For those looking to replace Photoshop - for Photography purposes

[thewayne]

You can do a lot of things with Photoshop that don't include photography, so I put that little disclaimer there.

Once again, Humble Bundle has launched their Luminar Bundle. Lots of good software and add-ins, starting at $1 for their Photolemur entry product and $20 for the whole shebang. The charity for this package is Razom for Ukraine, provides "The current emergency response is focused on purchasing tactical medicine items and supplies for Ukrainian hospitals. supplies for critical situations like blood loss and other tactical medicine items. They have a large team of volunteers that tracks down and purchases supplies, and a logistics team that then gets them to Ukraine. They’re coordinating with several partner organizations worldwide and are also working with governments and embassies on establishing humanitarian corridors."

The money you pay for bundles, and you can pay more than the $20, is split three ways: between the charity, Humble, and the publisher. There's a widget on the right side that will let you divide the percentage split. Myself, I usually divide it into roughly even thirds.

The Bundle is up for twenty days.

One word of warning re: Luminar vs Photoshop. Unless Luminar has been changed to allow this, it is missing one feature that I find is kind of critically lacking. In Photoshop, you can create a new, blank, canvas to work with. For example, if I want to excerpt a graphic screen shot for reference and save it as a JPEG or TIFF, I can create a new file in PHotoshop, and it may recognize that I have a graphic in my paste buffer and size a new empty canvas appropriately, ready for me to paste my graphic into it.

Luminar does not (or did not) have the capability of creating a new blank canvas. It can (or could) only open photo files for editing. Which is absolutely fine for editing photos. It's just a slightly different layer of capability of functionality between the two products, and if this is something that you need to do sometimes, you're not going to find it in Luminar. I just wanted to give you a heads up and save you some frustration.

Luminar, and Photolemur, as amazing programs. But they're not the same as Photoshop. Some aspects are better, some worse, but they are not point to point the same.

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/photo-editing-cyber-bundle-with-luminar-ai-software

Comments

empty canvas

[bibliofile]

If you're working with photos, doesn't that mean they're a regular size? Is it possible to create a file that's essentially an empty canvas of the usual size, then use that file? Or do you often have copied things of random sizes?

Re: empty canvas

[thewayne]

Well, that's one of those questions whose answer is "It depends".  My Lumix produces 16x9 aspect ratios, and all three of my current main shooters produce different file sizes, even if my two Canons produce the same aspect ratios.  But Luminar is simply not designed to build images from nothing, which Photoshop can do.  That's the basic diff.

Re: empty canvas

[bibliofile]

Sorry, I wasn't clear on the page, just in my head: I meant, can't you create some files in another program to open in Luminar and use as empty canvases? Say, small medium & large in 16x9 ratios for your Lumix images?

OTOH, I think this capacity (or lack thereof) helps show that Luminar is meant for editing one type of image, while Photoshop is clearly meant to do much more.

Re: empty canvas

[kathmandu]

(GIMP 2.6.8, which I use, lets you create new canvases. And it's free.

Newer versions probably allow that too; I just stick with the version I know.)

Re: empty canvas

[thewayne]

I never cared for Gimp, I found their UI unusable - for me - and they don't work with RAW, or didn't at the time. I won't edit JPEG if I Can avoid it because of lossy compression, you lose detail every time you save it. Of course, you can save as TIFF or some other lossless format and then export to JPEG when you're done, you just have to develop your workflow around that.

[disneydream06]

That's cool that they share the cost like that. :)
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Shared revenues/profits.