Another Luminar Question: I appreciate the response to my initial question about Luminar. It looks attractive to me, but I do want to find out if it has a good capability handling RAW...

adamsg Loc: Chubbuck, ID

I appreciate the response to my initial question about Luminar. It looks attractive to me, but I do want to find out if it has a good capability handling RAW files. Your information will be appreciated.

a6k Loc: Detroit & Sanibel

In my experience it has excellent capability with Sony raw files. I'm pleased with it but I'm testing Affinity now and it's worth trying it free for 10 days. I find the interface more complex and a bit weird but it's faster and has a ton of features.

ejrmaine Loc: South Carolina

I've been doing teaching workshops using Luminar. Students are using a variety of Camera makes and models and so far, nobody has had a problem with Luminar reading their RAW images.

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

I'm a Canon user and Luminar works wonderfully with Canon raw files. Very pleased with post processing results.

bouchs1

I've been playing around with the new Luminar Jupiter release. It looks impressive to me. I've been using Photoshop and Lightroom for years and have recently started using Affinity Photo too. I just love the fact that there are so many awesome tools available. I emailed their customer support with a few questions and they gave me a coupon code to use at checkout for 10% off. Pretty sure it will work for anyone. Feel free to give it a try if you want. Just enter BOUCHER at checkout. Good luck.

CaptainPhoto

I have Luminar but I think ON1-RAW is going to beat it. It's going to replace Lightroom on my computer if Adobe doesn't stop changing its programing. Firsts it's CC then it's Classic - then they want you to store your photos in their cloud, just so they can charge your more. ON1-RAW is running a special - the one time fee of $69.00 for the program and lots of other video and ebooks. Worth taking a look at.

ltj123 Loc: NW Wisconsin

I've got Luminar for Windows. Worked really good until last week when I did upgrade to Luminar 2018, after that could not export updated photos. That being said their Tech Team is working problem currently so believe will be resolved soon....Latest provided my system information (Win 10 Pro, etc etc)

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

wds0410 wrote:

I'm a Canon user and Luminar works wonderfully with Canon raw files. Very pleased with post processing results.

I should add that I use Luminar on Mac which doesn't seem to have the problems running on Windows does.

bob4pix Loc: Iowa now

I own Luminar now and find myself using it more and more. Presently however, I start in PS (ACR), then open to Luminar from PS. To me it does a beautiful job but seems somewhat slow (L18) but not all that frustrating so far. iMac late 2014 5K ret display 27”,4 GHz Intel Core i7, Ram 32GB.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

adamsg wrote:

I appreciate the response to my initial question about Luminar. It looks attractive to me, but I do want to find out if it has a good capability handling RAW files. Your information will be appreciated.

I have not had any issue's with Luminar to this point, but I also have not used it extensively yet either. I use a Nikon D800 and it works fine with those RAW files. I use it on a WIN 10 Pro PC, Intel i7processor, 64GB Ram, Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB SSD for my C:drive with the OS on it, and with two 4TB WD HDD for storage.

ltj123 Loc: NW Wisconsin

Vince68 wrote:

I have not had any issue's with Luminar to this point, but I also have not used it extensively yet either. I use a Nikon D800 and it works fine with those RAW files. I use it on a WIN 10 Pro PC, Intel i7processor, 64GB Ram, Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB SSD for my C:drive with the OS on it, and with two 4TB WD HDD for storage.

have you done update to Luminar 2018? Only issue I have is with Export of updated RAW or JPEG photos. Otherwise works just fine. I

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

ltj123 wrote:

have you done update to Luminar 2018? Only issue I have is with Export of updated RAW or JPEG photos. Otherwise works just fine. I

No, I have not updated yet to the newest version. Had some personal issue's going on and have not had the time. Was going to update this week. Did you have a problem with the latest update?

The issue you are referring to, is that from the January update or the recent Jupiter update in April 2018? Been reading on the Luminar "community" website, seems lots of issues where the update didn't work, neither the old version or new version works and Luminar is crashing too.

I did the January update, but not the newest one. I may not do it now as I had said I was going to. Will wait to see what Luminar techs come up with.

ltj123 Loc: NW Wisconsin

The April update is my issue with Exporting updated photos. If I were you I'd wait on update

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

ltj123 wrote:

The April update is my issue with Exporting updated photos. If I were you I'd wait on update

Okay, thanks ltj, that's what I will do.

TBerwick Loc: Houston, Texas

I just purchased Luminaries and am pleased with it's handling of Nikon raw files. Just applying the Raw file tool immediately gives me an image superior to the simultaneous JPG the camera creates.