Skylum Luminar Neo Reviews & Product Details

I love the ability to edit photos and create amazing sky background changes to landscape photos.

That some functions dont let you use them when a face or object that is needed to edit or make a change is not present. I also find the Eraser tool and removal tool hard to use.

I am able to edit photos more efficiently because the built in tools are quick and using the artificial intelligence options it does the work for me. This saves so much time when working with many file edits.

Background replacementis easy and sun rays are great.

Relatively slow processing speeds compared to Photoshop AI, Lightroom, etc...

Quick background replacements.

I tried for one month an was sold on it, so I took the 2 yr-offer they have on sale right now. As a freelance photographer, I loved Luminar Neo for its simple design and AI-powered enhacnements. I loved using it to replace they sky and portrait retouching for wedding photoshoots. Overall, the editing was much faster and simpler than industry leaders like Lightroom.

The 'Remove Powerlines' feature under the Erase tool is not always accurate, so sometimes I had to resort to Photoshop. It would also be great to have more options for filtering photos (e.g by camera, lens, and exposure values)

Luminar Neo's Layers feature allows me to add creative overlays to my photos, giving them an interesting look. The Body AI tool also speeds up intensive retouching edits to photos , such as slimming body parts or changing dress colors. These features are benefiting me as a wedding photographer by saving time, allowing for more creative experimentation, and making it easier to organize my photos.

I like the Sky Replacement feature which adds a pop to skies in photos. It makes editing sky a breeze.

I'd like more text formatting tools and editing tools are hidden behind a lot of clicking

Editing photos with the precision of AI. Eliminating grueling editing workflows

It have a lot of features make me finish my artwork easily and professionally and I hope to be integrating with Behance

It's difficult a little bit to use it for a first time and it's subscribing is high for students

It's solves ng the high resolution editing for photos that needs increase the quality in details and it's for nd a solution for fixing the photos colors whitout pixels damage

Editing features are useful and friendly

Performance issues sometime while using on mobile devices (iOS in my case)

Media editing is a big hassle and requirement these days so it fits on my requirements

Change the background in one click with best quality

Some of tools needs to add professional editing parameters

Change background of pics and fast editing to pics

Excellent photo editing capabilities, good price

Subpar performance on Windows machines, you need to wait

I'm using the latest Luminar AI. It's an excellent software to edit images, apply various effect, and the likes, it does help you if you want to edit your pics at a professional level or even just if you want to impress your friends or your Instagram followers. It's a great software for purposes like posting images to a blog, or having fun with your vacation photos. A big plus is that it's available as a one-off payment, opposed to all today's subscriptions which I'm trying to eliminate as we all have too many of them. Unfortunately, the performance on Windows machine is subpar. I'm using a Samsung high-end notebook with 16GB of RAM, but the software is terribly slow in pretty much everything, especially on exporting photos, but at least you can have a sandwich while you wait for the export to be completed. I've read on the Luminar community forums that on Mac, the performance is much better, especially on the machines with the new Apple M1 chip, but as I'm a Windows user, I can't really confirm/deny this. It's certainly worth a try, but you need to be patient. I'm always short on time and sometimes it gets me frustrated with its slowness, but in general, I think it's a very good software and I haven't found a better product yet which is not Adobe Lightroom, which is however too costy for my use (amateur). For a pro, it's probably better to stick with Adobe products, they are more costy, but they work better, at least on Windows.

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Luminar has the features that I like which is its user interface which is user friendly and I'm able to customize it to my preference and also according to easy accesibility to my favourite tools. One preset whereby I'm able to fine tune photos easily using already made presets that can bring a big difference to the photos. A wide variety of formats are supported by this product whereby I'm able to get my raw photos in different formats and without conversions I'm able to work easily and quickly.

It requires a lot of storage so that it requires a very powerful processing computer with a lot of RAM.

Luminar's one preset makes work easier and faster. It is very easy to bring out the best of a picture and it saves time.

The interface is very user-friendly. It makes photo editing very easy and fast for unskilled users . AI feature is also quite helpful. It is the savior for beginners like me. it has a lot to offer than anyone needs for basic oprations. as a amature I would definitely recommend my colleaues to use this.

Everything is okay but sometimes I find the eraser tool is hard to use. Mobile version should be there. It seems to use a lot your computer memory. somtimes the software is also sluggish and lacks responsiveness, so it takes a few seconds to perform required command every time you change anything. Definitely this increases project time.

I can edit photos faster, which in turn saves time. Luminar is the complete package, so one doesn't need other software to crop, shade & render . It is pretty helpful for portraits and landscapes. also, it plays a vital role in wedding photography

I can make quick edits with only a few clicks and get a great looking result. I like the templates and the fact that I can quickly change them.

