![]() The beta had a nicer filter slector, each filter had a description, now it is a simple (ugly looking) list, they are now translated and i was from beta experience familiar with the english names. I would expect more speed on my system specs (OCd i9 7900x) but i keep this unjudget for now because of 2.ħ. Performance is not on top but i'm maybe to sensible on this. There is no Fonts Antialising, the gui is looking like scratched in wood, very primitive.Ħ. You have functions like "Hide in Dock", we don't have a dock, the Software disapper somewhere in Paralleluniverse and can be called back with Alt-TabĤ. I don't expect a clean translation but at least a possibility to have it in english. You can't change localisation, the language is selected based on regional settings and is enforced, the localisation is really bad, so bad that i stopped exploring the app (mix of DE/NL/EN-US). I have many other issues using it standalone:Ģ. (grab the plugin Luminar2018.8bf manually from C:\Program Files\Skylum\Luminar 2018\PluginData ) If you use as plugin you can pass a picture into but you can not pass back into Affinity after processing in LUMINAR, you get an empty workspace (windows) If that works it would be icing on the cake.Īt the moment it is not really working as plugin:ġ. I haven't tried using it as a plug in in Affinity yet. There is always less disappointment that way. I always by software on what is currently available though, not what they promise will come later. I look forward to the additions that are promised. Obviously NIK has other features which aren't part of Luminar's scope so it doesn't do any good comparing those. In fact, I find it to be at or better than the performance of DXO.Ĭompared to NIK, for simply processing a photo to get a nice picture, I can get a quality look quicker in Luminar. I can pull up a full quality raw image from my T3i, add several filters to it and even another layer or adjustments with a mask and still have it working pretty much real time (on a i5 8GB machine). I don't feel like the speed of the program is that slow. There are some bugs to work out still but the same holds true for Affinity. If I needed to process a high ISO image I can always pop into DXO and use the noise reduction there. DXO also always introduced artifacts into my images when I used some of those higher end features (chromatic aberration fixes and lens sharpness) so I don't miss them much. Granted, the noise reduction is better in DXO and it handles lens distortion better but when your end project is to get a nice picture to put in a scrapbook or on the wall, those high end features really don't come into play. In DXO it would have taken me WAY longer to get a comparable image and many times I couldn't have done it solely in DXO. I can pull up a raw image (CR2) and spit out a nice looking final render in under a couple minutes. Every raw image I threw at was processed reasonably quickly on a mid range machine and the ease of getting a nice looking image is terrific. I have had really good experiences with Luminar 2018 so far (granted I have only been using it for a couple days). However, feature wise they are getting closer and closer to each other and thus other factors like performance, mem usage, stability and quality of the output images will finally only make probably a difference here. ![]() Sometimes I wonder if they all are going ( or are dictated) to imitate Apple Photos here or it's more due that they think they must have/offer some seemless integration (in terms of L&F). The tools even look all quite similar in their UI L&F styles and also often usability wise, which is sometimes a little bit boring. Lately they all have the tendency to combine their previously seperated sold tools into one. ![]() Well nowadays those tools all offer mostly similar things, one vendor looks what the other has and offers here as features and then adds that too. Where it does shine is, like Nik, in the range of filters, such as the sunburst effect. Generally, though, if you like layers, stick with Affinity. It doesn't have On1's smart brush but is easier for using layers. Overall, it looks a bit like a cross between Nik and On1, with a simplified adjustment stack, applicable on multiple layers, either globally or painted in.
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