Luminar for mac versus pc upgrade#
Luminar for mac versus pc full#
Luminar for mac versus pc software#
Luminar for mac versus pc series#

Luminar for mac versus pc full#

Considering none of the images were sharpened the presence of haloing will only worsen when sharpened in Lightroom.īut that was the speed development, what if we focus on a more full workflow and really try to make a more quality oriented development? If we go back and have a more detailed look at the speed developed images from the earlier section, the Lightroom version looks washed out and under-saturated overall, with certain areas over-saturated (lower right-corner), and produced a glow around the edges of the leafs looking over-sharpened, while Luminar produced a more balanced result that pops in colour without the edge glow around the leafs. So how does this affect the overall quality of an image you may ask? All this power means we can pull even more details out of our photos than possible with Lightroom alone. I had to back off each slider in the RAW develop filter by half or more to get a similar looking result to that of Lightroom. Luminar is at least twice as powerful as Lightroom when it comes to development filters.

Not only does Luminar blow Lightroom out of the waters when it comes to speed of development, thanks to its more targeted filters it is easier than ever to adjust parts of an image without sacrificing quality in other areas of the photo. I also sometimes save a Luminar file so I can go back and tweak edits later if I want to or, if I simply didn’t’ have time to finish the development. Once finished, I send the file back to Lightroom which will be imported as a 16-bit TIFF. I have Lightroom managing my library of photos and I send the RAW file from Lightroom to Luminar for processing. This is a combination of the first two and is the workflow I currently use. In this setup you use Luminar as your development platform and do all the image editing in there and once you finalise each image you can save a Luminar proprietary file to your hard disk, (if you want to be able to go back and tweak your edits later), and output a final image in JPEG or other format of choice depending of intended use. You can choose to use Luminar as a plug-in to Lightroom and have Lightroom as your main development platform, which means you do all your edits in Lightroom and send the developed photo to Luminar for finishing touches.

Luminar for mac versus pc software#

In the meanwhile you can mange your photo’s either by file structure or if you are on a Mac, in Apple Photos or in other software such as Lightroom and use that as your DAM to send your images for development to Luminar or vice versa.

Luminar for mac versus pc upgrade#

However, as stated before, Christmas comes early and on December 18th this year (2018), Skylum releases Luminar 3 with Libraries as a free upgrade to existing customers bringing their version of a supercharged DAM to Luminar. The lack of a Digital Asset Manager (DAM), solution may come as a shock seeing this is one major feature Lightroom thrives on.

Luminar for mac versus pc series#

Let’s address the elephant in the room right away, if you read the previous article in this series you already know there is zero library management in Luminar 2018. So does Luminar live up to its promises? Library management Skylum promises faster and better edits to your photos and that its software adapts to your style of working where most of us are probably familiar with having to work according to a certain set of steps, otherwise the software will grind to a halt and blow up. It is extremely important to have a good workflow that you are comfortable with and it should be the software that adapts to your work style and not the other way around, sorting that has been very doable for the last a decade or so.