scottkinfw said:
I keep getting ads from Luminar people, with a $69 sale price. A friend of min loves the product, but he is just a newby, so I take his word with a grain of salt.
Anyone switch to Luminar from the subscription services of Adobe? If so, what are your thoughts on it?
Anyone with any comments or thoughts pls jump in, should be interesting.
Scott
I've actually almost made the transition from LR to On1 RAW 2018 for my RAW work flow.
It has the import capabilities just about on par with LR (rename, send to B/U drives on NAS, optional cataloging for easier searches, etc).
It also has some GREAT masking, regular and luminance masking for RAW workflow. It also has a layers section, that allows you to do some PS type work, I have not really explored that yet. I have Affinity Photo for the PS replacement, and I find it to be pretty much about 98% there for PS functionality. So far it does 100% of what "I" do in PS.
With On1 RAW, they have put out I think 2 free updates, and a June one is coming...I believe there will be 1-2 more updates this year.
So far, I find it to be an excellent alternative to the *rental* mode Adobe has moved to.
The price is good, and I find with On1 RAW and Affinity Photo.....I have my LR and PS replacements, but with perpetual licenses, and I can decide to upgrade as I wish, and......the PRICE is more than reasonable.
Just my $0.02,
cayenne
PS. Affinity PHoto also has a RAW section for work, but doesn't have the asset management, so, I use On1 for LR, and AP for PS.