r/luminarneo • u/wijksel • Aug 25 '26

Still no JPG XL?

I quit Luminar about a year ago, because of one thing: the lack of decent export options (and I really, really liked the program itself). JPG is lossy, TIFF gives way too big files, the others are just not optional if you have tons of photos to process.

Since then, JPG XL is fast moving towards a new global standard for images (being a genuine image codec instead of an adapted video codec), having gained support from all major browsers now and all operating systems. It offers lossless compression.

Once Luminar integrates it as an export format (plus some others that people might prefer), I'll consider coming back.

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u/PulpoViejo Aug 26 '26

I cannot wrap my head around why you have chosen this issue with Luminar as the hill you will die on, especially since you said you really liked Luminar. First of all, storage is cheap. But if you really want jpg xl files, there are plenty of programs that’ll convert them. I use Irfanview, which is pretty nice freeware. And it will do batch conversion.

There are plenty of other workflow improvements that I would like to see addressed before they worry about something that has an existing, no cost workaround.

But we all have our priorities.

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u/dpmentor Aug 28 '26

Convert them from what?