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Macphun's Luminar 2018, takes on Lightroom CC
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:22 pm
by signgrap
Looks like Macphun wants to take Adobe's unhappy LR CC users away.
The price is certainly attractive but can they produce a competitive product at this price point? Read more here:
https://www.dpreview.com/news/500286861 ... ghtroom-cc
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 5:50 pm
by EGrav
Not just Luminar, but On1, Affinity, etc. And of course Capture One Pro is well established. Lots of options here or in very near future.
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:09 pm
by E.J. Peiker
EGrav wrote:Not just Luminar, but On1, Affinity, etc. And of course Capture One Pro is well established. Lots of options here or in very near future.
And to a lesser extent, Topaz Studio although it has absolutely no DAM in it but it can do most of what anybody would ever need to do on the image editing front in a very easy way.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 6:45 pm
by DChan
Replacing Lightroom is easy as there've been options around for a long while, but replacing Photoshop is a different story.
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 7:13 pm
by SantaFeJoe
Re: Macphun's Luminar 2018, takes on Lightroom CC
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:57 pm
by bradmangas
I don't believe any of the mentioned programs come close to taking on LR. LR is an elementary photo editing program at best and it's muscle does not reside in its photo editing abilities.
I am still unsure why anyone would use only "LR" for photo editing. And I am unsure why anyone would use LR for "only" photo editing.
I have used Affinity, Luminar, and Topaz Studio products. Luminar is the only one that seemed somewhat impressive and that would be if you're just into clicking on presets and moving sliders and see what happens. The same can be said of the NIK software plugins. The other two just seem to be poorly written software. As far as I can tell, they don't come close to the "overall" ability of LR. I know there are those who have it in for Adobe and I am not trying to make a point about that. But I can not image finding a better bang for your buck than LR & PS.