Luminar NEO is a versatile photo editing software developed by Skylum (formerly Macphun) for both Windows and macOS, offering a wide range of tools to enhance and transform images. It works as both a standalone application and a plugin for software like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, making it a flexible choice for creative editing.
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 drawing on our team’s collective experience and evolving it for maximum performance and flexibility.
Transform backlit photos or darkened images with RelightAI. Luminar Neo's innovative technology analyzes depth in photos 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 an infinite range of creative possibilities by effortlessly combining two or more images in a single 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 1.27.1:
- Lightroom Migration. Move your existing Lightroom Classic library into Luminar Neo without rebuilding it from scratch. Migration transfers your photos, folders, albums, ratings, and basic edits in just a few steps, so you can pick up right where you left off. Your original Lightroom catalog stays untouched, letting you switch to Luminar Neo without losing the work you’ve already done. Open File -> Catalog -> Import Lightroom Catalog to start migrating your catalog to Luminar Neo.
- Better camera support. Now you can edit photos taken with the Ricoh GR IV and Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.
- Improved performance and stability. This release also includes bug fixes and refinements that make the editing experience smoother and more reliable across the app.
MacOS Bug fixes:
- Improved catalog stability when importing large folders — no more flickering or unexpected scrolling.
- Luminar Neo now opens correctly from the Dock after minimizing the window.
- Gallery layout now displays correctly after onboarding.
- Preview generation now updates properly when switching between filmstrip and gallery.
- Fixed an issue where the deleted folder could be added to the catalog instead of the selected one.
- Shine Removal now renders and exports correctly at all zoom levels.
- Improved support for HEIC files from Hasselblad cameras.
Windows Bug fixes:
- Preset collections (.lnpc) can now be added directly via File Explorer.
- Fixed Vulkan initialization issues on dual-GPU systems.
- Fixed an issue that could open multiple browser tabs when using plugin and standalone modes together.
- Improved reliability when canceling multi-file printing.
- Superselect now stays on the current image when updating Flags or Ratings.
- Supersharp AI can now be stopped immediately when switching photos.
- Reduced memory usage when navigating folders.
- Shine Removal now renders and exports correctly at all zoom levels.
- Improved support for HEIC files from Hasselblad cameras.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the app to become unresponsive because of color profile conflicts.
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 1909 or higher (only 64-bit OS).
- Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance
- Display 1280×768 size or better
Size: 79.9 MB
