Skylum is known for aggressive marketing. Their Software is quite good and starts to be painful for the most used Software in this area Adobe products Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.
I am shure no professional photographer but i improve slowly. I mainly look inside google and claimif photos are not on the right place and try to inform google if something is wrong. As far as i know i get no points or credits for this. And in regular nothing happens also if its a face.
But i notified that Google bring up in regular HDR photos to the first places.
I like them and slowly i go more and more away from the position to send my photos direct from mobile. I did start to work it out from desktop.
Anyways short time ago appears Aurora and Luminar on my radar. Luminar i could buy for a very good discount but there was also a wish to give Aurora a try. I did not buy it because 100 Euros was to much for a try with HDR.
For luck i did recognize that a german magazine gives the 2018 full version for free as a giveaway with full legal registration. I did not saw such kind of offer. Aurora HDR for free points you in Google regular to dubious links and in youtube comments like it include trojan horses or viruses appear in discussions.
Anyways i did register the full version of this trusted german magazine. My surprise was for the registration process you need to send yours Email on a hidden Skylum Webpage and yours name. Thats it. From Skylum direct comes a mail back with a unique registration number that works only once with the name and providet mail. The Software is registered than fully legal in my Skylum account.
Official it seems this special hidden page is only for this german magacine but i did register others like friends too.
There is a offer special for other countries if they like to participate. I will include the links and procedure if the Google Moderators agree. The rules are to protect in front of spam against me and protect of missuse that the page stay open and get not closed. So first please inform a moderator if i am allowed here on the platform to provide the links.
If someone wish a free full version rules are:
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Make a subscription of my youtube channel and make a comment.
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Join my Facebook group …
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Send me a mail with 2 Screenshots that show you took the Subscription and did my Facebook group to ....@gmail.com (special registered for this to protect me in front of spam) I do no other way to protect me of spam! I register the people than and skylum send the code for the software. (use yours Email you did register yours skylum account. In case of updates you can use my “Openplotter” Code to get a discount. In my facebook group … i regular provide international something to win.
In the Video i did describe the difference of Aurora 2018 vs. 2019
Resume:
For 2019 often just one click brings a very good result. You can get similar results with experience and more efforts with the 2018 Version.
But with Adobe Software you need much longer and results are not so good. Here in Lightroom or Photoshop the software in comparison is much more limited