New & Improved features in Luminar 4

Your Photography. Elevated.

Revolutionary tools and AI technologies in Luminar 4 bring new heights to photo editing.

AI Structure

Boosting details with traditional Clarity and Structure tools often make parts of a photo look horrible. Luminar 4 automatically identifies objects (including people and faces, clouds, water, buildings and more) and improves them in an intelligent, content-aware way. The AI Structure tool automatically detects people in a photo and doesn’t over-process them. As a result – faces and skin look natural, while the objects around them look deeper and richer.

AI Skin Enhancer

AI Skin Enhancer’s unique human-aware technology finds all the skin in your picture (not just the face), smooths it out, and removes blemishes while preserving pores, texture, and hair. All in one click and with adjustable strength. Works for any age and skin type.

Portrait Enhancer

Portrait Enhancer’s revolutionary new technology helps you create the perfect portrait in 15 to 60 seconds. Makes face, eyes, and mouth picture-perfect. Twelve tools give photographers of any level absolute precision and control. Your presets automatically adjust to each new photo for easy batch editing and a faster workflow!

AI Sky Replacement

The AI Sky Replacement tool in Luminar 4 doesn’t just change the sky – it relights the entire photo so the lighting and colors of the original image match the lighting and colors of the sky. Intelligent selection algorithms in Luminar 4 work perfectly even with tiny details like little birds, leaves, grass or hair. They also remove halos, artifacts, and hard edges. You can even fine-tune foreground brightness and contrast.

Smart Contrast

The new Smart Contrast tool is more careful and accurate than traditional Contrast. It preserves colors and details for a more realistic image. Be sure to try both positive and negative values to enhance a variety of images.

Significant overall User Experience (UX) improvements

Luminar 4 is the biggest update in Luminar’s history. After the release of Luminar 3, we spent a lot of time studying why and how people use Luminar in order to make it better. Based on this research, we’ve significantly improved and simplified Luminar to meet our customers’ needs.

Larger fonts and improved readability
More spacing between interface elements
Easier access to tools
Larger sliders
Optimized contrast of interface elements

Completely redesigned Edit module

In Luminar 4, we’ve combined tools into groups based on their intended purpose. This makes all tools more convenient to use. Each tool is designed to solve a specific problem or achieve a creative goal. No more time-consuming searches for one exact filter among dozens. The new organization will help you get the results you want faster than before.

All tools are organized into five tabs.

Canvas – Tools for basic work with an image: Crop, Transform, Erase, etc.
Essentials – Tools for basic Color Correction and Tone Correction; everything you need to get the basic look of the final image
Creative – Creative photo processing tools
Portrait – Tools oriented to processing portraits
Professional – More sophisticated tools for professional photo processing