 What's up nerds? Welcome back to another photo nerds university tutorial. My name is Adam And today I'm gonna show you how to get up and running in Luminar 2018 in just 10 minutes. That's it If you don't have Luminar 2018 yet, no problem. Just go to nerd.link forward slash Luminar 2018 to download your copy today It's just 69 bucks and now without further ado. Let's jump in to today's tutorial Resources. This video is just meant to be a quick overview of Luminar 2018 and some of the things that it has to offer But in the event that you find yourself confused and you need a few more resources Skyloom has got you covered right here on the home screen. You'll see some resources to the left This will allow you to access things like videos user guides you can even download more presets and Additional plugins that Skylar has to offer and don't forget about the photo nerds University YouTube channel as we'll have more videos coming to you each and every week So be sure to subscribe for that Importing there are several ways that you can open up a photo inside of Luminar 2018 in this tutorial I'm gonna show you two ways One when you open the program right here, you'll see an open image button Go ahead and click that go ahead find your file select it and hit open To when you open up Luminar 2018 Head on up to your file menu click on it and choose open same thing just search for a photo Select it and hit open interface the interface is super Super easy we have this top bar here and the first thing you see starting from left to right We have the ability to open another image from here even batch process We can zoom in or zoom out of a photo. We can even change some ratios and fit to screen Next we have some before and after preview buttons. We can see it as a quick view or a slider We have an undo button and a history panel which will keep track of all the edits that we're making along the way And then we have quick access to the tools that we probably will use the most things like the crop tool or Free transform tool a clone stamp tool for removing stuff and even an eraser tool Which will come in pretty handy for those mistakes will make along the way and the last two buttons We have our presets panel down at the bottom and our side panel over on the right Which is where all the magic is gonna happen This is where we can see things like our histogram layers and all the filters We're gonna use to edit this photo last but not least we have our menu bar up at the top editing Yes editing that thing. We've all been waiting for there's so many things we could talk about in this video Just on editing so I'm gonna try and keep this simple as possible And most things will come down to these two buttons right here that we talked about the first one being the presets panel So let's start there when we click this button at the bottom of the screen You'll see all of the presets that we have here and these presets are things that either came with the program or Presets that you'll make along the way or maybe even presets that you'll export out from Lightroom But luckily for you Luminar comes packed loaded with lots of presets for you to use on your photos in case you lack Creative vision or you just need a little helping hand to get you started click on the presets panel to toggle that switch on and off And simply scroll through all of the presets that you might be interested in using when you find one that tickles your fancy Just go ahead and click on that preset And you'll get a visual representation of what that preset looks like and what it might do to your photograph I'll say dark moon doesn't look half bad, but I'm gonna keep searching. That's pretty cool You'll notice also we have an amount slider when you hover over the preset And this will allow you to right here right from the preset dial back the amount So if you have a preset that maybe is too aggressive, you can just go ahead and dial that back Once you find the amount that you love, that's it. You're done Now if you're someone like me and you want to continue editing This is where the side panel comes in handy Everything that you see on the right is the side panel now right now because we started by choosing a preset We've got all these little tabs that popped up showing us what this preset applied So it used curves it used a photo filter color contrast all to make changes to our photograph The nice thing about it is the preset did all the work You didn't have to do anything But if there was something that you wanted to change For example, you wanted to add a little bit more of this photo filter adjustment You could just come in here and dial in whatever you wanted to you've also got some other switches here like a Eyeball which will allow you to toggle on and off just that particular panel So if I wanted to see what this filter looked like without photo filter I could just go ahead and toggle that on and off, but I think it looks pretty cool So I'm gonna leave it another thing that you could do is brush in your adjustment So if you wanted to be a little bit more specific about where your adjustment was gonna be applied You could just hit this brush and then this gives you some options You can either brush the effect in wherever you like So if I click on that feature and head on over to the photo and I begin brushing You'll see that it's gonna allow me to brush wherever I want So this allows you to be more specific about where and what that adjustment will look like But I'm gonna just go ahead and undo that because I liked it everywhere if you want to undo your adjustment Remember we have that undo button here up at the top We could just click on that and it'll take us right back to where we were pretty Convenient, but if precents aren't on not enough for you Well luminars got you covered if you drag your eyeballs up to the histogram and Scroll down with your eyeballs just a little bit You'll see a blue add filters button if you were to click that you're gonna get access to a load More features that you have at your disposal and the thing I love most about this whole entire section is how organized it is you'll see categories like the Essentials or Issue fixers things that maybe need to get fixed like maybe you need to remove things or sharpen things We've also got an entire creative section of things that you could do you have a Professional section, but if you're not a professional don't be afraid to use some of these tools because well They're awesome and last but not least down at the bottom We've got an entire Utilities section which allows you to do things like add adjustable gradient maps or Color temperatures play with exposures highlights shadows and the way this works is you just find a filter That sounds good to you I'm gonna scroll all the way up to the top and select the very first one under the essentials panel called accent AI filter and when you click on it You'll notice how it adds this filter to the other Filters that were included in that preset that we started with and all we're gonna do is pull on this boost slider right here And that's gonna increase some of the things that we might or might not want once we get it to that desired effect We just simply stop and if I click on and off the eyeball I can see what this accented AI filter has done not too shabby The nice thing about this is you can add as many filters as you Desire so between the presets and the filters you could do a lot, but that's not all we also have Layers so if you want to take this photo and manipulate it as you would in Photoshop You could do that right here without going over to a separate program. We've got layer panels We can merge layers. We can merge all layers. We can click on this little icon here We can duplicate layers. I'm gonna go ahead and do that We can right-click on layers where we get more information things like blending mode and image mapping and Masking I'm gonna change the blend mode on here to overlay because that's gonna give me some crazy amount of contrast And then I'm going to lower the opacity by clicking on this drop-down and dragging it all the way down That looks pretty good And we have more of those eyeballs where we can turn on and off the adjustment to see what that's doing Once you've added your filters and your presets you've made your Adjustments you've played with layers and you find yourself done with a photograph now We're ready to show this to the world Exporting so from here We're gonna export this file out head on up to the top right corner click this little share button and Export to image from here. We'll get an export dialog box that'll allow you to make whatever changes that you want We can name the file we can choose the location. We want to put it I'll put mine on the desktop. We can even choose to apply Additional sharpening to a photograph. Why not? I'll add a medium amount We can resize our image if we need to make it smaller for the internet I'll go ahead and resize it the long edge to a thousand eighty pixels You can even change the color space between sRGB, which is fantastic for the internet or Adobe RGB or Profoto RGB for printing I'll just leave it at sRGB You can change the format from a PNG to a TIFF to a Photoshop file and You can decide what you want your quality amount to be I will leave mine at high once you've dialed in all this Stuff all you got to do is hit save Luminar will do all the work and if we look at our desktop there it is 0.943-3-EDIT JPEG with all of the adjustments that are made inside of LUMINAR Fantastic