It’s SO cool to see so much excitement and curiosity about MacPhun’s Luminar! The Windows Beta should be available shortly to all and right now only the Mac version is available for purchase. Knowing Nik was going, I’ve been using Luminar since last October. In that time, I have been working to recreate in Luminar my favorites in Nik which is not really fair to Luminar because, in many ways, it does a better job (for example with the following Procontrast Preset, I can tweek a whole of small details you can’t in Nik and that’s huge!). For example, I’m posting here for the first time my Preset for what I call Procontrast. Procontrast is a Nik Color Efex filter I’ve used since I was part of the team that developed it. It is essential to my workflow! There is no easy or clean way at this time to share my Luminar Presets like I have in the past for Nik recipes. So for right now, watch Scott Kelby’s class on how to make a preset and then you can plug these numbers into it to get Moose’s CURRENT number he likes for Procontrast (I say current cause it will evolve).
Moose’s Procontrast as of 07.12.17
Understand this is a pluggin inside of Photoshop. In my workflow, it replaces Nik (it is not how I process a Raw file). My only complaint with Luminar is that in my workflow working with Smart Objects in Photoshop, it just doesn’t automatically reapply the filter I go in and out of the Smart Object, I have to click Apply which in reality is no biggie! Will I share more? Of course, I have no secrets and once I’m TOTALLY satisfied with my creation and know they will work for others I will post them.