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 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 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 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 version 1.26.1 :
This update improves the quality of results from our generative tools while making Luminar Neo more stable and reliable overall. We’ve enhanced performance, fixed crashes, and refined key interactions to make your editing smoother and more consistent
The AI Assistant panel is now fully draggable and resizable, so you can place it wherever it works best for you, and tools in Favorites can be reordered for greater control over your workspace. Export performance has also been enhanced for faster, smoother output.
Plus, Luminar Neo 1.26.1 adds support for Sony a7 V, Sony FX2, and Panasonic Lumix DC-S5IIX, ensuring seamless compatibility from import to final edit. Update and enjoy!
MacOS Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the app window would suddenly shrink and could no longer be resized.
- Resolved a crash that occurred when dragging an image to the last group in the HDR Merge or Panorama Stitching tools.
- Fixed catalog scrolling behavior on startup.
- Presets can now be saved to My Presets after switching between photos.
- AI Assistant no longer overlaps the list of Presets in the packs.
- Improved responsiveness of the Sky selection dropdown in the Apple Photos extension.
- Sped up chromatic aberration processing for .RAF files.
- Removed overcorrection artifacts after applying “Auto Fix Chromatic Aberrations” to ARW RAW files.
Windows Bug fixes:
- Spaces are now displayed correctly on startup, with no duplication.
- Rejected images will no longer reappear in the Catalog.
- AI Assistant no longer gets stuck in an infinite loop when searching for Presets.
- Web view no longer shows an endless spinner when loading X Membership addons.
- Sped up chromatic aberration processing for .RAF files.
- Removed overcorrection artifacts after applying “Auto Fix Chromatic Aberrations” to ARW RAW files.
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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
