>>2599016Not as straight forward, but you can get any result you want. Learn to set your black and white point, and then play around with creative use of white balance. You can do most of what instagram filters do in there. Lux is a bit more complicated but you'll pick it up quickly.
It's ultimately a questions of effort put in = result got out. If the effort you put in doesn't match up to the result you want, do something else. Phone apps might well do the trick for you but there's more freedom in a computer program.