Skylum Luminar AI Update 3 - Improvements and M1 support

Luminar AI, the AI-based app for photo editing from Skylum, gets the third major update today and with it several new features. In addition, the software for smart photo enhancement is now also optimized for Mac models with an M1 chip. Whoever Luminar AI (Luminar^AI in its own spelling) can download, install and use the update free of charge. Below you will find more details about the update and how the app makes it even better on macOS and Windows. 

From today there is the Luminar AI Update 3 for the AI-based photo editing of Skylum. Anyone who already owns the app can download and install it for free.

Skylum Luminar AI Update 3 brings new features

It wasn't until mid-March the second update for Luminar AI. There were already some improvements for both portraits and landscape photos. With the third update, things will go a step further. Among other things, you can look forward to these additions from today:

• Sky^AI provides even more precise results for processing / replacing the sky
• The sky and horizon detection has been improved so that Sky^AI works even more precisely
• More realistic reflections with controls for atmospheric fog, warmth, brightness and water blur
• Three new controls that can be used to re-expose edited photos
• Individual tools should now be even more intuitive to use
• Edges of areas of added highlights or shadows can now be made softer or harder using the slider
• For Mac: Native M1 support and better use of the new hardware and image formats
• For PC: Support of the HEIC image format so that photos from iOS devices can also be edited under Windows

"For Skylum, the topics of innovation and continuous improvement of existing products have always been central points. Our primary goal is to improve the quality and speed of Luminar. But we also want to inspire our users with Luminar^AI to live out their creativity. The feedback from our community is very important to us in order to make photo editing as creative and as easy as possible without relinquishing control over the image result. With Update 3 we have taken another step in this direction“Says Ivan Kutanin, CEO of Skylum Software. 

There are improvements and new features, especially for processing the sky in landscape shots. In addition, Apple Mac models with the M1 chip and the HEIC format under Windows are now supported.

Install Luminar AI Update 3 on macOS and Windows

If you bought the app in the Mac App Store, you can download and install the new update right there. Otherwise you just open the app, click in the menu bar luminar^AI and then on Looking for updates. If you use Luminar AI not under macOS, but on the PC under Windows, click on in the top menu bar luminar^AI, then up Help and then on Looking for updates. The update should work in these three ways, regardless of the operating system and the source of supply. Do you have any questions or are you unclear about the use of an app function, then it's definitely worth taking a look official online manual.

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