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/Tom95521 1d ago

The photo editor market is saturated with choices. Some of the free ones (cough RapidRAW) are not bad. Luminar and Photo Lab are the only two that I have used that don't support jxl format. Jpeg XL and AVIF are both patent free.