It’s early days, but Luminar looks very promising, and it’s certainly affordable. If you take a sideways look at it, though, it’s the same approach as Exposure X2 and ON1 Photo RAW – you choose from a range of different preset effects or build your own by combining different tools/effects.
Basically, you choose only the tools you need, rather than cluttering up your interface with the whole caboodle. Skylum Luminar is a very different kind of photo editing app that takes a ‘workspace’ approach to different styles and genres of pictures. This one consists of a landscape blended with a new sky and a layer mask with additional adjustments applied to the individual layers and the whole image. It’s possible to create quite complex images in MacPhun Luminar. These can be saved as custom presets, just like the Google Nik Collection, with the advantage that they are ‘universal’ and not tied to a specific plug-in. This does mean learning a new set of tools and a somewhat different way of working, but it’s possible to achieve great-looking results covering the whole spectrum of image-editing, from subtle enhancements to wild analog (and digital) effects.
#Nik collection vs lightroom manual
Like Exposure X2, ON1 RAW comes with a raft of preset effects which you can reverse-engineer with your own manual adjustments to produce any look you want. Actually, it goes a step further than Exposure X2 by offering layered montages made from separate images, complete with sophisticated masking tools. Like Exposure X2, ON1 Photo has evolved from a plug-in (actually, a suite of plug-ins) into a fully-fledged standalone app with file browsing/organising tools and non-destructive, layers-based editing. In ON1 Photo RAW you can create your own effects by combining up to 20 different effects filters in a ‘stack’ and then saving the result as a preset of your own. Exposure X2 is particularly good at analog effects like grain, bokeh, light leaks, vignettes and frames, and its non-destructive approach will be welcome to Nik users who have previously had to commit to baked-in adjustments before saving their work. Its effects are a little more traditional and restrained than some of those in the Google Nik Collection, which many might regard as a good thing, but once you get to grips with the manual adjustment tools you shouldn’t find it too hard to get close to your favourite ‘Nik’ looks. It can work with JPEGs and RAW files, even applying automatic lens corrections, and it has a large collection of effects presets organised into categories.
#Nik collection vs lightroom skin
Once a film simulation plug-in, now a full-blown standalone image-editor with file browsing and non-destructive adjustment layers and masks, Alien Skin is a very interesting Nik Collection alternative. It’s a very effective everyday image-editor. This image has been enhanced with a modern Fujifilm Velvia 50 film simulation and a carefully placed vignette effect. Alien Skin Exposure X2 isn’t just for old-fashioned film effects. Google has decided it will no longer develop the Google Nik Collection, so what do we all do when it’s gone? Here are five Nik Collection alternatives that could fill the void.
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