Essential Apple Podcast 114: Luminar 2019 with Libraries Launch

This week Amazon announced the Apple Music service will be available on their devices by Christmas. Amazon also announced it is going with custom designed ARM Graviton chips for AWS servers. The iPhone Xr is declared best selling iPhone, Apple offers increased trade in values on old iPhones and Apple supports anti AIDS efforts. PLUS our guest this week is Alex Tsepko of Skylum who returns to the show to tell us all about Luminar 2019, its Libraries features, free updates, forthcoming additions and lots more.

Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HDR 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you’ll get all 2019 updates for free. Learn more).

GIVEAWAYS

Skylum has gifted us 5x of Luminar 2019 and Aurora HDR 2019 to give away! Send an email to essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Luminar or Aurora and the phrase I give in the show to enter.
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Winners for both will be announced on the Christmas Party Podcast which is recording on the 23rd December.

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Recorded 2nd December 2018

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On this week’s show:

SKYLUM

Skylum
Photolemur
Luminar 2019
Aurora HDR
Skylum Creative Kit
Blog
Roadmap
@wearemacphun on Twitter
Email support@skylum.com or alex@skylum.com

Question from @MacJim in the Slack
“Will the Fujifilm XF10 be supported soon? I can’t edit my images just now.
Will we be able to import images, catalogues, RAW images over from Lightroom, and if not, will it be featured at a later update?”

APPLE

Apple Music is coming to Amazon Echo speakers week of Dec. 17 – USA Today
The iPhone XR Is Apple’s Best-Selling iPhone – Forbes
Apple Store purchases this week generate donations to AIDS treatment – Cult of Mac
Apple boosting iPhone trade-in credit with up to an extra $100 – 9to5 Mac

TECHNOLOGY

AWS goes for custom ARM Graviton Chips – CNBC

Nemo’s Hardware Store (44:54)

Creative Metallix Twin Pack $80 – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £25 UK
Creative Metallix Plus Twin Pack $100 US – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £32 UK
Aurvana Trio Audiophile In-Ear Headphones with Hybrid Triple-Driver System $150 US – Amazon $100 £110 UK

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