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Skylum/Luminar is offering their Luminar 4 Photography/Photo Editor Software (PC or Mac Digital Download) for Free when you follow the instructions listed below.

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Enhance Your Photography with Luminar 4

Get the full-featured Luminar 4 photo editor for free. Luminar 4 boasts advanced controls in an easy-to-use interface.
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Simply not true. Instead of linking a generic tech site take, Google "Adobe Lightroom alternatives" and you will see Luminar tops most of those lists on photography-centric sites. It's quite a good product that one can actually buy as opposed to rent like Lightroom. Luminar just has a history of giving away their older flagships when they move to a new product. When they were on Luminar 4 getting ready to release Luminar AI, they gave away Luminar 3. Now they're on Luminar AI getting ready to release Luminar Neo, so they're giving away Luminar 4. And it's a great giveaway.
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Not true. I actually paid for this app and I feel it was worth the money. Saves a lot of time compared to editing pictures in light room or photoshop, requires minimal knowledge of editing and doesn't have the steep learning curve of other apps.
I do agree that the app is slow and unstable. Windows version is unusable at time. Performs much better on M1 macs. For free, this is a must try.
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I like the Luminar series of products as it is a time saver in comparison to other companion software found in the Adobe suite at a much better price.

You need a decent processor to run it (I use a i7 with 16 GB RAM in my setup). I like picking up their software at a good discount on Humble Bundle as it speeds up and simplifies my work flow.

I use it in conjunction with Corel's PaintShop Pro (a Adobe Photoshop replacement).

Luminar 4 is right now one version out of date but a good introduction to the software. Currently Luminar AI is the current version and soon to be two version out of date when Luminar Neo is released, (Feb '22) both of which have more capability than Luminar 4.



Some other deals that are similar but cost $$$'s are as follows

Luminar AI, Aurora HDR (Great for automatic color correction in default setting although it is designed for HDR photos) and other tools and add ins for $25 at https://www.humblebundle.com/soft...i-software (expires in 9 days) and is a current front page deal https://slickdeals.net/f/15473026-humble-bundle-photoediting-to-the-max-skylum-software-pwyw-25-for-17-items
Corel PaintShop Pro 2021, Corel Painter 2021, Video Studio Pro 2021, etc. for $30 at https://www.humblebundle.com/soft...e-software (expires in less than 2 days) a preivous "Hot Deal"

I got both packages from Humble Bundle, and it supports non-profits.

Now compare that against the price of Adobe Photoshop $240, Lightroom $120 and you can quickly see the advantage for a hobbyist going this route.
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pcspecialist
12-22-2021 at 09:16 AM.
12-22-2021 at 09:16 AM.
Too bad it doesn't run natively on Linux.
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12-22-2021 at 10:18 PM.
12-22-2021 at 10:18 PM.
After like a 10 minute tutorial within the app, instantly went to soft editing some recent photos and wowzers it is super easy to use. I have lightroom and the entire adobe suite, although, its purely for recreational use, besides Adobe Premiere which is used for an entirely different scope of practice, I could see this replacing my Lightroom usage as its really got alot of the same features and not bunked down with loads of features that a user like myself really doesn't need. Just something to consider for anyone potentially considering using it.
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12-23-2021 at 10:32 AM.
12-23-2021 at 10:32 AM.
Quote from RonaldNimcheski :
Upon installation it says its a Photoshop Add-in

I thought is was a full program - I am not paying a subscription to this - Gimp 2.0 is what I use
It is a full program. It says it works/integrates with photoshop/Lightroom as an add-in. Also you're not paying for this as a subscription anyways.
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12-31-2021 at 07:24 AM.
12-31-2021 at 07:24 AM.
Quote from SlickyCelerySticks22 :
After like a 10 minute tutorial within the app, instantly went to soft editing some recent photos and wowzers it is super easy to use. I have lightroom and the entire adobe suite, although, its purely for recreational use, besides Adobe Premiere which is used for an entirely different scope of practice, I could see this replacing my Lightroom usage as its really got alot of the same features and not bunked down with loads of features that a user like myself really doesn't need. Just something to consider for anyone potentially considering using it.
Darktable is also free. They just released new version supporting R series cameras. Between DT and Luminar 4 which is better step up from DPP?
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12-31-2021 at 07:26 AM.
12-31-2021 at 07:26 AM.
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Free is always worth looking at, but long term, you will need to move to something else. I bought Luminar 3 and 4. If you are looking for something long-term, you could use Luminar 4 as a secondary tool and look for something else as a primary. The company's practices are not ethical. Luminar 4 was supposed to be their roadmap and they quickly dumped it and now Luminar AI is the future. They have done this move no less than 3 times.

Lots of broken promises. The last one that got me to jump was the promise of a DAM but never actually delivering on that promise. I have now settled on ACDSEE, Affinity, Topaz Noise, Sharpening tools. In the world of photo editing and management, sometimes one tool is not enough.

Free is good, but time costs money and I would suggest looking elsewhere to devote your time with. They are offering up a dead product in an attempt to get you to upgrade and who knows how long Luminar AI will be around before they decide to replace that with some other new business strategy. Go For the Free, don't be sucked into upgrading.
Is it worth spending time learning Darktable?
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02-11-2022 at 05:11 PM.
02-11-2022 at 05:11 PM.
Wow still works.
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07-05-2022 at 08:03 AM.
07-05-2022 at 08:03 AM.
The deal no longer works.
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