Post-processing renders in Lumion Cloud
Crop, adjust, and style architectural renders right where they're reviewed
The last stretch before a presentation
The render finishes and the work still isn't done. Before an image goes into a client deck, a planning submission or an internal design review, it usually needs a tighter crop, a warmer tone, or a treatment that matches the other views in the set. Small changes, but until now they meant leaving the visualization workflow: export the render, open editing software, process changes, save a new file, then upload it again so the team can see it.
Lumion Cloud's Post-Processing tools take care of that stage in the browser, inside the same project where your visuals are already being shared and discussed.
What Post-Processing covers
Open any image in Lumion Cloud, select Edit, and you get three sets of tools:
Crop for size, aspect ratio, rotate, flip and straighten
Adjust for presets and individual controls like brightness, contrast, temperature, highlights, shadows and sharpness
Filters for Lumion LUTs, your own imported LUTs, and intensity control over both
Every change previews against the original, so you can see whether the edit actually communicates the design better before you commit to it.
One render, every format you need
A single view rarely gets used once. It goes into the presentation deck at 16:9, onto Instagram or LinkedIn as a square or portrait crop, into a planning document or competition board at whatever the submission requires, and onto the practice website as a wide hero image. Re-rendering each of those is time you don't have.
Crop handles the resizing, with preset aspect ratios and a lock control that holds proportions while you scale.
The same tools shape what the image is actually saying. Pull in on the entrance canopy, cut the empty foreground that pushes the building too far back, or straighten a horizon that reads as an accident rather than a choice. If a client keeps returning to one part of the design, you can create a tighter composition from the same render and put that detail at the center of the next conversation.
Get the light and color right
The same render can leave a completely different impression depending on how it's lit. An interior loses its detail in the shadows. A dusk exterior that looked warm on your monitor turns muddy on a meeting room projector. A daytime shot reads as oversaturated once it's printed.
The Adjust tools sort that out quickly. Lift the shadows, cool the temperature, pull back the saturation, sharpen the detail. Starting from a Lumion preset and fine-tuning from there is usually faster than building a look from the default settings, and once you land on something worth keeping, you can save it as your own preset.
Give a project set one consistent look
A presentation is almost never a single image. It's a set, and when the views in that set don't match each other, the whole deck looks less considered than the design behind it.
Filters allow you to style one representative view first, save it as a preset or apply a LUT, then use that as the starting point for the rest. The intensity slider means a LUT doesn't have to go on at full strength, so the render underneath stays visible. Some views will still need small individual corrections, because their lighting and composition vary, but the look is already established.
Keep every alternative with the project
Deciding what to present usually takes a few rounds. You try a tighter crop, a warmer version, a different LUT, and you want to see them next to each other before choosing.
Saving an edit as a new Variation keeps that alternative under the current Version, which is what you want while you're still exploring.
Saving as a new Version moves the project forward once a treatment is ready to become the next stage.
Either way, the image stays attached to its comments, markups, and approval history rather than scattering across desktops and shared drives.
Post-Processing or AI Edits?
Post-Processing handles controlled changes to composition, lighting, color, and presentation style. You decide exactly what moves and by how much.
Exploring a genuinely different visual direction is a separate job, and that's what the AI Enhancer is for. Guided Mode works from predefined controls. Lock the elements that define the design, and move the time of day from morning to night without re-rendering. Expert Mode opens it up. Describe the direction you want in your own words and the enhancer works from that. Results come back next to the original and save into the project like any other edit.
Start refining in Lumion Cloud
If you render in Lumion, you already have Lumion Cloud. It's included with every plan. There's nothing to install, and your renders upload straight from Lumion Pro. Open an image, select Edit, and the Crop, Adjust, and Filters tools are there.
Post-Processing is one part of what Cloud does. The same project keeps your versions, comments, and approvals together, adds AI enhancement when you want to explore further, and turns a panorama into something a client can walk through in their browser.
New to Lumion?
Start a free Lumion Pro trial and Cloud comes with it, so you can render, refine, and share a project end to end before you decide.
For the full walkthrough, including every adjustment control and how Versions and Variations behave, read the support article: How do you use Post Processing Styles in Lumion Cloud?
