Tethering, perspective control, complete DNG workflow, mobile and cloud version, just a couple of things I believe it's still lacking. But a great update in the right direction. Great work.
Best demo I have seen for this NEW version, the older Luminar I always thought was a joke. I use Capture one, after years of lightroom. I notice all videos of this never show CATALOGING mode in this, very important to see. I want to find a demo of this
I installed it and tried to edit a family photo I recently took. It did a horrible job handling faces. Working off M1 Pro. These videos always convince me to try it again. Will stick with Lightroom/photoshop for the foreseeable future
Luminar only edits, Lightroom's strength is as a DAM. Add in that you can't name layers or add keywords in Luminar. Use LR with Luminar as a plugin seems a marriage made in heaven
Hey Mark, nice informative video besides questioning us if we need LR or PS. What are your thoughts about ON1. Have you ever used it? If so which one have you liked?
Its Skylum so therefore no thanks. Have been bitten before by their awful business practices - releasing software at huge discount then sunsetting it straight afterwards with no upgrade path, promising features that never get added then releasing a new product with said features. Just no.
You're right. They did this in the past a LOT. I have three or four older programs they simply dropped. I almost didn't get Neo, but so far, they've done what they said and seem to be sticking with this program. I like it quite a lot (I also use PS, ON1, and various Topaz modules). It's now part of my workflow. Even if they stopped improving it tomorrow, at it's current level of development, I'd consider it worth my time and money investment.
While what you say is true, Adobe has done much worse. I finally gave up my Adobe subscription and I’m not going back. I now use my camera native program to download and organize the raw files and then Luminar for everything extra.
@MarkMcGeephotos are you switching 100% to Luminar Neo? Is so do you plan on redoing some of your editing videos using Luminar? Great video as always! Keep up the great work.
Maybe I don't understand it, but the masking tool is crap. If you switch to the editing tool, you can't go back and edit the mask. Am I missing something? Can someone explain to me how to edit the masks afterwards? Thx. Great video nonetheless.
Hate the fact it blurs the photo when you're moving any sliders around, so you cannot see what it's actually done until you stop. Plus never adding what they said they would, just bought out a new version every time. Waste of money, bad practice business wise.
Excellent video! I kept lightroom and photoshop around for a while, then found myself never using them, always went to Luminar Neo first. So I ended up cancelling my subscription and never looked back. Luminar Neo is easier, more accurate, offers more and fun to use.
If you’re just a photo editor then yes. Otherwise no, don’t get rid of photoshop/lightroom. Plus this video is an incentivised review from Luminar, it’s highly biased.
@@WanderFeetChronicles Regardless of the video, I was also using Premier Pro, then I tried DaVinci Resolve (Free Version) and found it to be superior to all others. I bought the Pro Version of Resolve, it's basically Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premier etc are great, however, but there are other software products that are better depending on what you want and do.
Great video Mark. I've been using Bridge & Photoshop from many years and often think about switching to Luminar Neo. I'm a bit confused around the extras that they sell along side the main program. What would I need to purchase to have something similar to Photoshop ? Thanks Mark.
Stay with Adobe. Luminar is a great tool for beginners, but if you need specific and precise features it lacks and, sometimes, the results you have with it are terrible
With Gen Expand, you took 9 seconds to show it, but didn't go into depth about the resolution quality etc so kinda pointless especially when you are trying to say you don't need PS anymore.... where is the actual derailed comparison? Seems very much like a sponsored video
Tried it once and it has some interesting features, but I dont live overedited stuff and it is VERY easy to overdo it with luminar. Also I think everyone should probably have a basic workflow which can be replicated with several apps, not relying on fancy stuff too heavily. But its a nice little toy, which will never replace something like lightroom for me though.
Thank you for this video; but I do not like the way Luminar tries to take money away from our pockets; I'm tired of their "money practice" , always trying to sell us more and more and more things / with Photoshop+Lightroom I pay a fixed amount/month since many many many years, and that's all
Unfortunately the pricing structure is awful so no thanks. I thnk the answer is yes we need Photoshop. Still love your channel but prefer the ones not product based.
Luminar Neo still does not support Nikon High Efficiency format RAW files. They will not process refunds if you purchased expecting file support like you get from all the other apps like Lightroom. They promise they will add the support in the "future" but will not let you pause your subscription until that happens. NIKON SHOOTERS STAY AWAY.
I just upgraded from Luminar 4 to Neo - Biggest waste of money I have ever done... The LUMINAR 4 is a great package with logical and pleasure to work with INTERFACE, NEO is a complete mess, question is WHAT WERE THEY THINKING... I wish is spent my money more wisely... It's a shame... DO not buy NEO if you have LUMINAR 4
The crop of the womans hair is bad... She looks like she got pasted in from a bad selection. If you dont know what im talking about, look at the difference between before-after at the end of the edit (after adding the after glow); there youll see some orphin hairs that are completely cut off which makes it look copy-pasted
