You can scale these to various sizes, with a selection of options, rather than a continuous slider. The gallery view or whatever it’s officially called, presents your images as a thumbnail mosaic. And it’s fast too, especially considering that the Mac I’ve been using it with is getting old (2012 Mac Pro). I’m actually impressed with how they’ve managed to re-architecture the software to change the way it works so fundamentally. It’s now much easier to edit lots of images at once compared to the previous version. Editing with the software is fast and works well. Instead it behaves more like Apple’s Photos, or Capture One, where you’re simply changing the tool interface. It’s also modeless - so no switching between separate library and edit “modules” like you do in Lightroom. You can also add albums, and there is a pre-built selection of tools for finding images based on date, favourites and images that have been edited. You can either add existing folders to it, or import images from your memory card etc. It also keeps in sync with changes made on the hard drive. The software uses a database / catalogue, so it’s much more than just a glorified file browser. I added a whole bunch of folders to it, and once the initial cataloguing was done (which can take a bit of time if you’re adding gigabytes of images like I did) browsing the images is pretty speedy. So what’s it like? Well, the first thing that struck me was that it’s pretty fast. It’s also still beta, so I’m not going to pass any judgements on stability etc (which, even for a beta has been mostly fine) I should note that I’ve only had access to the software for a limited time, so this is just a first look. I’ve been given access to a prerelease version, and after spending some time with it, here are my first impressions: It will go from working like Photoshop, where you have to open and image, work on it and then save it, to something more like Lightroom: where you have a whole library of images, and you can move from one to the other, without ever having to manually open or save. This will significantly change the way you work with Luminar. Later this month Skylum software is going to release Luminar 3 with Libraries. But it’s always had a few limitations, and the biggest of which has been the fact that it has been a single image at a time editor. It has a lot of unique features, and I find editing with it to be a fun and artistic way of working. The reason is that I like it so much is because it is a powerful piece of software and it doesn’t try to be like anything else. I’ve been a fan of Luminar ever since it first came out.
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