Lumimar Neo VS Lightroom and Capture One - I Paid for them All!
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2023
- In this real non-affiliate, not sponsored review, I compare all three for 2023. Read my blog post and download my free Luminar Neo preset here... seimeffects.com/2023/03/10/lu...
- Try my Filmist presets and LUTs which you al also use in NEO... seimeffects.com/filmist/
- My Lightroom vs Capture One 2023 Review... seimeffects.com/2023/01/30/li...
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Note: Skylum did send me a license to the software to try. I declined any sponsorships or even affiliate partnerships at this stage until I had done a full and honest review. So I have no codes or offers.
Luminar Neo, Lightroom, Capture One. Which one will you use in 2023?
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Subscription models are bad for casual photographer who use the software only couple of times in a month. I still need to pay the subscription even when I do not use it. No not for me. I rather use some old ancient software which works without subscription than go into that subscription scam with any software.
Agreed!
Agree, i don't make monthly income from photography, so why should i have monthly expenses? I migrated to a 100% upfront ecosystem with C1 and Affinity and i am quite happy with it, though Luminar is interesting and can be purchased with a lifetime license.
@randomdriver Agree with you 100%! I'm about to cancel my Adobe subscription, as you stated, I'm a casual photographer and don't have time to edit my photos like I would like to.
At least one honest review! Thanks for the integrity
You can reset the curve histogram by double clicking a point on the curve.
Interesting review, thanks.
I'd be interested in how you compare DxO PhotoLabs to C1 (and probably against LR but I don't use that ;-) )
Great video. Very honest. I use Neo as my main editing tool simple it's so much faster. I am not a professional photographer and I don't have the time to spend hours editing one photo. All my photos go to social media. Nobody there can even see the difference. Look at your one video on RUclips and I can only barely see that Neo ist not as good on the highlight processing. I hope Neo get better as there are still so many things that definitely need improvement.
I bought aurora hdr and luminar 4 I think it was names a 2-3 years ago. This company has a history of not being very well thought out and abandoning products. I still use Aurora hdr a lot as it is pretty darn good. I’m not buying another product from them to just be abandoned eventually. Also not going to rent my software.
seriously though, the height of Luminars products was Aurora HDR, that app can produce some insanely good looking images, still one of my favorite tools of all time. But that was the last app they had that I could get a really good image out of in any situation that wasn't basically a studio lit photo shoot.
Thanks for the review. I still use Lum4 as a plugin in Photoshop for portrait editing. Looks like I'll skip a luminar upgrade again. Example of why people don't like to upgrade all the time.
Undo is accomplished in the edits stack. You can select the edit, adjust, mask, undo and delete that specific edit. Independent of all other edits
I tried this yesterday after spending an hour in LR editing a photo, but still wasn't quite happy with the result. I was less happy after a windows update and restart wiped out all the LR edits and i had to start again. With Neo i was done in under 10 minutes. However comparing the LR edit to Neo, parts of the LR version seemed sharper to me. I am not sure if i need to add more sharpening to the Neo version. I also noticed that in Neo it removes any of the applied lens corrections and you have to apply them manually unlike LR where they are applied automatically.
Neo is made to be a more amateur tool for those who want things automatic and does it pretty well. But the quality of the edit is better in LR. As for sharpening, those settings can be turned up and down in both.
Great video - thanks! Do you still feel the same way about Luminar NEO? I am just about to buy it - they have a 70% discount for a 24 months subscription right now. Will I be able to use your LUTS in Luminar NEO? What else do you offer to enhance photos in Luminar NEO?
PS: They added a Undo/Redo feature in the meantime...
Good to here they finally got undo working, I'll take a look.
yes you can use LUTS and they work pretty well in Neo, but my other tools won't work in NEO.
I still feel it's behind and not that much cheaper than LR/PS. But what bothers me the most of the low grade handling of highlights that I showed here. If they got processing up to pro level standards I would feel a lot better about it.
I'm a hobbyist who's allergic to subscriptions, and Neo does what I need. I agree that some features are a little gimmicky, it's not well-suited for professional workflow, and has some rough corners. But it's great for my limited needs.
