The day has come. Luminar Neo is available for Early Birds!
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The Skylum Team has been working hard to bring you a satisfying editing experience with Luminar Neo. And the day has finally come! Luminar Neo is ready for you to download and enjoy.
Luminar Neo is now available for Early Bird customers (the first 30,000 customers who purchased Luminar Neo before September 19, 2021 inclusive). The main release of Luminar Neo is scheduled for February 17. You will see a countdown in your Skylum account until the moment when the software becomes available in your country.
How can I download Luminar Neo?
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Access your Skylum Account by clicking this link. Sign in if you already have a Skylum Account, or Register if you need to create an account. Make sure to register with the same email you used when purchasing Luminar Neo!
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In your Skylum Account, navigate to the My software tab, where you will find all of your Skylum software, including Luminar Neo.
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Find Luminar Neo in your list of software and download it by clicking the Download button.
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After downloading, double-click on the Luminar Neo installer file and install it according to the instructions.
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Open Luminar Neo. You will see a window that prompts you to log in to your Skylum Account. Sign in and you’re all set! You’ve activated Luminar Neo and it’s ready to use.
Got an Early Access version of Luminar Neo? Just update it and you’re done! To update:
On macOS, click on Luminar Neo in the top menu bar and choose Check for updates.
On Windows, click Luminar Neo in the top left-hand corner and choose Help > Check for updates.
What’s inside Luminar Neo?
Let’s explore all the basic things you can do in Luminar Neo.
Add and export images
There are just two tabs in the center of the top bar in Luminar Neo: Catalog and Edit. In the Catalog tab, you can add, view, and organize your images into albums and folders. You’ll also be able to favorite the images you like best.
You can quickly upload photos you took with your smartphone to your computer through the Luminar Share app. Download the Luminar Share mobile app by scanning the QR code or link below, then follow the instructions in the app to connect it to your Luminar Neo des
ktop app. Luminar Share also allows you to quickly export images to your smartphone and share them on your favorite social media channels.
Link to download Luminar Share: https://luminarshare.page.link/installation
Enjoy the easy workflow
After you’ve added your photos, it’s time to edit them. All the editing tools are stored in the Edit tab. Scroll through the tools you want to apply. You’ll find them grouped into four handy categories: Essentials, Creative, Portrait, and Professional. Find the tool you want to use and click on its name to apply it.
Achieve your goals with AI-based features
Luminar Neo’s AI-based tools let you achieve more with less effort. Make sure to use them in your edits to achieve pleasing and fast results.
Use Sky AI to replace the sky automatically and turn an ordinary photo into an amazing one. Save an image with an overexposed sky, add a unique sky, or make a photo unforgettable — all in just one click. You can also fine-tune the results if you want more control over the image.
Apply automatic content-aware image enhancements with the Accent AI slider (find it in the Enhance AI tool). One slider lets you make dozens of adjustments to shadows, highlights, contrast, tone, saturation, exposure, details, and more.
Automatically remove spots on your images caused by dust on your lens or sensor with Remove Dust Spots.
Declutter an image with the Remove Powerlines tool that automatically removes power lines.
Explore 3D features
Luminar Neo’s powerful technologies work under the hood to help you edit your images while taking into account depth.
Emulate a 3D light source and relight the scene by taking into account the depth of a photo with Relight AI.
Create amazing portraits by simulating a bokeh effect based on image depth reconstruction with Portrait Bokeh AI.
Don’t forget about basic editing tools
Of course, you can use basic color corrections in your editing too: Develop, Black & White, Crop AI, Denoise, Vignette, and other tools are waiting for you.
Boost your creativity with Layers
Luminar Neo allows you to work with multiple photos on one canvas. Add image layers, move them on top of each other, use blending and masking modes, make collages, add double exposure effects, and do more with each layer. Easily drag, move, place, rotate, and flip one or multiple images around the base photo.
What better way to explore the new Layers feature than with a whole library of Overlays? Experiment with the effects you can achieve: play with free built-in collections, including unique lights, bokeh, wall frames, and silhouettes of people and objects. You can also add your own Overlays or expand your collection by getting Overlays from the Luminar Marketplace.
Get fast results with Presets
Presets let you make one-click adjustments to your photos, or you can use them as a starting point for further adjustments. Presets combine efficiency with creativity. By using AI to understand the strengths and weaknesses of every image, Presets automatically correct common capture problems and apply enhancements that inspire new ideas. Presets can be saved and easily synced across large batches of photos — including across sets of images from different sessions and taken in different environments — to help you create a unique style in your photos.
What cameras does Luminar Neo support?
Here is → a list ← of all supported cameras. Also, these new and exciting cameras are now supported by Luminar Neo:
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Leica M11
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DJI Mavic 3
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Nikon Z9 (standard compression only)
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Sony a7 IV
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Ricoh GR IIIx
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Fujifilm GFX 50S II
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Fujifilm X-T30 II
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Sony Xperia 1 III
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Sony ZV-E10
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Nikon Z fc
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Sony a7R IVA
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Sony a7R IIIA
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Fujifilm GFX 100S
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Fujifilm X-E4
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Sony a1
What’s coming next?
