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Ihave used CCleaner for years to manually clean my hard disk, never believing the professional version was worth what I needed to use the product for. My most recent version was 5.26. I was prompted last week that a newer version was available and when I inquired on 5.27, it appeared to me that the free version on 5.27 no longer provided Complete Cleaning or automatic history cleaning.

Is that true? Is it now time to pay for the professional version when I only clean my PC once a month? I love the application and it has been helpful, but clearly has performance tools that are above what I have used in the past.

My issue is somewhat related. I signed up for the Free version of CCleaner, but can't get it to run after downloading. I get a request for my register number, which is supposedly sent with my e-mailed receipt. Since I didn't pay anything, I didn't get a receipt.

Download and installation were simple, taking about three minutes on my relatively speedy machine. The program works as a standalone and as a plugin for Lightroom and Photoshop and as a plugin or extension for other apps. I could also manually set it up to open as a DNG copy, including with denoising applied in DxO PhotoLab6, or as the original raw file, TIFF, PSD, and JPEG from ON1 Photo Raw.

The traditional menu (File, Edit, etc.) is hidden behind the Luminar Neo logo in the top left corner. To the right of that are three buttons that take you to three modules: Catalog, Presets, and Edit.

The Catalog button brings up a grid view of the photos. Double-clicking on a photo zooms into the picture, and a second double-click returns it to the grid view. Like other cataloging software, you can create albums and add photos to Favorites.

The presets tab has eight collections of presets with around seven presets in each set. Working a little like actions in Photoshop, each preset creates a series of what are in effect adjustment layers.

The Edits panel is a history of the adjustments that have been carried out, displayed as a stack of layers. Clicking on an earlier tool adjustment deactivates the adjustments above. You can then readjust the selected layer, and then clicking higher up the stack reapplies the later adjustments.

The Catalog was as fast to navigate as other apps I use, and the program opened images from each of those without any hitches. However, I did find it lacking in some areas. Firstly, there was no facility to add star ratings of color tags to the images, and thus sort them in that way. Secondly, it also lacked keywords. Consequently, sorting images is limited to liking them, rejecting them, and adding them to albums. For a novice, whom I suspect the stand-alone app is aimed at, it may be enough. Most advanced photographers are likely to be using the catalogs of other programs to sort their images and use Luminar Neo solely as a plugin or extension, so that function would be redundant for many people anyway.

The Presets supplied with the program are okay, although some were not to my taste. There are also nowhere near as many as you find supplied in other programs. Nevertheless, keeping it simple is what will appeal to beginners, Moreover, experienced photographers will probably make their own presets as a starting point for edits. Like other programs, presets can be purchased.

There are limitations on how the layers work. For example, in most programs, if you had a stack of, say, five adjustments, and altered the settings of layer number 3, all the layers remain active. However, in Luminar Neo, those higher in the stack are deactivated. That is problematic as you then have to click on the top layer to see the overall effect. Furthermore, the program tells you that your raw photo develops the moment you apply a non-raw tool.

However, written tutorials, which I prefer because of my poor hearing, are sparse. You can pay Skylum for their X Membership, which gives you access to their Educational video library and 120 LUTs or Presets per year, 120 replacement skies and overlays per year, and a 15% discount from the Luminar Marketplace. That costs $49 for the first year and $99 thereafter.

It has a lot of potential and I look forward to seeing the improvements to the software as it develops. Is it worth your investment? I think the answer to that is where you are with your editing skills and what other software you have already bought. Moreover, there is a lot more to it than I can cover in this article, so it may be worth trying the free trial to see if it delivers what you need. You can download it by clicking here.

A professional photographer, website developer, and writer, Ivor lives in the North East of England. His main work is training others in photography. He has a special interest in supporting people with their mental well-being. In 2023 he accepted becoming a brand ambassador for the OM System.

Sorry, Photoshop/Lightroom cc for $20.00 a Month! It will blow away Any Luminar, And you don't have to upgrade to tutorial videos. Within just a few minutes, I can get an answer and a tutorial video for FREE on YouTube.

The main issue i have with Luminar Neo is that the newer extra features are using the cloud - and only available to those renting. I'm not renting now - and i'll never 'll be bound by such contracts to a manufacturer - not Luminar, not Adobe, not C1 (i kicked them out for this). And in case they continue like this - i'll switch back to linux (and i'll have to do a little bit more work myself).

Unfortunately, I had invested in LuminarNeo when it was announced and launched. Unfortunately, I didn't know at the time that it was just a simple image editing platform that was available for free elsewhere. Unfortunately, I did not know that expensive add-on modules are necessary to use the software in a meaningful way. Conclusion for me: Never again Skylum products.

Ive supported Skylum and Luminar since version 3, because I'm tired of Adobe's shenenigans, and their ideas looked promising.

Every release of Luminar was the same: release a version, loaded with bugs and performance issues. Their foruns are filled with complaints, sometimes (not always) they address a few issues, left most of them uncorrected, and...release a new version. That you have to pay full again.

I have Luminar 3, Luminar 4, Luminar 2018, all versions paid and NONE OF THEM works ok, because they were abandoned by Skylum filled with bugs that thay never corrected.

Never will be scammed by these thiefs again. And some of their influencers are some camera reviewers that lost my following too, because it is evident that they were paid by Skylum to review the software favorably, because the bugs are easily visible.

I'll be the one against the crowd and say, "I like it." The reason I like it is because it is simple to use and I can edit a photo in a very short period of time. I'm an enthusiast who enjoys taking photos (for free) and many of my photos require a bit of help to make them more presentable. Period...no NatGeo or Time Magazine quality is needed here. So, the $70 that I paid for it when in the pre-launch offering was well worth it for me. I agree that it can be improved in some areas (once in every 100 photos, the FACE features won't appear to work)...but fingers crossed that this "bug fix" will happen at some point. I'm with most who said they wouldn't pay for another version...because this one does what I need it to. The one-time buy is what interested me in the first place. No monthly subscriptions to extensions or clubs, thank you.

I purchased their Aurora HDR software a year and a half ago. They never provided any updates since I purchased it The software wouldn't recognize my Canon compact raw files. Now they consider it legacy software and no longer have it available for download, even though I've purchased it. I will never buy software from this company again.

That is misinformation, " If you're currently an Aurora HDR 2019 user, you can get the extension for free. You'll also receive a loyalty discount for Luminar Neo if you don't yet own the software.Jul 15, 2022" July 15 2022 I received this message, in part? Because the Ukraine is involved, that makes Skylum and Neo, targets for misinformation campaigns to intentionally harm or discredit "anyone" from there. The most despicable would be the politically motivated working to discredit Ukraine businesses in favor of a political choice over the world's best interest in stopping aggression.

Thanks for your review and insight, I'm hard of hearing as well and that I can relate to, as well as your "matter of fact" straight forward look. I remember being excited about Elements when that was first offered? Point is, I've heard about a million things capable of blowing things away, and that 6th grade level monster truck mentality still lives.... I say, If you want to be regular take metamucil, if you can't stand the taste of metamucil, there's Neo and it works ...great enough for what I need. And it shows.

I "regularly" get picked by 'In Explore' about once a month compared to maybe once a year with my "subscription" edits using...metamucil?

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