Luminar 3 so slow
This program is so slow it is completely unusable on my PC. 2018 no problem. It took 25 minutes to load and then could not edit. For me,,,,piece of junk.
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Just thrown good money at Luminar 3 because I'd heard good things about Luminar only to find it runs so slow its unusable, read your planning an update at End Of January.... So having got my money I have to wait a month to use the software?... Can't even install 2018 for time being as it only offers me Luminar 3 as a download
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Same here, It is very slow and cannot handle my collection of about 50K pictures. The previews cache grew from 8K to 65K and seemed to be still growing. Once it got to 50K it then slowed down and crashed and then froze on startup screen for over 2 hrs when restarted. I deleted the catalog and imported 6K photos in and it is slow but usable. However once I edit a photo and go back to select it, the colors are corrupt. The filters are also very slow as well compared to 2018. Major memory problem for sure or they left debug code in. Seen that many times. This is not even Beta as others called it. I think we are the beta program. They released us an alpha. I like 2018 despite its flaws (esp windows version) and Skylum has been very good with adding some of the missing features into the windows version. But this is usable and seems like Mac version no better. 50K files is not that many. If they ran a beta test it was to people that do not use it and are lightroom users who like to play with software and like the trainer imported about 100 files and said no issue, works great. I would like to see their instructors do a video on using it with 100K or 1M photos. The one instructional video even was proud it did not use much space for the catalog, but mine was over 1G with 50K in it, Sure better than capture1 and lightroom but if that is what is required to be usable so be it. There catalogs about 3-4G. I have my catalogs on a removable USB HDD so not a big deal. Not sure external HDD was tested as well, at least on windows version.. That seems to be worse than on internal C-drive.
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I bought the software yesterday as I read very good things about Luminar 3 in several reviews. Had I known before that it's so slow on my fast PC with Windows 10, to the point that I can't use it at all, I would have never purchased it. I feel ripped off.
In the current state selling this software is like a scam. You pay money for something you can't use. A patch that offers basic functionality a month from now is unacceptable.
I will never buy anything from Skylum again nor recommend it to anyone.
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Luminar 3 (for Mac) has turned Luminar 2018 into a bloated, useless piece of junk. It takes forever to load, and is totally unresponsive when in use.
What have you done to turn something so good into something so terrible?
I'm going back to Lightroom until you can get this mess of a program working how it should do again.
Are you even listening Skylum? I fear not....
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That is BOGUS, why should we have to split up our catalog just because this POS is junk. You sold us on an alternative to Lightroom and this is BY FAR no where near lightroom. You put it out before fully testing on all platforms and now you are scrambling to get it fixed and to put out the fires of all the bad press you are getting.
I am running windows 10 Pro, I7 at 4ghz and 32ghz of RAM. GTX960 video card.
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I agree with all the problems , this is a nightmare not worth my time in windows version, Is still really a MAC only software, the Windows 10 version is like something you would buy on late night tv Info commercial...LR 6 I use is sooooo better and have not paid for it in 3 years ago for cheap upgrade
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It is too slow, thumbnails take too long to display. Very disappointed ! Each time I restart Luminar the thumbnails are displayed one by one ... 15 seconds for 30 thumbnails. No fluidity. Picasa was a rocket compare to it, Darktable is faster.
If I use it through the network it becomes unusable.
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Oh Skylum what are you doing?? You can't launch software that hasn't been tested thoroughly in real world situations. Luminar 3 is completely unuseable on my mid-hi spec Windows 10 PC. Whole evening wasted waiting for catalogue to load. Serious photographers have BIG catalogues and this product clearly can't handle them. It is way, way, way too slow. Back to the brilliant Luminar 2018 for me....
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I'm glad I didn't try and access ALL my library of more than 100,000 images - raw files, tiffs, psds, jpgs and all...
I tried it on a small folder of about 3,000 images, and left it. It took half an hour and then didn't display all of the thumbs... and it's not as though I don't have a grunty machine or not enough ram. Back to using L 2018 for the fun edits only.
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Good to hear Angela.
@ thysje I am surprised at half hour to load 3000 images, I have 6000 and most are RAW files, then jpgs My 5-6yr old desktop is I7, 12 gig mem, 2gig NVIDIA graphic card, nothing new. Still loaded my catalog in maybe7-10 minutes
I agree that any LARGE catalog dont stand a chance
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