Luminar Neo will become even more powerful with future updates. In the upcoming updates, you’ll be able to enjoy such features as:
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Mask AI — smart AI-based masking that detects specific elements in your image
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Portrait Background Removal AI — smart AI-based removal of the background behind a portrait without manual masking
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Histogram
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Clone & Stamp
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Dodge & Burn
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Undo and Redo
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More Hotkeys
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Copy and Paste functionality for Adjustments
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More functionality when using Masking (Copy/Paste, Pen Pressure for Radius/Opacity, and Linear/Radial gradient)
There are also a few known issues that will be resolved shortly. They include:
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LUTs are not applied on hover in the Mood tool
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Erase steps in History may show wrong states
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On macOS, the context menu is currently absent on Single Image View for both the Catalog and Edit tabs
In the next updates Luminar Neo will support the migration of the Catalog. You will be able to smoothly migrate your Catalog from Luminar 4 and Luminar AI into Luminar Neo.
All the Presets you’ve bought to use in Luminar Neo will be available in your Skylum Account soon. Download them and install them in Luminar Neo and you’re good to go! To ensure the highest quality of Presets and their smooth performance in the app, some of the Presets are in the final testing stage and need a bit more time to be ready. As soon as all of them are ready, we will notify you.
We understand that you’d love to use the Templates you previously created in Luminar AI inside of Luminar Neo. Therefore, we’ll take care of the migration process. In March, our team will provide you with a special utility to convert your custom Templates into a Luminar Neo-compatible format.You'll be able to take your favorite settings with you when switching to the new software.
Stay tuned for future updates to enjoy all this functionality! A big thank you to everyone who contributed valuable feedback on the Early Access version and helped us make Luminar Neo even better.
Enjoy creating incredible images easier and faster in Luminar Neo!
Still have questions about Luminar Neo? Got a technical issue?
Visit our → FAQ ← and find the answer you’ve been looking for. Or, contact our support team via https://skylum.com/support We’re always happy to help!
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Working well so far. However I am a bit shocked, since Neo is supposedly being marketed to more advanced photographers, that there is no ability to adjust perspective. This is something that I need all the time, since I shoot a lot of cityscapes and church interiors. Professional real estate photographers would need it too.
Luminar 4 has some basic tools under Lens Geometry and AI has CompositionAI. I am surprised there are no plans to port the latter over.
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Hi guys,
We're definitely bringing Image 3D Transform (perspective corrections) back.
The feature will be available in one of the nearest updates. You can check our FAQ here for a complete list of features: https://skylum.com/es/luminar-faq/neo/general and here:
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Helllo S S,
Would you be so kind as to send us a screenshot of the issue?
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Hi Skylum team!
Long-time user here (since Luminar 2018) and someone who always talked in the best ways about you (check my social profiles and you'll see that you're tagged in ALL my posts, on EVERY single platform).
I know that without your software I would be where I am today - in all seriousness. Especially Luminar 4 was a huge game changer for me and my workflow. Those jaw-droppers (term used by my "fans") I create: I don't think I could create them with any other software.
I downloaded Luminar Neo just 3 hour ago, after skipping on Luminar AI (sorry, but that was a bad move in my eyes - especially removing layers).
I really couldn't wait after all I saw and read about Neo. New awesome AI features with some old but gold functions from Luminar 4 (like the just mentioned layers).
First impression: very disappointed ☹️ yes, I read it above: all the functions that I'm missing will come in future updates. But in all honesty: many of those features are CORE features. Why release a final version (even if it's only for early birds) when this is still clearly still a beta?!
Right at this moment, I can barely recreate the simplest edits I did in Luminar 4, because core features like linear or radial masks are missing. No histogram, for real?! 😕
Also, what happened to the quality of some skies? Especially those 2 new skies (new compared to luminar 4) under "sunset clouds" - they are super pixelated! As if I'm using a low res file 🤢
So, based on all that I said, I have following questions:
1) when will this update come? Until then, Neo is unusable for me 👎
2) will I be able to ask a refund, in case the next update still doesn't bring back those core features? Cuz I don't see the reason for paying weeks and months ahead, just to receive beta software.
3) On masking: I'm sure that you'll bring us all the classic masking tools back, as well as new AI masking power that will be even better than the new Adobe stuff. But PLEASE: don't you forget about something simple as the "invert mask" function! (just saying, so that it doesn't take another update on top of the update for that 🙈)
4) fix those pixelated new skies please (I used photos from a DJI Mavic 2, thats 20mp - so no super resolution at all)
5) not sure if this was already changed in Lumi AI, but the Orton effect is waaay too bright, compared to Luminar 4. I have to drop the brightness slider to -100, to achieve the same effect as in Luminar 4 (where it's a 0) - I used the same photo in Lum 4 and Neo, with all the same settings. It's the only difference I noticed.
Kind regards ✌️
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Hi Dronographer!
We appreciate your honest feedback! I have passed it on to our product and tech teams.
The money-back guarantee countdown will start from the Luminar Neo update 1.1.0 and continue for 30 days. Our tech team is doing their best to ship the update asap and let you enjoy all the desired features and tools. We do appreciate your understanding in this matter.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact the support team via skylum.com/support
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