The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4. Jeff Carlson
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Название: The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4
Автор: Jeff Carlson
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Программы
isbn: 9781681984063
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1 3. Make your adjustments using Luminar’s tools. That includes working with layers, a feature Photos doesn’t offer.
2 4. Click the Save Changes button when you’re finished editing.
3 5. Photos is still in its own Edit mode, so if you have no more edits to apply, click the Done button.
Photos also includes an Edit With feature, accessible by right-clicking a photo and choosing Edit With > Luminar 4. However, do not use that approach because it hands off a copy of the image to Luminar instead of using the Luminar plug-in.
The way Photos handles third-party edits is to keep an unedited original in reserve, and to present the edited version. Unfortunately, you can’t return to the active controls from your previous foray into Luminar by choosing to edit the image again. If you want to do more work on the photo, you can make edits on top of the edited version, or return to the original.
To restore the original, click the Edit button and then click the Revert to Original button.
Edit a Photo in the Luminar Library
Some applications that manage a photo library store image files in specific locations. Lightroom (the newer, cloud-focused version, not Lightroom Classic) and Apple Photos default to putting the files into their own directories, which aren’t in user-accessible locations. Luminar, by contrast, can use any folder on your computer.
Initially, Luminar starts building your library by setting the Pictures folder as the default source, since that’s likely where your existing photos are stored. You’ll see those photos show up in the Library module as Luminar scans the folder and any subfolders it contains.
If that’s where all your images reside, you don’t need to do anything else. All new photos added to that directory automatically appear in your library.
A Case for Not Using the Pictures Folder
Your computer’s Pictures folder is the natural location for photos, so it makes sense to start there when building a library from scratch. However, if your Pictures folder is like mine, there’s a lot of detritus you may not want in your Luminar library.
Pictures is the default image dumping ground for most applications, meaning you may scoop up a lot of unrelated photos, thumbnails, and miscellany. Instead, I suggest storing your photo library in a different directory. It can be a folder within Pictures, or elsewhere on disk. To accomplish this, remove the Pictures folder as a source folder in Luminar, and then add your dedicated library folder as a new source folder.
FIGURE 2-9: Duplicate the Background layer in Photoshop before you use Luminar’s plug-in.
Add Source Folders
You can also direct Luminar to read other folders as sources by doing the following:
1 1. Click the Library tab to view the Library panel if it’s not already open.
2 2. Next to Folders, press the + button. You can also choose Library > Add Folder or press the Open Button Menu and choose Add Folder with Images (Figure 2-12).
FIGURE 2-12: Choose a source folder that Luminar will keep track of.
1 3. In the dialog that appears, navigate to the folder on your computer you want to set as a source.
2 4. Click the Add Folder button. Luminar scans that directory and adds photos contained there to the library, including images in subfolders.
The link between what appears in the library and what exists in folders is live: if you add new photos or move image files in the Finder or Windows Explorer, those changes are reflected in the Luminar library. (However, I’ve occasionally seen Luminar not update when removing a file from a folder outside the application. Restarting the app refreshes the view correctly.)
Add Subfolders
It’s also possible within Luminar to create subfolders within folders. With a folder selected in the Library panel, choose Library > New Subfolder and name the new folder; it’s created in the folder hierarchy on disk, not just within Luminar. Any image you drag into it within Luminar is relocated on disk, too.
The hierarchy of folders and subfolders is inclusive. Selecting just a subfolder in the Library panel reveals only its photos. Selecting the subfolder’s enclosing folder displays all the images stored there, plus the ones in the subfolder.
Remove a Source Folder
Just as you can add source folders, you can remove them from the library, too. But what happens to the image files and edits depends on which folder you choose, so read this part carefully:
•Select a top-level source folder and choose Library > Remove from Catalog, or right-click and choose Remove from Catalog (Figure 2-13). In the dialog that appears, click Remove Folder (macOS) or Yes (Windows). The source folder and any edits you made to its photos are removed from the library, but the original image files stay in place on disk.
FIGURE 2-13: Remove a source folder.
•When you select a subfolder, the removal option disappears, leaving something that sounds more alarming: Library > Delete Forever. Choosing that option pops up a dialog confirming that the folder will be deleted, without the possibility of undo. Click Delete (macOS) or Yes (Windows) if that’s your choice. Sure enough, that folder and any images within it are sent to the Trash or Recycle Bin.
To be honest, I don’t know why Luminar treats subfolders differently. My guess is that everything within a source folder is read by the library because it’s looking through the hierarchy of any folders within the source folder, and it’s less efficient to create exceptions for subfolders that you wouldn’t want to be included. (This is another reminder that I’m not a programmer.) Still, deleting the images and their edits in a subfolder seems like an extreme step. Perhaps Skylum will address this in a future update.
Handle Offline Volumes
The advantage of choosing source folders from anywhere is that they don’t have to be physically stored on your computer. It’s common to store large photo libraries on external drives or network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
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