{"id":17577,"date":"2017-03-31T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17577"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:25:56","slug":"photo-editing-as-one-with-luminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/photo-editing-as-one-with-luminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Editing as One with Luminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17141\">Jeff Carlson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17141\">\n<p>Luminar is a bold bet intended to compete against Photoshop &mdash; still the biggest gorilla in the jungle for professionals and enthusiasts &mdash; while also beckoning those who haven&rsquo;t yet moved on from Apple&rsquo;s long-discontinued Aperture. Luminar is also trying to appeal to casual photographers who want more image editing capabilities than Apple&rsquo;s Photos. Plus, with its $69 price, Luminar hopes to appeal to the folks who don&rsquo;t want to pay Adobe&rsquo;s monthly or yearly subscription fee to use Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I like about Luminar is that it&rsquo;s relentlessly non-destructive. When editing photos, you don&rsquo;t want to actually change the pixels in the original image, something older software did and many of Photoshop&rsquo;s legacy controls still do. Non-destructive editing not only makes it easy to revert to the original and start over, but also change different aspects of what you&rsquo;ve edited to that point.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth calling out the fact that Luminar does not attempt to manage your photo library. I normally wouldn&rsquo;t even bring that up, since Luminar is an editing application, but Macphun has said that a future update will add library management, too. If you&rsquo;re accustomed to managing, opening, and editing photos in Lightroom or Photos, it feels almost archaic to edit image files in another app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Carlson: Luminar is a bold bet intended to compete against Photoshop &mdash; still the biggest gorilla in the jungle for professionals and enthusiasts &mdash; while also beckoning those who haven&rsquo;t yet moved on from Apple&rsquo;s long-discontinued Aperture. Luminar is also trying to appeal to casual photographers who want more image editing capabilities than Apple&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1501,30,32,1381,153],"class_list":["post-17577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-luminar","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}