life into your images with enhanced colors that truly pop.
Move the slider horizontally for Saturation;
Move the slider vertically for Vibrance.
To adjust the effect, turn the dial to the right to increase contrast and detail for a sharper image. For a softer appearance, rotate it to the left, which softens the image for a dreamy effect. This feature is ideal for both enhancing textures in landscapes and preserving the natural look in portraits. Structure AI provides flexible control, easily adapting to your creative needs with a simple gesture.
Adjusting Background and Foreground Lighting: You'll see two light icons with a slider. The top slider controls the light in the background, adding depth and dimension with a swipe. The bottom slider adjusts the foreground lighting, brightening up or toning down the light on subjects closer to the camera.
Fine-Tuning Light Depth: Alongside the sliders, there's a dial. Rotating this dial left or right adjusts the depth of the light, allowing you to control precisely how the light falls within the scene. It's similar to moving a light source closer or further away in a real 3D space.
Relight AI in Luminar turns your device into a sophisticated tool for manipulating light in photos, simulating the control of a 3D lighting studio with just swipes and taps. It analyzes photos in a unique way, creating a virtual 3D map to distribute light naturally and realistically across the scene. This advanced feature enhances your images with photorealistic lighting effects, making it perfect for illuminating subjects in shadows or adding warmth to features. It's an intuitive solution for improving lighting in your photos, ideal for both amateur photographers and enthusiasts looking to correct or enhance lighting without complex equipment.
The Vignette tool adds a subtle touch to your photos by darkening the edges, directing the viewer's focus towards the main subject. By adjusting the slider, you can control the intensity of the effect, making the edges darker by moving it to the left or lighter by shifting it to the right. Enhance the composition of your images and draw attention to the key elements with this simple yet powerful tool.
The SkinAI tool analyzes your image. It can automatically enhance and retouch a person’s skin while giving you complete control over how the content-aware adjustments are applied. Additionally, SkinAI can eliminate various skin imperfections, including acne, freckles, and moles. It can also smooth the skin, but make sure small details like hair and eyelashes are sharp.
Amount: This slider smooths the skin and removes unwanted variations while preserving texture and detail.
Shine Removal: Excessive shine on the forehead or cheeks ruins an otherwise perfect photo. The Shine Removal tool generates realistic-looking skin to restore patches of the face that were washed out by excessive light. This slider adjusts the intensity of the Shine Removal effect.
Skin Defects RemovalAI: Select this checkbox to remove skin defects in a portrait automatically.
The Body AI tool analyzes your image and can automatically enhance and retouch a person’s body while giving you complete control over how the adjustments are applied. It allows for natural-looking body sculpting, helping to slim, reshape, and refine body contours without distorting the background. Whether you want subtle adjustments or more pronounced changes, Body AI offers a seamless way to achieve your desired look while maintaining the integrity of the original image.
Shape: This slider allows you to adjust and refine body contours for the waistline area.
Abdomen: Use this slider to resize the abdomen area.
When you open the Landscape section, you'll find three distinct symbols, each serving a unique purpose in your photo editing arsenal. Designed for landscape, real estate, travel, and nature photography, this tool enhances your images with just a few taps, making them stand out.
Golden Hour: Bring the warm, soft glow of the golden hour to your photos, enhancing the ambiance without having to wait for that perfect time of day.
Foliage Enhancer: Turn the greens in your photos from drab to fab. This slider is a game-changer for nature shots, automatically boosting the vibrancy and natural beauty of foliage and greenery.
Fog: Clear away the mist and unveil the scene beneath. Ideal for cityscapes, landscapes, and aerial shots obscured by fog or haze, this tool adjusts contrast, clarity, and color to reveal the hidden details.
Curves are essential for adjusting brightness, darkness, contrast, or color in your photos. It's a powerful tool for subtly shaping the mood and feel of your images.
Color Selectors: The Curves tool allows you to adjust brightness using white, red, green, and blue selectors, enabling channel-specific enhancements. To enhance the sky in your photo, utilize the blue selector to adjust the curve for desired effects. These selectors facilitate adjustments for the entire image or individual color channels, providing precise fine-tuning capabilities.
Control Points: You can use up to 10 control points to adjust specific areas of your image. Each point acts as a tool for enhancing different aspects. To add drama and depth, drag a point up to darken and increase contrast. To lighten the mood, pull a point down. Placing multiple points across the curve allows for nuanced adjustments to convey your desired story through the image.
The Details tool enhances good photos into breathtaking ones. It sharpens and clarifies your images, bringing out life-like detail. Whether refining a landscape or portrait shot, mastering this tool can transform your photos from nice to exceptional.
Small Details Slider: The Small Details slider enhances intricate patterns and textures in your photos. Starting at 0, where there's no effect, sliding to the right gradually brings out the smallest details. It's akin to adjusting a microscope to reveal hidden elements. However, be cautious not to slide too far to the left, as it may make your photo appear washed out.
Medium Details Slider: The Medium Details slider refines broader strokes in your image, such as tree bark or fabric folds. Starting at 0, where there's no effect, sliding to the right sharpens these medium-sized details, enhancing texture and depth. Conversely, sliding to the left softens these details, which is useful for achieving a dreamlike or ethereal effect.
Large Details Slider: The Large Details slider fine-tunes the sharpness of your photo's global contours, like the horizon line in a sunset or skyline silhouette. At 0, your image remains untouched. Moving it right enhances the crispness of object outlines, giving the photo a defined look. Sliding left softens these contours, often creating a more subtle, painterly feel.
The Monochrome tool unlocks the timeless elegance of black-and-white photography. Whether you're drawn to classic cinema or seek to add drama to your photos, this tool is essential. It transforms colorful images into stunning black-and-white masterpieces. But it's more than a conversion; it's a canvas for creativity. You control how each color translates into shades of gray, empowering you to highlight the beauty hidden in contrasts and textures.
When you use the Monochrome tool, you'll find sliders for Cyan, Red, Yellow, Green, Magenta, and Blue. Adjust them left or right to control the brightness of each color as it's converted to black and white. This allows you to guide viewers' focus, evoke emotions, and set the mood. Experiment with each slider to see its effect on different elements in your photo. Remember, in black and white, nuances matter most.
Sharpen Tool: The Sharpen tool adds a finishing touch to ensure everything in your frame is in perfect focus. It's great for drawing attention to specific elements and enhancing overall clarity. However, be cautious: excessive sharpening can introduce graininess, resembling digital dust. Use this tool carefully to maintain clear, crisp images without turning them into grainy memories.
