One question only about Luminar: Hogs, I have been following a "spate" of comments on PP software and do not intend for this to be a duplicate. My only question is

photodoc16

Hogs,
I have been following a "spate" of comments on PP software and do not intend for this to be a duplicate. My only question is -
Is Luminar ready for prime time on a PC or not?
Thanks to whoever has an opinion from their experience.
Photodoc16

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

photodoc16 wrote:

Hogs,
I have been following a "spate" of comments on PP software and do not intend for this to be a duplicate. My only question is -
Is Luminar ready for prime time on a PC or not?
Thanks to whoever has an opinion from their experience.
Photodoc16

I don't know about a PC, but it is prime time on a MAC.

Yankeepapa6 Loc: New York City

photodoc16 wrote:

Hogs,
I have been following a "spate" of comments on PP software and do not intend for this to be a duplicate. My only question is -
Is Luminar ready for prime time on a PC or not?
Thanks to whoever has an opinion from their experience.
Photodoc16

I think they have stated that it is a work in process for PC adaptation. I'm sure it will happen. That is too big a market to let slip away.

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

It is working for me on my PC, Somewhat fast and very happy with it.

Yankeepapa6 Loc: New York City

HOT Texas wrote:

It is working for me on my PC, Somewhat fast and very happy with it.

Good. My understanding is you are in the minority.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Initiially, it didn't run well. However, with the latest updates, Luminar works fine on my PC - as a standalone program and as a Photoshop plug-in. BTW, I really like this program. It's inexpensive and very powerful.

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I used the free trail version on my PC which has an SSD installed with the maximum ram of 16gb, it boots up in 25-30 secs and runs very fast.
When using Luminar it gobbled up my RAM by 65-70 % and slowed my PC down to a crawl, loading a photograph took 35-40 secs and saving took even longer. On my regular PP software these processes are virtually instant and it only uses 30% RAM.
I will not be installing Luminar.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

I bought Luminar, I learned using it and one week later I was requesting a refund of my money.
Luminar was painfully slow in my computer to open RAW files and to save them. I did not believe Macphun had all issues with Luminar solved when they introduced it.

westjl2 Loc: Calgary, Alberta

I would hesitate to recommend luminar for PC at this point. As others have stated it is definitely a memory hog. Even on my iMac with 8 GB of RAM it was painfully slow. I also have an iMac with 16 GB of RAM and it works fine. I tried this program on my Microsoft surface with 4 GB of RAM and it was impossible. I doubt that 8GB of RAM on a PC would be enough. Plus a number features are not in the PC version which are already in the Mac version. Personally I think this PC version should’ve never been released.

bigwolf40 Loc: Effort, Pa.

I use it on my PC and I like it. No problems so far....Rich

photodoc16

Thank you all for your input. Sounds like it could be a very frustrating experience and a monster headache in spite of the capabilities of this software. You might be interested to know that some of their filter and "effects" software such as FX Studio CK, Snapheal CK and Tonality CK are being considered for the PC market also. I have seen images using these programs and they were very impressive. Don't hold your breath.
Photodoc16

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

photodoc16 wrote:

Hogs,
I have been following a "spate" of comments on PP software and do not intend for this to be a duplicate. My only question is -
Is Luminar ready for prime time on a PC or not?
Thanks to whoever has an opinion from their experience.
Photodoc16

Working well for me in my ASUS Laptop

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

photodoc16 wrote:

Thank you all for your input. Sounds like it could be a very frustrating experience and a monster headache in spite of the capabilities of this software. You might be interested to know that some of their filter and "effects" software such as FX Studio CK, Snapheal CK and Tonality CK are being considered for the PC market also. I have seen images using these programs and they were very impressive. Don't hold your breath.
Photodoc16

No, it is not a frustrating experience and a monster headache.

photodoc16

HotTexas,
Tell me more. Have you had any problems on a PC with loading, having too much memory used up, performance in general, etc?
Would you advise anyone with a PC to buy it?
Thanks,
Photodoc16

Jrhoffman75 Loc: Conway, New Hampshire

A 22MB Canon .cr2 RAW file loads in 5 seconds. I applied a randomly chosen LUT and it exported a TIFF in about 15 seconds. Memory use was 5% of 32GB installed RAM.