I do know that I dislike it, probably because I don't get it. It has to be just something I'm missing, it can't possibly be this unorganized or complicated. I have searched their manual and tried to find videos to understand this. I don't use Lightroom, never have, so no idea whether that's accurate. I read one post that said they made the change so it was more like Lightroom. My own request on their forum got the response that they're not going to add it back in. Repeated requests by users to reinstate it have fallen on deaf ears.

Not to mention the wasted hard drive space.Įvidently Luminar 2018 had a save feature but they did away with it in 3. On top of that, it's using up system resources because as soon as you open Luminar those are going to run in the background so they're available. I can't see how to tell which is the most recent. In other words, just going in the program to mess with a photo and learn the system can result in hundreds of versions. What's more, it appears to save a new version every time I touch a slider. I can't seem to figure out how to catalog them, they're just in there in some random order, probably the date they were modified. It cannot save them to the source folder. There's a folder in pics called Luminar Catalog, and in that folder are the modified files. I am messing with Luminar and am having a difficult time understanding this idiocy. When I work in Darktable, it creates a single sidecar file that includes the entire history stack, and it saves it in the source folder.

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