Professional photo editing. Accessible to everyone.
Luminar’s award-winning interface is designed to be convenient for people with different proficiency levels. Complicated multistep tasks are automated with intuitive AI-powered controls.
Place more visual accents: highlight street lamps in the night city and add dramatic long-exposure rays to cars headlights.
Get full control over lights with intensity, size, glow and clearness sliders. You can even select beam numbers and widths. Achieve more precise results with masking options.
Supersharp AI refines the blur on an object’s outlines caused by movement, missed focus, or a shaky camera and logically stabilizes the whole photo. The neural network at its core analyses depth, perspective, and the environment of the photo and works out with a compression algorithm. The result is a crisp and naturally sharp photo, just as it was meant to be.
Make every part of your photo crisp by stacking up to 100 photos with different depths of field. Focus Stacking will align, crop, and balance them automatically. The AI algorithm chooses the parts with the best focus across all photos and corrects lens and chromatic aberration in raw files. The result is an image in which every detail pops — in macro shots, still life compositions, or multi-layered landscapes.
Automatically remove the background behind one or multiple subjects in your photo. The neural network in Background Removal AI can detect the main subject and up to nine types of other elements in your photo, and you can select which ones to keep. Plus, use a refinement brush to fix any imperfections. Experiment with your creative photos — the possibilities are endless!
Upscale a photo up to 6X and enhance image resolution in a natural way with AI.
Crop an interesting frame from a panoramic landscape, get high-quality zoom-ins of wildlife, improve macro shots, enhance old photos, prepare your images for printing, and more.
Noiseless AI gets rid of the noise and keeps all details intact. Unlike many other denoise tools it does not smooth out your image. It recovers all the details and keeps a natural look of your photo. Noiseless AI Extension works great both with raw and JPEG files.
Are you always satisfied with noise reduction in the apps you use? Noiseless AI keeps photos sharp, retaining maximum details. It reduces color noise and gives you more control over the results when used with a built-in Mask AI technology. Apply noise reduction to different parts of the photo with varied intensity to recover every detail.
Exceptional tone mapping technology delivers an unprecedented level of detail in your photos. HDR Merge allows you to merge up to 10 bracketed images to get the best possible dynamic range in your photo.
Unlock detail and clarity for images that pop and create an eye-catching composition around your subject. Structureᴬᴵ increases image contrast and brings out more details, keeping human figures untouched.
Relight backlit photos or darkened images in a slide with the Relightᴬᴵ feature. Luminar Neo calculates the depth of a photo and creates a precise depth map to spread the light spatially across a 2D image.
Supercontrast is perfect for precise tonal contrast and accent replacements. Six AI controls allow for more definition in the highlights, midtones, and shadows for detailed images.
The Color tool is a useful way to control the intensity of colors in a photo with Saturation and Vibrance. Adjust the intensity of muted colors and achieve fine control when adjusting color. Remove Color Cast with a special tool by detecting and adjusting the hue.
The Toning tool corrects overall brightness and contrast for a balanced image. This is one of the most important tools to get the right tonal harmony for your photo.
From fashion shots to urban images to grungy athletic portraits, achieve a gritty cinematic look similar to what you could achieve with the bleach bypass technique in a darkroom.
The Color Harmony tool offers several advanced options for precise color control. Adjust Brilliance, Warmth, and Contrast as well as the amount and balance of a selected color group.
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What our customers say
Rated 4.8 out of 5 based on 3,678 review on
Trustpilot
6 days ago
Great replacement for Lightroom
I've used Lightroom for years and love Luminar as a replacement - and their email follow up to questions is superb!
Richard Shusha
6 days ago
Easy to use and very powerful
I'm blown away at how useful this software is. It's made my photo editing so much easier.
Dino Mastropaolo
Apr 23
Great software
Great software. I made a mistake when registering and emailed skylum and they got back to me within a few hours and resolved the issue. Great product, responsive team. Thank you!
Johnny
Apr 21
Luminar NEO = Great software and support
Luminar NEO is a great piece of software, the results are amazing and I was fully blown away with the denoise option, never seen something like that before, truly XXI century tech! Great support and a very nice team. I hope they are very successful now and in the future!
