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At times you may want to edit a photo without going through the steps of adding it as a permanent part of your library—maybe you’re editing a friend’s shot, or you need to adjust something that you have no interest in saving long term.

To edit a single image from within Luminar, do the following:

1 1. Click the Open Button Menu and choose Edit Single Image, or choose File > Edit Single Image, or press Command/Ctrl-O (Figure 2-1).

FIGURE 2-1: Open an image file without adding a folder to the library.

1 2. Navigate to the image file you want, and click Open. The photo appears in the Filmstrip side panel with the Edit panel active.

Time to split a few hairs. Although I’m making it sound like the single-image approach is separate from the library, the photo actually does show up there. When you switch to the Library panel, you’ll see a new Single Image Edits entry under Shortcuts, and when editing one of the images, all of the single images appear in the Filmstrip (Figure 2-2). Luminar handles the image just like any other in the library, including letting you apply ratings and flags.

FIGURE 2-2: Single image edits have their own shortcut (top) and appear in the Filmstrip (bottom).

There are two key differences, though:

 •Luminar leaves the image file where it was originally located. The image file won’t appear in any of the source folders.

 •The original file isn’t affected when you make edits. Luminar holds onto that editing information since it takes up very little storage to record it in the catalog. At any point you can choose Image > Show in Finder/Explorer to reveal the file on disk.

The benefit to this organization scheme is that if you want to return to editing a photo, you can easily find it in the All Photos, Recently Added, Recently Edited, and Single Image Edits shortcuts.

When you’re finished editing the photo, use the Export or Share features to save a new version of the image.

That also means, however, there’s no capability to export the original with its associated edits; many apps store that information in a separate sidecar text file. See Chapter 11 for more on sharing and exporting photos.