For example, if you painted over too many sections of the photo and want to undo your last action, you can’t do it. I noticed that the early release of Luminar Neo is less forgiving if you want to quickly undo actions using familiar shortcuts because it has no undo or redo functionality. Considering it’s an early release, it works well enough that you can already use it to edit photos successfully, albeit with a lack of some functionality and compromising on some other features. Overall, the performance of the editor is not bad and the majority of tools are fast to load. The difference is that you have to “paint” the destructive elements first, like the remaining birds in the example above, and then click “erase.” Compared to Adobe’s click-and-release method, this takes an extra step. Luminar Neo has a manual brush to remove additional elements, similar to Adobe Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush tool. The process takes a few seconds and the results are not spotless, but they are a good starting point to continue manually cleaning up the photo. Unless you know where to look, you might miss them.īoth removal tools use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze photos and remove the elements to save time. Considering the two are important features of the early access version, it was somewhat surprising how long it took to find them.

For those familiar with Skylum products, Luminar Neo has retained familiar tools and the overall look of the user interface available in Luminar AI and Luminar 4.īoth the new Dust Spot Removal and Powerlines Removal tools can be found under the “Erase” panel.

The software has a clean, dark, and distraction-free user interface, with all tools neatly located on the right.

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