![]() Luminar Neo is a mixture of amazing AI effects and surprising omissions. That aside, Luminar Neo seems quicker than Luminar AI, but still not quick by regular photo editing software standards. It could be a random glitch with our iMac. In fact it did respond, but only after 30 seconds.Įven worse than that, we ran into serious memory leaks when importing large collections of folders and sub-folders, with RAM usage steadily climbing to 11, 12 then 13GB, and that was after the Luminar Neo 1.0.1 update. Once a preset was applied, the Develop tool stopped working – or it appeared to. Worse, we had some serious operational issues on our test machine, a quad-core iMac with 16GB RAM, so not exactly underpowered. It’s a long way from the speed and intuitiveness of DxO’s control point adjustments, for example, or even a radial filter in Lightroom. The Relight AI tool proved a disappointment too, just making a fairly crude and obvious guess at where the foreground and background were and offering simple exposure controls to darken/lighten them. They don’t even approach the scope and inspirational quality of the presets in the DxO Nik Collection, for example, ON1 Photo RAW or Exposure X. Luminar AI used AI to analyse your photos to suggest suitable Preset collections, and we assume Neo does the same, but the presets on offer just look like random variations of contrast and color tone. On the downside, Luminar Neo’s presets are distinctly uninspiring. It had to think about this image (left) for a short while, but then it magically removed the power lines (right) as if they were never there. The power line removal tool is rather remarkable. Luminar’s Face, Skin, Body AI and other portrait tools are the best there are, and worth the price alone if you regularly need to enhance portraits – and they are as subtle and sympathetic as you need them to be. The dust removal works well too, though you may need to apply it a second time if you do a lot of contrast enhancement work that brings out some more that was missed the first time around. The new power line removal tool is uncannily good, even in city streets where the lines run across buildings and stonework. The AI Sky Replacement tool never ceases to amaze, and for the most part it blends new skies with existing images with no visible edge effects or artefacts – though sometimes you can get a ‘glow’ effect around foreground objects. Some of Luminar Neo’s AI tools are quite remarkable. I'm back on the hunt for a package that isn't LightRoom (can't justify the subscription).We threw everything at this image (obviously), but while Luminar's AI can do the heavy lifting with special effects, you still need a clear idea about the image you want to achieve (unlike us). How about no - what the blazing f- is a photo-editing application doing to trip up anti-virus? Their official advice was "turn off your anti-virus". There's a thread here from the 4.3 release when it would hang on the splash screen. You simply can't trust it with your catalog. At this point, Luminar is worthless for anything other than single edits. But that's the problem, they made some good plugins and now they've decided to do DAM, they've realised writing actual software is hard. I shudder to think how it copes (or doesn't) with the 40-50+MB RAWs some modern bodies produce. I'm editing RAWS, but only from a decade-old Canon 550D. Edits are laggy when moving sliders (I would accept this for complex or "AI" edits, but not for basic-bitch exposure changes).Previews take longer to load (multiple seconds) when culling/rating.Yet compared with Aperture on a 2008 Macbook (2c/2t, 4GB RAM): Hundreds of edits and ratings across thousands of photos. When I hit "export" it did indeed export the selected photos, but yeah - it's dumped the entire catalog. I very deliberately clicked "no", at which point the entire H:/ drive disappeared from my catalog. Seemed odd as I was in the exports dialog and definitely hadn't asked it to remove anything. Last night I went to export some edits and whilst selecting the export destination, a dialog popped up asking if I was sure I wanted to remove "that" folder (the entire folder) from my catalog as this would delete all my edits and ratings.
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