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Workspaces are a great feature in Luminar that let you customize the app to only show you what you want to use. a new workspace (called Quick & Awesome) consists of the Accent AI Filter, Saturation & Vibrance, and Clarity filters. It’s useful for quick image fixes when you’re in a hurry. The vignette control has grown up and now matches tools like Lightroom almost feature for feature. You can move where the vignette is positioned using the Place Center command. You’ve got two Vignette Styles Paint Overlay and the more photo realistic Highlights Priority.

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Plus the vignette now also works Post-Crop which means you can crop and stylize.

These controls make the tool as useful as any I’ve used before from other manufacturers. Luminar can keep a separate history (undo states) for different items. There is a provision for reviewing separate history while in Transform, Denoise, Clone & Stamp modes. This makes it a lot easier to change your mind as you can refine things in an image without undoing other adjustments you’ve made. The future takes a little getting used to, but is very powerful. Be sure to save images in the native Luminar format as well as the history states (undos) can be saved in the file. Just check the box at the bottom of the Save dialog labeled save history to Document. You can now specify custom crop sizes in the crop tool. The dimensions are still pixel based, so if you wanted a 5×7 for print you’ll have to do your own match and type ion 1500 X 2100 (5 inches * 300 pixels per inch by 7 inches * 300 pixels per inch). This is a welcome change, but I’d love to see Image Size and cropping commands get more robust in a future update.

If you use Macphun’s Creative Kit and Aurora HDR 2017 apps, you can now access those right from within Luminar. Just go to the Plugins menu and choose your favorite command. The current image opens a flattened copy into the plugin for editing. This can then be modified and is returned as a new layer.

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