As of this current release, Luminar does not yet save files in the proprietary. Another great feature is the ability to have multiple catalogs and an easy way to back them up too.ġ0. And speaking of editing your photos, everything is done non-destructively and every edit you do is stored in the catalog. This could be a huge time saver! Originally if I wanted to do this, I would have had to create a Preset (Now called Looks in Luminar 3) and apply that preset to the other files I wanted to adjust via Batch Processing.Ĩ. Simply select one photo and Edit it, then select other photos you want to sync the adjustments to and all of your adjustments will be applied to the other photos. A really cool feature – my favorite – is that you can Sync Adjustments from within your Library. You can add and remove photos at will in and out of the Albums you create and your original files will be safe in their original locations.ħ. These are virtual Albums that don’t take up any extra space on your hard drive and are used to better organize your photos. You can also sort your images by Capture Time, Edit Time, File Name, Type & Size.Ħ. You can use all of these tags to sort your images in the Library for quick access. You can give photos a star rating from 1-5, give them a Picked or Rejected tag, and give them a color label of either None, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, or Purple. Quick Edits are photos you open directly into Luminar that for whatever reason you don’t want to have added to your Library for Luminar to keep track of.ĥ.
There is a shortcut to Recently Added photos as well as Recently Edited. You can instantly find photos organized by year, month, and day and at a glance see how many photos are in each category. After adding your photos to your Catalog, Luminar 3 has some great shortcuts to find them. Low-res thumbnail previews are viewable right away as you scroll through a folder and almost instantly a sharper thumbnail preview is generated.Ĥ. Browsing your photos in thumbnail view is extremely fast as well. In just 4 minutes and 34 seconds I was able to start browsing and rating my images!ģ. Using my 2018 MacBook Pro with Mojave, a 2.6GHz i7 processor with 32GB of RAM with my RAW files on a LaCie RAID external hard drive with a Thunderbolt connection, I added 65,500 RAW files to my catalog.
Adding photos to your Catalog is extremely fast. Your files will be moved/renamed/deleted in Finder/Explorer as well.Ģ. You can also use Luminar 3 to move/rename/delete files.
This is unlike Lightroom, where if you move a file in Finder/Explorer, Lightroom will have no idea where it went. If you move files outside of Luminar with your Finder or Windows Explorer, Luminar will know about it and adjust its catalog accordingly. It’s important to note that Luminar 3 exactly mirrors your hard drive. You can even import files from a card reader and have Luminar 3 handle the organization. You can create multiple catalogs to organize just the photos you want to keep organized by adding folders from your computer, external hard drives, and even cloud storage. Luminar 3 can now keep your photos organized with its new Library addition.