You may not approve of software face and body enhancements (I’m not sure I do) but I’ve not seen it done better, or more subtly (even respectfully) than this. Luminar Neo’s Portrait AI and Body AI tools are equally spectacular for their ability to automatically identify and mask features for adjustment. Layers weren’t supported in Luminar AI (but were in Luminar 4). The light leak effect has been applied on a new layer. Should I really have slimmed down this woman’s face and enlarged her eyes? I think I probably shouldn’t, but for those who want to do this kind of portrait (and body) enhancement, Luminar Neo is very good at it. The Sky AI tool was one of Skylum’s first AI features, and its ability to mask and replace skies automatically remains uncanny, even now. You can use them individually or in combination.Ī handful of Luminar Neo features deserve special mention. You don’t have to use presets at all, but choose tools individually according to the ones you think you need. If you want to get deeper into the editing process, Luminar Neo can oblige. Many of these are themselves AI-based, so there may not be much technical editing work to be done, except perhaps to push a slider or two to change the strength or type of an effect. If you don’t want to get drawn into complex technical adjustments you can let Luminar’s AI do everything for you, right down to analysing your subject matter and offering a selection of suitable ‘presets’.Įven if you do choose a preset, you can still go in and change the settings for the different tools used to create it. 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. 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.
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