How to use Templates as a starting point for editing

Make your images look awesome in a matter of seconds

1 Enter the Templates tab

Import your image folders into Luminar AI, then select the image you’d like to work on before clicking on the Templates tab. Luminar AI automatically suggests which Templates are most suitable for the image. Click on these, or scroll down to look through all your Template options.

2 Select a Template

Once you’ve found a Template you like, click on it to activate the effect. For this image, we used the suggested Easy Landscapes Collection; within this set, we selected Snowfall. This Template accentuated the mood by desaturating the scene and boosting the Structure setting, for a grittier look.

3 Customise the Template

The Template is applied at a default setting, which is often perfect, but if you click on the Edit tab and then Enhance, you can adjust the results. Accent controls the strength of the effect, while Sky Enhancer controls sky detail (if the image has a sky). A slider in the bottom-right controls Opacity.

4 Apply manual edits

You can click on any of the adjustments on the right to expand the controls and take manual control. For this image, we expanded Composition and used the Crop Tool to straighten the horizon. All adjustments are non-destructive, so anything applied in Luminar AI can be rolled back: your original image files are untouched.

5 Control lighting

This image didn’t require much editing after we’d applied the

Snowfall Template, but before exporting the image, we expanded the

Light adjustments to tweak Temperature, Exposure, Shadows and Highlights. Smart Contrast was applied automatically as part of the Snowfall Template and the result looked great, so this was left at the setting selected by Luminar AI.