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You’ll be able to work with Raw & JPG versions of the same image in a more convenient way. Luminar 3 is at best a convenient and fast photo browser, but I wouldn’t call it a digital asset manager just yet, not until we can actually manage and search our photos using metadata and combine filter attributes. Further since we can’t view or search metadata you have to have a well thought out file structure otherwise you won’t find any Dublin images or by the very least it will be a lot of scrolling in your library view. You either view edited photos only, or three stars or more, but you will also see any four or five star rated images as well. Say you wanted to look for three star images from Dublin that has been edited you can’t, at least not via way of metadata or searching. However you can only apply one filter attribute at a time and the star rating attributes are based on # of stars or more, making it impossible to combine several filter attributes or viewing a single star rating. We have some basic filtering of photos favourites (picked/flagged), colour labels, unmarked, rejected, edited and star ratings along with some basic sorting options. So what do we have and what is the impact?
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This is a huge letdown and means we are missing basic asset management features available in native file managers in macOS (Finder) and Windows (File Explorer). We have no way of viewing, editing or searching metadata of a photo, such as Keywords, Tags, EXIF or IPTC metadata. Skylum is trying to build a new modern DAM that is not bloated with unnecessary features and that is a good thing, however unlike the performance side of things the DAM features which makes a DAM are virtually nonexistent. Also notice how Lightroom has yet to render a preview for many of the images while Luminar has.
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The video shows scrolling thought a subset of the full catalogue, Luminar has a much smoother and much faster scrolling than Lightroom. However even at that stage the preview rendering is certainly faster than Lightroom which means you will be able to start working on images faster.
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The only time Luminar needs to generate a preview is if the RAW file does not contain an embedded preview or you import other image formats that do not contain embedded previews. The reason why it is so fast, is because unlike Lightroom, Luminar uses the embedded JPEG preview of the RAW file, hence it does not need to generate previews in most cases. In other words it blows Lightroom out of the waters when it comes to importing and generating a preview. Importing of the near 6000 image s was blazingly fast and even more impressive was that 95% of the images had preview thumbnails instantly visible. Well, what is there to say other than Skylum makes good on their promise of “supercharged”. I imported the same images to Luminar 3 as I have in my Lightroom catalogue containing roughly 6000 images to see how Luminar stacks up performance wise.
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I run Luminar 3 on the same computer I run Luminar 2018, Affinity Photo and Lightroom a MacBook Pro Retina (Mid 2012) with an Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB of memory and a 256 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) running macOS 10.14 (Mojave). As promised in my earlier article I will also reveal my list of features Skylum would need to add or improve for Luminar to become the industry leader.
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In this article we will have a look at the new library module and how it stacks up as a digital asset manager (DAM) and see if Skylum lives up to their bold statement of delivering a supercharged DAM. This means Lightroom and CaptureONE users have an even bigger reason to switch over to Luminar. The new Luminar 3 is here and with a much needed update, the addition of library management.