Do your research, visit the Skylum website, then make an informed purchase.Skylum has announced yet another eye-catching photo-editing program, Luminar Neo, billing the software as “a creative image editor driven by AI technologies of the future.”Īs the company behind Luminar 4 and Luminar AI – programs that debuted innovative, AI-based tools such as AI Sky Replacement and Composition AI – Skylum is no stranger to success in the AI photo editing market. I will continue to use other software to personalize the metadata for my workflow. One minor irritation: while the catalog and album organization can be personalized there are only three ways to tag/label photos (Love, Reject, Unmarked). Neo is superior to everything else I own. Final test was adjusting skewed building angle, equally easy and accurate. Next test was replacing the entire sky with a lightning storm sky. Best masking, blending, and erasing tools I've ever seen. If I wanted to fine tune the other areas, those functions are easily and quickly accomplished. Seconds later, all the powerlines removed. My first critical test was a one-click removal of overhead powerlines in an otherwise great street scene. Nothing compares to the Artificial Intelligence in Neo. I was able to adapt quickly to Luminar Neo with the assistance of countless online video reviews and tutorials. The learning curve, documentation, and capabilities vary. I own Canon's DPP software, the latest Corel PaintShop Pro suite, a free version of Photoshop Express, Gimp, DigiKam for Windows and Linux (plus Win 10 & Win 11 built-in Photos apps). Ability to import and manage photos in catalog.Speed of the editing tool does not depend on the number of tools applied to the image.

Apply a few presets/looks/templates to one image with unique own masks.

Apply presets/looks/templates to any layer, independently of one another (this does not discard previously made changes).

Save all the layers with images and masks to a preset/look/template for double reuse.Apply any editing tool to any image layer.Flexible user-centric order of application of tools while editing an image.Management of user's textures and overlays.Built-in library of textures and overlays.

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