This gives you a very powerful combination of tools. You can use Luminar as a plugin in place of Photoshop.
Luminar is also ideal for photographers who use a stand alone version of Lightroom, or even Apple’s venerable (and now unsupported) Aperture and don’t have access to Photoshop. It’s easier to use and gives you a lot of creative options. If you don’t want to invest the time required to reach an advanced level in Photoshop, then Luminar makes a lot of sense. Luminar, on the other hand, is ideal for beginners or photographers looking for software that is easier to use than Photoshop. Similarly, if you use Photoshop for making complex selections, or for compositing, then stick with it. If you’ve already gone through the learning curve required to reach expert level in Photoshop, then you should continue to use it unless you desire faster results available in tools like Luminar. Photoshop is best for expert Photoshop users, such as photographers who do high-end portrait retouching. But what form that will take, and when it will arrive, remain to be seen.
Macphun tells me that future versions of Luminar will include a library or catalog of some sort.
Lightroom is by far the best option for managing photos, which is probably part of the reason that you can only buy the latest version of Photoshop in a bundle with Lightroom. The big thing that’s missing from both Photoshop and Luminar is a digital asset management component. What neither Photoshop nor Luminar does (yet) a JPEG or TIFF rather than a Raw file) in Photoshop you have to decide which tools to use and how to use masks and layers to apply them.Īs you move the cursor over the filter names, Luminar displays some information explaining what the filters do. Photoshop is a pixel based editor that uses layers to apply powerful photo editing tools to photos. So, why is Photoshop so difficult to use? To answer that, let’s look at how it works with photo files and Raw files. Raw processors like Lightroom, with its digital asset management capability and ease of use, showed that there were easier and more intuitive ways of processing Raw files and photos. Companies like Macphun, ON1, Nik Software, Topaz Labs, DxO and Alien Skin Software started making photo editing tools that were much easier to use than Photoshop. Then eight years or so ago, things have begun to change. Most photographers either bought Photoshop or (let’s be honest) used a pirated copy. For many years it was easily the best photo editing program available.
Most photographers need no introduction to Photoshop. I developed this photo using the Dramatic and Orton Effect filters in Luminar.
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