I’ve been looking forward to this announcement for a while. Affinity did it last year, bringing their popular Photo and Designer apps to Windows. Now Macphun are following suit announcing that their Luminar and Aurora HDR applications are coming to the Windows platform. Their products have been Apple-only since first launching in 2008, and I can’t wait to finally give it a whirl. Luminar is a general image editor that works with both raw and jpg files. It’s essentially a Lightroom alternative with some rather neat features. Aurora HDR is, as the name suggests, designed for working with high dynamic range images. It offers features for merging bracketed shots, or getting the most out of a single raw file.
Luminar comes with an adaptable interface, so you can tailor it to your own needs and workflow. So, while the specifics may vary, Macphun have released a few images showing how Luminar will look running on Windows.
– Kevin La Rue, Vice-President, Macphun
Both applications are scheduled for their Windows debut in autumn. But if you can’t wait that long, they’re currently taking signups to get access to the beta versions when they’re ready. If you want to sign up for notification of the beta applications, you’ll want to check here for Luminar and here for Aurora HDR. Pricing for the final releases has not yet been announced. But I would expect them to be identical to the Mac versions.
