The photos look great! I don't know how the original pics looked, but I love how Luminar brings out the details of the darker areas and really makes skies and foliage more vivid. I mostly only use the Ai Image Enhancer preset and crop/rotate. Also tweaking the color slider for temperature is sometimes required.
For Darktable, I mostly use that for the Perspective Correction module when my buildings aren't looking right. I use the automatic fix buttons at the bottom. If it "fixes" it wrong, I reset each bar because resetting the whole module makes it stop working 😕. The Contrast Equalize module also has a real good sharpen & denoise preset. It sharpens a little too much for my taste, so I lessened it a little bit and saved a new preset. Filmic RGB is sometimes fun to experiment with. I don't really know how to use it though, I just slide the sliders and hope things look better.
Thank you so much for your feedback and thorough explanation. It means a lot. Luminar is much easier to use than Darktable. I find Darktable not that user friendly but I think with times it will get easier :))
I had to watch some youtube tutorials to understand the basics of Darktable. It's more for raw photos from real cameras. But it's still useful. I have too many photos that need the perspective correction.
Yeah. I wanted to do something more with my mobile photos but I couldnt. So, I guess those options are for photos from real camera.
Another really nice tool in Luminar is the erase tool. Sometimes it does weird things, but a lot of times it's surprisingly good and easy. I'm working on photos for my next post and I had to use it.
I straightened this building in darktable, but it would have cropped too much of the photo to remove all of the black.
I cropped the top and bottom, but used the erase tool to fill in the lower left of the photo. The bottom design of the statue isn't perfect, it copied the middle design instead of the end design, but it looks decent enough. And since I have a ton of photos to go through, I can't make them all perfect. So this is good enough for me.
It also works surprisingly well for removing people's heads when they walk into your shots.
It's found here in Luminar, and shouldn't be ignored 😄
Hey, Thank you for letting me know about this option. I actually did use the erase option in my Munich post and as you said, I was really surprised how it removed some unwanted things :D
What's going to be your next destination? As I can see you have been to almost all the places in Balkan, have you been to Belgrade, Serbia?
The next city is Zagreb. Then a lake in Hungary.
I did not go to Serbia. Because I was meeting with my family members, I didn't have as much freedom as I would later in my trip.