Skylum
Editorial coverage of Skylum — flagship review: Luminar Neo.
Skylum builds AI-first photo editing software for macOS and Windows, best known for the Luminar family and the portrait editor Aperty.
Who makes Skylum
Skylum is a consumer photo-software company that has published the Luminar line for over a decade, selling directly through skylum.com alongside app-store distribution.
Official website: skylum.com ↗
What it actually does
The Skylum line-up centres on Luminar Neo (desktop AI photo editor, also usable as a Photoshop and Lightroom plugin), Luminar Mobile (on-device editing) and Aperty (portrait retouching). Extension packs and an X Membership add further capability and content.
Product family
- · Luminar Neo
- · Luminar Mobile
- · Aperty
- · Extension packs
- · X Membership
What people hire it for
- AI-assisted raw editing and retouching
- Sky replacement and relighting
- Portrait skin, eye and face retouching
- Mobile-first editing and social publishing
Where it runs
AI capabilities
AI masking, relighting, sky replacement, upscaling and portrait enhancement are the core of the product rather than optional add-ons.
Where Skylum appears
Featured in these buying guides
Not yet included in a Best-Of round-up. Editorial planned for the next update cycle.
Head-to-head
Planned
- Skylum vs Adobe Creative Cloud — coming soon
- Skylum vs Canva — coming soon
- Skylum vs Adobe Lightroom — coming soon
- Skylum vs Adobe Photoshop — coming soon
Planned reviews
Full review published — read it here.
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.
