New Photo Editing Software: I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released, and was initially very impressed. The upgrades from Luminar 3 are amazing. In particular, the sky...

DrSteve2 Loc: Londonderry, PA USA

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released, and was initially very impressed. The upgrades from Luminar 3 are amazing. In particular, the sky backgrounds are stunning. The attached photo was generated simply by adding one of the sky backgrounds to my pic of a P51 Mustang. The pic was taken at noon under an overcast sky during a recent air show at Dover AFB.

Having said that, it should be noted that Luminar 4 started to crash within two weeks of install on my MacBook Pro. Now, the program crashes on launch every time I try start it. I've reached out to Skylum, the developer, but have not heard back. There are several comments on the developers Community Board complaining about this very issue.

Once Skylum creates a fix for this issue I believe they will have a great product to offer photographers. In the meantime I will go back to Luminar 3.

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

That sucks. I just subscribed to PS and LR.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Bob Mevis wrote:

That sucks. I just subscribed to PS and LR.

You'll be happy with your choice once you start using it. No one needs unstable software in their life. . . especially when the company is unresponsive. BTW, sky replacement is pretty standard these days and not that hard to do.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

No. With a lot of the processing software comparing themselves to PS and LR, which would be the standard?
--Bob

Bob Mevis wrote:

That sucks. I just subscribed to PS and LR.

jerseymike

DrSteve2 wrote:

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released... (show quote)

Do you think a total delete and reinstall would be of any help?? You have your license key.

davidp

Gene51 wrote:

You'll be happy with your choice once you start using it. No one needs unstable software in their life. . . especially when the company is unresponsive. BTW, sky replacement is pretty standard these days and not that hard to do.

Does any other software have the option of inserting other backgrounds?

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

DrSteve2 wrote:

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released... (show quote)

Sorry for this misfortune. I suffered a ton of crashes with Luminar 3 which has caused me to seek other software for Data Management. Skylum gave me Luminar Flex to placate me which is rock solid as far as I can tell. I'm thinking of getting LR since Luminar Flex acts as a plug-in for it but that $10/month forever still bugs me. Skylum development team needs to step up their game to stay relevant.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

DrSteve2 wrote:

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released... (show quote)

I tried the Luminar 4 trial on my Windows 10 machine, It initially seemed stable and responsive, but after a couple of days it staring crashing almost every time I ran it. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. The same thing happened. It worked for a while and started crashing again. Finally tried it one more time and it seemed okay for around an hour, and then crashed again. This last time it took Windows 10 with it. and I was left with an unresponsive black screen. I was an early adopter of Windows 10 and this was the very first time the operating system was locked up by anything. I could only reboot my desktop by using the power button. After I rebooted the first thing I did was to uninstall Luminar 4. Anything that can lock up my very stable and up-to-date environment is not ready for prime time.

Roostertail

I have luminar 3 and four with no issues. It's running on an i5 desktop with a 500 gig ssd and 16 gb of ram. A standard dell graphics card works ok with it.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

DrSteve2 wrote:

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released... (show quote)

Usually a sky is behind a plane and not in front of it!

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

DrSteve2 wrote:

I purchased Luminar 4, which was recently released... (show quote)

It appears that the sky is being at least partially projected over your airplane rather than behind it. There are clearly several stars visible on the side of the fuselage and the pilot's head. Can you reattach your photo, and this time click on store original before you attach it so we can see it at full resolution?

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

speters wrote:

Usually a sky is behind a plane and not in front of it!

gilpog

I had the same issue with Luminar 4 crashing as a standalone. I managed to load it as plug-in into Affinity Photo. No problems since.

Bunkershot Loc: Central Florida

wds0410 wrote:

Sorry for this misfortune. I suffered a ton of crashes with Luminar 3 which has caused me to seek other software for Data Management. Skylum gave me Luminar Flex to placate me which is rock solid as far as I can tell. I'm thinking of getting LR since Luminar Flex acts as a plug-in for it but that $10/month forever still bugs me. Skylum development team needs to step up their game to stay relevant.

That $10 per month is the best bargain out there. And, always up to date...

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

Bunkershot wrote:

That $10 per month is the best bargain out there. And, always up to date...

Thanks. That's the way I'm leaning.