Hey the Scott of Photography Banzai. I'm gonna talk a little bit about some photo editing
software. This company sent me a license key for this Skylum Luminar software.
So I'll be checking it out a little bit today, and definitely into the future as
they improve it. It is an option for photo editing and all that. There are
different ones. Of course, you can get some open source stuff such as GIMP,
but the big one is Photoshop. Now the difference between this and Photoshop is
this is you pay once per version. With Photoshop, of course, you're paying for
the subscription. Which I personally don't want to get into. I do own a few
older copies of Photoshop. You can actually integrate this tool into
Photoshop through the plug-in interface. And it actually works with my older
version of Photoshop, which is nice. But basically we're gonna check this out a
little bit, and see how it works. See how fast it is and my computer. I also use
something called Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018. Quite a name to it, but
that's my main editor. And maybe I'll compare that a little bit in the future
to this program. But today we're just gonna look a little bit at this one
specifically and see how it works, so let's get started on that.
So here's the program itself.
Luminar 2018... So you can't really do much until you get
started. Like I said, there is a batch processing option. But I'm gonna skip
that today. I'm gonna open up one of these images from Botanic Gardens in
Chicago. Let's try this one. Speed wise It's taking a
little bit of time. Got the main interface. Can use the mouse scroll wheel
to zoom in. It's a very quick, smooth. Let's see if I use
any of the keys.. It's pretty smooth. Here's the main interface. You can select some
predefined workspaces. So it's probably one of the best features I've noticed so
far with this program... Is this interface for workspaces.
So clear that up and it doesn't anything. But you can easily select one of them. So
these scroll bars are a little tiny for me personally, but you can use the mouse wheel to
scroll things. So many different options... Let's try to adjust a few things real
quick. Got the standards... highlighting, shadows, seems pretty quick with
adjustments like this. Pull back the whites. Get some more dramatic effect.
Clarity is usually some type of sharpening, in some form or another.
Looks pretty good. We can actually remove these from the list. So if I don't want
let's say de-haze, get rid.. get rid of it. Or a few other ones. You can basically
customize this area for your style of editing, which is very nice. I assume you
can save those. Haven't gotten to that point, but yeah, save new workspace.
A few think to take note of with this program. It is basically for doing batch
processes or doing singular photos. It does not currently have the full suite
like similar to Lightroom or the ACDsee program that I use to organize photos, to
adjust them inside the organizer type interface. So hopefully in a few months
they will have that feature, and I will definitely look at this program more. But
price-wise, it's about where I could see they don't need that to still be
interesting to check out. But it will definitely help out their software to
have that full suite of organizing plus photo editing. All right, now let's try a
few of the additional tools that I noticed. Pick some type of image. Doesn't
really matter. Again with the loading speed. So we've got one of our images. A little
slower this time to zoom around, but different file. In this case this is a Nikon
image from a full-frame. Probably D750... There should be information around here
somewhere. But these tools here are what we're going to look at. Crop, of course,
very quick. So at that point when you click done over here. And then I noticed
this clone and stamp tool is quite a bit quicker to use in practice, just from my
processing standpoint than my ACDsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 program. So let's
try some opacity differences. The softness up there. That's quite a bit
better. I hope you found that quick look at this Skylum Luminar
software interesting. It is an option. Especially when you consider
there is no actual monthly fee to it, which I'm personally not a fan of those
monthly fees. So I'm gonna check out this more in the future. Still use my other
programs, but it is an option out there. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did
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and such. They sent me that license to check out.
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