Steve Roe

Luminar Neo is packed full of editing tools that can help photographers of all genres achieve the style they are going for. Mixed into its toolset are traditional, creative, and AI editing tools that can assist with a wide range of tasks.

Luminar Neo is an AI-powered photo editing software designed to help you transform your images, no matter your genre or style. With a wide range of tools that can deliver professional-looking portraits, elevate landscape shots, or allow you to get creative with colour grading, there is something here for everyone.

When it comes to portrait retouching, the manual approach just isn’t for me. Path drawing, masks, and needing the steady precision of a master watchmaker around the subject’s hair makes the whole process rather unenjoyable for me. So, I for one, am extremely grateful for automated retouching. It comes with a whole host of benefits including time saving, which has helped speed up my workflow and get me back out shoot rather than long editing sessions sat in front of my computer.

Organisation is one of those lesser talked about virtues that can make a good photographer great. Understanding your own file management system will help you locate photos much more quickly when you come to look for them months or even years later. And as photographers, the last thing we want is to remember a great shot we took a long time ago, only to realise we can no longer find it.

So you wake up on a fine morning and realise it is the perfect weather to go shooting, with clear blue skies forecast and beautiful light on the cards. You grab your camera, head out, and trek to your favourite photo spot, only for the weather to suddenly turn on you. Those clear blue skies are now a dull grey expanse, completely undermining what could have been a great shot.

In this new era of image creation, we are able to imagine, fix, or even expand elements of our shots. This is extremely beneficial to photographers in many areas and is becoming an integral part of their workflow. It is also saving a great deal of time, which is always an added bonus, allowing photographers to spend less time editing and more time shooting.