6/30/2023 0 Comments Luminar vs neoI'm back on the hunt for a package that isn't LightRoom (can't justify the subscription). How about no - what the blazing f- is a photo-editing application doing to trip up anti-virus? Their official advice was "turn off your anti-virus". There's a thread here from the 4.3 release when it would hang on the splash screen. You simply can't trust it with your catalog. They have specifically optimized the award-winning AI photo editor Luminar Neo for Snapdragon Compute Platforms, resulting in an impressive fourteen-fold increase in processing speed. At this point, Luminar is worthless for anything other than single edits. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are also leveraging Snapdragon to enhance their solutions, and Skylum is a prime example. But that's the problem, they made some good plugins and now they've decided to do DAM, they've realised writing actual software is hard. I shudder to think how it copes (or doesn't) with the 40-50+MB RAWs some modern bodies produce. I'm editing RAWS, but only from a decade-old Canon 550D. Edits are laggy when moving sliders (I would accept this for complex or "AI" edits, but not for basic-bitch exposure changes).Previews take longer to load (multiple seconds) when culling/rating.Yet compared with Aperture on a 2008 Macbook (2c/2t, 4GB RAM): Hundreds of edits and ratings across thousands of photos. When I hit "export" it did indeed export the selected photos, but yeah - it's dumped the entire catalog. I very deliberately clicked "no", at which point the entire H:/ drive disappeared from my catalog. Seemed odd as I was in the exports dialog and definitely hadn't asked it to remove anything. Last night I went to export some edits and whilst selecting the export destination, a dialog popped up asking if I was sure I wanted to remove "that" folder (the entire folder) from my catalog as this would delete all my edits and ratings.
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