I have included links to the Macphun Facebook page and their website in case anyone wishes to have a look at Luminar for themselves. Macphun have made the beta free to download to all Windows users but the final version will be a paid model. But it is still in beta.Īt the moment, I have found it great with sunsets but I’m still indecisive as to ordinary photographs, personally I think NIK Color Efex does a better job.ĭisclaimer: I’m not being paid to write this, nor am I getting free software, or anything like that. First of all the program is not complete and Macphun have a long way to go before the Windows version will equal the power of the Mac one. It’s far too early to draw a conclusion as to whether or not I would incorporate Luminar into my workflow. However it is early days, so I might change my mind.Īnyway, here’s a few photographs that I processed using Luminar
Photographs taken during the day didn’t seem to gain much advantage using Luminar. Maybe it’s me, but during my first day of trialling Luminar I started gravitating to trying it out with sunsets, I seemed to be having better success with those. This one was developed using some of the filters from Luminar
It’s quite good for any photograph that features a sunset.īut you can also use filters to affect certain elements of a photograph, such as sharpness, colour, foreground, All in all there are about 65 filters you can use to affect your photograph In the photograph above I have selected a preset called Artistic Copper Strong. The first thing I noticed, there are quite a few ready-made presets, one click looks, that could fit a variety of purposes. So the first thing to note, this is still a beta version, it’s nowhere as feature rich as the Mac version, but I can still get a flavour of how the software works. Luminar adapts to your photo style to make complex photo editing easy and joyful. Shooting RAW and processing these files on your powerful Mac or PC does have. Make photos beautiful in seconds with 1 slider. Macphun Luminar review Introduction Getting the best performance out of a. As Macphun say įaster, even more powerful and now featuring Accent, the world’s first AI-powered photo filter. Luminar is already a well established piece of software for the Mac, so it will be interesting to see how it shapes up in Windows. I thought, why not? Especially as one of my favourite plugins NIK Color Efex is no longer supported by Google. If you still have problems, please write to our support team.I’m always willing to try new software and when Macphun anounced a beta version for Windows of their popular program for Mac called Luminar. To make the Magnifier AI plugin work you must have two files in the Plug-Ins folder: 8li and 8bf.Ĭonsult the tips on how to install plug-ins into Adobe Photoshop, Corel PaintShop Pro, PhotoImpact, GIMP, or Xara Xtreme.
The plugin does not work with other image editors.Īttention! If the plugin does not appear in the Filter, copy 8bf from the AKVIS folder into the Plugins folder of your image editor. To call the Magnifier AI plugin in Photoshop please use the command File -> Automate -> AKVIS Magnifier AI, in Photoshop Elements: File -> Automation Tools -> AKVIS Magnifier AI. Note: You can launch almost all AKVIS plugins from the menu Filter, except AKVIS Magnifier AI. For example in Photoshop: Filter -> AKVIS –> Noise Buster AI. After installation of the standalone version, you will see the program name in the Start menu and a shortcut on the desktop, if during installation the corresponding option was enabled.Īfter installation of the plugin, you will see a new item in the Filter/ Effects menu of your photo editor.
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