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It was a good first effort, but fell short on the promised speed enhancements that we’d been told were possible. So Skylum started building a catalog into its software with version 3.0. When I started working at Skylum, I quickly realized that the company could in fact produce a catalog. My discovery of Luminar happened before I worked at Skylum (back then called MacPhun – I know, I know – and I count as one of my greatest achievements while President at Skylum getting them to change the name.) I always thought of Luminar as a nice plug-in one of many I used in conjunction with Photoshop and Lightroom. At this price, I felt compelled to get serious about finding alternatives. Then, in May of 2019, Adobe started testing raising the monthly price for their photography plan from $10 to $20 a month.

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In my opinion, Adobe’s more recent updates don’t feel like much of an upgrade and they announced that they would no longer sell boxed versions (non-cloud) versions of Photoshop or Lightroom. And again, initially, Adobe lived up to both promises. Adobe promised frequent, substantial, updates to the software and also promised to always make a paid version of each available, even if it were an older version. But those initial thoughts were premised on a couple of things. I calculated what an average photographer would spend during the previous model’s upgrade structure and decided it was a wash to pay monthly (or yearly) for the use of the software. Initially, I didn’t have a problem with the switch. For a company like Adobe, that was not a sustainable model, so they switched to a subscription based approach. I was on board with Adobe back when you just bought a box and the software was inside. I used Apple’s Aperture rather than Lightroom until Apple stopped supporting the program and then I reluctantly switched to Lightroom. In that case, Luminar 4.1 is (in my opinion) the best solution of its kind on the market. And maybe you just need something that will help you quickly catalog, sort, rate, enhance and share your images.

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You don’t want to use a program that is so difficult to learn you have to spend lots of hours studying how to make it work. Maybe you don’t want to “rent” software form Adobe for the rest of your life.

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You’re not going pro and you don’t care if you make money at your photography. But some of you may also be just one tier below. Many of you reading this fall into that category. Both those products are aimed at serious, aspiring and professional photographers. I say that from the standpoint that both Photoshop and Lightroom have been around for a long time, are very mature products, and have thousands of features. Luminar 4.1 is not a Photoshop or Lightroom replacement. But I am glad to say that with Luminar 4.1, I think Skylum has found a sweet spot between serving serious and casual photographers. Developing photography software even harder still.

The software business is much harder than it looks. (DISCLOSURE: I used to be President of Skylum US/China – my opinions here are my own, and not those of Skylum or its owners…) BASICS AND SOME HISTORY

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