![]() Anyway, I have nothing to do with Skylum and I am not out to "push" their products (like a certain well-known photographer I can think of). Don't consider the presets (and now LUTs) from Skylum and others to be used as they are "right out of the box." They are often excellent starting points, being completely customizable, and then can be saved as your own custom presets. ![]() And awhile back, someone on here dismissed Luminar presets as "silly," but that's a lazy, unexperienced declaration. But more and more I started going to Luminar for things it just did better and easier than other stuff, and the more I learned the Luminar "ropes," the more comfortable I became with it. As you stated about Picktorial, it "depends on how you feel about learning new ways of doing stuff." When I first tried Luminar I felt much the same way, like it just didn't match my mind's workflow (which of course was significantly established by using other software for a long period of time). Since you only gave Luminar a trial run, I'm curious about how much time you actually spent on exploring its capabilities. If you don't think you'll want to go back for viewing edits and carrying on from where you were, just "Export" in the format of your choice (jpeg, tiff, etc.). ".you can edit a JPEG and it'll write the edits to the JPEG in a way that you can open it later in Picktorial and still have the ability to tweak and/or undo all of the edits you made to it." If you use "Save" in Luminar you get a file that also allows this (or you can save a custom preset of all your edits, and then later, apply that preset to the original jpeg and pick up where you left off). "More complicated than it needs to be" makes me think of Adobe. At $40 for up to 5 licenses and free upgrades for a year if you're a Mac user it's certainly worth taking a look at. Whether that's a good thing depends on how you feel about learning new ways of doing stuff. My overall impression thus far is that it's deceptively powerful but it doesn't do some things the way other PP tools do. I can even do round-trip editing with Tonality for B&W. Their website claims that it's specifically designed to work with X-Trans RAF files but I tested it on my non-X-Trans X100 RAF files and it works fine. The other interesting thing that it offers is a $15 add-in that allows you to process a Fuji RAF file in any of their film simulations including (Acros and Classic Chrome). The UI is nice and clean, it doesn't use a library and interestingly you can edit a JPEG and it'll write the edits to the JPEG in a way that you can open it later in Picktorial and still have the ability to tweak and/or undo all of the edits you made to it. It's a Mac only tool and it can function as a stand alone or as a companion of Apple's Photos app. During my evaluation of Luminar I stumbled on to Picktorial. Of course it's a tool that does everything so I can understand why it's that way but I don't see it as the right tool for me. The process of editing seemed more complicated than it really needs to be. Interestingly, I didn't find that I liked Luminar all that well. ![]() With that in mind I downloaded a free trail of Luminar and gave it a whirl. It seems like Skylum (who makes Tonality) hasn't really been updating it and as they continue to add features to Luminar I suspect that Tonality's feature set will be rolled into Luminar at some point. My overall workflow is open and image in C1P then do a majority of my PP in Tonality (B&W). In light of Skylum rolling out their sale for Luminar today ($49) I thought I'd chime in with my recent experience looking at tools for PP.
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