The Workspace

The primary editing interface in Lumen Darkroom.

The workspace is one .lumen document. The title bar names the file, the pixel size, the bit depth, and the color space. The dock along the bottom is how you move.

Lumen on Mac with the film library open
Mac. Film library open. Title reads the .lumen name, pixel size, 16-bit, Display P3.

The Surface Bar

Document tabs
One tab per open .lumen file. The active tab is underlined.
Title readout
Filename, pixel size, bit depth (8-bit or 16-bit, whichever the file is), and Display P3 or Embedded RGB.
Zoom
Minus, a percent, plus. The wheel’s Z wedge is zoom. H is the hand.
ADJUST / LOCAL
Modes on the right of the title bar. On iPad the same bar also shows COMMAND and SETTINGS.
Dock
Canvas, Tool wheel, Command, AI select, Stack, Film, Panels, History, Import, Export.

The Canvas Viewport

The photograph fills the center. Edits sit in the ribbon and in the layer stack. The original stays the bottom row of Layers, labeled original image.

Hold Space to open the tool wheel on the canvas. The center wedge is MOVE, lettered V.

Lower Adjustment Ribbon

The groups are TONE, CURVES, COLOUR, DETAIL, and FILM.

  • TONE. BLACK, SHADOWS, MIDTONES, HIGHLIGHTS. Exposure reads in EV at the left, next to the bit depth and profile.
  • CURVES. The same graph, with WHITE at the right end. Channels are RGB, R, G, and B.
  • COLOUR. TEMPERATURE, TINT, SATURATION, VIBRANCE.
  • DETAIL. The group beside COLOUR.
  • FILM. COLOR and BLACK & WHITE. The colour shelf includes Amber Hour, Sunlit Porch, Apricot Haze, Garden Shade, Coastal Mist, Blue Hour, City Chrome, Autumn Slate, and Night Market. Clear removes the look.
  • SCOPES. HIST, WAVE, RGB.
Lumen curves on iPad
CURVES on iPad. Zone points across the graph, HIST scope on the right.

Radial Tool Wheel

Hold Space , or press Tool wheel on the dock. MOVE (V) is the center. The ring is Z, Y, M, H, W, I, C, J, S, E, and B. H is the hand, Z is zoom, C is crop, B is the brush.

Lumen tool wheel
The wheel over the canvas. TONE is still open underneath, with the render readout on the right.

The Layer Stack

Stack on the dock opens Layers. An adjustment such as Color sits above the source file at an opacity percent. The source row is marked ORIGINAL IMAGE. Turning the adjustment off leaves that file as it was opened.

Lumen layers on iPad
Layers. Color at 100% over Photo.jpg. COLOUR sliders and the histogram scope.