I just installed Luminar and have played with it for about an hour or so and oh my goodness this is powerful! It repllaces photoshop and lightroom easily and best of all you dont have to go back and forth between different programmes to achieve that polished finish.
One of the features I was especially keen to try was the erase tool and it does not disappoint. Its notoriously difficult to remove objects that dont stand out from the background and I was able to remove objects with just a single click eventhough they were not contrasting from the background.
Another feature that I really wanted to try was the sky-replace feature. You have this amazing photo but you blew out the sky and thats typically done in photoshop, but LUMINAR does this so effortlessly! its one click and its all done!
The portrait features are also amazing. I absolutely hate doing portraits because of the difficulty of getting the eyes right, well I went through the features one by one and if I didnt tell you I was using Luminar you would think that I had some serious photo-chops and the white in the eyes was just right. So yeah am a huge fan thanks Luminar for bringing this to Appsumo!