Lightroom is notorious for being slow, whether it comes to importing photos or exporting photos, this process seems to get slower with each update. Luminar 4 is now able to use GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) to make it even faster in terms of performance. Now I have to add that my catalog in Luminar is nowhere as near as big compared to Lightroom but I find that Luminar is still heaps faster on a 7 year old Macbook when compared with Lightroom. Image previous is wonderfully quick and adjustment on any of the sliders are immediate. No need to start the import and go away for a long cup of coffee, you can start editing images right away while the rest of them are being imported. Luminar is amazingly faster than Lightroom, the preview generation and import is what you’d expect to be. Combine it with the capability to layer different presets, you can create some amazing results when it comes to editing your photographs. Luminar is certainly miles ahead in regards to Presets ie Looks.
Luminar vs lightroom software#
Lightroom has been the leader in this space for long time but there are many other software that have leaped miles ahead. There is no way to see what that preset will do until you however over it. So you really need to scroll across all the presets till you find the one you want. However, one fundamental difference between Luminar and Lightroom is that each preset is just a name until you hover over it to see the preview which is provided in the Navigator and main Develop window.
Luminar vs lightroom for free#
Presets are plenty for Lightroom, you can download many of them for free and also buy them online from your favourite artist or store. You can also Layer different Looks on top of each other and create something unique, which can be quite satisfying in itself. Once you decide to select the Look you want, you also have the ability to dial overall strength of the Look from 100% down to 0%. Even though its a small thumbnail it still gives you a great idea of how your image would look so you can decide whether to use it or now. One thing that Luminar does better than Lightroom is that it shows you a preview in form of each Look in preset panel at the bottom. Presets are called Looks in Luminar and they are many looks available in Luminar out of the box. However, if you are only need to organise folders as in there original folders then you can certainly get by with Luminar. So in this case Lightroom wins hands down with its advanced capabilities to sort, organise and manage your images.
Lightroom is much better at image management but let’s face it, because it has been at it for longer than Luminar. This will re-scan the selected folder and import or remove any folders added or deleted from the folder. You can also synchronise folders after they have been added to Lightroom, by simply right clicking on the folder name and selecting Synchronise. You can create Smart collections that will display images that match selected criteria and new images will automatically add to these collections when they match the defined criteria. There are many capabilities that allow you to organise your images, filter by Camera, Lens, Year or any other metadata that can be related to images. So it does this very well and probably has a huge edge over Luminar. This is something Lightroom was built for, not just editing but cataloging your images. This is one of the drawbacks for me and I really hope that they provide an easier way in future versions of Luminar that allow you to refresh a folder. You also cannot force a refresh on a folder, this seems to happen only when you start Luminar each time. You have a Favourites folder as well as Import folder but that’s about it. You cannot create any Smart collections that will dynamically filter and find images for you. You can easily see images grouped by year as there is automatic search folders created as you import images by Year. Although Luminar has had image management capabilities it does not match up to what Lightroom can do.
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