kdogg
Loc: Gallipolis Ferry WV
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tomad wrote:
I have found some of the Youtube videos not helpful as most are done using the Mac version so that they cannot be followed in the Windows version due to differences or missing functions.
https://macphun.com/bloghttps://nicolesyblog.com/.
I have Lightroom 6 and have added Luminar and Aurora (with the educator's discount), all on Win10. One drawback to the latter 2 is that you only process/work on 1 photo at a time. Once you export/save, the programs close. If you are working in LR this isn't such a big deal, since you can open a file's worth of photos there and then click the command to open either of the Skylum programs. I find the presets in those programs to be easier to work with (the picture of the transformed image is larger) and Luminar offers a broader set of post processing commands. Overall, I find myself using them more and more. But since you're not starting from LR, as others have noted, you may want to wait until Skylum provides further updates to its Windows version of Luminar.
As per their site, you can batch process images.
https://skylum.com/luminar/user-manual/2018/mac/batch-processing-photos**If you have several images from one photo shoot, you can often save time by applying the same develop settings to multiple photos. This is particular helpful to those who should events, sports, and other types of photography where a lot of images are shot under similar conditions. The Batch Processing feature is very versatile and contains many options that you can conveniently apply to a large set of images.**
Unfortunately, that's only for the Mac version. I only wish it applied to Windows
ltj123 wrote:
I'm just starting to think processing in RAW and have no investment in Adobe, etc. After reading some reviews seems Luminar might be a good option, noting some discussion in past but with MAC platform. So wondering if anyone using Luminar on Windows platform and how's it working (fairly new to Microsoft Windows), I have Windows 10 Pro.
Larry J
I have and run Luminar 2018 on windows and it works fine for me. All tools are not available yet but are supposed to be coming to get it up to date with the MAC version. I also have "ON1 Photo RAWb 2018.1" and I find it to be better and with far more capabilities. It now, with version 2018.1, even has thering capabilities if you use a Nikon or Canon camera. It costs a little more but if I was only going to get one of them I would recommend the "ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1".
jamesl wrote:
I have and run Luminar 2018 on windows and it works fine for me. All tools are not available yet but are supposed to be coming to get it up to date with the MAC version. I also have "ON1 Photo RAWb 2018.1" and I find it to be better and with far more capabilities. It now, with version 2018.1, even has thering capabilities if you use a Nikon or Canon camera. It costs a little more but if I was only going to get one of them I would recommend the "ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1".
The PC Version crashed twice. It took about twice the time to export a JPEG file. There were things I liked, but right now I have the 120 dollars set for back up hard drive and micro extensions. If I did not own Luminar, and was testing both, I would give ON1 more time.
BruceLR
Loc: Shoreline (Seattle), WA
I've been disappointed with Luminar on the Windows platform. It's not up to the standard you see on all of the tutorials done on the Mac system. I've used Affinity and ON1 and like them both. Having said that, PS and Lr are hard to beat and they keep improving, too. I will not be cx my subscription any time soon.
I have used Lumunar on my Windows 10 PC, it is very good but it is a huge memory hogger so make sure you have a lot of RAM available.
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