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Luminar 4
Sep 21, 2020 17:26:19 #
I just, about an hour ago, bought and downloaded Luminar 4. The download and everything went as it should. The program shows up under filters in PS 2020 and I was a happy camper. Opened my first photo for practice and clicked on Luminar 4 and it don't work. It looks as tho it might want to but then almost immediately it quits and does nothing. Doesn't even come up on the screen. Just like I had not clicked on it to begin with. Sooo, what did I do?
Sep 21, 2020 17:32:04 #
Sep 21, 2020 17:49:40 #
will47 wrote:
I just, about an hour ago, bought and downloaded Luminar 4. The download and everything went as it should. The program shows up under filters in PS 2020 and I was a happy camper. Opened my first photo for practice and clicked on Luminar 4 and it don't work. It looks as tho it might want to but then almost immediately it quits and does nothing. Doesn't even come up on the screen. Just like I had not clicked on it to begin with. Sooo, what did I do?
Have you tried starting Luminar stand alone, not as a plugin in Photoshop? Here are the steps I did to resolve the issue:
Please try reinstalling the plugin for Photoshop
From a clean boot of your system:
Make sure that Photoshop is not running.
Open Luminar. Find exe file and right click "Run as Administrator.
Click File > Install Plugins...
Click 'Uninstall' next to the Photoshop icon.
Restart your PC
Open Luminar.
Click File > Install Plugins...
Click 'Install' next to Photoshop.
Exit Luminar, start PS, load file, Luminar should start under Edit In:
You should also establish an account on https://community.skylum.com/
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Sep 21, 2020 17:59:02 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Have you tried starting Luminar stand alone, not a... (show quote)
I'm gonna try and see if I can do that. It seems to work as a stand alone. If I use it as a stand alone how do I get the photo into PS? It just seems that when I click on Luminar in the filter area it immediately quits.
Sep 21, 2020 18:10:05 #
Sep 21, 2020 18:15:45 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Have you tried starting Luminar stand alone, not a... (show quote)
I did set up an account with them and less that an hour later it said it didn't recognize it. So I had to go thru that again.
I got a message that said "something went wrong during installing plug ins. Please install them manually". How in the hell do I do that?
Sep 21, 2020 18:16:30 #
Toment wrote:
Email skyline, they’ll help
Good luck
Good luck
I can't find an email address or I would. Do you know it?
Sep 21, 2020 20:32:36 #
will47 wrote:
I just, about an hour ago, bought and downloaded Luminar 4. The download and everything went as it should. The program shows up under filters in PS 2020 and I was a happy camper. Opened my first photo for practice and clicked on Luminar 4 and it don't work. It looks as tho it might want to but then almost immediately it quits and does nothing. Doesn't even come up on the screen. Just like I had not clicked on it to begin with. Sooo, what did I do?
Oh boy that stinks. That is so frustrating.
Maybe a good place to start would be here:
https://skylum.com/support
Sep 22, 2020 07:44:37 #
Sep 22, 2020 12:07:15 #
I have the same problem. Skylum support is thin to nonexistent at this time. They claim it's because of the virus. I am using Luminar 4.3 as a stand alone program and hoping the next upgrade, whenever that happens, will fix the problem. I learned a long time ago to keep my clumsy fingers out of the registry 
Sep 22, 2020 12:30:20 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I have the same problem. Skylum support is thin to nonexistent at this time. They claim it's because of the virus. I am using Luminar 4.3 as a stand alone program and hoping the next upgrade, whenever that happens, will fix the problem. I learned a long time ago to keep my clumsy fingers out of the registry
So, in other words, a company that makes it's living designing computer programs hasn't figured out how to work at home? To me, that complete BS. I think there a ball lost in high grass.
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Sep 22, 2020 12:30:29 #
Luminar reliability is spotty, at best, and, as others have pointed out, support is weak. The main reason many users have purchased Luminar is for the sky replacement feature. Yesterday, I learned that Adobe will introduce sky replacement in the next edition of Photoshop (rumored for October), and Adobe is playing up that fact. It'll be interesting to see if Adobe is going to eliminate Luminar's main reason for existence.
Sep 22, 2020 12:32:35 #
DWU2 wrote:
Luminar reliability is spotty, at best, and, as others have pointed out, support is weak. The main reason many users have purchased Luminar is for the sky replacement feature. Yesterday, I learned that Adobe will introduce sky replacement in the next edition of Photoshop (rumored for October), and Adobe is playing up that fact. It'll be interesting to see if Adobe is going to eliminate Luminar's main reason for existence.
I oughta just send this back. I'm in the trial period and will get my money back. Of course Adobe will complicate much more that this one.
Sep 22, 2020 12:45:05 #
will47 wrote:
Of course Adobe will complicate much more that this one.
That's why I keep Luminar. It's better than I am at what it does. There is just so much to learn as long as Luminar continues to be better than I am I will continue complain about it, use it and Probably buy the update. If Adobe produces a better (read easier) way to do background replacement I'll drop Luminar in a heart beat.
Sep 22, 2020 15:57:26 #
DWU2 wrote:
Luminar reliability is spotty, at best, and, as others have pointed out, support is weak. The main reason many users have purchased Luminar is for the sky replacement feature. Yesterday, I learned that Adobe will introduce sky replacement in the next edition of Photoshop (rumored for October), and Adobe is playing up that fact. It'll be interesting to see if Adobe is going to eliminate Luminar's main reason for existence.
I saw the same thing yesterday with a link posted by Matt Kloskowski on his facebook page. This was one of the reasons that I was thinking about getting Luminar 4. The other was the face retouching. As a result I will not get Luminar 4 as I'm already a subscriber to Adobe CC and I can't justify spending the extra $. If Skylum has force Adobe to do this then that is great for us consumers. However, we can only hope that this doesn't force Skylum to go out of business. The more competition the bettor for us.
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