That's fair and I can relate. But practically speaking being allergic to subscription is not costing us more. To get Neo complete without a substitution you pay 3 times as much as Lightroom and PS combined and get far less overall.
@@Seimstudios - possibly one missing piece is I got both the program and plug in set at a discount during sales. Combined, I think they cost me ~1 year of Adobe subscription. And I'll likely use the program for longer than that.
thank you so much for these insights. I learned a lot from you. Do you know, if I can import Fujifilm DCP camera profiles into Luminar Neo? I am using Luminar Neo and ON1 Photo Raw and Fujifilm X Raw Studio, for my files from the X-T3. I havent yet found a good workflow. You maybe?
I don't think so. Thopugh I don't use Fuji profiles myself, I just apply a filmist preset in post to the RAW file. But both LR and Capture One have fuji profiles on my XT3
I have X-T3 too! After ~half year of using it I've decided to start digging into RAW... And I've found a surprize: Fuji originally process RAW with adding sharpen! Even if it's set to -4!
I like how Astia colors looks from Fuji but I don't like how much sharpening it adds! Also their app needs to connect the camera every time and change settings inside it (and it can't be added to MY collection even) only to process RAW with these colors. Once I've done I need to change Connection settings again (so further it will be ready to connected to transfer files).
I've tried Sharpen in LightRoom: it's good but it needs to be used very carefully with X-Trans sensors as it gives "worms" easily. Also Astia Soft v2 (which I get in my current version) does look completely different from the original Astia (in Fuji cameras)! It's even has a different curve for the contrast (not only colors).
So I've started to search for something to resolve this. And seems that Luminar is more like a gimmick! If you're linked to buying some presets (which should be accepted by the company, right?) then you can't be on your own. Why do I need this? :)
Also I'm not interested in AI features yet. It's a big big white spot on our map. For now we can only rely on "clouds". What if the Internet is broken currently? Or somebody will decide that your country need to be "under sanctions". Thus you'll not be able to even pay for this and use it in a usual way (without any proxys).
Good and fair review. For the reasons you pointed out, I use Neo as an effect plugin from Photoshop, but not as a Raw developer. Actually another effect software, abd one which seems to be underrated, is Boris Effects Optics.
Good points on Neo. I've been using it for a couple of years with all the updates and new generative AI tools (which are inconsistent in results) , and I find it makes a good plug-in for Affinity Photo or an old version of Photoshop that I have. I would not normally use it as a main tool. It's still too cumbersome for me, and not always that intuitive. I find Canon's Digital Photo Professional is a better workflow tool than Neo--at least for me--and you can't beat the cost--free.
Thanks for this review Gav. With C1 & LN's push toward subscriptions Lr+PS still is very hard to beat, IMO. Frankly, I have C1 but did not bite on switching towards their new subscription plan. There are only so many dollars to go around these days.
The most frustrating thing about Neo is stability (pc version) just constant crashing when using the clone tool
I bought a lifetime from capture1, but in the fine print it was the lifetme of that version. To upgrade to the next major release they wanted me to pay again. I also have neo but rarely use it. LR & PS have become to versatile, I use it exclusively.
Ya it was just bait and switch. It's how they play these days.
same here i paid twice and now moving back to lightroom
I found in NEO it makes a difference if you use the correct camera profile instead of the NEO default as you have used. Maybe worth comparing all 3 with the correct profile to see the difference.
Won't help here. There can be no incorrect base profile in a RAW editing for pros. A constant baseline is essential, if it can't handle that it's not ready for prime time. But in this test other profiles made no difference anyways.
Thanks for the comparison. As a Luminar Neo user for the past year, I can say that Luminar Neo is a great software for any advanced hobbyist such as myself. It is extremely easy to use, it's full of features, it encourages to work with RAW files which other software make it intimidating and has the big advantage of buying "off the self" without paid subscription fees. However, if I was making a living of photography, no doubt I would go for Lightroom and photoshop. Also, Skylum offers some extensions that are extremely valuable, such as HDR, focus stacking, Supersharp and noiseless. As for presets, when I first bough the software, I used to use presets a lot. Now that I work with Luminar for quite sometime, I hardly use them. Sure, it helps for expediting workflow if you work with lots of images, but I personally use them less and less. I think the strongest advantage of Luminar Neo is the ease of use and the short learning curve.
