![]() ![]() ![]() There has unfortunately been a lot of sensational headlines and articles on this, claiming it is a Lightroom killer, when it clearly isn’t at this point. I think it’s important to point out what’s not included so people have their expectations set accordingly. It’s just that expectations were very high for this based on the comments I’ve been receiving from readers over the past few months. If this seems like I’m being overly negative on it, that’s not my intention. Oh, and exporting images is painfully slow at this point (see the embedded video) There’s no way to manually correct additional fringing. Chromatic aberration correction is still limited to the automatic function, which in some cases doesn’t work very well. There’s no way to assign presets on import. There’s no way to set defaults for an image other than the camera profile. For some this won’t be an issue, but for others it will seriously limit the usefulness of the software.īut wait, there’s more…that’s not included. But these don’t seem to sync with other applications, so they’re only useful within Luminar. You have a star rating, a colour label and a flag (in the form of a heart). This also means that you can’t search other than by date or basic flagging and ratings, which is the only real metadata that is supported. There is no description or captions, and forget about IPTC or anything else like that. There’s no syncing of metadata in either direction as of yet. If you’re loading images that you rated in another application, it won’t see the ratings. There’s also no real metadata support as of yet, other than some basic embedded exif info. They need to implement a proper preview system like other applications. It’s just messy, and needs more work on the part of the engineers. It’s a bit annoying, but it’s not the end of the world. ![]() The preview can also change colours, again, because it’s not a proper generated preview. For example, if you have distortion correction applied, those corrections are only applied after the image fully loads, so the image will change after you start editing. It can be a bit jarring too, depending on the file. On my somewhat old Mac Pro (2012) with a hard drive, it can take 10 - 15 seconds for the entire process, but images are generally editable after three to four seconds. The length of time this takes depends on the size of the raw file, and how fast your computer, hard drive is etc. Then finally the full resolution image loads. ![]() Then a second, cached or lower resolution preview loads, and at this point you can start editing. At first, the embedded preview is displayed while the RAW file loads. If you’re working on a Jpeg file, this is pretty fast, but if you’re working with a RAW file, it can be a little slow. When you switch to the edit interface, the software loads the image and you can start editing. You can copy and paste edits between images, and you can sync edits across lost of images, but even this doesn’t seem to properly regenerate the thumbnails. It only generates new thumbnails if you edit an image, meaning what you see in the catalogue view often doesn’t accurately reflect what the image looks like, unless you’ve edited it. By comparison, in Lightroom, if you have it set to generate previews on import, once the previews generate, the thumbnails will switch to colour, and accurately reflect what the RAW file will look like, but this doesn’t happen in Luminar. Once you load the RAW file by switching to the edit tab, it will switch to colour, but that’s the only way. So, for example, if you had shot black and white in camera, the thumbnails will be black and white. It does not regenerate them from the RAW files, like Lightroom does. When it generates thumbnails, it basically uses the embedded Jpeg previews. This may seem like a little thing, but it’s actually quite clumsy to work with. You choose from a set of options from small to largest. First of all, the thumbnails are only available in a set of predetermined sizes. While the gallery view is pretty fast, there are a few issues with it in my opinion. ![]()
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