HDR effects with the Tone Mapping Persona
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If you need to distort or warp images, a dedicated Liquify Persona can be used to achieve a variety of effects, from pinch and twirl to adding turbulence or creating a mesh clone. These masks can also be combined into compound masking techniques for even more control over how you edit and manipulate your photographs for the best results.įor more complex tasks where users require the option to check between different aesthetics, layer states make it simple to alternate between different compositions and effects in a single click. Serif has also included several new mask tools such as the band-pass mask which complement the hue and luminosity range masks for more precise masking of landscapes and other photographs. If you have a passing familiarity with basic image editing software, you’ll grasp the Photo Persona in a short space of time and quickly achieve the results you’re looking for. Pretty much any manipulation techniques you can perform in Adobe’s flagship software are replicated here, including various selection and brush tools and a broad variety of filters. And it doesn't duplicate your host software's database efforts.Affinity Photo 2 includes all the photo editing tools found in PhotoshopĪffinity Photo 2 continues the trend of matching many of the common features found in Photoshop across its editing tools, which can be accessed in the Photo Persona interface. So I'd appreciate it if those who have more recent versions would tell me if some of the above points have been addressed.įYI, I think Topaz Studio 2 is a better, more reliable product, if this sort of purposely non-complete editor/plugin appeals to you. I'm not all that impressed with L4, certainly not enough to try out more recent versions. But so far, I haven't felt a strong need to replace the sky all that often in my photos. I mean it WAS free, so I have no sunk cost in L4 that I need to rationalize. Is easy sky replacement enough of a reason for me to keep L4? I don't know. In this particular case, I think this comparison is fair since the points listed above, pretty much apply to EVERY version of ACDSee Ultimate since it's original release. Plus, I can use 3rd party plugins with ACDSee Ultimate.
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Everything L4 can do, ACDSee can do better, faster, and more reliably. With the possible exception of sky replacement, an ACDSee Ultimate user with software at least 4 years old has no real reason to use L4. It always quits L4 and usually returns to ACDSee. Just about any time I cancel an action, it cancels the edit completely and returns it to ACDSee.(and you can't put Gigapixel AI in the L4 workflow!) That, to me, is why Luminar needs to be able to use noise control plugins. And at this point, ACDSee's native noise control is now just starting to get competent after being down where Luminar 4 is now. Especially when compared to ACDSee's Noise control and Light EQ. Noise control and luminosity control aren't that great.What Luminar means by "Installing Plugins" is that you can use Luminar as a plugin with other tools. When looking up "Installing Plugins" in the Luminar User's file, I was surprised to learn there is no way to use Topaz or Nik plugins with it.
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not really suitable for managing an image DB of more than a couple of thousand files. The Luminar DB is primitive and can only search by name, date, or file extension.I wonder if the point above has something to do with that. Round Trips to Luminar from ACDSee aren't always successful.Even when using the far superior ACDSee database, a round trip to/from Luminar results in the Luminar DB recording the image there as well as in the ACDSee DB.It's extremely slow to boot and build the DB.Sky replacement is very easy to do, though it is a tad "fiddly" when trying to get a natural look and balance the sky with the rest of the photo.
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Luminar 4 is an odd, VERY odd piece of software, especially when compared to the ALL-IN-ONE design of ACDSee Ultimate 2022.