Luminar Neo & Others Luminar Popular Latest Features Review 2024 {UPDATE}

This Luminar Neo review will cover Skylum’s latest photo editing software which is available for Mac and Windows.

With its headline AI-powered tools and easy-to-use interface, Luminar Neo has been the year’s most eagerly anticipated release – but does it live up to its hype? There’s still a lot of confusion surrounding the feature overlap of Luminar Neo with Luminar AI, released only a year earlier.

With the latest version (Update v1.5.0), Neo presents a solid set of features that helps it step ahead of its predecessor and now includes ‘Extensions’ to further expand its capabilities.

Aside from all its flashy AI features, will photographers genuinely find Luminar Neo a useful editing app, or is it destined to be a transient gimmick for the Instagram generation? In this Luminar Neo Review, I answer all the most common questions to help you decide whether you should buy Luminar Neo in 2024.

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AI Editing Tools

OK, so this is where all the fun starts.

If you’ve read any other Lumnar Neo review, you’ve no doubt already been bombarded by images of skies being replaced and faces slimmed – Luminar Neo Review it’s easy to become desensitized by just how incredibly simple and realistic complex photo manipulation has become.

In a nutshell, Luminar Neo offers a suite of non-destructive RAW editing tools powered by artificial intelligence that lets you carry out complex editing tasks in just a couple of clicks.

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As a professional photographer with over 10 years of experience editing photos, I have little need for certain AI tools offered by Luminar Neo.

I can achieve similar results to ‘Crop AI’ Luminar Neo Review ‘Enhance AI’ and ‘Structure AI’ manually by using tools found in the standard adjustment panels.

Things like adding realistic bokeh to an image, removing the background, or relighting a scene (controlling foreground and background brightness), I can definitely handle, but it takes considerable time to do properly.

However, I draw the line at replacing an entire sky, changing the shape of a subject’s body, or performing delicate facial retouching. This is the realm of a professional retoucher with years of experience.

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With Luminar Neo Review, you can achieve all the above in a couple of clicks – sometimes, with just one click, like in the example of the Eiffel Tower below.

Out of all the AI-powered tools, Sky AI is still my favorite and most impressive. Whether your photo is a pure landscape or an urban scene with people and buildings, Luminar Neo Review Neo does a jaw-dropping job of swapping out the sky and relighting the scene to suit.

You can see in the screenshot above the incredible level of detail retained by the Sky AI tool – every gap in the Eiffel Tower shows the replacement sky through it! Cloning and masking something like this in Photoshop would take hours and a very skilled hand.

I’m also impressed with the Portrait enhancement tools which can perform edits to faces and bodies that could rival even the best professional retouchers.

I can see the portrait manipulating features being useful for quickly editing selfies to be shared on social media – things like whitening teeth, smoothing skin, or even changing eye Luminar Neo Review color can be done in a couple of seconds with Luminar Neo.

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Aside from the ability to slim faces, darken lips, and whiten teeth, by far the most useful application in my opinion is the ability to control the face light even in photos of multiple people – this is incredibly helpful for me when editing family groups, with the software controlling the brightness of each face in the photo.

You can see in the ‘After’ image above how the software uses artificial intelligence to recognize each of the subjects’ faces for me to manually add the Face Light feature with the slider.

(If you look closely, you’ll notice the second girl’s face is unaffected by the tool, presumably because the Face Light tool has brought the exposure up on the other girls’ faces to match hers.)

Another great tool that is exclusive to Luminar Neo Review is the Portrait Bokeh AI feature, which uses AI to recognize the subject(s) in your photo, separating them from the background so a fake bokeh can be applied (blurring the background).

Final Words

There’s no denying that Luminar Neo has some impressive party tricks.

The entire focus of the Luminar Neo Review Skylum marketing and the furor surrounding its release has been on these headline AI features, and in that, Neo completely delivers.

As a ‘regular’ image editor, it offers all the tools most photographers will ever need for a manual editing experience.

Where it falls short, however, is as a one-stop-shop for all your photo management/editing needs – this is why it’s also been developed as a free plugin for Lightroom, a far superior DAM.

At first, I thought a professional photographer like me would have no need for Luminar Neo Review, but I was wrong. In fact, I find myself opening Neo to perform quick image edits that would normally take much longer or just simply to play around with my photos.