Photoblog

I’ve been playing for about 15 minutes with the brand new and shiny image processing software released by the guys from Macphun: Luminar 2018. I got caught a bit in the hype surrounding this new product, with a quite cheap pre-release price. But the reason is actually a different one: the inclusion of a SmugMug Power plan (72 eur value) in the Luminar 2018 list benefits ( we had a long term wish to switch from Zenfolio to SmugMug – more about this in a future post) . I have quite a lot of contradicting feelings and impressions about Luminar after the first tests . This is far from being a comprehensive review (I might write one later, when getting the chance to try it out more). Bellow is a very quick results of my trials. Interface: the interface is clean and quite intuitive. Lots of things look surprisingly identical to Lightroom or Photoshop. There are many functionality that have been totally cloned out from the Adobe products (HSL filter, Chanel mixer, Colour balance). Eve...

Recently I heard about a new tool for Black and White conversion called Tonality Pro. It is on of the interesting product produced by the guys from MacPhun and it addresses only to Mac users. Tonality Pro can be downloaded and tried for free for 15 days. I will write this informal review having as a reference Nik Silver Efex Pro which is what I currently use for my black and white work all time. As Nik Silver Efex is generally recognised as a market standard and a product of high quality and maturity in the world of photography plugins, I must admit that the bar is very high for any competitor. Tonality Pro comes as standalone application or as plugin for Photoshop CC/Lightroom/Elements/Aperture. I am going to test it only as plugin for Photoshop as my workflow is entirely in CC, so going out in an external application and importing image back to CC does not really make sense for me.The first think I must say is that it is a bit slow. Both lunching it and applying some p...