As I mentioned earlier, Luminar is an amazing tool if you are not an advanced Photoshop user ( in this case check out my Elia Locardi video series review) and/or think that Photoshop is too complicated.

Exposure-blending has its limits and is not as effective as specialized plugins such as Raya Pro (here is my review).

Doesn’t have any keyword tagging feature like Lightroom.

The most important tools are the following. One important thing to keep in mind is that all of the edits are applied to a new layer and this means that you can go back and edit it at any time just like you’d do in Photoshop. Skylum is constantly adding new features so chances are that there will be new ones when you read this article. In a few words, Luminar Neo is a great photo-editing tool that can speed up your work and is especially effective when combined with Photoshop. You can start editing your RAW files in Photoshop/Lightroom and then switch to the plugin to refine your images, then switch back to Photoshop, and so on. In my opinion, this is the best way to use it. Luminar Neo is a photo editing software that can be used as a stand-alone program or as a Photoshop or Lightroom Plugin just like Topaz Photo AI (here my review). As you’ll see, Luminar can achieve basically the same results as Photoshop but in a fraction of your time and cost, and in some cases this is a deal breaker. But if you are not a pro-Photoshop user or you want to combine the two software, then this is where Luminar really shines. Photoshop allows a level of manual editing that it’s simply not possible with tools such as Luminar. Pretty much all of the functionality it offers can be manually replicated in Photoshop IF you are an advanced user. I’ve been using Photoshop+Luminar 2018 for a long time to edit most of my pictures, but the latest version of Luminar combines the power of AI to help you speed up the photo-editing process, and the results are quite amazing.īefore digging deeper into some of the features of Luminar Neo let me clarify something. One of them is Luminar Neo, a software developed by Skylum, very well known for the quality of its products.

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Read my complete review and find out if it’s worth your money. Transform your photos with Luminar Neo, the all-in-one editing solution for photographers.

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