Luminar
Luminar is a macOS photo editor for enhancing, retouching, and creatively editing images with AI-powered tools and RAW support.
What is Luminar?
Luminar is a native photo editing app for macOS that helps photographers and creators improve, retouch, and stylize images with a mix of manual controls and AI-assisted tools. It is designed for people who want a full editing workspace for everyday photo enhancement, portrait retouching, landscape adjustments, and creative effects without relying only on complex professional suites. The app supports common editing workflows such as cropping, color and tone correction, detail enhancement, and non-destructive adjustments. It also includes tools for tasks like removing unwanted elements, replacing skies, refining portraits, and expanding or reworking parts of an image with AI-based features. Luminar can fit both casual editing and more advanced post-processing, including RAW photo work and plugin-style use with other photo workflows. Published by Skylum, it is primarily used as a photo and image editing application on Mac.
Key features
- Edit RAW photos with adjustment tools for color, tone, detail, and composition
- Remove unwanted objects and distractions from images
- Replace skies and relight scenes with AI-assisted controls
- Retouch portraits with tools for skin, face, and body adjustments
- Expand or rework parts of a photo with generative editing tools
- Apply creative effects and presets for stylized looks
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Luminar is legitimate photo editing software. It may need access to your photos and folders so you can open, edit, export, or save images, which is normal for this type of app. If you use cloud-linked features, account sign-in, or plugin integrations, some project or usage data may be processed as part of those features. Keep copies of important originals before major edits or batch operations, especially when using automatic removal or generative tools.
Recommendation: Keep Luminar if you use it for photo editing, RAW processing, or creative retouching on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer need its editing tools or associated workflows, but export or back up any projects, presets, or custom assets you want to keep first.
Common paths
/Applications/Luminar.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.macphun.luminarNA
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Luminar
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.macphun.luminarNA.plist
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