Explore editing tools for perfect results

Luminar Neo is a standalone app for and
It also works as a plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Photos®

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AI tools

Luminar Neo is powered by AI technology, which helps streamline routine tasks, letting you focus on creativity.

Accent

Adjust up to a dozen controls with one slider

Achieve naturally beautiful results with a single slider that adjusts controls as shadows, highlights, contrast, and more.

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Relight AI

Fix underexposed photos

Add light to your photos, and get realistic results with full control over exposure.

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SkyAI

Replace the sky in one click

Choose from a collection of high quality skies, and seamlessly replace a plain sky with the power of AI, while also taking into account water reflections.

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AtmosphereAI

Effortlessly add a unique atmospheric mood

Place fog, mist, or haze in your image using content-aware masking for maximum realism.

StructureAI

Sharp details, natural look

Unlock detail and clarity to make images that pop. Structure AI increases image contrast and brings out more details, keeping human figures untouched.

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Supercontrast

Full control over contrast

Perfect for precise tonal contrast. Six AI controls allow for more definition in the highlights, midtones, and shadows for detailed images.

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Crop AI

Crop photos like a pro

Trained on hundreds of photos by talented photographers, Crop AI helps you get stronger compositions, crops, and perspectives of your photos just as the pros would do it.

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Accent

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Relight AI

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Sky AI

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Atmosphere AI

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Structure AI

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Supercontrast

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Crop AI

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FaceAI

Enhance face features and skin naturally

Using facial recognition technology, Face AI selectively targets a subject’s face, eyes, and mouth and makes them vivid, bright, and smooth in no time.

SkinAI

Give your model immaculate skin with natural texture

Skin retouching can be time-consuming and complex if you don’t have the right editing tools. Skin AI makes sure to catch and fix all the imperfections in the blink of an eye.

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BodyAI

Add or remove volume

Shape a subject’s torso and abdomen by removing or adding volume in a realistic way.

Portrait Bokeh AI

Effortlessly create a dreamy bokeh

Simulate a dreamy bokeh effect that pulls focus to your subject in your portrait images – regardless of the lens used or the lighting conditions.

Portrait Background Removal

Creative portraits in a click

Transport people into another setting by easily changing the background. You might think that separating people from the background is time-consuming and can douse your creative spark, so why not do it automatically?

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FaceAI

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SkinAI

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BodyAI

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Portrait Bokeh AI

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Portrait Background Removal

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Main capabilities

Luminar Neo's award-winning interface easily guides you through a convenient editing workflow that lets you explore all your editing possibilities.

All your photos, in one place

Store, browse, and sort your photos in the Catalog. Edits you make in Luminar Neo are always non-destructive, so your original photos are always safe.

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Explore a variety of Presets for any occasion

Enjoy simple photo editing with 1-click effects for instant enhancements. Get AI-powered Preset suggestions tailored to your image.

Sunsets
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Argent

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Dream Film

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Hyperdrive

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Impact

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Layers

Spark your imagination with Layers

Work with multiple images in a layers workflow and apply any tool to any layer. Tools can be added in any order, multiple times, and with unique masks.

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Extensions

Achieve pro-level results with premium Extensions for Luminar Neo that give you additional creative possibilities.

Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(21)Supersharp AI

Recover details from misfocus and motion blur

Supersharp AI analyzes depth, perspective, and the environment of the photo to detect blur caused by movement or missed focus. Then it stabilizes the affected area, delivering a crisp and naturally sharp photo, just as it was meant to be.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(22)Noiseless AI

Noise reduction powered by AI

Noiseless AI gets rid of the noise and keeps all the details intact. Unlike many other denoise tools, it does not smooth out your image. Instead, it recovers details while ensuring a natural look. Works great both with raw and JPEG files.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(23)Panorama Stitching

Create stunning panoramas from your photos and videos

Seamlessly stitch together multiple photos to create expansive panoramas that immerse viewers in awe-inspiring landscapes and cityscapes.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(24)Upscale AI

Upscale with print-worthy quality

Upscale a photo up to 600% and enhance image resolution in a natural way with AI. Crop an interesting frame from a panoramic landscape, get more resolution after a heavy crop of wildlife, prepare your images for printing, and more.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(25)Background Removal AI

Universal Background Removal with AI

Experiment with your creative photos. Automatically remove the background behind one or multiple subjects in your photo. The tool detects up to nine types of elements in your photo, so you can select which ones to keep, and fix any potential imperfections with a refinement brush.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(26)HDR Merge

Easily recover highlight and shadow details

Combine up to 10 photos to create an HDR image that lets you bring out important detail from the brightest and darkest parts of your photos.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(27)Focus Stacking

Keep everything in focus

Make every part of your photo crisp by stacking up to 100 photos with different points of focus. Focus Stacking will align, crop, and blend 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.

