Luminar 4 review: The pros and cons
I have been working with Luminar 4 for the past month now and I think I have finally gotten a hold on the ins and outs of Luminar 4. For this reason, I believe that I am ready to give you a review of the software. My review concentrates on what I see as the pros and cons for the software and lets you decide if it is right for you.
Pros
Interface is streamlined. Workflow is really nice
Quick lever like edits and surprisingly in-depth customization
Excellent AI doing what most pros would do to make an image nice (Results are not tacky)
Stand alone and plug in modes (smart object or flattened layer export)
New features like ERASE, Portrait modes and sky editing have become my go to fixes
Price
Cons
AI seems to eat up processing power. One feels a delay when working in it (RAWs kinda dont like Luminar)
Library functions still are not great
Would like to see some of the Anthropics feature set for stuff like portraits (Face thinning and others)
Needs a mobile version
Extra Luminar 4 tutorials
Here are some Luminar tutorials you might like to watch to see the software in action.
You can also go straight to my YouTube channel playlist to see even more how-to videos by clicking the link below
i have this and ON1
i use luminar for sky replacement and b&w conversion and quck adjustments . lots of edits makes it slow
i use On1 2020 for when i need to do some stuff which need fancier masks its also slow
ahh ! tu reste en Montreal ?? j’avais beaucoup de temps de voir tes videos aujourd’hui because ALL the stores are closed today on sunday .. i just moved from west island to Laval . thankfully alot less covid cases here than montreal
Cool to see that more people are watching my stuff because of COVID. Un pour pour un contre…hehe!!
Its funny because I really do use Luminar for the same things as you. The BW conversion is great but yes, it is indeed slower. This is especially true when you start looking at using the Luminar library functions. I would strongly advise you to update to the 4.2 version as they seemed to have adressed that problem. Let me know the results.