Hi ,

Yesterday, Skylum software released Luminar for iPad. This is the mobile version of their award winning photo editing software that I've used off and on ever since it first launched back in 2016. 

I've always found Luminar to be a powerful, but very intuitive and easy-to-use program that allows you to quickly achieve great professional-looking results with your imagery. 

Whether you're making quick adjustments in order to give your photo a more dynamic or brilliant look, experimenting with creative ideas that can help tell a more compelling story, or doing deep editing to rescue a challenging scene, Luminar has always offered straightforward tools that appeal to photographers of all skill levels and styles.

And now, with Luminar for iPad, you have all of this right at your fingertips, so that you can edit photos on the go when you're not sitting in front of your computer. It even offers RAW support.

Image editing technology has been moving in this direction for the past few years, especially since most modern cameras can transfer images directly to your mobile device. 

Here are some of the features that Luminar for iPad offers:

• Curves: Edit photos with precise color and tone adjustments
• Details: Enhance the details and clarity of your photos with one tap
• Crop: Easily trim, align, flip & rotate your image
• Landscape: Easily remove haze and enhance the lighting in your shot
• Monochrome: Convert your photos to black and white 
• Erase: Remove distracting elements from your photos
• Photo Filters: Add creative and unique looks & styles to your photos
• RAW File Support: Edit RAW files directly on your iPad
• Seamless Apple Support: Use with Apple Pencil and Vision Pro

In addition, the app offers many of the AI powered features that have been used in the desktop version of Luminar for years. These tools allow you to enhance your photos with a single click, whether you're simply bringing out details, retouching portraits, or doing more drastic processing, like replacing skies or removing unwanted elements in your scene. 

While I generally don't make use of some of the more drastic AI tools in my own photography, they do have their place in certain situations. 

That being said, I've always found Luminar to be a fun, easy-to-use program that allows for a wide range of creativity when tweaking photos and making minor adjustments, or performing more advanced editing tasks.

Luminar for iPad offers all of that, and I'm certainly excited to give it a try and incorporate it into my own workflow, since I try to minimize my "computer work" as much as I can these days. 

Of course, there are some limitations. It's iPad only, so no support for Android tablets right now. Don't know if that's in the works at this time. Also, it works with iOS 17 and newer, so it won't work on some older iPad, although I'm running it on an iPad pro 10.5-inch model from 2017.

And finally, Luminar for iPad is a paid app, with either a 1, 6 or 12-month plan. So, basically, you get a year's worth of fun and powerful photo processing away from your desk for less than the cost of 6 specialty coffee drinks. How many of those do you drink in a year?

If all that sounds reasonable, then you can download Luminar for iPad here, or check out the details page on the Skylum website. 

If you do decide to give the app a try, let me know what you think!

Thanks for reading and have a great week!