So, this is a bit of a repeat step but is necessary as they have written the catalog file to improve performance. When you open Luminar AI for the first time, it will ask you to locate your images so that it can create a fresh catalog of all your images. This is the view you are brought to when you open the program.įor you Luminar 4 users, important note, it does not open/convert your Luminar 4 catalog. The Catalog in Luminar AI is quite functional for its purposes of letting you view your entire photo library. Part 1 will start out with the Catalog, Part 2 will be Templates, Part 3 will be Editing/Exporting The Catalog In order not to have it be one very long post, I’m breaking it down into several parts. More to come on this in the part 3 review post when we get into editing. This seems to be a trend in photo editors, the AI bit, and I see this as becoming the norm for all photo editors.
It has been designed for the beginner photographer and has options to add that level of user improve their image using AI but it also has the full set of tools a more advanced photographer would want to make more finite adjustments.Īs part of this, Luminar AI is taking advantage of AI (Artificial Intelligence) that will analyze your image and make adjustments with little effort on your part. Luminar AI is intended to be a program for everyone. There are many other programs that can serve this function well, those include Adobe Lightroom, On1, Capture One, ACDsee Photo for example. My view of what a catalog is is something that lets you tag, keyword, label, or add other metadata to your image. Although you can view your images in what they have labeled a Catalog, in my option, this is more of a browser than a catalog.
This is NOT a cataloging program, aka DAM (Digital Asset Manager). They, I believe, have taken the best of all their previous programs and some they acquired to make this new Photo editor that combines everything into one application. Instead of just patching things in Luminar 4, Skylum made the decision to start from scratch with this new program. Despite having the base name, this is an entirely new program. This is NOT an upgrade/update to Luminar 4.
I hope this to be an unbias review of their latest program Luminar AI. I have been a long-time Skylum customer, back even to the MacPhun days, and as such, I have seen their programs evolve over time.
As such some things may be a little different between the version reviewed and the final released version. This review is based upon a beta version of Luminar AI, Skylum’s latest photo editor.
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