Just select and drag additional images to the album to add them. It’s also possible to create virtual albums of images simply by selecting them in the Library and clicking on the + next to ‘Albums’ in the folder structure. Clicking on the heart that appears in the bottom right corner of images as you hover over them in the Library adds them to the Favourites folder. There are also icons to reveal the images you most recently added or edited in Luminar.

As well as the structure of the folders that you’ve imported into Luminar 4, the Library organises the images by date, so you can quickly locate images captured on a specific day just by clicking on the relevant folder. Clicking on the ‘Info’ button reveals essential image data. Clicking on the ‘Library’ button at the top right of the screen hides and reveals the organisation column. The Library has a column on the right that shows the file organisation structure while thumbnails of images are everywhere to the left of that. To import images into Luminar 4’s Library, click on the + in the top left corner of the screen and select the pictures to work on in the normal way. The Library is the browser section while the Edit view gives access to all the adjustment controls. There are two main views in Luminar 4, the Library and the Edit view. However, it can be helpful to import a folder of images as this enables you to scroll through your shots to select the ones you want to work on. When used as a standalone, Luminar relies on your standard folder structure and there’s no need to import images, you can just open one to start editing. Skylum’s Luminar 4 software can be used as a standalone image-editing package or as a plug-in for software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom Classic.

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