Want to select and learn a new photo editor
Sep 15, 2020 20:34:30 #
Maybe you're using jpeg? If you make edits to the raw file, export as a .tiff, and at any time go back to the raw file in the catalog click edit and click on the history button NOT Destructive.
Sep 15, 2020 20:44:05 #
CTTonymm
Loc: Connecticut
JBA wrote:
For some years now my wife and I (both in our 80s)... (show quote)
Strong recommendation you try ON1 Photo Raw. I migrated to them several years ago after enjoying Lightroom and using Photoshop up to CS6 for years. Just found I could do all I wanted in ON1 and they kept improving every year on presets, auto beginnings which cut down the work and time to tweak -although I can still tweak to my heart’s content for layer fine tuning, etc. I’m 82 and still learning and growing.
Sep 15, 2020 20:56:07 #
Ysarex
Loc: St. Louis
tfitch wrote:
"Luminar is a destructive editor that won't allow me to re-edit or tweak the processing done to an image without trashing work I've already finished and don't want to do over."
I believe once a photo has been edited in Luminar in a Library, you can go back to it in Library and continue your editing with your prior edits being available.
I believe once a photo has been edited in Luminar in a Library, you can go back to it in Library and continue your editing with your prior edits being available.
Only partially. You can continue to edit the image but depending on what specifically you've already done you may not be able to tweak your existing work. Which is really bad design and completely sucks.
For example use Luminar's masking ability to create a gradient mask on an image. With that gradient mask in place make a change like darken the area under the gradient. Close that task and go do something else. Oops I think the gradient needs a slight rotation. Go back then to that gradient and rotate the entire gradient a few degrees counter-clockwise. I can give you a list of 1/2 a dozen apps that will let you do that. Luminar won't.
Need another example -- Set and image's white balance and basic tone. Then access Luminar's tools to correct keystoning. Make an adjustment to vertical keystoning and finish that job. Now access Luminar's clone/healing tools and erase some distracting spots in the image. Now go back and re-adjust the vertical keystoning making the change a little less aggressive. Expect that change to update to the cloning/healing work you did as it would in LR or C1 -- screwed by Skylum.
Or decide the white balance you set needs a tweak and go back and add 300 degrees to the temp value. Expect that change to update to the cloning/healing work you did as it would in all the competitor's apps -- screwed by Skylum.
tfitch wrote:
If you export the photo from Luminar the edits you made are locked into the exported photo. If you want to reedit the exported file, it is the same as starting with a new photo - your prior edits are not available. At least that is my experience.
Tom
Tom
Sep 15, 2020 21:00:45 #
Sep 15, 2020 21:00:46 #
Ysarex
Loc: St. Louis
bleirer wrote:
I see what you mean. Those are all Photoshop tasks for me so i never missed them or looked for them. I wouldn't attempt any of them in lightroom either because every keeper gets a run through Photoshop anyway. Maybe I'm just used to it but i find Photoshop much easier for anything involving selections or masks or cloning or healing or targeted color or....
That's fine -- a lot of people are comfortable with that and it's worked well for all of us for a long time. What happens when you split your work between apps is that it can be difficult or impossible to go back to the beginning of the process and effect a change and expect that to update through to the end. You can wind up with work to re-do. No big deal for an enthusiast but very bad for a Pro who may be handling large volumes of images.
Sep 15, 2020 21:13:29 #
Ysarex
Loc: St. Louis
VABob wrote:
Maybe you're using jpeg? If you make edits to the raw file, export as a .tiff, and at any time go back to the raw file in the catalog click edit and click on the history button NOT Destructive.
I think this is addressed to me. I noted how Luminar's workflow using raw files is destructive. It is. See this response to tfitch: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-664608-5.html#11574674
Sep 15, 2020 21:44:59 #
Sep 15, 2020 23:05:44 #
I travel a lot with my work. What post processing software would you suggest for use on an Apple iPad?
Sep 16, 2020 12:18:33 #
Can't you just "save a copy" and work on that without touching the original file?
Sep 16, 2020 12:22:17 #
Sep 16, 2020 12:28:22 #
drjuice wrote:
You might want to take a look at FastStone's Image... (show quote)
I'm a proponent of minimum processing. However, there are times which some mininum processing is necessary. I like FastStone for shadow an/or highlight tweaking. Speaking of large JPG files, it has a nice compression option. AND it's free, really!
Alan
Sep 16, 2020 14:58:56 #
VABob wrote:
I was an Apple Aperture user for its entire life span, over 15 years, <snip>....
I resemble that remark however in June of 2014 after evaluation of multiple other softwares I moved to Adobe. I haven’t looked back. However I still miss Aperture‘s database sort functions, there is to date no equivalent that I have found. RIP.
Sep 16, 2020 16:30:18 #
Sep 16, 2020 16:33:31 #
Nalu wrote:
Bite the bullet. Photoshop, NIK collection, and Topaz DeNoise.
Ah, yes $$$$$$$$$$
Sep 16, 2020 17:20:34 #
Toment wrote:
Bite the bullet. Photoshop, NIK collection, and Topaz DeNoise.
Ah, yes $$$$$$$$$$
Ah, yes $$$$$$$$$$
Photoshop 120/yr + Nik 99 + Topaz DeNoise 80 = 299 first year And 120/yr after.
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