So for those who like the power of Luminar AI but aren’t ready to ditch their Lightroom catalog, Luminar AI is still an option. On the other hand, Luminar AI does offer quite a few tools that you can’t find anywhere else on the market, plus you can always use Luminar as a Lightroom plugin. This isn’t a dealbreaker, especially if you’re more of a content creator than a photographer, but if you were hoping for an improvement over Luminar 4, then you’re out of luck.

…Luminar AI performance is even more disappointing on this front because several of its most useful DAM features seem to have been lost, presumably in service to speed or simplicity (or maybe both). While previous iterations of Luminar never offered an especially comprehensive system for digital asset management (i.e., organizing your photos)… In fact, I’d like to get one of the most serious omissions out in the open right away: Interestingly, Skylum claims that Luminar AI is not a successor to Luminar 4, though Luminar AI seems to have inherited most of its editing tools, albeit with a few frustrating omissions.

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