Luminar NEO is a versatile photo editing software created by Skylum (formerly Macphun) and available for both Windows and macOS. It offers a variety of tools and features to enhance your photography. It is a standalone application and a plugin for Adobe and Apple products. It integrates with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom Classic, and Photos for macOS.
Luminar Neo brings powerful AI to image editing, simplifying complex tasks and giving creators room to bring bold concepts to life. Its modern layout and intuitive tools make creative work fun and effortless.
Accomplish creative tasks and attain professional-quality editing results with Luminar Neo’s leading-edge AI technologies and flexible workflow. Achieve complex, creative results thanks to the new engine in Luminar Neo, built by collecting our team’s combined experience and evolving it for maximum performance and flexibility.
Transform backlit photos or darkened images with RelightAI. Luminar Neo’s innovative technology analyzes photo depth and creates a 3D map, enabling you to naturally adjust light distribution in 3D space within a 2D image.
You can precisely control the lighting in your images by selectively relighting the background and foreground, or darkening specific areas. This creative freedom empowers you to bring your artistic vision to life.
- High performance in complex tasks
- Simple and fun to explore
- Flexible workflow for creativity
- Technologies for professional results
- Automatically remove the background — no masking or cropping needed.
- Lightning-fast creative editing with an all-new image engine.
- Designed as a modular system, its parts can now be optimized individually for maximum performance.
Luminar Neo provides exclusive tools to help you create unbelievable masterpieces in Travel, Landscape, Portrait, and other photography genres, eliminating the need to spend years on tutorials. Just launch the application and start creating!
Luminar NEO Features:
- Get speed and flexibility in your editing with our brand-new core engine and layers workflow.
- The new engine built for Luminar Neo combines the best solutions from our evolved experience to maximize performance and creativity, and is designed to achieve complex creative results.
- Gain precise control over lighting in your photos by adjusting exposure based on distance from the lens. Independently control the background and foreground exposure to achieve your desired creative effects.
- Automatically clear unwanted spots from images caused by dust or dirt sitting on your lens or sensor.
- Clean up unwanted power lines from the skies in your cityscapes.
- Experiment with infinite creative possibilities by effortlessly combining two or more images in a shot.
Shine Removal and Slim Face
Shine Removal and Slim Face tools are designed to make your workflow even faster and more thorough. By removing excessive light or subtly slimming the face, you’ll achieve a perfectly natural, balanced, and realistic portrait photo.
Essential tools for amazing portraits:
- AI Skin Enhancement
- Facial contouring
- Blemish removal
- Face relighting
- Redeye removal
- Dark circles removal
- Eye whites brightening & sharpening
- Eye enlargement & squint removal
- Eyebrow thickening
- Lip color improvement
- Teeth brightening
- Batch editing
What’s New in Luminar Neo 1.26.0 :
The standout feature of this release is the AI Assistant, now available in both the Presets and Edit tabs. Use text prompts to get the AI Assistant’s editing suggestions. Action prompts, such as “Enhance this photo,” deliver tailored recommendations with three adjustment sets and live previews, while How-to prompts, like “How do I remove this object?” provide step-by-step guidance and buttons that lead directly to the correct tools in Luminar Neo. It’s like having a personal editing advisor at your fingertips, helping you explore creative possibilities and discover the best tools and workflow for every image.
With version 1.26.0, Luminar Neo expands camera compatibility to include Canon EOS R6 Mark III, Canon EOS C50, Fujifilm X-T30 III, Leica M EV1, Leica Q3 Monochrom, and Sony DSC-RX100 VIIA.
Performance has also been boosted significantly. Exporting photos with multiple edits is now faster, with improvements of up to 20% on Windows and 15% on Mac, making your workflow smoother and more efficient.
Update today to explore the AI Assistant and enjoy faster performance, enhanced camera support, and a smarter, more creative editing experience.
MacOS Bug fixes:
- The position of photos in Spaces is now correctly preserved, ensuring your layouts stay exactly as intended.
- Exporting photos to Spaces now works smoothly and starts immediately after pressing Return.
- Folder lists now update correctly after deleting photos with edits.
- Fixed crashes when opening damaged images as references in Color Transfer.
- Resolved memory leaks during DNG batch exports, improving performance and preventing slowdowns.
- Light Depth now correctly calculates depth maps even when using the Erase or Clone tools, ensuring consistent and accurate edits.
Windows Bug fixes:
- Photos deleted in the Luminar Mobile app now update properly in Luminar Neo, keeping your catalog in sync.
- Exporting to Spaces now applies the proper color space by default, delivering consistent results.
- Imported photos from mobile devices now display applied skies properly in the editor, ensuring accurate results.
- Exporting photos to Spaces now begins reliably when Enter is pressed, making sharing quicker.
- Light Depth map previews are now correctly aligned, so you can see accurate results while editing.
- The gallery and counter for new Space Imports now refresh correctly after photo imports, helping maintain a smooth workflow.
- Light Depth now correctly calculates depth maps even when using the Erase or Clone tools, ensuring consistent and accurate edits.
Official Homepage – https://skylum.com
Translated into 11 languages.
For Mac:
- MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini, early 2010 or newer
- CPU Intel® Core i5 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended)
- macOS 10.14.6 or higher. IMPORTANT: macOS 10.13 is not supported.
- Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance
- Display 1280×768 size or better
For Windows:
- A Windows-based hardware PC with a mouse or a similar input device
- CPU Intel® Core i5 or better, AMD Ryzen 5 or better
- Open GL 3.3 or later compatible Graphics Cards
- Memory: 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended)
- Operating System Windows 10 version 1909 or higher (only 64-bit OS).
- Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance
- Display 1280×768 size or better
Size: 34 MB
