Brand
Luminar Neo
Editorial coverage of Luminar Neo.
Skylum's flagship desktop photo editor, built around AI masking, relighting and sky replacement.
Company
Who makes Luminar Neo
Published by Skylum, the developer of the Luminar photo-editing line.
Official website: skylum.com/luminar ↗
Product
What it actually does
Luminar Neo is a layer-based raw editor that runs standalone or as a plugin inside Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. Capability can be extended with paid extension packs.
Product family
- · Luminar Neo
- · Extension packs
- · Luminar Mobile
- · Aperty
Use cases
What people hire it for
- Raw development with AI-assisted adjustments
- Sky replacement and atmospheric relighting
- Portrait and landscape retouching
- Plugin-based finishing inside an existing Adobe workflow
Platforms
Where it runs
macOSWindowsPhotoshop pluginLightroom Classic plugin
AI capabilities
AI masking, Relight AI, Sky AI, Upscale AI and portrait tools are documented as one-click starting points you then refine.
Categories
Where Luminar Neo appears
Product families: Creative Suites · Photo Editing & AI Image Enhancement
Buying guides
Featured in these buying guides
Comparisons
Head-to-head
Planned
- Luminar Neo vs Adobe Creative Cloud — coming soon
- Luminar Neo vs Canva — coming soon
- Luminar Neo vs Adobe Lightroom — coming soon
- Luminar Neo vs Adobe Photoshop — coming soon
Editorial roadmap
Planned reviews
Full review published — read it here.
Related reviews
Read next
- ApertySkylum's portrait-specialist editor — skin, face and body retouching as the whole product rather than a panel.
- Luminar MobileThe Luminar editing model on a phone — AI presets and retouching for images you never move to a desktop.
- Adobe FireflyAdobe's generative model, built for commercial safety and wired into Creative Cloud.
- CanvaThe all-in-one design suite with the deepest AI toolkit for non-designers.
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