The mobile UI is agile, with enhanced performance for file sharing – again, following Adobe’s trend to market the app for easy social media sharing. Since this was controversial during last version, we can expect a correction and stick to the old presets format instead of templates, that were amazingly confusing for users overall. The most noticeable difference is that we don’t see a section specifically made for the “templates”, Skylum’s newest name for presets. There are no major improvements the tool sorting remains almost the same. Skylum sticks to the familiar UI look we’ve been seeing in both Luminar 4 and AI. The advanced settings of this tool are intended for natural light, offering warming settings on the light conditions, and a Dehalo tool to correct solar halo issues.

That last slider can be a helper for portrait photography in low-light conditions. You can manage three sliders to control this tool: Brightness Near, Brightness Far, and Depth. One of the most promising features Luminar Neo is introducing is their Relight AI Tool, intended to fix exposure issues. You have no idea how many minutes you can lose if you are enough of a cleaning-freak to get all the particles off a photo that lengthy process is reduced to a couple of clicks.

The AI technology will detect the areas where our camera sensor got the interference of dust, and remove those particles without altering tricky details. In regards to the Dust Removal Tool, the behaviour is enhanced from Photoshop. If there are other elements like birds, street lighting or even storm conditions, the results will considerably differ. Similarly to what you can expect in Photoshop, manual corrections are to be applied. It’s the first step towards more “professional-looking” landscape photos, and this tool looks promising enough.ĭepending on the sky conditions, the Powerlines Removal tool works its way and blends the sky, covering the removed areas. It’s exciting to see that Skylum considered something as annoying as removing powerlines to be part of their software. The Macs powered with M1 chips are, by default, the streamline for Skylum, whereas the Windows version is somewhat neglected. The Early Access of Luminar Neo also showed differences between macOS and Windows versions.

Still, Skylum answered users’ comments by saying that Luminar Neo will not be as RAM-demanding as its predecessor. Something, as commonly seen as the software crashing when working with a photo, shouldn’t be expected up from the first bug release of Neo. Skylum put efforts into fixing some of the performance flaws experienced in Luminar AI for this Luminar Neo. The current limitations of Early Access.

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