Hi, Is it just me that is fed up to the back teeth with photo software developers?
I decided that I did not want to go down the subscription route with Adobe so thought try something else and bought Affinity Photo and also splashed out on the Skylum offerings Luminar and Aurora HDR. The one thing that I really use a lot is the X-Rite ColourChecker to make my own camera profiles and also use it for white balance across multiple images taken around the same time of day. This option has been requested by users of Affinity Photo over two years ago but still nothing although recently you could get Affinity Photo FREE with an X-Rite Colourchecker (but they are not compatable!!!), lucky I kept my Lightroom 6 option. Skylum on the other hand bombarded the photography forums with there offerings all those expert photographers telling you how good this software was and smiling at the same time.
Skylum have just released an updated version of Luminar to Luminar Jupiter and they state "Inside there’s over 300 improvements and updates to make Luminar more responsive and useful. We have made some significant performance enhancements that allow you to edit your photos much faster. In fact, some users report seeing speed gains of up to twelve times faster!" Problem is for Windows it does not work and not only not work but overwrites the installed software and makes that none usable, they no this now but still have it advertised all over the web. Don't no about other countries but in the UK I beleive that a product must be suitable for consumer use by law? Just seems to me that software companies are so money Oriented that the customer always being right has gone out the window and from what I read here and on other sites Adobe are not much better on many occassions. Put anything like this on there Facebook pages and it is removed quicker than an object from an image could ever be. Rant Over, Thanks for reading. Russ