It is easy access, but the lack of processing quality concerns me. The problem with presets is they created the environment to not use them as they are clunky. I've been using LR for 15 years and I use presets on almost every phone even though I know how to do everything. Presets should be implemented in a way to make you try more looks faster as they are in LR. The more experience you have the more you know they give you more control. But the implementation in Neo is poor and that's a problem. Hopefully they take a tip from this video.
Then again I stopped hearing from them since I published this so...
@@Seimstudios Well, that is really depends on your work flow. If I shoot a bunch of photos in the same environment (Location, lighting etc), I edit one of them to my liking and create my own preset based on that photo. Also, one can argue that if you use a particular software for 15 years, you're pretty much "married" to it and learning or getting use to a different layout takes motivation. I tried to get into ON1 editor and I kept getting frustrated how counter intuitive that software is even though it has some good features. As I said, Luminar Neo is great for hobbyists but if I was a professional photographer, I would probably stick to Lightroom as well.
Every tool serves a purpose. I use Luminar Neo here and there (its actually not bad for IR photography) for the rest I am still on Capture One, but not the new subscription thing. LR only on mobile.
I use capture one to change the film simulation l, then export in photoshop file to re open and sharpen and edit in luminar. Then i export in jpegs. Wish i knew how to do it all in capture one
Lightroom supports the film simulations as well. Personally I always use a film sim presets over a camera profile but either way works.
I've noticed when I use Luminar software my output jpg files are twice the size of what I get from PhotoShop. Even when using Luminar 4 my jpg files were much larger. Did you notice that and do you have any thoughts on why?
That's more a question of the JPEG quality setting you are using which can be adjusted in both when you export.
@@Seimstudios I've used the best quality in both programs. Luminar still produces much larger files. I tend to think it has something to do with how Luminar processes files. Like it doesn't throw any of the info away.
I just bought luminar neo after using affinity for a while.
Yes neo has issues but its either improved or you are not understanding how it works.
I'd agree with most of what you said. To me neo is some middle ground app, not too little power and not too much power
Hopefully they have fixed some things. I was not misunderstanding at the the I don't believe. I was pretty thorough.
@@Seimstudios maybe it was my interpretation, I normally use affinity. the one thing that stood out was when you adjust an early edit it shows the changes at that edit not the final result. I found that I had to leave edits and wait for it to update to see the final result
I see luminar as a middle ground editor, to me its trying to have most features without the complexity or control of options overliad. Most of the add-on management is majorly lacking.
luminar neo - try exporting to webp or any other new format. yeh no can do. so you need to buy another app to batch process all your output from neo. luminar business model is you get all the sweet new updates however any new functionality is part of a new plugin that you will have to buy.
I think you are just unfamiliar with some of the layouts, to adjust the entire intensity switch to the presets tab and there is a slider to adjust the current overall look. Also to adjust the setting for each adjustment you made there is an edit tab. A little clunky but its there
nice review. I have luminar 3, 4, ai, neo and plugins. same for ON1 (a review on it is welcome :-) ). Skylum changes the workflow, menus,... at each version (and loose compatibility with presets you bought expensive on marketplace and need to wait for updates and re-install) and when they add something nice like preset preview in L3, they remove it in L4. when they add local panel in LAI, they remove from neo and we have now a cascade of 10 "develop" with same name in main edit history but they restored the preset preview. their develop panel doesn't follow the standard sliders of LRC, C1, ON1 and we have curves,... in develop panel, not nice. you need to open lot of sub panels for basic things like white and black (one switch for two sliders !). Honestly it is a nightmare.
HOWEVER I love Skylum products and filters (orton,...), accent ai, ski enhancer, sky replacement,... but after frontend LRC raw develop, to make artistic effects. Even if I am fan of LRC presets, they are based on a limited number of filters (clarity, texture, sharpness and exposure at final) and it limits the creativity. for instance orton, blur, golden hour,... are always more beautiful with ON1 and Luminar. Look on marketplace and look the presets examples and they are just amazing for night street photo, portrait, landscape, architecture, macro,... Just sharing my feeling !
Agreed. They are all over the places. But if they started getting their act together it could be great because the filters are good.