I have had issues with the content aware removal of extraneous things if there are too many of them. When I have had these issues, I can go into Photoshop and quickly remove them without the issues I ah having with Luminar. I also like that I only get the privilege to use it on one computer, unlike the multi computer license that earlier versions came with.

Many of the templates allow me to quickly edit a photo to make it look great.

Luminar is very easy to use and within a few minutes you get great results. It offers ready made looks or presets that transform most photos instantly. With some easy slider changes you can change the result quickly. If you need more control it offer advanced setting that will satisfy even a experienced photo editor.

The worst bit is the slow library module. If you have folders with 100 or more photos the app comes to almost a total stand still. If you are a professional with large folders you can only use this as a plugin from either lightroom or photoshop.

I use the plugin function and manage my photos in Lightroom and export them for editing into Luminar. The editing is so much easier then in Lightroom. The portraits editing features in Luminar 4 are outstanding.

AI support is very good. It can handle a lot of work with one click. It also gives consistent output.

I think it failed in terms of user interface and user experience.

Doing editing work quickly thanks to AI.

It's really user-friendly, and within minutes you can "enhance" your photos with just a few clicks. It doesn't require a lot of technical knowhow and can turn a basic photo in to something quite eyecatching.

It isn't as professional in terms of quality and features as Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop but is more for the amateur or semi-pro. Several add-ons require additional purchase.

Quickly and effortlessly replacing poorly exposed or dull sky and enhancing uninteresting photos. Creating fun personal artwork for personal use. Works great with M1 Mac.

It can automatically retouch portraits by detecting the faces. It even slims bodies.

Overall, the program is slow. Every time I make an adjustment it has to render the image, making me wait.

I wanted editing software that could do things for me automatically so I wouldn't have to go to Photoshop. It does keep me from having to go into Photoshop, but I don't know if it's any faster.

Luminar is a very capable and robust product that allows for some great editing capability. I've really enjoyed the application of AI to the editing flow nad what it has made possible and the time saved for some tasks.

Luminar has gotten in the habit of making pretty regular new product releases that should really be updates to existing software. They will include one or two new features and charge an entirely new premium as though it's a ground breaking new product.

Luminar has allowed for significant time saving with some editing tasks via the use of AI. These tasks include things like sky replacement and over-all "one click" AI image editing. While not perfect, it's great for quick fixes.

Luminar provides a simplified workflow that enables unskilled users to quickly process raw photographs. When I want to edit a single image in a few clicks, I open Luminar instead of Lightroom.

Luminar's main drawback is its speed. It can take seconds to switch images (a 46 MP NEF, for example), so a lot of time is spent just waiting for the UI to catch up. This adds up to a lot of wasted time. Then when it comes time to export, you'll be waiting once again- and far longer than you would with Lightroom.

I can teach Luminar to novices a lot faster than I can teach them effective Lightroom. However, I find that novices also gravitate toward Luminar's more irritating features like sky replacement. Suddenly, everyone's photos have the exact same fake skies, milky ways, etc. Tacky, tacky, tacky!!!

Easy interface and great editing tools for almost any type of photography, in addition to a one-time payment instead of a subscription plan.

Awful performance on Windows PCs, and no "undo" when in the "erase" tool. With Intel i5, Nvidia 1050ti 4gb, 500gb m.2, and 32gb RAM, the application would take several seconds for any effect to render after touching any slider. The erase tool is it's own module inside Luminar 4, opening it's own dialog box to work in. Entering the erase tool takes my PC about a minute, and panning the image causes pixelation and lag, forcing you to stop and wait for the image to load so you can see what you're doing. After all your erasing (basically spot healing tool with a content aware fill function), saving the results will take at least a minute before the module closes and brings you back to the main Luminar interface, creating it's own layer. But there is no "undo" ability in the erase tool, so if that content aware algorithm messes up a spot, you have to cancel and start over.

Excellent raw processor/photo editor with a clean, modern interface, helps put that extra polish on all your photography. Especially useful for portraits and landscapes, there's a variety of adjustments that easily add that extra pop to your images. Simple sliders can manipulate effects to your liking, including some that would take multiple steps in Photoshop, such as eye/teeth whitening, skin smoothing, eye enlarging, orton effect, and sky replacement.

The overall aspects of the app was good, and other peoples results using this app looked well

when I tried using this app, it was very difficult to actually get the results that I wanted out of it.

I couldn't really solve my photo editing issues with this product. Had to switch to Lightroom