The idea is that you can exercise as little or as much control as you like. It also offers a range of presets (or ‘looks’, or ‘templates’ – the terminology varies). Luminar Neo can both catalog your photos and edit them. Skylum Luminar NEO features Luminar Neo includes its own image catalog, but it’s very basic and good for browsing and simple organisation and sorting only. Putting all that aside, though, I’m just going to review Luminar AI as it stands and see what it does and how well it does it. Luminar is no longer just a photo editor – it’s looking more and more like a monetization platform for affiliate influencers, photographers selling their own templates and assets, and Skylum’s own Extensions platform. And that doesn’t include the template packs, sky packs and other downloadable extras on the Skylum site. If you go for all these extras, the Luminar AI’s cost of ownership will quickly escalate. The same applies to extra layers content and skies. If you want more presets you’ll be taken to Skylum’s Luminar marketplace, where you’ll need to have your wallet ready. Luminar Neo restores may of the features lost when Luminar 4 moved to Luminar AI and adds a swathe of new AI tricks of its own.Īlso new is Skylum’s range of bundles, single licence and subscription deals, plus a range of separate paid for Extensions, including HDR Merge, out already, Noiseless AI, out very soon, and five more as yet unspecified extensions by the end of 2022. It’s more advanced than the previous version, Luminar AI, which remains on sale but was an oddly cut down version of the one before, Luminar 4. Luminar Neo is Skylum’s latest imagining of its AI-powered photo editing technology. Since then it’s gone through in increasingly complicated series of changes, names and relaunches that have at times been hard to follow. Here was a new, innovative and exiting program that was genuinely different. When Luminar first hit the scene, I was a supporter. I’m reviewing Luminar Neo Update 2, version 1.2.1 (12358), which is the latest version at the time of writing. But now is probably as good a time as any. Luminar Neo is an AI-powered photo editing software from Skylum.I’ve held off reviewing Luminar for quite a while because it’s been through so many incarnations, so many versions and been flooded with so many new and promised updates that it’s never felt quite finished. Skylum has said that Neo isn’t replacing their previous release-Luminar AI. But Neo sets out to fix some of the issues users faced with Luminar AI. Skylum is using AI to streamline the photo editing process. Power line and Sky Replacement AI tools have turned tedious and time-consuming tasks into one-click operations. There are features to improve portraits, a Relight AI, and dozens of presets for easy improvements. Luminar Neo is a new software from Skylum. And it hasn’t yet reached its final form. But with each update, a new piece of the puzzle is added. They’re adding new tools to make Luminar Neo a distinct improvement from their previous software products. We were impressed with the AI tools in Luminar AI. But like many others, we encountered performance issues. Luminar Neo offers the same AI tools, but the new high-speed core engine improves speed and performance. We’re happy to see Skylum has taken Neo in a different direction, adding layer and mask AI tools to the program. What’s New in the Updated Luminar Neo 1.1? This broadens Neo’s appeal, taking it in an Adobe Photoshop direction. The first responses to Luminar Neo were positive. A few of the core editing tools promised by Skylum were still missing. But now Luminar Neo has been updated to Neo 1.1 And new pieces of the puzzle have been added. The mask AI tool is the headline feature of the updated version. Masking was a big promise during the buildup to Luminar Neo’s release. And many were disappointed not to see it in the original public version. The Mask AI sets Luminar Neo apart from Skylum’s previous products. Luminar AI had many of the AI features found in Neo, like sky replacement. But the masking options take Neo to a whole new level. The new masking tools put more control in the hands of the editor. But the AI technology makes editing photos fast and painless. We’ll go into more detail in the Mask AI section below. The latest release gives us one of the features editors have been eager to get their hands on. The Portrait Background Removal AI has finally made it to the Luminar Neo toolbox. It’s another AI toolset to revolutionize photo editing. Does it succeed? Keep reading for our verdict. You also get a histogram for more detailed editing. It was a bit of a surprise that this was left out of the original release. Luminar Neo’s AI tools are powerful, and the new overlay features give the program broad appeal.īut we’re happy to see a histogram in the latest version.
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