Luminar as a Plugin
I am trying very, very hard to remove adobe from my workflow and I am using the trial version of c1 right now and so far, I love it. The problem I have is that luminar is supposed to work as a plugin, however when I go to the plugins area and type in luminar, I can't get it to show up as a supported plugin.
Has anyone been able to resolve this issue?
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You could try running the procedure detailed at the below link. I have Luminar 4 available as a plugin, so it is possible to get it as an option under Open With and Edit With within Capture One.
https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360011225157/comments/360001937137
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I am trying to avoid a lot of extra steps when it should work like this :
https://manual.skylum.com/4/en/topic/how-to-user-skylum-s-luminar-4-with-capture-one
has anyone determined why the plugin is not detected right now?
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Capture One seeks to avoid duplication of effort by making use of Windows registry entries that connect applications (Skylum) with file type extensions.
So if Skylum is not registered with Windows as a possible application that can be used with the files you want to use it with, then it will not be offered as a "plug-in" option.
You can make it available by creating the connection. It should only need to be done once.
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Yes, as SFA has said, just run the procedure once, and then Luminar will be available in the Open With/Edit With menu item of Capture One. Then you can just use Luminar as with any other plugin through Capture One.
I am no windows registry expert, but I think the process effectively makes the links that SFA discusses and once the link is there then it becomes available to Capture One.
I had similar issues relating to Capture One not detectic some of my plugins, and the procedure fixed it.
I say again just to be clear, run the procedure Once, then open Capture One and see if Luminar is available
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That did resolve the plugin issue. I am able to quickly export a corrected raw to tiff to luminar for any extra enhancements. Is there a guide to using luminar with capture one? Then next step is figuring out how to ensure my edits to the tiffs in luminar show back up in the capture one session.
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No guide that I know of. The best bet is to give it a try. I think if you use the Edit With option Capture One will create a Tiff (or whatever output you decide) then it will send it to Luminar. Then you can make the edits and the results should be available within C1 when you have finished... Therefore a typical round trip edit.
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As far as a Guide for using Luminar as a plugin for C1 is concerned ... I guess a lot depends on what feel you want to do with a TIFF in Luminar that you cannot achieve with a RAW file in C1. Then what you want to do with the Luminar edited file in C1 that could not be delivered in Luminar.
As for the round trip. Open the tiff in Luminar, make you changes and save back to the same file.
If you save as a different file a little more work may be required to make C1 aware that there is another file it needs to know about.
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The round trip involves saving the file back as a tiff, but it does in fact work.
As far as using luminar, mostly I use it for sky replacement, portrait, and frankly anything creative. I will need to spend some time working with c1 in order to become competent enough to get close to the fast and easy results I can achieve with luminar.
Right now I use lightroom to apply lens correction and then send out as a tiff in prophotorgp. do workups then return a jpg in srgb and tiff in srgb when I'm complete. Luminar/skylum lens corrections are garbage and don't work at all for the most part. The sessions function in c1 is what grabbed my attention and the great color from initial raw conversion. I have confirmed now that the session feature works flawlessly across my devices with synology activesync so I'm quite happy so far.
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I have now made multiple round trips between luminar and c1.
To be frank though, I have found c1 so easy to learn my finished products are now looking significantly better than what I can do in luminar, which I thought at the time was pretty mind blowing.
The only thing I still can't do is sky replacement. I wish c1 would add the ability to stitch together photos like aurora, the coloring is just so much better.
as soon as they add z6ii support i will be purchasing license. thanks to those that helped.
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