Pre-Browser Update Prior to DAM Launch
I would propose that it might be a great temporary update solution if the Devs could at least provide us with a way to see our images in a browser in Luminar. A bare bones browser that could have just the features of seeing hard drive folders and allowing users to edit and for it to remember those edits so that we do not have to make a .Tiff for every edit that comes into Luminar from outside some other app. This would reduce time spent walking an image around apps as well as staying inside of Luminar to cull, perhaps do some simple rating and then over to editing without leaving it. Instead of us all waiting until the DAM is complete, how about given us the browsing, culling, viewing and non destructive ability to stay inside the app and that would hold us together until you all are ready to release the advanced DAM features. T
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Oh dear. First I've realized that Luminar didn't have a browser.
A browser is NOT a DAM.
A browser enables you to quickly look at pictures in a file hierarchy, according to whatever characteristics you chose to put them in folders/directories.A DAM allows you to add keywords, captions, comments, then use any combination of those to find images.
E.g. I remember a picture of a rose hip with frost on it. I wanted to find the original. Ok. I remembered that it was winter, I remember that I shot it when the sun was well in the sky. So:
* Keyword: rose hip* Keyword: winter
* Keyword: frost* Exif Month = Between Nov - Mar
* Exif Time = Between 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
* Keyword: close-up
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Agreed , and yes I understand what a DAM is. I have Aperture still , Lightroom, and Capture One Pro as well as Alien Skin Exposure X3 so I know what you mean. I’m just saying at least give us the browsing ability to see our folders and perhaps stay in Luminar and have it remember your edits so that you do not have to make a tiff from a round trip every image you’d like to work on. If we at least had that for now then the DAM Could come in succession when it’s ready. This way we are not visiting the app for a one off trip , instead we shoot, come home and import into Luminar. If can have that. Then view , cull and rate and finally go into a edit or edits without leaving.
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This is another approach, and it has merits. In this scenario, Luminar is only a post processor.
You could call it from a browser, or a DAM as you saw fit.
People at Skylum could have a win here, by making a good DAM that didn't edit. This then could be used by the people who currently use Affinity, who use Photoshop, who use Gimp.
Right now there is no DAM presently sold that is as good as Aperture, and it comes short on my wishlist
In terms of marketing, I would sell it as one software package, but different licenses. E.g.:
You have a single package that contains Archivist, Luminar, and Aurora. If you buy Luminar, Archivist is limited to 5,000 pictures, and Aurora is limited to 1 hour use in a day. If you buy Archivist, both Luminar and Aurora are limited to an hour a day. Offer a deal on all three. -
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Skylum could have offered something great with their long-gestating DAM, but unfortunately it was born premature. Oliver, I too am still on Aperture. Even though I have purchased Capture One Pro, I am terrified of switching over - their DAM is reportedly slow and does not have several features that Aperture has.
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