I think you're missing the point, Pushee. What Nena is pointing out is that there are more bots on this forum than there are actual people. Take my post "Sundance". According to stats it has been "read" 2555 times at the time of writing this post. Try telling me they are all members of this forum. Not likely ..
Thank you ! Yes, it's a fascinating technique but a bit time consuming - as always with good stuff. But who's in a hurry ...? A lot of layers in PhS but I most probably will build on this and do some more experiments.
The oiginal Luminar I got in 2018 did its job well. Converted the RAW-files to PSDs. The update did some funky sheit and converted the files to garbage. So I kept my L 2018 as is, but I was never interested in Luminar Neo...
Normally I used Canon's in-house software to convert the CR2s. It also allowed me to shoot tethered (for studio use). And it was free (if you had a camera serial number) !
Yes, but Photoshop is quite capable of doing nebulas, planets and starfields. Takes a bit of patience but the result is top. I would do that instead because then I can decide exactly how I want the outcome to be ..
I do have Luminar - but the 2018 edition and I don't use it for anything nowadays. The reason was that there was no other RAW-editor at that time that could read RAW-files from my Olympys TG-5. Now, if i use that camera, i shoot in jpeg, so I can edit them in Photoshop or any other image editor.