Luminar Vs. Lightroom: Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or...

brando2d Loc: Marion, NC

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or Lightroom or a combination of both. I didn't include Photoshop because to me that is pretty much a given ;) Thank you for your opinions on the subject

tomcat

brando2d wrote:

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or Lightroom or a combination of both. I didn't include Photoshop because to me that is pretty much a given ;) Thank you for your opinions on the subject

Lately I have really become disenchanted with LR. The last upgrade 3 days ago destroyed about 90% of my catalog and the folders are missing. Adobe has no clue or admissible guilt. I was a LR user since version 1 beta, back 10-12 years or so ago.

I am slowly migrating to Topaz Studio and thus keeping up my own system of file folders. I am curious to know if anyone has tried their new batch processing that was announced yesterday. It seems cumbersome, but learnable. Overall Topaz is a whole lot like LR with the slider methodology.

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

brando2d wrote:

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or Lightroom or a combination of both. I didn't include Photoshop because to me that is pretty much a given ;) Thank you for your opinions on the subject

https://fstoppers.com/apps/fstoppers-reviews-macphuns-luminar-2018-image-editor-207064

I have no need to use an image editor that can only do one image at a time and uses a ton of ram and has no asset management. That's why I use Lightroom, and manage a catalog of over 200,000 images, and Photoshop to do all sorts of graphics tasks, including fashion-industry retouches on head shots (for a fellow photographer), and photo restoration and other things that neither Luminar nor Lightroom can do at all.

I also use On1, Capture One, DXO PhotoLab, Photomatix, Hugin, Helicon Focus, etc etc etc. because no one package can do everything I need it to do.

And you can forget about the concept of consensus on this topic - everyone is likely to come out of the woodwork with their view of what constitutes good editing software.

Vietnam Vet

I use LR 5 and love it

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Gene51 wrote:

I also use On1, Capture One, DXO PhotoLab, Photomatix, Hugin, Helicon Focus, etc etc etc. because no one package can do everything I need it to do.

And you can forget about the concept of consensus on this topic - everyone is likely to come out of the woodwork with their view of what constitutes good editing software.

Gene hits it, as usual. I use Lightroom and Photoshop, but I also have Topaz and GIMP. Personally, I think Lightroom is both the most intuitive and capable for the type of photos I shoot. But opinions on this are like belly buttons - everyone has one.

Andy

LarryFitz Loc: Beacon NY

I take picture for my own enjoyment. I have my own file management system, so I do not need that feature. I presently use Luminar for most of the work. ICE for stitching, GIMP if I need to do more. Since I am not locked into someone else file management, I can move to another package without problems if I desire.

File management locks you in. If I ran a business, I might change some things.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I find myself using ON1 18.5 more and more. I’m using it as a plug-in to LR simply because I already have a catalog set up, but it also works well as a stand-alone and has its own cataloging system. I also have Luminar, But I prefer ON1.

Maik723

Good topic. I am on the verge of buying Luminar. Currently using LR5, Photoshop Element 9, various Topaz and Affinity. Either way,,,,,,,I always start out in LR and end in LR for printing.

Maik723

Good topic. I am on the verge of buying Luminar. Currently using LR5, Photoshop Element 9, various Topaz and Affinity. Either way,,,,,,,I always start out in LR and end in LR for printing.

LCD

I've only used Lightroom, Lightroom Elements and ACDSee. Every time someone posts about photo editors I'm surprised at the plethora of other editors their are out there. But considering the time I've put into learning LR tricks and shortcuts I'm reluctant to learn another.

achesley Loc: SW Louisiana

Been with LR since 4 I think. Tried a few others but I was kinda spoiled to LR so went with CC Classic finally. But do use Faststone Image viewer for minor stuff as I have it for default jpeg and cr2.

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

brando2d wrote:

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or Lightroom or a combination of both. I didn't include Photoshop because to me that is pretty much a given ;) Thank you for your opinions on the subject

Never used Lightroom so can't comment on that. I don't have 200,000 images to manage so I'm not interested in LR for that purpose plus I absolutely hate the monthly subscription plan and I am not a big fan of Adobe software.

I'm an amateur. I take maybe 500-1000 images a year (more of a sniper type shooter than a machine gunner). I'm a Mac user so Photos works fine for managing my images along with the Mac OS. Luminar was originally designed for the Mac so it works beautifully in that environment. I've heard people have had issues on the PC platform (my guess its Windows that causes the problem but who really knows).

Of the 500-1000 images I take, 100 to 300 get processed, all one by one but I believe that Luminar does have some batch processing capabilities. The other photos that don't get processed just get trashed.

For what I do, Luminar works fine for me. Luminar is supposedly coming out with Digital Asset Management ability this year.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

LR 5.7, PSE 14, Photomatix for HDR, ON1 Photo Raw 2018.5.1 more and more even tho I’m finding myself increasingly annoyed with their constant marketing of training and plug-in packages. I tried Luminar when it was first introduced for W10 but didn’t enjoy being a “beta tester.”

tomad Loc: North Carolina

Gene51 wrote:

https://fstoppers.com/apps/fstoppers-reviews-macph... (show quote)

I like Luminar for the exact reasons Gene doesn't like it. I organize my own photos with an easy to use folder structure duplicated on two external drives. I hate dealing with programs that have catalogs. I copy images from a session on the camera memory card to the "originals" folder structure on my 1st external drive. View and delete the ones I don't want with Windows photo viewer or from that same viewer open the ones I like in luminar for editing. I save/export the edited image to the "edited" folder structure and move on the the next delete or edit in Windows photo viewer; a simple linear process.

I want to quickly open an single image, edit it, save and export to a folder on my 1st external hard drive and at the end of an edit session run a copy script that copies any new/changed files to my 2nd external hard drive. I tried Capture 1 (editor) and really wanted to like it but the forced use of importing into a catalog or session was just frustrating for me.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

brando2d wrote:

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. I would like to get a general census on what you like to use for photo editing. Do you prefer Luminar or Lightroom or a combination of both. I didn't include Photoshop because to me that is pretty much a given ;) Thank you for your opinions on the subject

I use Lightroom first and Luminar as a plug-in. In some cases, it's been most notably landscapes, Luminar does a better job than I can achieve in LR. I like the Skylum software, good algorithms.