I must be a naive idiot
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Back in the days of Luminar 3 things were going well. I was happy to abandon lightroom and the looks or presets I found quite useful. I began to build a body of work that satisfied my creative needs. I could work quickly with good results. It was good to be at this party
Eventually Luminar 4 came along and that was an obvious next step. The transition was smooth because my previous work migrated with success. I continued to dance at the Luminar party.
Aurora HDR comes along and on trust I chose to add the tool. It is somewhat useful but didn't find it flowed that well with Lumiar 4. It was more of a stand alone thing that produced massively large files. If I wanted to add finishing touches to any of those, importing them to L4 would be sluggish and unweildy. The party may have gone past the peak at this stage.
Then along comes Luminar AI and there was no bonding with me on that at all. It brought yet another editing environment and I faced working in one space or the other and without a migration tool could not find a way to wholly move onto LuminarAI. Also, LumiarAI is such a CPU hog. I can't do anything quickly anymore. I ended sitting this one out. ( wasted my money here.)
Now we have Luminar NEO and when I paid for it I was still using Luminar 4 hoping things would get better, I hoped NEO would be the next good step and a migration tool would arrive so I could consolidate my work on the new platform. NOPE. Regretably that's not happening. Though recently some kind of migration tool has appeared, it works only for LuminarAI catalogues and not Luminar 4 catalogues. Since Luminar AI had no migration tool for Luminar 4, I'm stuck with no path to get up to Luminar NEO. I'm still sitting this one out and feel I've wasted even more money.
I've looked at the community blogs and I see requests as old as four year about migration tools, Skylum promise these are on the map but as we see nothing has appeared. Skylum are obviously targeting other things. I'm now worried that my work will be stranded on dormant environments. All I need to be marooned is something like a OS change that blocks the apps from starting and I'll face starting everything from scratch. I see that looming ahead.
I'm thinking its time to leave the Luminar party and try find some other way of recovering from the hangover.
BTW Skylum. I don't want a patronising response. I want a path forward. Otherwise I'll drive off to another party and take as many friends with me as I can.
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Hi Nicholas,
We appreciate your taking the time and sharing your feedback with us.
The catalog migration from Luminar 4 to Luminar Neo is planned. However, because of the updated core architecture in Luminar Neo, it will take some time for our engineers to make the migration process possible.
Nevertheless, I have a workaround for you. Enthusiasts from Cyme created a migration tool from Luminar 4 to Luminar AI (for macOS only): https://cyme.io/migrating-from-luminar-4-to-luminar-ai/
You can migrate your catalog to Luminar AI and then to Luminar Neo using our migration tool.
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Hi Nicholas,
True words and welcome to the world of Skylum.
Well, it's quite gruesome what was done there under the old CEO. Many promises...many things were not kept. But Skylum, it must be acknowledged, is trying to get better. Without praising NEO to the skies, it is better than anything that has gone before. Shadows only come from the fact that Skylum continues to overload users with new tools in a desperate attempt to offer something similar to the competition. Yes, the new extensions are great, if only they would all work. I have already written a few posts on this. I think Skylum would have been better off releasing just one or two extensions, but then also in a functionality that is no longer beta. Skylum still needs to learn more here. Even well-known photographers criticize this about Skylum. And here Skylum must be careful that they do not scare away all customers. Because the competition on the market does not sleep and many others then do it better.Agatha has already written the necessary for the migration of the Luminar 4 catalog. In December Skylum's own tool for this should come out. Of course, this should have been much earlier and at best no extra tools would have been necessary for this, but during the installation a query would have come whether the catalog should be transferred to the new program. And then it would have already happened with the installation. And it is exactly about such small things. Here Skylum has to rethink.
Maybe Luminar is only useful as a plugin and not as a standalone application. But wait...Skylum only gives Lightroom and Photoshop the plugin. Other software like Affinity Photo, DXO PhotoLabs, ON1, Topaz etc. are not supported. And there we have it again...please Skylum, be more modern here and implement what the customers want.
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