It’s the default Fill option you’re likely to want in most instances since it expands or contracts the new layer to match the image size without leaving any blank edges if the aspect ratio is different. There are three choices here – Fill, Scale to Fit or Fit. You can change this if you want by right-clicking the layer in the Layers panel and choosing Image Mapping from the drop-down menu. In fact, Luminar automatically ‘maps’, or scales, the new image to match the size of the one you’re adding it too. You’ll see that by sheer coincidence the new sky image is exactly the same size as the one below. Before that, though, it’s worth pointing out one of Luminar’s neat little features. As you’ll see, it completely covers up the image below, but we’ll get on to that shortly. So here’s our ‘sky’ image imported as a new layer. You’re now prompted to chooser the image file you want to add from your computer. You’ll get a drop-down menu with three choices, and we want the second one – Add New Image Layer. So let’s start by adding in a new sky, and to do this, you need to click the ‘ +’ button at the top of the Layers panel just below the histogram in the top right corner of the screen. So here’s our start shot, already open in Luminar, and it’s fine as far as it goes but that blank blue sky is a bit boring, and it’s just a straightforward ‘record’ shot. I’ll finish off by adding a preset effect using a new Adjustment layer. I’m going to start with a perfectly pleasant lakeside travel shot and give it a more dramatic Game of Thrones look by adding in a new sky as a new Image layer, change the blend mode to change the look (and make the masking easier) and then use Luminar’s masking tools to stop the sky appearing over the main parts of the picture. This has since been superseded by Luminar AI (no layers) and now Luminar Neo (layers reinstated but in a different form)! This version of Luminar has been superseded replaced by Luminar 4.
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