I love Neo. Used to use LR in the day. Too expensive for me. Neo does the job.
Expect Neo is more expensive than LR and PS combined now?
@@Seimstudios Yes, mate. Unfortunately I can't afford both. You did me get back to LR, but it's version 4. Ancient, mate. Thanks for the great videos.
@@Seimstudiosneo is more expensive? You can buy it outright, and even the most expensive "pro" plan is less than Adobe? What do you mean?
I find it strange that Skylum does not mention the lack of an undo function on their website 😄
I head this has been corrected. Need to update and take another look. I sure hope so./ How embarrassing.
Tell me what you think. Download my free Luminar Neo test preset on the blog post... seimeffects.com/2023/03/10/luminar-neo-vs-lightroom-capture-one-review/
i like luminar neo easy tools combine with stable diffusion ..osem
Neo is cool but we've done a side by side on this channel with LR and C1 and it's process quality is not even close so you lose information.
use Luminar Neo all the time with no issues. don't even have Lightroom. Neo was much more cost effective when you got in right at the front. thanks for the bashing lol :)
Neo works fine, it's just not at the same level as LR and it's not cheaper anymore. But it is very user friendly. This was not a bashing, it was a fair review.
To be completely honest, if that was not bashing I am totatlly lost on how bashing would sound :).
Hi. Started with luminar few years back only as an act of rebellion against PS subscription mode. And though I still like it (luminar 4, not Neo) to me it is only good for giving a little something to generally adequately exposed photos (protected highlights). Also for people that do not want to spend much time editing. I honestly hate their AI on Masking, clone, healing tool. The same with capture one. I simply detest their clone tool philosophy (come on, no undo option, who does that ?!?!?!?). Now after few years of trying to convince myself i am back to rethinking PS :(.
Have you tried on1?
Yes and it was also behind in process quality just like this, but it's been awhile. I hope do do a full review on that soon as well.
@@Seimstudios Fantastic. I look forward to it. I switch to ON1 Photo Raw and Affinity Photo about 3 years ago when I, like many others, grew frustrated with the Adobe's subscription model. CaptureOne has also made changes in the past few months that has a caused an uproar in the customer base. They want me to pay $299 for a new upgrade. I do use Luminar as a photoshop plugin to ON1, so I can mix and choose. ON1's layers are inline with those in Photoshop.
@@craigozancin yes ! On1 develop is similar to lrc one with extra midtone slider. Lot of powerful filters, upscale, denoise, sharpening... much better than lrc ones, sky replacement and powerful luminosity masking in separate local panel and xhat i love is the grif view of all presets of a category to better choose one. If i hadn't bought so many presets in lrc, i think i woul have migrated.
You lack exprience in dealing with Neo. The way to undo is clicking the Edit tap next to tools and you will have their all your past adjustments. Also with adustment curve point you simply have to double click the point to delete it.
I don't lack experience. I'm well versed in how photo software needs to function and used Neo well when doing this review. This issue may have been fixed now but when I did this review it simply does not work. It the end it does not matter much since Neo is not there in processing quality compared to LR or C1
I use Luminar Ai and i bought Neo for about 80$. I can’t say it is better than Luminar Ai. Ai masking at Neo is pretty much bad. The software is sloooow.
Not even worth to compare it with Lightroom.
The only fun is those few extra tools…
Neo is good if you want "one click" quick editing that's non-destructive, with a bit of flexibility (it does support masking, but not to the level of Lightroom or even CAptureOne). So I think it has its place and the price is reasonable and a good option for beginners or people who just want to edit quickly, and don't care about the bells and whistles of control, like advanced masking or color adjustment. The sky replacement is quite good though, and for a while, rivaled what Adobe had (which was more or less a joke) and so I get Neo (And AI) credit for that, as that was one of it's major strengths -- something that Lightroom and C1 can't even do (although you can do sky replacements in PS with similar results).
Yes. Though Neo is really no more On Click than Lightroom and it's more expensive than LR and C1 combined. So I hope in this video I separated marketing perceptions vs the reality.
