A Quick Tour of Lumen

Canvas, Tool Wheel, Lower Adjustment Ribbon, and Scopes.

A Lumen window is a .lumen document. The title shows the filename, pixel size, bit depth, and color space. The dock along the bottom is the way around the app.

Lumen tool wheel on the canvas
Hold Space. MOVE is V. The dock is Canvas, Tool wheel, Command, AI select, Stack, Panels, History, Import, Export.
Lumen film library on Mac
Film. COLOR shelf: Amber Hour, Sunlit Porch, Apricot Haze, Garden Shade, Coastal Mist, Blue Hour, City Chrome, Autumn Slate, Night Market.

The Core Surfaces

Document tabs sit under the title. The title itself reads the open file, for example L10006844.lumen, then the pixel size, 16-bit or 8-bit, and Display P3 or Embedded RGB. Zoom is a percent with minus and plus. ADJUST and LOCAL sit on the right of that bar. On iPad the same bar adds COMMAND and SETTINGS.

The Lumen window
Tabs across the top, the canvas in the centre, the ribbon and scopes below, and the command bar at the bottom.
Canvas
The photograph.
Tool wheel
The radial tool picker. The product screen says Hold Space.
Command
The command surface on the dock.
AI select
Subject selection from the dock.
Stack
The layer stack. On iPad this opens as LAYERS, with an adjustment over the original.
Film
The film library.
Panels
Inspector panels.
History
The history of the document.
Import / Export
The last two dock items.

The Tool Wheel

Hold Space. The wheel opens on the canvas. The center wedge is labeled MOVE and carries V. Around it, the wedges are lettered Z, Y, M, H, W, I, C, J, S, E, and B. H is the hand, Z is zoom, C is crop, and B is the brush.

Lumen tool wheel
The tool wheel over the canvas. Each wedge carries its single-key shortcut.

The Lower Adjustment Ribbon

The ribbon groups are TONE, CURVES, COLOUR, DETAIL, and FILM. TONE is the graph with BLACK, SHADOWS, MIDTONES, and HIGHLIGHTS. A readout such as +0.00 EV sits at the left, with the file bit depth and color space beside it.

Lumen Colour ribbon
The Colour ribbon: temperature, tint, saturation, and vibrance.

Scopes: Waveform & RGB Parade

SCOPES sits at the right of the ribbon. The three modes are HIST, WAVE, and RGB.

Lumen waveform scope
Scopes set to Wave.
Lumen RGB parade
Scopes set to RGB, one trace per channel.