Just installed the Luminar 3 update to 3.1.1.
I haven't tried anything with it yet... but it sure does open quickly!
Barry
It's certainly a affordable alternative to other software but in my experience, it's very slow to compute and simple edits are a bit clumsy but it does work and allow you to work with your RAW files. You'll like being able to sample your photographed gray card to get proper WB. You can also edit one picture in a set and syc the others to it (as they were shot with the same lighting and exposure) so edits will be done faster (all cropping is not syc'ed). The latest update is nice for some but I find it annoying as you cannot save your working files where you want but instead it saves all edits to the Luminar Catalog in the computers picture folder. If you remove the file from it's original location, it cannot retain the link to the catalog so your edits end up lost. I find this very annoying as I've always saved my RAW and working files to one external HD and my low res online jpgs and high res jpgs to another external HD. I only kept very low res jpgs on my computer for uploading that way all these huge files are not filling up all the space on my home HD. I was bringing in the files with Nikon Transfer to relabel them and pull edits on my home HD. The only answer I can see to make this work is to create a new catalog file on my RAW external HD, moving my files there to do edits so they are in the same place. Opening them will be slower unless I get a big SSD. I off load files to back up to annual external HD's but maybe the answer is in using the external RAW and catalog HD as a BU drive when nearly full and drop in another and link a new catalog file to it. So many giant files!
PS - I do use Light room and Photoshop as well and you guessed it, they use catalogs too.
I was unable to download the latest update. Computer support was inadequate and, despite liking the program (especially the AI filters), I abandoned the program. I did so with regret.
I updated last night, but really didn't have the time to do more than browse around for a minute. I was disappointed that they still don't have RAW conversion for Canon's .cr3 files. Seems other companies are slow on the draw with that too.
bbrowner wrote:
Just installed the Luminar 3 update to 3.1.1.
I haven't tried anything with it yet... but it sure does open quickly!
Barry
Couldn't get it to work on my computer. You better try it out before you write here telling us anything about it. Same for a friend of mine. He couldn't get it to work either.
Installed 3.1.1 on my MacBook Pro (Mac OS 10.14.5). Works great. Faster launch. Great speed when adjusting photo. Happy with this update.
jeep_daddy wrote:
Couldn't get it to work on my computer. You better try it out before you write here telling us anything about it. Same for a friend of mine. He couldn't get it to work either.
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I downloaded and installed Luminar 3.1.1 and works well on my windows machine running Windows 8.1. I am noticing an increase in speed too with this new release.
I have Luminar but don’t use it all the time. Has there been any mention of if/when they might get a watermarking capability as easy as LR?
fotobyferg wrote:
I have Luminar but don’t use it all the time. Has there been any mention of if/when they might get a watermarking capability as easy as LR?
Here is a link to their roadmap of future plans.
https://skylum.com/luminar/roadmapYou may have to sign into your account to review this.
Happy shooting
jamesl wrote:
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I downloaded and installed Luminar 3.1.1 and works well on my windows machine running Windows 8.1. I am noticing an increase in speed too with this new release.
Ok, I'm thinking now that it's a problem on computers with Windows 10. Both me and my friend have Win 10 and it doesn't work. I've heard that it is working well on Macs too. Maybe Win 8 is fine too.
I downloaded the software and it works fine on my Windows 10 computer. Version is showing 3.3.1.1 so they may have an update from 3.3.1 out there. It is fast!
peterg wrote:
Installed 3.1.1 on my MacBook Pro (Mac OS 10.14.5). Works great. Faster launch. Great speed when adjusting photo. Happy with this update.
Since you're on a Mac, with a file open, try doing a FILE > CLOSE. The program will shut down ie. (QUIT). Product support tells me that is the way it is for now. What a response! It's done this since the original release of version 3.
jeep_daddy wrote:
Ok, I'm thinking now that it's a problem on computers with Windows 10. Both me and my friend have Win 10 and it doesn't work. I've heard that it is working well on Macs too. Maybe Win 8 is fine too.
It doesn't work on my Mac computer either.
dwermske wrote:
Since you're on a Mac, with a file open, try doing a FILE > CLOSE. The program will shut down ie. (QUIT). Product support tells me that is the way it is for now. What a response! It's done this since the original release of version 3.
Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure why that's a major thing. If you want to edit another photo without Luminar closing, choose File > Open Images for Quick Edit (Cmd-O).
Lightroom had a similar "feature", which quit the app when a photo was closed. They finally fixed it a few months ago.
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