It quite likely can more than you are willing to use anyway.
It's easy to use and free (Fuji pays for it). The free capture one express for Fuji works with RAW files from fuji and with jpgs, tiff etc from every manufacturer and it has the Fuji film emulations included (for fuji cameras). I don't know whether this works with the free version of capture one. and call an other imaging program from within capture one. collaboration between these 2 programs should not be a problem. I don't know the raw capabilities of luminar, but I assume it has a raw engine for all brands included included. So do you think if I use Capture-1 for my Fuji X files, in combination with say Luminar, all my cameras/file types would be covered? For more complex edits I suggest that you test to see what best suits you personally. I suggest that you do free trials of these as you seem worried about the learning curves.
ON1 is also very powerful and has very good online video support, Topaz Labs Studio 2.3 now supports the four major AI plugins that are so popular to mask, adjust, sharpen, and reduce noise in images. It has regular updates and a more MAC like interface. LR and PS are well supported but they are not as intuitive as the others that I have mentioned. From my experience PS and LR are the most powerful and are available for about $100/yr by subscription. There are several other good editors available. For this Sharpen AI review, I’m using a test shot and the latest version of Sharpen AI (v.4.0. I have all of the Topaz Labs products, Affinity Photo, ON 1 2020 Raw, and of course both Adobe LR classic and PS CC. A good example of this constant progression is the latest Sharpen AI update, V.4.0.2, which includes a redesigned interface, a new Standard AI model, native support for Apple M1 devices, and overall performance upgrades. Luminar 4 is very easy to use but it is fairly slow at loading and rendering images. Not really looking at anything else for now, but of course all advice will be considered and appreciated. The two in the title interest me, but I'm not sure which would be better for me. Perhaps occasionally I may want to play around with things like HDR, bracketing and some artistic coloring & effects etc. I have no interest in spending hours editing a photo, I just want to do things like sharpen, crop, adjust WB, exposure, color, etc.
I'm getting older and don't have the time nor patience for the learning curves of the popular pro type software. I've never used Light Room, or any Adobe product, but have watched some how-to videos and find them all too daunting. I've tried playing with Gimp and gave up.
Some of the software I've tried so far is Silkypix, Corel Aftershot Pro 3, and another one I can't remember now. I mostly shoot RAW+JPEG, and a variety of subjects landscape, people, buildings, pretty much anything and everything.
Hi, I'm fairly new here at DPR, and photography is a hobby, I don't do it professionally.