@@Seimstudios Yes but I think it's interface is what I was getting at, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I think it still does sort of miss some of the more advanced features of LR and C1. Speaking of C1, the one thing I do like is the highlight slider (when pushed down to the lowest level) doesn't seem to produce as much "gray" tones as LR does if you are trying to recover, say, an overcast sky with some cloud detail. Once you get beyond about -80 you run the risk of ending up with gray highlights in LR. In C1 I felt it handled this a bit better (same photo), BUT one thing I did notice in another photo is that when there is color and gradation, I felt LR did a better job there at preserving the gradation or highlight area where it wasn't even, and C1 sort of blends it all together to look more flat, so it's a trade-off I guess. Of course if one has LR and C1 then they can have the best of both worlds I guess, although it is an extra step in the workflow (but I am considering this myself, starting in C1 to get toning and color the way I want for landscape photos, and then sending them to LR Classic to finish since the masking tools are a bit more powerful, among other things). At the end of the day, each processing suite has its pros and cons, and like cameras, find one that works for you, as the actual program used (in the view of the end user, ie. your audience) is less important and not really relevant to them, just like how it doesn't matter what brand of camera you used to capture the photo. The end user / viewer wll not know or probably even care.
I think I also mentioned on another one of your videos (while not really relevant about the video but rather I think the discussion of subscriptions also came up) but I feel that Adobe could offer a perpetual license, like the other two... say $599 or $699 gets you LR, LR Classic and Photoshop, but it would lock you into the major version that was available at the time (so for now, it's LR Classic v12). If you wanted to upgrade, then you'd pay an upgrade fee and get the then-current version of PS, LR and LR Classic). So while I don't like what C1 is doing, in some respects, ADobe could learn a few things too and offer a perpetual license, perhaps making it a bit more expensive than a subscription for say 3 years but it would give people who perhaps don't upgrade that often, say maybe every 5 years, a way to save a bit of money, OR for those who don't like subscriptions. I think they could have had both models side-by-side and perhaps retained some users when they went with a subscription offering. Because for 3 years, the Photography plan is $360 plus tax. So they could have made the "perpetual" license $499 or $599. In the end, those on the perpetual license would just pay more to get the same level of tools over a period of time.
@@Seimstudios I'm sorry but how is it more expensive than Lightroom? A perpetual licence is the same cost as a one year subscription of lightroom. Plus you have the option of getting a perpetual licence in the first place.
I just got Luminar, switching form lightroom - and so far feel less comfortable using Luminar than lightroom (but very early days so might just be the familiarity with lightroom v.s. unfamiliarity with Luminar). But even if its worse than lightroom technically, the mere fact that they offer a one time purchase option puts them heads and tails above adobe.
@@JimIBobIJones hi! very curious if you changed your opinion in the last couple of months. Im in doubt between C1 and Luminar, since I hate subscription based
@@frisovanwassenaer785 I haven't used C1 (because of the price) so can't comment.
Compared to Lightroom, Luminar has its positives and negatives. A big positive is that its very easy to use and beginner friendly: its very capable but everything is accessible through intuitive sliders. I also like how you can click a button to remove dust spots rather than do each one manually.
The biggest negative for me is the "auto-edit" equivalent. The "ai enhance" is pretty aggressive and the changes it makes doesn't show up in your settings sliders. I am lazy and with lightroom, I liked to use auto edit and then go in to make my own adjustments. With Luminar, because the enhance function makes extensive changes, which don't show up on your settings slides, it is more difficult to combine your own tweeks with the auto-edit.
But if you want to just go in and do your own editing, its perfectly fine.
The pre-sets are also actually quite good and are incredibly easy to apply if that's your thing. Same goes for the "ai-enhance" - if you just want to make a photo look good without having to put any effort in, the aggressiveness of the auto-edit is a big plus.
Some of the tools are pretty useful but don't seem ready for "prime time" - e.g. the erase tool can be great if used sparingly (like say taking out a branch that's sticking into your composition) - but it creates some awkward results if you try and take out too much - like floating trees and textures merging awkwardly in and out of objects.
End of the day though, it really is good enough and improving on a regular basis. I still prefer lightroom but I would rather have luminar on a perpetual licence than pay for lightroom annually.
Thanks for confirming many of the quirky aspects of Luminar Neo. Although there’s value in simplicity, sometimes more technically advanced workflows are required to provide unfettered functionality.
