If you want to work with multiple images at one time, each on its own layer and with its own set of filters, click the + button in the Layers panel and add a new Image Layer. This one requires a bit of legwork but it can really come in handy depending on your editing needs. This single tip has saved me countless headaches as I scroll up and down my filters workspace to find the one I need, and I don’t think I could ever go back to any other way of editing. This collapses all of your filters and allows you to work with just one at a time, dynamically collapsing it when you click on another one. Just click on the Filters label at the top of the list and choose Single View Mode. Thankfully there is an easy way to tame your filters. #3 – Single View ModeĪs you add filters to an image it can get a little cumbersome having to deal with an ever-expanding vertical list of image adjustments. The final image is much improved, and it took very little effort to do so. When you are finished, click “done” and Luminar will eliminate it like it was never even there. To erase oddly-shaped portions of an image select Tools>Erase, then select the lasso tool, and then click to outline the spot that you want to erase. When I first started using Luminar I was well aware of its healing tool that functioned much like similar tools in other applications, but I didn’t realize that it was also possible to use the same technology with a lasso-style implementation. Sometimes you need the Spot Healing tool to remove unwanted blemishes and imperfections from an image, but sometimes that very same tool can drive you crazy due to its imprecise nature and circular application brush. It’s an incredibly useful feature that you might not notice at first, but once you do could seriously improve your editing. This lets you see your edits applied to any part of the image you want, and it updates instantaneously as you move the slider. Luminar has this feature as well but it kicks things up one notch by allowing you to move the preview slider back and forth. With one click you can see your image split in two, with one half as the original and the other half showing the edits. #1 – Before/after preview sliderĪs a longtime user of Lightroom, the idea of having a before/after preview is nothing new. Luminar has a host of small but useful features up its sleeve to help novices and professionals alike.

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