Aurora HDr does great with bracketed shots and my last post showed it capably handles single photos . . . but, what about Luminar 3 by the same company?
OK, OK, I’m probably burning out my few readers with these comparisons. This will be the last one (for now), I promise.
Anyway, in THIS post I explored what Luminar 3 can do. Well, “explored” is a bit strong; I processed a few photos with it. But, I got to thinking (a dangerous thing that, I’m told); it seems to me both programs do similar things.
If you had to choose just one, which would you pick? Luminar’s advantage over Aurora is the file handling and catalog function it offers; it’s both an editor and a photo organizer. If you don’t need that (and if you shot bracketed series) Aurora processes photos very capably.
Well, I took the photos from the last post and ran a batch job using Luminar 3; I processed them using their Essentials Module and their AI Enhancer setting. So, here’s a gallery showing the original, the Aurora output, and the Luminar 3 output, in that order.
Not many words in this post . . . just photos.
Remember; both programs allow the tweaking of the processing. What you see here is the default output and only for one canned setting in each program. There are many canned settings in each program and each can be modified at will.
One other thing . . . Luminar 4 is coming out in November and it promises lots of improvements and enhancements. We’ll see.
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