Glad to hear that you already tested the tone mapping persona. Yes it needs further development and the whole RAW part as well. For Now I stick with Capture One for RAW. You must be one of the lucky ones to got Luminar 3 up and running, because lots of people have problems with it like me.
Are you on Windows or Mac?
This is what's wrong with Luminar 3 now in Windows:
Issues:
- Performance is key issue as everything is very sluggish
- Both viewing and editing
- Viewing a folder with 636 images takes forever to load
- Low res images previews populate reasonably quick however they look out of focus
- Loading "proper" preview takes ages! and the process sometimes seem to get stuck as edits do not get updated
- Shortcut keys do not vork properly
- Hitting "C" for crop accomplishes nothing
- Cropping presets work very flaky
- Choosing 16x9, for instance does nothing
- Fiddling around with selecting other aspects can get functionality working, but never initially
- Cropping takes ages to load
- After having opened a large image, in his case a pre merged panorama, which to a fair bit of time
- Selecting Crop opens crop view fairly swiftly but it takes ages to actually be able to crop as software is unresponsive
- After 15-20-30 seconds or a minute it actually lets you crop
- Closing crop with done takes minutes to update while screen flickers (CPU 100% , Mem 100%)
- Updating library preview is another minute...
Annoyances:
- Library view and filmstrip in edit view have different size for images in portrait and landscape - Depending on mode a landscape image is half the size of a portrait image and the other way around in the other mode
- Granted this view type is adopted by other consumer grade programs like iPhoto and Lightroom CC (Not Classic)
- You can not change the size of thumbnails edit mode...
- Adjustments
- Default for RAW develop is lens adjustment turned off and profiles set to Luminare Default
- After a about 6 clicks with the mouse this can be turned on
- Now copying the adjustments and applying them takes some time for the 600 images... however
- Profile setting was not copied! Doing this manually for all images is a lot of usless work...
- Possibly an issue?
- Histogram is virtually unusable
- The histogram is very small and course and not well visually defined
- Basically you can not see what you are doing with adjustments (you can turn on the warnings but as it is now it could be removed)
- Frame the histogram and then you can at lest see where your image resides...
And then I don't even talk about the editing that go's wrong/not remembered, missing search possibilities and the export problems.
Nice talking to you too!!
Regards,
David
