What is the difference between Luminar 4, Luminar AI and Luminar Neo?
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Are you excited about the upcoming Luminar Neo? Would you like to know more about how it differs from Luminar 4 and Luminar AI? Today we’re going in depth into the comparison between these apps. Please look at this handy table.
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I think it's outrageous bought Luminar 4 and immediately after that Luminar AI comes out, I also bought it again to keep up.
But it's just outrageous that they now come out with the same photo editing program Neo.
Why not build the new Luminar AI into a top photo editing program Luminar Ai 2.0 but no Skylum is fooling their consumers and just releases a new program Neo which also just edits photos.
I'm completely done with it and switch back to PaintShop Pro, they now also have AI. -
Hi Wil IJpelaar,
I have also replied to your concerns here: https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4408256607378-No-Neo-for-me
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For God's sake people.... please finally lock in on the NEO product and spend your effort developing and refining a single leading edge product instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every year and sell us yet one more splash in the pan product. STICK WITH NEO, finally. Spend you time on making it the best and invest a few pennies in the rather simple integrations with productivity tools like the loupedeck live and loupedeck CT.
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This chart indicates that Luminar Neo will have all of the functionality Luminar 4 has plus more, but that is not true because you are not going to allow adjustment layers in Neo. There should be a row for image layers and a row for adjustment layers to indicate that Neo will not have adjustment layers like Luminar 4 does. Lack of adjustment layers is a big deal, and not in a good way.
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Hi Ivan,
Thank you for your reply. That's great, but why not allow adjustment layers? From a coding perspective, they would be exactly the same as image layers except there would be no image and the edits done on them would apply to all layers under them. Basically, just allow transparent image layers and an option to apply all tools used on a given layer to any layers under it.
Using tools multiple times with multiple masks does not replace adjustment layer functionality. Say you manually focus stacked an image, so your image actually consists of multiple image layers. Editing it without adjustment layers is impracticable because you would have to apply each edit to each layer in order to see the effect of the edit on the image as you go. The same is true for any tweaks you make. In any event, the table is misleading because "layers" includes adjustment layers in Luminar 4, so Neo will not have layers like Luminar 4. At least that's how I interpreted it and was thus caught off guard by the lack of adjustment layers.
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Hi William,
Thank you for sharing the detailed comments. We have answered you here: https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4414659716498-Will-Luminar-Neo-Have-Adjustment-Layers-?page=1#community_comment_4414871854226 -
Guys, this is ridiculous. Luminar 4, Neo, AI, and let's not forget Flex that all do roughly the same thing. I feel like an idiot for owning ALL of them. Do you really think I, or anyone else, wants to try to figure out exactly what each one does and then use the appropriate one for the task at hand??? NO! It's really enough to make a person abandon Skylum altogether. Please just give us one program that does everything. We'll pay for it, just SIMPLIFY our lives. PLEASE!
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I'm on a 2017 iMac and I don't use Luminar Neo as my primary editor, so my experience might not be the same as yours. Neo is great as a plugin in ON1 Photo RAW 2022.5 and PhotoLine, and its Apple extension makes it an editor within Apple Photos. I occasionally rely on the standalone for editing of problem raw files. I uninstalled the earlier Luminar products because they did not fit my workflow.
The only major fault I find with Luminar Neo is that it will not run as a plugin within Affinity Photo.
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