Luminar Neo – no DAM so no good? Well, not necessarily! With Luminar 4 Skylum scored one hell of an own goal. Slow, inefficient, lacking features, the list goes on. For me, it killed off a relatively good editor and I moved on to other software, ON1 PhotoRAW and Darktable for example. It didn’t mean […]
Luminar Neo is the latest offering from Skylum Inc, a US based software company with a large number of it’s develpment team domiciled and working in the Ukraine. Putting aside the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, if this is even possible, over the past four or so years I have had a love – hate relationship […]
Since it’s launch back at the begining of February Luminar Neo from Skylum Inc. has received a few updates which have improved usability and functionality so I thought that this would be a good time to take another look.The key question on everyones mind, does Luminar Neo v1.0.2 get Skylum closer to the perfect editor? […]
Before I start I just want to say that my thoughts today and everyday are with the people of Ukraine in this their darkest hour. In the coming days and weeks, democracy and the right of everyone to live their lives in peace will be tested to the limit in the face of unfounded Kremlin […]
Most photo editing software seems to support only a few cameras with direct tethering from within the application. One such product that I use is On1 PhotoRAW 2022. This supports just two camera brands, Nikon and Canon. Fortunately I am a Nikon user so I am able to tether the D600 to PhotoRAW without too […]
Summary Rather than make you wait for my findings, here’s a summary of how I feel about Luminar Neo after a couple of weeks of using the software. Read on if you want a more in-depth overview. In my opinion, and this is based on Neo as it stands today, I simply don’t feel that […]
PART 1 RELIGHT AI My post yesterday focused mainly on providing my first thoughts about Luminar Neo with respect to the very much cut down beta software available to early adopters. In this version the two stand out features of Luminar Neo are Relight Ai and Sky Replacement although the latter has been a key […]
When I first bought into the Skylum world with Luminar2018 I was impressed. At last a really simple, efficient and productive tool for minimal outlay. At that time, other than Photoscape X Pro, it was my main photo editor and I did some really good work with it. Then came along Luminar 3, another really […]