Let's be honest. It seems that Luminar Neo's target audience is predominantly directed at people that want to do quick editing and don't want to have to do the minute editing that you can do in Lightroom and C1. Which depending who you are, isn't necessarily a bad thing. Luminar Neo has it's place and uses. The BIG advantage to Luminar Neo is not only can you buy a perpetual license for it, that you obviously can't do with Lightroom (thanks a lot Adobe), but if you've already owned a previous version of Luminar (3, 4, Flex or AI), you can upgrade your perpetual license for free.
Yes and it has a lot of potencial. I just hope they can bring it up to higher standard in terms of processing
I was hoping for a review that highlighted the pro and con of the different programs, unfortunately this is a beat down based on an incredible knowledge of Lightroom. The review seems more geared towards photo editing professionals, any of which would be only using Lightroom/Photoshop or Capture One.
I am a beginner/hobbyist. I am only ever going to show my photos on Flickr so going through the very steep learning curve of LR is not worth it. I had LR/PS but found it very time intensive which led me to just shooting JPEG.
I am looking at Neo as it has some very easy edits that create some good results, it was disappointing that none of the AI buttons were used and every action was a replica of what LR does. I would have preferred seeing you edit a couple of pics start to finish in each program, then comparing the result and who would benefit from each package.
Regards pricing, Neo offers a 12 month subscription that is half the base price of LR. Just because Adobe doesn’t offer the same deal, it shouldn’t have been skipped out.
Thanks for the video and sharing your knowledge.
Luminar being prices about the same as Photoshop and Lightroom must be compared to it. Yes this is a review for pros. But Lightroom is not really harder to learn. IN fact it might be easier because Luminar is doing many things that slow you down. It got beat down because it needs improvement. I really wanted to like it, it's just not as good.
In the end try both and see what sticks.
2:35 Making and saving presets is dead simple. So is sharing. Not sure why you are saying otherwise.
No it's really not unless they have improved it since review. See how Lightroom works for an example of what a good presets system is. Happy to give them another look once they make improvements and bring the app to a more pro level.
I appreciate your integrity. Thank you for resisting the temptations to become another shill
Thank you
Good review. While there’s been a lot of updates since this video (would like to see an updated review) it still has a lot of the bugs / quirks mentioned. It’s software I want to love, but find frustrating a lot of the time. It’s nice to see an unbiased comparison. I only found this video as it started playing after Peter Mckinnon’s review. If you watch his video (which is a paid sponsorship) he makes it sound like the best software ever made. Which we all know it isn’t.
Lately Luminar neo keeps crashing
To be fair, they all do that
No Luminar crashes to the point where I can’t use it on any of my laptops
yep... Mac or Windows it definitely crashes a lot@@nuurnwui
I own all of these as well as ON1. Out of all, Luminar is constantly innovating with tools that rival the others and in some cases are more useful and more accessible than photoshop. I don’t believe you are struggling with managing a different workflow. Maybe this is an outdated video or on an old version. Clearly capture one or photoshop is best for you. Why would you use an app that’s very different and complain it’s not for you. Suggest ON1 2024 may be more to your taste. Neo is not supposed to be a standard app mirroring photoshop. You keep mentioning it’s not a professional tool. Then don’t use it. I use apps for thier strengths including Neo as a plugin for things it does that the others don’t.
This is not outdated. Neo does not complete with Photoshop it completes with LR and Capture One. It is accessible which I like, but as we showed in the video the processing quality you get is simply not close and for pros this is a big deal. This is a compare review so clearly we have to compare it with the rest and it falls a bit short. But use what you like I say.
I couldn't believe it's more expensive than Lightroom and Photoshop combined. Luminar is a bad joke compared to Adobe products. Perhaps if they wouldn't have come up with a "new" product each year and instead focused on improving the experience and features of Luminar for those who actually bought it they would then be at least somewhere instead of nowhere. My friend has 3 pirated versions on his PC (luminar 3, luminar AI and luminar Neo) and never uses any of them. He says if they offered them for free he would choose C1 or PS+LT/ACR because they are better and faster.
