Luminar 2018 will give you results after a short term of practise with the program especially if you’re happy with the results of the built-in presets, but there are some missing features: We have to see how the DAM is implemented in the system and for sure there will be a need for importing images first. The digital asset management were Luminar 2018 likes to score with is a plan only, even though the company aleady provides screenshots for the upcoming modul. There is a third party tool to convert the Lightroom presets to a LUT file to be used in Luminar 2018. If you’re used to work with presets a lot in Lightroom, now you can use LUT files. Luminar 2018 can load those cube files and apply the settings to the image. LUT are mostly known in video processing, adjusting a video clip in color and contrast. Just like Auora HDR 2018 Luminar 2018 offers layers, where you add a layer and for example seletivly apply changes just on a part of the image. Those settings with a ruler there was like 1 sec delay even on a Ryzen 8-core CPU until the result is displayed in the preview window. While applying a graduated filter i couldn’t tell a dfifference but using a correction filter for Dodge and Burn for example i found this tool being a little faster compared to Lightroom Classic. There a couple of new filters like the new AI filter which offer a quick devlopment of the main parameters and gives good results in most cases. On the right side you’ll the filter panel for all kind of image manipulation, like contrast,saturation,claritiy,exposure and so on. If you like presets for image processing here you find a lot of them and just like in Aurora HDR 2018 you can define the opacity of the preset. ( PresetsĪfter loading an image Luminar 2018 presents a gui almost like nAurora HDR 2018 with a lot of presets for developing your images.
and i always have to click to get a full display.
Loading a RAW file is quite slow, a 25 MB RAW file from my Canon 5D MK II takes arround 12sec. Appearance and displaying the main elements are pretty much the same in both programs. I didn’t measure the time needed for the programm to start, but after the start of the program or the open dialog you aks yourself right away if you started Aurora HDR 2018.
WindowsĪfter download the installation on a Windows 10 system works out without any problems and you can, even Luminar is a standalone raw converter, install plugins to use the program from within Lightroom or Photoshop.
This could have benn supported by the companies website:Īfter the final release of the 2018 version a DAM modul is planed as a free update some time in 2018. Until the official release the program can be perordered at a reduced price.īecause of the latest changes in Adobe’s Lightroom CC und Lightroom Classic software according to Macphum a lot of people asked for a DAM module mainly to substitute Lightroom. Luminar 2018 is a raw converter and announced for release on thursday and this time the program will be available for Windows systems for the first time just like recently released Aurora HDR 2018. This post will help to judge where Luminar 2018 wil sort in. FB Export, Instagram, Twitter etc.Luminar 2018 is annouced to be released on thursday and the program already is titled as a Lightroom alternative or even as challenger. In the popup dialog box, choose all your Export presets eg. You can simple select the image(s) and right click to choose Export. You can now!! Well since Lightroom Classic v9.0 or November 2019 release. However you’d still need to do these exports ONE-by-ONE!! You could not select one or more images and tell Lightroom to export them all for Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Facebook – image size optimised for Facebook.