M. Gallardo
Apr 19
Best photo editting software ever
I love this software, it is SO easy to use and intuitive; takes my pictures to a new level.
The customer service is really great as well, if you need any help at all with it (I've had a couple of download issues with updates, I'm sure it's my terrible internet connection, but they sent me a link within 24 hours of my asking and it worked great)
Chris Mercer
Apr 3
Luminar Neo is maturing fast
Luminar Neo is maturing into a first class photo editing software. In the first quarter of this year it has full fold many of its promises made at it debut, can’t wait to see what they will give us next.
Joe O.
Mar 18
I had entered a burn-out phase with…
I had entered a burn-out phase with photography. I love landscape photography but with aging and work I am limited on energy and time. However now being able to use any of my hundreds of sky shots I have taken over the last 30 years and instantly plug them into any of my landscape shots....well it is difficult to describe how nice and fulfilling it has been. I can't say enough about the program. Also the adjustments I can make with all the other features is revolutionary. Thank you.
Steve Browning
Mar 7
Skylum software is simply next level
Skylum software is simply next level. It allows me to deliver previously unimaginable results in minutes. Sometimes I just do not have the time to faff around with a sophisticated package like PS. In fairness, Skylums AI technology often wipes the floor with these packages in both time and results. Five Stars
Simon
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Luminar Neo?
Luminar Neo is easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty they imagined using innovative AI-driven tools.
We’ve built Luminar Neo from the ground up to be different from previous Luminar editors. It keeps your favorite LuminarAI tools and expands your arsenal with more state-of-the-art technologies and important changes at its core. Meanwhile, the recognizable Luminar design is retained, making Neo simple to use and fun to explore.
What’s new in Luminar Neo?
Luminar Neo is a giant leap forward to more innovative, AI-based editing.
What differentiates Luminar Neo from all previous versions of Luminar is its modular engine. Modules help to evenly distribute the load for faster image processing. This allows you to apply lots of different tools to an image without significant performance losses and save all edits automatically.
In Luminar Neo, you can find powerful new tools to help fix things in post as fast as possible – and save every moment at its best. What can Luminar Neo help you with? Automatically remove dust spots and power lines, mask objects, and relight the scene; add as many layers as needed to fulfill your complex ideas; plus, use blending and masking modes, make collages, add double exposure effects, and do more on all layers.
The brand-new Luminar Share mobile app for iOS and Android allows you to quickly and seamlessly transfer images from your phone to your computer.
How do I get Luminar Neo?
You can buy Luminar Neo on this page (look for the Buy now button). Luminar Neo is available for macOS and Windows as an application and plug-in. View subscription and one-time purchase options.
How many devices can I use Luminar Neo on?
The number of devices is stated on the checkout page. Usually, we offer licenses for 1 or 2 devices (“seats”).
Two seats allows you to install and activate Luminar Neo on two devices at once, regardless of their operating system. For example, you can use one seat to activate Luminar Neo on a Mac and the other one to activate Luminar Neo on a Windows computer, or you can use both seats for your Windows or macOS computers. Any combination works!
Moreover, you can always manage your activations in your Skylum Account. You are able to add even more seats in your Skylum Account if you have multiple computers or want to share your license with people who need access.
Are you changing computers or upgrading your device? You can reset a license from your old machine at no cost and activate that license on your new device. Just log in to your Skylum account to reset activations for Luminar Neo.
Do you offer educational and military discounts?
Educational and military discounts are available starting from the official release date and are calculated from the regular sale price.
To secure the special price, click here.
If you own a previous version of Luminar or Aurora HDR, we also provide a loyalty discount. Click here to redeem it.
App Requirements
macOS
Mac Model
MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini, early 2010 or newer
Processor
CPU Intel® Core™ i5 or better
OS version
macOS 11.0 or higher.
RAM
Memory 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended)
Disk space
Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance
Display
1280x768 size or better
Windows
Hardware
Windows-based hardware PC with mouse or similar input device
Processor
CPU Intel® Core™ i5 or better, AMD Ryzen™ 5 or better
OS version
10 version 1909 or higher (only 64-bit OS)
RAM
Memory 8 GB RAM or more (16+ GB RAM is recommended)
Disk space
Hard disk 10 GB free space; SSD for best performance
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