
While Luminar remains dedicated to being an award-winning photo editor, it also expands into being a creative powerhouse, allowing artists to express themselves through new, fun and unconventional ways of editing images. This free update for all Luminar 4 users contains important enhancements across the application, plus a brand-new feature - AI Augmented Sky - to help photographers create incredible digital art. NEW YORK, NY - MaToday, Skylum announced the latest update for its flagship product, Luminar, version 4.2. With new AI Augmented Sky capabilities, photographers can create unique, one-of-a-kind digital art pieces. Luminar 4.2 opens up the doors to creativity with sky-based composite photography opportunities This free update for all Luminar 4 users also contains important enhancements to its portrait tools. If you want to make the sky paler near the horizon, use the Edit Mask button and add a gradient mask.Luminar 4.2 now offers AI Augmented Sky capabilities, which enables photographers to create unique, one-of-a-kind digital art pieces. This picture works well without a mask adjustment, but these can be useful for subtler blends.

We haven’t used the Flip Sky option below, but it can be used to flip skies horizontally for better positioning. Sky Defocus slider is handy for close-ups or portraits with blurred backgrounds. We’ve used some of the Advanced Settings options to give the sky a darker, warmer tone and a little atmospheric haze to blend it into the photo. You may not need the Advanced Settings section at all, but it’s here if you need it, and it can be handy. The original photo had a cooler tone than the sky we used, so we used the Relight Scene slider: this gradually shifts the tones and colours of your original photo to match those of the sky you’ve added.


If the join at the horizon looks unnatural, you can soften it with the Horizon Blending slider, just one of a number of tools for making sky replacements look more natural. You choose the sky you want to use from this dropdown menu, but you can also insert a sky image you’ve shot yourself. Luminar 4 can add any sky you like, but try to choose one that harmonises with the scene.
