Oh well

Skylum Luminar 2018 is a great photo editing software and also great to use as a plugin with Adobe. There is slight boo hiss on this.

I've tried to use Luminar as a plugin with Corel PaintShop Pro X9 and 2018. No joy. Luminar starts but doesn't load up anything. Won't open the image, filter windows are blank/black with nothing in them.

The good news is, Luminar does work with Affinity for Windows.  Yeah yeah, Affinity doesn't have "Digital Asset Managing", but go old school, and make your own folders, with names and dates or what the subject is about. Ta da! Manual Digital Asset Managing.

I do wish that other photo editing software makers, especially those who make plugins for editors, would get it through their heads there is MORE than just Adobe products out there. 

I remember exchanging emails with NIK before they sold out to Google (I still have the emails to prove it) about developing their plugins to be 100% compatible with Corel (and other) products, that I would be glad to be a tester. They kept saying Oh Sure! Great idea! Then sold it to Google, who gave me same song and dance.  And we know how that ended, don't we? Given away for free, no further development.

Good news and bad news

Good news: my BGL, Iron, Cholesterol, Liver, Kidney, blood pressure, heart rate is freaking fantastic!  Better than average.  (muppet cheer) Thyroid levels lowest end of normal which is why I am back on thyroxine. Wish my outsides looked as healthy as all my insides tests show I am.

*sigh* Bad news: Knee MRI results: I have a torn meniscus, two areas... and a touch of arthritis. The arthritis I already knew about, as it's been like that with that knee for over 30 years (was injured way back when)

Have referral to knee specialist, same one that repaired Wing 's knee (even though HE says it's debatable, but he's walking better, limping less. He just didn't get his magic wand repair to make it like he was when he was 20)