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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