by AndyBell | September 3, 2020 | Luminar, Skylum Luminar, Software Reviews
Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a big fan of Luminar. I last reviewed it here. As a RAW editor it is second to none. But Luminar has gone through many incarnations, and recent versions have seen a very poor attempt to implement Digital Asset Management features. I say 'poor' because all that [...]Like this:
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by AndyBell | November 11, 2019 | Luminar, Luminar 4, Photo Software Reviews, RAW Conversion, Skylum Luminar
The folks at Skylum kindly granted me access to a beta version of Luminar 4. The release date is November 18th, so this is near to being the pre-release version. It certainly felt stable and fully featured. Even better, it supports Canon's CR3 files! Luminar 4 - What's New? Readers of this blog will know [...]Like this:
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by AndyBell | October 31, 2019 | Luminar, Photo Software Reviews
It’s been a while since I reviewed Luminar and there is an update due to be released on November 18th. Given that it is on pre-sale at a much reduced price, including a free SmugMug subscription, I thought I’d revisit it and see what the current version can do. What is Skylum Luminar? Luminar is [...]Like this:
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by AndyBell | October 25, 2019 | Photo Software Reviews, A.I. Gigapixel, DXO Photo Lab, Exposure X4, Luminar, Mirrorless, Photo Ninja, Products, RAW Conversion, Skylum Luminar, Topaz Sharpen AI
I recently reviewed DXO Photo Lab 3. DXO has been my equal favourite piece of photo software for some time now. Readers of this blog will know that DXO and Photo Ninja are my go to programs. If they can't do it then Affinity Photo, anything by Topaz Labs and a bit of Nik Viveza [...]Like this:
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by AndyBell | August 9, 2019 | Digital Files, DXO Photo Lab, Exposure X4, Luminar, Photo Ninja, Photo Software Reviews, RAW Conversion
Ok folks, it's that time again - time to test the latest RAW converters to see how they fare when presented with a challenging image. Since I last did this, I have moved away from Adobe products, so Lightroom/Camera Raw is not tested here. If you are happy with Adobe, then that's fine, they are [...]Like this:
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by AndyBell | November 3, 2018 | Luminar, Photo Software Reviews
Luminar 2018 has been updated with brand new features: AI Sky Enhancer Accent AI What are they? Here's what Skylum say about them: Luminar uses Artificial Intelligence to make the sky on your photos look incredible automatically and The Accent AI is a secret “weapon” of thousands of photographers. It analyzes your photos and applies [...]Like this:
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