{"id":21399,"date":"2018-05-01T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21399"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:25:18","slug":"luminar-2018-first-impressions-from-a-non-power-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/luminar-2018-first-impressions-from-a-non-power-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminar 2018 First Impressions From a Non-Power User"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/luminar-2018-first-impressions-from-a-non-power-user\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/luminar-2018-first-impressions-from-a-non-power-user\/\">\n<p>Yes, I&rsquo;m sure power users will find all sorts of things that Affinity Photo can do that Luminar cannot, but the advantage to Luminar is that all its features are accessible.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What I like about this is that the Raw Develop tool is available all the time; with Affinity Photo, you need to perform the &ldquo;development&rdquo; process, then you move on to other editing. With Luminar &#x2013; as with Apple Photos &#x2013; these options are always available, so if you want to tweak shadows, highlights, or exposure later, these changes apply to the original raw file, not the JPEG that you convert.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For most of my editing, Apple Photos is sufficient, but Luminar gives me access to a lot more features, and it can be used as an extension within Photos. Many photographers who don&rsquo;t want to edit much will like Luminar&rsquo;s ability to make one-click improvements, and others will find the more advanced features to be useful. It can&rsquo;t do everything, but it can do most of what most people need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: Yes, I&rsquo;m sure power users will find all sorts of things that Affinity Photo can do that Luminar cannot, but the advantage to Luminar is that all its features are accessible. [&#8230;] What I like about this is that the Raw Develop tool is available all the time; with Affinity Photo, you need [&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":"2018-05-01T19:25:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"cd497222-2ee9-46c2-88df-6b7dbd67cf54","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-01T19:25:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzUlyIi7pRsKI32t9vWfPVA","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":[],"tags":[1501,30,32,1529,153],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-luminar","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-13","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","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=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21400,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}