Performance of dust spot / power lines removal tool

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Juraj Zimányi

• February 18, 2022 20:06

Are you guys happy with the NEO performance in terms of sensor dust spots removal and/or power lines removal? Those were features that made me preorder Luminar NEO. Otherwise I would stick with older Luminar 4.

In my opinion the performance is mediocre at best and the software does not what Skylum promised to do or what an average user would wish the software can do.

Dust spots: It removes the most prominent ones but leaves most of spots which are not easily seen with naked eye in an unprocessed image. But once I add more contrast, they usually pops up and I have to go back with my edit and finish manually what Luminar NEO has left unfinished.

Power lines: In areas like clear sky where manual removal of the power lines is a piece of a cake NEO does pretty decent job. But in areas where there’s something more complex in the background behind the power lines it leaves either some weird artefacts or does not removes parts of the lines at all. It actually does need super complex – clouds in the sky are in some cases enough. Removing those artefacts in most cases requires more effort than the power lines themselves.

 

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  eric kaufman

  • February 19, 2022 00:31

  Well I did not buy Leo for power line removal, figuring it is easy enough in Photoshop, but I gave it a try -- not impressed.  It does a good job removing lines where there is a bright sky background, however 1) it tried to removed other objects that also jutted into the sky and there seems to be no mask or edit feature on this tool so I can not refine 2) it does not attempt to remove powerlines that are overtop of a more complex background.  

   

  Given that, I mine as well just use Photoshop to do this.

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  Fred van den Bosch

  • February 19, 2022 03:33

  Even parts of the poles are removed. Completely useless.

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  Londinense

  • February 19, 2022 03:35

  Fred, you can restore anything that has been removed by mistake. You can also use the erase tool to tidy up and maybe remove the poles.

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  Katherine Nelson

  • February 19, 2022 09:05

  Hi guys!

  Let me assure you that we keep improving both tools and we'd very grateful if you could provide us with the samples. 

  Here's how you can send us the files:

  1. Visit https://wetransfer.com/
  2. If it's your first time visiting this website, it might ask you to purchase a subscription. Simply select to proceed with the free version.
  3. Click Add your files.
  4. Select the file(s) on your computer.
  5. After you see all the files you need to send appear in the list, click the icon to the left of the Transfer button (the icon looks like a circle with three dots in it).
  6. In Send As select Link.
  7. Click Transfer.
  8. After the files have finished uploading, click Copy Link and paste it into your support request at https://skylum.com/support

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  Fred van den Bosch

  • February 19, 2022 15:21

  https://we.tl/t-tG6Iq7ea8Z

  This is the photo where parts of the poles are removed. A road in Vietnam.

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  Alina Skylum

  • February 19, 2022 15:56

  Hi Fred,

  Thank you very much for the photos. Submitted them to our development team, so we can improve. Appreciate your input.

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  Member

  • February 22, 2022 22:19

  Juraj, the "powerline removal" didn't work for me either.  I ran into what has been described above by other users.  I have submitted photos to support but because the web page advertisement for NEO on powerline removal seemed deceptive to me, I will probably ask for a refund. 

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