are all easily available in both programs. Adjustments such as tone, contrast, HSL, vibrance, white balance, etc. Luminar’s AI Sky Replacement tool is frankly astounding.Īs I mentioned before, both Luminar 4 and Lightroom Classic have both basic and advanced photo editing tools.

Lastly, I don’t think I could live without being able to search via metadata – I use it all the time. On top of that, most serious photographers need both keywords and more advanced metadata. It also has smart collections and metadata import presets.īasically, Lightroom Classic makes it exceptionally easy to organize and tag your photos any way you want. (I’ve needed this feature more than once!)

Not only can you set star ratings, pick/reject, create custom tags, etc., you can also filter your entire library based on almost any characteristic available in the EXIF and IPTC metadata. It takes a bit of learning to get started with it, but once you know it, it does just about everything. Lightroom, on the other hand, has a robust cataloging and organization system. This will eventually get fixed in a future update, but for now, the only way to tag your images is to use ratings, flags and color labels. That is a major no-go for those planning on doing stock photography, adding copyrights, or who like to search for images via text. One thing Luminar 4 doesn’t yet have is the ability to work with keywords or IPTC metadata. It also allows for Albums, but the only way to create them is to drag and drop and that doesn’t really work out so well for those of us with large collections. You can do basic sorting like star ratings, pick/reject, and color labels, but not much more. They only got Luminar’s library working recently and it’s still pretty basic. File management in Luminar 4 is simple and intuitive, allowing you to drag images straight in to start editing.Īs far as the catalog system is concerned, Skylum is pretty new at things.

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