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Luminar Neo — Brand-New Product Preorder!(28)Magic Light

Add magical atmosphere

Place visual accents on your photo by adding glow to light sources. Highlight street lamps in the urban night photos and add dramatic long-exposure rays to cars headlights. Get full control over lights with intensity, size, glow, and clearness sliders.

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Core tools

Fine-tune your photos further with over 20 core tools that deliver great results for specific editing needs.

Erase

Get rid of unnecessary details

The new Erase algorithm is more precise than ever. It creates a smarter sample texture that’s used for pixel replacement. It also perfectly blends the edges of the removed area, creating a natural-looking image with no signs of erasing.

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Apply three types of blur

Effortlessly enhance your photos with three distinct blur options: Gaussian, Motion, and Twisted. Adjust the amount, angle, and position of the blur effect, and use masking to apply it to a specific area of the photo.

Neon & Glow

Blend neon elements

Refine poorly lit images by adding captivating lighting effects and effortlessly blend neon elements into your photos.

Studio Light

Replicate studio lights

Add brilliant lighting effects to portraits and breathe new life into older photos. This tool allows photographers to replicate lightning effects usually achieved with expensive technical studio equipment.

Glow

Make it glow

Introduce a special glow effect to your photos. Add additional accent to the bright areas in your image, such as streetlights or the sky.

Dodge & Burn

Set the right exposure

Fine-tune your image by lightening or darkening it. This tool simulates traditional techniques photographers use in the darkroom to regulate the amount of light on a particular print area.

Sunrays

Add a new light source

Control the position, warmth, and the amount of glow of sun rays for a subtle or more dramatic change in lighting. Combine the Sunrays tool with blending modes for even more control of your lighting.

Landscape

Bring your landscapes to the next level

Enhance landscape photographs, real estate shots, and wildlife images — dehaze, enhance foliage, or add a warm golden hour effect.

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Details

Every detail matters

Create dramatic photos and bring crystal-clear sharpness to your images. With proper detail enhancement, you can make your photos look sharper, without halos or artifacts.

Denoise

Get rid of noise and grain

Noticed unwanted grain on your photo due to high ISO settings, underexposure or a long shutter speed? Reduce or remove unwanted noise in a click.

Toning

Even toning throughout

Correct the overall brightness and contrast for a balanced image. Get the right tonal harmony for your photo.

Color

Make the colors pop

Control the vibrancy of colors in your photos with such settings as Saturation, Vibrance, Hues, Luminance.

Mood AI

Apply color grading in a click

This tool uses professional lookup tables (LUTs) to quickly change your photo’s appearance. Choose from film stocks and black and white looks — or create color grades to unlock a new style in seconds. Choose built-in LUTs or upload your own.

Dramatic

Add drama and mood

Reduce the saturation and contrast of an image, letting you achieve a gritty cinematic look in your photos, similar to that of a bleach bypass darkroom technique. It’s perfect for stylized fashion shoots, urban images, and grungy athletic portraits.

Color Harmony

Correct colors like a pro

This tool offers several advanced options for precise color control. Color Contrast, Split Color Warmth, and Color Balance are all helpful for selectively improving colors in your photo.

Mystical

A touch of magic

Give your image a dreamy look by softening luminance while increasing contrast and saturation. Create a fantasy look by increasing contrast and adding a creative glow prioritized in the lighter areas of the image.

Film Grain

Achieve an analog film look

This tool helps emulate the structure of analog film stock by introducing random, stylized grain to your image. Give your color or black and white photos a retro analog feel.

Matte

Add a matte vibe

Give your photos an aged look with flat colors and high contrast. This works well with landscapes and portraits to change the emotion of your image.

Clone

Fix imperfections

Replace unwanted or damaged pixels. Simply select a source on your photo and then paint those pixels on other areas of your image to cover up damage or blemishes. Seamlessly blend brush strokes with feather control.

Black & White

Transform into monochrome

Easily convert a colored photo to a black and white one, and then enhance and edit the photo to your liking.

Crop

Crop photos like a pro

Crop AI helps you get stronger compositions, crops, and perspectives of your photos just as the pros would do it.

Vignette

Emphasize your subject

Darken or lighten the edges of your image to pull focus on the subject. Place the center point of the vignette anywhere in the image.

High Key

Get bright, high-contrast images

Emulate the look achieved by high key lighting, where the main light source slightly overexposes the subject. Perfect for fashion and beauty photography.

Optics

Correct lens imperfections

Optics enhances your images by removing lens imperfections. Fix lens distortions, chromatic aberrations, and more.

Light

Adjust light to perfection

Light contains multiple sliders that let you control exposure, smart contrast, highlights, and shadow to achieve the exact look you want in your photo.

An application & plugin. For macOS & Windows

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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

Display

1280x768 size or better

Graphics

Open GL 3.3 or later compatible graphics card