I've Moved from Adobe

Maybe want to change the thread title? ;)
 
Hanley said:
Don't get me wrong, I love Lightroom, the masking updates in the last few years have been amazing.
I've just come to the end of a 1 year student all apps plan, as my son was in 6th form studying for his A-levels, so that ends next month and I don't want to continue with that plan at £32 per month.

I may just take the Lightroom plan for now, as it's so good I rarely have to go to Photoshop, and I still have Affinity Photo if needed.

But some of the AI tools in Neo are quite impressive. :)
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Paul that is not a bad combination as LR will do all the asset management including importing, initial rating, editing, searching, exporting and printing. While Affinity is not quite as complete as PS, I think I could live with this combination, if I had to. Those of us who enter national and international competitions will generally steer clear of AI as such images are not allowed.

Dave
 
Dael_Pix said:
Sadly it was slow for me. I have 32Gigs of RAM. Maybe having software and photos on an external didn't help but I didn't have enough storage on my other 3 in PC case.

Listened toa podcast on how to speed Luminar up and they mentioned upgrading to 32RAM was enough.

I have Lightroom and the photos on the same external and don't have any problems with speed.
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I've only got 16gb of RAM, and Neo runs perfectly, but I have the program loaded onto my main internal drive, photos are stored on an external hard drive
 
Nikon photographer said:
I've only got 16gb of RAM, and Neo runs perfectly, but I have the program loaded onto my main internal drive, photos are stored on an external hard drive
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Agreed that it's not best practice to run programs from external drives. I use my principal drive for the operating system and all applications. Everything else is on external SSD drives.
 
Dave Canon said:
Paul that is not a bad combination as LR will do all the asset management including importing, initial rating, editing, searching, exporting and printing. While Affinity is not quite as complete as PS, I think I could live with this combination, if I had to. Those of us who enter national and international competitions will generally steer clear of AI as such images are not allowed.

Dave
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Does that include using AI selections to dodge/burn, etc?
 
I too didn't like Neo at first (prefered Luminar 4) but now it's all I use. I recently discovered it has LUT's, so its really good at giving an image a 'look' and their are lot's of them to download on the tinternet. For the money I find it hard to beat.
 
jerry12953 said:
Does that include using AI selections to dodge/burn, etc?
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In the past PS features like "Content Aware" reconstructed parts of an image from the pixels already in your image; this was considered OK. However the AI version may use pixels from many other images which are not yours; these are not allowed. Many Topaz modules have AI in the title but only work on your pixels so are fine but this makes it all confusing. Dodging and burning is still lightening and darkening various pixels so still vey much as it used to be in the darkroom. I cannot recall seeing AI associated with dodging and burning.

Dave
 
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