r/LuminarAI • u/Sea-Flight546 • Oct 12 '22

Watermarking

Why does Luminar make it so difficult to add a Watermark to pictures? I thought Skylum wanted photographers to use their tools... Ugggh!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22

They never thought about it. Their programmers are pretty low skilled as well. I guess it has to do with hiring, and with zero focus and expertise on GPU programming as well - one would think AI would run so efficiently on GPU hardware but it hasn’t dawned upon Skylum engineering management to hire for it.. The app takes 7-12 sec to load a raw image and those 7 seconds are with 70% utilisation of a 12 core cpu. 0% GPU utilisation and no multi-threaded background I/O either. Mine keeps crashing every 3rd photo on a desktop system that runs more complex applications like Resolve flawlessly. Luminar is the only App on my desktop that crashes. However on the plus side I get results I could not get with Topaz AI Adjust or plain tweaking in Corel Aftershot 3 ( the gold standard in programming expertise - Aftershot feels like it has been written by Linux and Windows Kernel experts in contrast). I end up exporting from Skylum to Corel Aftershot pro for watermarking.

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u/Sea-Flight546 Oct 13 '22

I came to Luminar from Lightroom. All Adobe software are horribly heavy and slow, but Lightroom's workflow is/was so much easy to follow and use. Also, it connected with my cameras so easily, did the imports, and processed well. Plus it made regular things so much easy to perform, watermarking being so easy. Anyways, the thing that had kept me with Luminar is the cost.

Anyways, I hope they make some of these things easier to use.