How do you know if your photo good or bad? One way is to post it to your social media. If you get less likes in Facebook, less hearts in Instagram you know you could have done better.

A good photo has 2 stages. The first is how its captured. The second is how it is enhanced post production. Modern smart phones which most of us use to take photographs do a good job in both. How ever there are intelligent software that can with a couple minutes of your time can do magic on your photos regardless if its shot on an iPhone, Android or an DSLR.

The tool I would like to introduce to you is Luminar AI. It is fully powered by artificial intelligence and with a little input from you will elevate your photographs to a whole new level so much so even you will wonder if it was shot by a pro. Luminar AI is pre-release and you can buy it in an early-bird discount with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Can AI Automate Photo Editing Process?

The first question a lot of people ask is if AI can fully automate the photo editing process. For example if it take photos and edit them without your intervention. Well AI is trying to do that, but they need few more years to achieve it. What it can do is to suggest you types of filters to use and adjust the intensity of these filters to your taste.

While it may not sound like much, it saves a lot of time. Imagine you took a photo with a bleak sky. It can hep you improve it but also if you like replace it with some thing entirely different with a few clicks. These type of magic was done by pro Photoshoppers for a price and it takes time. Now AI, specifically with Luminar, can do it for you with a click of a button. In a matter of seconds your boring landscape will transform to a fiery-sunset or a night-sky with the milky-way at its full glory.

AI can help you get amazing results with very little effort.

Who is it for?

Luminar AI or Luminar 4 at the moment serves both pros and noobs alike. But the most to gain would be non photographers who would like to use its AI features to give them a running chance against pros.

I am personally a software engineer with a lot of experience on apps like Photoshop, Lightroom. While they provide a lot of flexibility none can even compete with the speed how Luminar can do what it does.

There is nothing to learn in the software. There are some tabs and some sliders. You can select the intensity of each AI feature and your photos will come to life.

Luminar 4

Luminar 4, the successor to Luminar 3, sharing some features with Luminar AI, is another product by Skylum with a ton of useful AI features. I purchased its license before it was available last year and consider it to be one of the best software purchases I have made. It has helped me save a lot of time and also made otherwise useless photos social-media-worthy.

I come from a Linux background. I was so excited about Luminar 4, I bought a license when it was in pre-order even before I got my my first iMac CTO. It became the first software I installed in my new iMac 2019.

I was mind-blown. It did wonders without needing to follow hours of tutorials. I remember the days I watched YouTube videos, followed blogs and read books and still not yielding decent results. Luminar 4 was just magical. I had tricks up its sleeve I didn't even know I would love. The AI Sky Replace was magical. It instantly made boring photos be lively. The AI portrait enhancement tools were mind-blowing. All in all, I am curious to see how Skylum can improve on Luminar 4 and what they can deliver with Luminar AI because Luminar 4 is already so much good.

Price

One thing I love about Skylum is their pricing strategy. It is a one time payment of $59.00 with the early-bird access discount applied. Once the promotion is over, it will cost $79.00. This contrasts Adobe who provide their software as a subscription where you will reach thousands of dollars as the years pass by paying a monthly subscription.

Availability

The software is still in the pre-release stage and is not available for Beta testing and I haven't still got my hands on it. How ever you have a 30 day money back guarantee after the software is released if you don't like what you get.

I was worried my self when I paid for Luminar 4. That day I saved $20.00 and I am certain, even if I have Luminar 4, I have done a good deal my self and saved another $20.00 and in turn saved countless number of hours of photo editing in the future.

Get Luminar AI

You can purchase Luminar AI from Skylum's website. But if you follow the following link and purchase the software one day you will give me a discount which I can use to test their next piece of software and hopefully get early access to it.

Referral Link: https://skylum.grsm.io/ziyan