Love it
Easy to use, love the option of actually purchase it and not subscription(!) Team working hard and update app from time to time with new features. Can’t wait to see what next 😁❤️
Still not ready for prime time
Has a lot of potential with some of the tools and presets but the mobile versions even on the m4 chip and the iPhone 18 pro max are still very buggy with frequent crashes and hangs this can be a frustrating experience, especially when you find yourself “holding your breath” after being deep in edits and hoping it doesn’t crash. For now I’ll stick to Lightroom and capture one on my iPad.
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No HSL !!!!!!!
Seriously.. no HSL module on a photo editor ???? And no way to save mid edit…. You are joking right ????? How can you even justify charging for it without the basic functions of a photo editor ??
It WAS a good app, then…
I was happily using the app and my photos looked pretty good. The enhance function made the photos look great and the skies function turned cloudy days into partly cloudy or bright blue. Now, the skies function only shows two choices and freezes. Can’t do anything. And I paid for lifetime. Not happy.
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Useful for quick edits, but not a fully developed/tested app
This app shows great promise, but is let down by poor integration to the file manager and frequent crashes.
On the positive, you there are some really nice features that give quick/good results. I especially like the Light Depth feature and skin blemish/smoothing features.
While you can open files from the file manager (as well as photo gallery), full resolution exports can only be saved to the iPad photo gallery, which does not support my preferred workflow. I end up having to re-export from the gallery, making each photo edit slow and clunky.
The app locks up or crashes frequently. This is especially true when working with OM System (e.g. OM-3) RAW files. In addition, there are some of my OM System 50Mb (hand-held) RAW files that Luminar just cannot export and the come out black. This is disappointing when you have just spent time editing them. It seems that the software developers didn’t put any code in to check for running out of resources so Luminar could gracefully handle the situation. As a developer, this seems unacceptable and I speculate that they were rushed into a release before they had carried out basic testing.
As it stands, I will probably only use the app to power through quick JPEG light edits of family photos and carry on using Affinity with RAW files for photos that deserve more considered edits.
On the positive, you there are some really nice features that give quick/good results. I especially like the Light Depth feature and skin blemish/smoothing features.
While you can open files from the file manager (as well as photo gallery), full resolution exports can only be saved to the iPad photo gallery, which does not support my preferred workflow. I end up having to re-export from the gallery, making each photo edit slow and clunky.
The app locks up or crashes frequently. This is especially true when working with OM System (e.g. OM-3) RAW files. In addition, there are some of my OM System 50Mb (hand-held) RAW files that Luminar just cannot export and the come out black. This is disappointing when you have just spent time editing them. It seems that the software developers didn’t put any code in to check for running out of resources so Luminar could gracefully handle the situation. As a developer, this seems unacceptable and I speculate that they were rushed into a release before they had carried out basic testing.
As it stands, I will probably only use the app to power through quick JPEG light edits of family photos and carry on using Affinity with RAW files for photos that deserve more considered edits.
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