Photo Live Issue 3

We want to build an innovative
photo management platform that
will allow people to quickly access
their images, pick what they like and
make them better. We want these
images to be secured and safe. We
also want to make sure people don’t
waste time figuring out how the
software works, or waiting for the
image to get imported.
As I said, we want to build
something that others could not
create, and that takes a lot of time.
But we will definitely launch the
photo management module to
Luminar for Mac and PC by autumn
this year.
Q: I like the look of many of the
offered filters like Accent AI
and Cross Processing, will there
be more filters in the future
after release?
Accent AI is a unique filter. It is the
first product that came from our
research lab, and it’s the one of a
kind filter. It’s not something you can
create in bulks. There will be more
AI powered filters in Luminar for
portraits and landscapes, but they
will come later this year.
There will also be more filters that
give photos a certain signature look
that doesn’t exist in other software.
We will also introduce more smart
filters that will not require extra
efforts but will effectively fix the
photo.
Layers too! One thing I’ve been a
bit frustrated with is finding a great
preset with Lightroom but not being
able to simply tone it down a bit.
Lightroom is a software that’s almost
10 years old. Luminar is a new
software written from scratch.
There are a lot of things in Lr that
were impressive back in the days, but
we feel that now it misses so many
things that modern photographers
would enjoy.
Layers is an obvious thing, and there
are many more. We speak to many
photographers around the world,
and hear their frustration about many
things.
I don’t say that Luminar fully
addresses all their needs, but we
are definitely getting there. It’s an
evolving process and we are still very
young. You’ll be impressed with what
Luminar will become soon.
Q: Switching direction a bit
— are many of your team
photographers?
Everyone is a photographer these
days, shooting with a smartphone
or a digital camera. About half of
the team take photos on regular
basis with mirrorless cameras or
DSLRs. We also have a number of
professional photographers on the
team, including Scott Bourne, who
is the worlds top bird photographer
and Olympus visionary; also Evgeny
Tchebotarev - founder of 500px.com,
Richard Harrington - professional
photographer, Photofocus publisher
and probably the world’s best
photography educators. There are
more world-class photographers
who join our team, and we will
announce this soon.
Q: Are you working with
photographers on new ideas,
new updates?
We work ONLY with photographers
to come up with new ideas and
solutions. We are constantly
searching for innovation. That’s why
we asked Matthew Jordan Smith,
Joel Grimes, Dixie Dixon, Trey
Ratcliff, Jerry Ghionis to help us
make Luminar a true game changer.
I don’t think any other photography
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