Landscape enhancement tools in Luminar 4

Make landscapes look lush with Luminar’s intelligent tools

We all love landscapes. Varied and constantly changing with the light and weather, they are one of the most popular subjects to shoot. If you are inspired by a landscape, it’s only natural to want to enhance it as best you can to reveal all the details and the colours, and try to get across some of the atmosphere and sense of place that drew you to the scene.

Luminar 4 has a number of tools to use for enhancing landscapes. In previous instalments we’ve looked at the AI Sky Replacement and AI Augmented Sky tools for those times when nature doesn’t give us the skies we were hoping for, and how the Clone & Stamp and Erase tools can get rid of distracting clutter and man-made objects from the scenery. This time we’ll look at a set of tools designed specifically for landscape enhancement. You’ll find them in the Landscape Enhancer Panel in the Essentials Workspace.

They include a Dehaze slider, for cutting through atmospheric haze in long-distance landscapes; a Golden Hour slider for recreating the look of warm, late afternoon sunlight (or early morning, for that matter); and a Foliage Enhancer, to give grass and leaves a lush green look.

There’s more you can do with Luminar to enhance your landscapes. In the Creative Workspace you’ll find the Sunrays filter, which can add atmospheric lighting effects to your landscapes, and the Mystical and Glow filters for giving landscape images a dream-like ethereal glow.

Let’s take a look at how these landscape enhancement tools work and how you can use them together.