This New Editing Software Will Change Everything About How You Edit Portraits - Skylum Aperty

[@Tahakaro]

The first minus is the subscription model. The second is Skylum. What exactly is missing from the functions of their previous applications? There is Luminar Neo. There, too, I can lighten my face or change the color of my eyes. What's the problem? Skylum releases new software every year or two, abandoning the old one. And each time you need to migrate and get used to the new interface.

[@michaelludvik]

But this time you can pay for the portrait module from their previous abandoned software on a subscription basis...

[@patkay]

It's sad to see that so many people are so critical about Skylum. But to each their own I guess.

[@michaelludvik]

@@patkay I was actually a fan for quite a while and really loved what they were doing with AI and simplifying editing. Bought a few versions before I noticed that they'd release a new version annually, leaving previous versions issues untouched (particularly performance). So it effectively was an annual subscription in disguise. That said - love your work!

[@gamemusic90]

@@patkay davinci resolve would like word with you

[@Romeolmoore55]

Interesting, the subscription price kills it for me but I love how the product looks. Lightroom is still the goat.

[@AdbenPhotography]

have you noticed or have other luminar neo users that the images look strange when they are edited in luminar???

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

Louis Rossmann would say "No" to this subscription stuff. I have not upgraded from my CD/software based Photoshop on my MacBook Pro 2009 because of subscriptions.

[@patkay]

That's fair enough, but that particular setup would be a deal breaker for me - there are plenty of amazing features Photoshop has received in the past decade+ that are well worth the money in my opinion.

[@borkborkbork]

Bro is this sponsored? The link seems to have a tracking Id on it

[@patkay]

I do mention that it was all supplied by them, yes.

[@hotherside]

This man is living on the edge, shifting his partner’s face all over the place haha. Cool app!

[@patkay]

Lmao hopefully she doesn't watch this haha.

[@wiriadinata]

I think evoto is much better

[@CoryJacobsen]

Meh. It’s subscription. I’m done with that type of software.

[@n8mo]

Likewise. When you do the math, over multiple years SAAS is such a rip-off. I don’t know if I’ll ever switch from Affinity at this point. They developed the software once, so I’ll pay once. If Adobe (or whoever) want to make me pay for shiny new features, they should package them in a new version, and then sell that. If the features are good enough, I’ll upgrade. Otherwise, I bought the software and should therefore have it for life.

[@patkay]

Fair enough. Echo's a lot of sentiment here in the comments. For me personally, I don't mind paying subscription if the apps continue to improve. I think it's pretty difficult to expect paying a single price and expecting lifetime updates for any saas products in 2024. Times change.

[@CoryJacobsen]

@@patkay yeah - I just wish more software companies would offer a lifetime license and have you pay for larger updates. Would it cost the same? Probably - who knows - just seems more transparent.

[@gamemusic90]

@@patkay davinci resolve would like word with you

[@etuoyo]

There were 1000 licences available that weren't subscription based. We had not seen anything of the software at the time so had to purchase based on faith. Since I had seen what they had done with Luminar Neo I took that leap of faith and paid for it.

[@JanMalysz]

I recently tried Luminar neo and if you don't have very high demands or only upload photos to socials or don't use the sliders too much, it's quite OK, mainly because of the editing speed. However, I find that the output from the LR is simply better, smoother, more controlled, and this is especially noticeable at 100% zoom. But if a person is blind or does not have very high standards, why not. Btw this is definitely not a sponsored video :D

[@patkay]

I don't think that's fair for Luminar Neo. I'm not a fanboy, but I definitely gave it a serious go and it's most certainly a great piece of software once you get used to the workflow. That being said, I stick to Lightroom Classic because moving off that monolith is too difficult.

[@iRorik]

Subscriptions?? Not for me

[@patkay]

Fair enough!

[@gamemusic90]

subscription model is curse and we can thanks adobe for that

[@PsychoClown3]

The thumbnail says, just 3 clicks, the video is 23 minutes long. Those are very long clicks.

[@patkay]

Funny.

[@NotAgainJHN]

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[@BizonURS]

Well, seems like it's way worse than Evoto and Portrait Professional ..... the effects looks unnatural af ... not worth the subscription for sure