I only needed to watch for 10 minutes because of how *good* and spot-on your review is. When a company floods the internet with sponsored / affiliate reviews, it's a huge red flag.
Sadly, but there's potential here. I caught a lot of flack from fanboys for this review. But it was honest. I'm come back and give then another look soon and hope they improve things.
@@Seimstudios if you want to build a subscriber base, you have to give honest feedback rather than flattery. Review more products, please!
Kind of like pet food... the more they advertise the less quality the product
The beginning of this video rants about things most users wouldn't care about. I'm sitting here thinking whether I want to keep watching. I decided not.
This is a video for people with an advanced professional focus comparing it to industry standard apps. If you're just having fun Neo will be fine.
You must be getting well paid by lightroom etc to rubbish Neo virtually nothing positive in your remarks for luminer over the top assassination of the product,also learn to use it properly before posting
I'm not assassinating anything. It's juts a real review and the other are paid or affiliates. I hope they fox this stuff so next time I can give it 5 stars. I think it actually has a lot of potential. And no Adobe does not pay me, I was critical of Adobe in reviews long before Affinity even existed. The internet has just forgotten what a real review looks like.
I just gave feedback to Neo that we can’t copy edits from one layer of one photo to another layer of another photo.
Wow, go into masking, you have more than a variety of tools for the sky and so on, plus relight tools, and I could go forever, please learn the software before you make a video, you have probably been using light room for years, and photo shop is an absolute nightmare for beginners, terrible revew, anyway I guess that's why we have options for software cheers!
That's not how it works / We're comparing basic features. I know how to use it and have been trying all these tools on and off since they hit the market. Since the basic processing is not up to industry standard, the rest cannot save it. I may do another review this year and see if there has been any improvement.
Classic review by a reviewer who spent ten minutes with the app. If you haven’t used Lightroom before it is a confusing, complex, non intuitive mess.
Having been doing this since the dawn of digital I have used many of these tools on and off since they were launched. Luminar I believe among them. We're testing on results and output and the process quality is the main failing here. But yes lacking basic features like undo are a big deal. It has nothing to do with not knowing the software.
Luminar is behind LR and even C1 for about the same money. That's the reality. But it doe have some nice features. If you like it, use it.
Half way through the video and you are talking more about prices and exporting presets than actually using the software. You are 100% inaccurate on undo. The history of changes is available in Neo, contrary to what you have said. There is a slider for presets, again contrary to you have said. Your comments on layers are totally wrong. Even you are clueless about how the subscription works. You really need to spend a lot more time with Neo before doing any kind of review. This does not feel like a genuine review. At best , it is a terribly uninformed 'review'.
At the time of this review everything I said was correct. And yes, prices and pro level functionality like preset managements matter. That's why it's a comparison to LR based on how it performs in these area of professional standards. But in the end the image processing is not even close and that's the biggest problem. in the end use what you like.
Omg this guy is ignoring the fact you can isolate the sky..? So you can do what you like with the sun.
Sorry no. The processing engine is what it is. Isolation is not the problem. It's that it lacks the ability to pull equal detail that LR and C1 does.
No worth watching, an extremely biased approach to the subject.
Umm ok. Literaly we're doing side by sides tests from a professional standards perspective. I'm not sure what;'s biased but thanks ;)
If you that Genius why dont"t you develope your own frkn Software ok . let it Go Dude . and let poeple Decide and. Learn for themselves ok that's how i learned photography 50 years ago ..
Now u are selling Presets. 😆 .
Nothing to let go. This is an objective review of the two. It's my job. Also I've been selling presets since LR1. That's why they are so refined. I was the first to produce a professional presets pack for commercial sale around 2008. But hey get on tech bandwagon, everyone else is ;)
Lets face it, you don't like it, no matter what you say. You are brainwashed by Adobe like lost people are with Apple products. Luminar in the long run is cheaper in the long run, all Adobe will do is bump the price up. Why do you want to make presets, must be bonkers. Anyone now with a 28mp camera and a semi pro lens will be able to make superb images but just slightly enhanced if one so wished to. As for the bright sunset and the boat, use a Grad' ND, not really difficult is it.
Been using and promoting C1 for years. So clearly you don't know much about my work. They have simply ignored their customers and fallen behind./