#MACPHUN CREATIVE KIT REVIEW SKIN#
For those unfamiliar with this, Capture One updated their contrast slider to behave in a smart way so it wouldn’t mess with skin tones. In a big way, these adjustment sliders behave more in the way that Capture One’s semi-recently updated contrast slider works. And no one would have known one way or another which editing software I used. I’m not sure if it was a better image than a Lightroom-edited equivalent, but it wasn’t worse. But as soon as I did let go and carried on with my editing, the final result was actually okay. If I can’t let go of some of the editing work, this program doesn’t really work for me. Does it really matter if I have precise control over how much extra vibrance is added to my increased shadow adjustment, especially if I’m going to add it back in a little bit myself anyway? Some automatic adjustments that take away control from the user are annoying, but might it not be okay to let it go, continue editing, and simply let Luminar do half the editing for me? However, the older I get and the more I edit, the more I begin letting go. And I don’t always want an added punch to an area that’s darker I’ll adjust that later on my own. In many ways, these automatic adjustments make it very easy to overdo things like shadow adjustments. While other programs might let you adjust contrast, detail, noise reduction, and color in these areas yourself with secondary adjustments, Luminar works for you so you don’t have to. Doing so also “smartly” increases other aspects of the shadow area, such as saturation and sharpness, in order to automatically compensate for other pitfalls of shadow areas in an image. For example, pulling the shadows up in an image doesn’t just increase the exposure of the shadow areas of the image. When I say “smarter,” I am referring to the obvious use of algorithms that consider more than just the one adjustment you are currently making. Side-by-side comparisons are difficult to make, but some things jump out right away.Ī lot of the adjustments seem to do things in a smarter way. Adjust highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, overall exposure - all the usual things - quickly with individual sliders for everything. Want saturation boosted? Slide up a bit on the saturation slider. So, the question is "is it better?"Įditing an image is a piece of cake with Luminar, just as with its competition. It doesn’t take long to see that Luminar isn’t all that different from its competitors. Those familiar with Adobe products or even with Capture One will appreciate the adjustment sliders that have become the industry-standard image adjustment dialog format.
#MACPHUN CREATIVE KIT REVIEW MAC#
But for lovers of Mac applications, Luminar’s save, export, and other “system” functions will be immediately familiar.
As with anything new, it takes some getting used to. Add to all of this the fact that it’s remarkably easy to learn compared to other editing applications, and the appeal continues to increase. Additional features within Luminar even allow one to do things that Lightroom alone could not do. This is why third-party options such as Affinity Photo and Macphun’s suite start looking more appealing as they work out their kinks and provide better and better results. In six months of your CC membership, you could stop paying if Luminar covers your needs. Luminar, on the other hand, requires a one-time purchase of $59 (at the pre-order price, available for about two more days). Forgetting other syncing and general control issues some might be upset by, Adobe Lightroom costs about $10 per month along with Photoshop under a Creative Cloud Photography Plan. But as options such as Creative Cloud siphon funds from users’ accounts on a monthly basis, it quickly becomes clear that other options might offer a better solution for one’s finances. I’m starting here, because the truth is Adobe already serves an enormous part of the image-editing market, whether photographers like it or not. And if you really want to, you can use Luminar as a plug-in for Lightroom, Aperture, and even Photoshop. But the third difference is that in many ways, Luminar gives you an impressive flexibility in the number and types of edits you can make to your images. In this way, Luminar might be best compared to using something such as Photoshop’s Camera Raw Filter (or the Camera Raw opening dialog for actual raw images), which heavily reflects Lightroom’s adjustment slider setup. Additionally, Luminar is a single-image editor, requiring a one-image-at-a-time workflow more similar to Photoshop. Instead, the entire program can be more closely likened to a replacement for Lightroom’s Develop module alone. First, Luminar does not offer an image-cataloging service such as Lightroom’s Library module. There are three major differences between Luminar and something like Lightroom.
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