My Luminar Neo Review and is it any good in 2024?

The Features List.

One of the things that truly I love about Luminar Neo is that it’s absolutely riddled with cool features, it has you covered no matter what you need to do with your photography, Luminar Neo has the feature you need.

It’s every bit as good at editing landscape photographs as it is at editing portraits, wildlife images, sports etc… As a person who does both Landscape Photography and Portraiture the few features I absolutely love are the golden hour slider for Landscapes as this just adds that extra kiss of sunset light to your images and for portraits the skin smoothing and Face AI controls and just mind-blowing, heck even the body shape AI tool is wonderful for some of those very unflattering camera angle shots.

So, let’s have a look at most of the basic editing features first and then go onto the AI features…

Starting from the top down we have the Cropping tool, this lets you not only crop your shot in a bit tighter if you want to but it also gives you the option of changing the aspect ratio of your images, to give you that look or feel you were going for.

You have all the usual slider controls for your Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Whites, Blacks, Saturation, Vibrancy, sharpness etc… like you would have in most of the standard editing software, if you want to know more about the standard feature then please do check out my walkthrough tutorial video further up the page as it covers all these controls in a lot more detail.

AI features.

Accent AI Provides basic image editing adjustments like Exposure, shadows, highlights, tone, contrast, colour details etc all with just a single slider control. This can be really handy for providing a good base for your edit which you can of course perfect form there manually if you want. 

You have a master slider control for Accent AI so you can of course adjust the intensity of the edit that’s added to your shot.

Sky Replacement has always been a huge feature for Luminar software and it just keeps getting better and better as this software develops. It takes literally seconds now to swap out a sky, you get a good few skies to choose from and of course, you can add your own skies for this or you can buy more from the marketplace if you want a wider selection of replacement skies to choose from. 

You can position them both horizontally and vertically and you also have scene relighting controls which will help to add the correct toning or light to your photograph to match the sky. 

So sky replacement is again mind-blowingly good.

Sky Enhancer AI This slider really helps make your sky pop with a bit more contrast, vibrancy and texture. This is done with just a single slider so you can of course fine-tune the AI edit in seconds.

Portrait Background Removal AI This will crazily help make your bog standard kit lens that came with your camera look like a top-of-the-range portrait lens, it is all again adjustable via sliders and in seconds you can make that background as blurred as you want it which will add a lot more focus and attention to your subject. This amazing AI tool helps everyone get that professional shallow depth of feel look in their shots.

ReLight AI with some kind of turbo-charged witchcraft ReLight AI adds a 3d depth map to your image so you can adjust the lighting in your shot according to the perceived depth in the photograph. That’s just crazy, isn’t it? How is that even possible? So if you want to adjust the background or foreground lighting in a shot that is so easily done now.

Face AI Adjust the lighting on a person’s face in seconds with Face AI to give your shot a completely different look or to highlight the face by adding more light to it to help it pop more in the shot.

Skin AI Remove blemishes and shine from your portraits and adjusts the smoothness of any skin in seconds. This was something I had a completely different application for but now it can be done in Luminar Neo saving me €99.- a year on that subscription.

Body AI Ideal for those awkward camera angles or poses, this AI tool helps slim the proportions back to normal and there is even an Abdomen slider in there. This tool really is very handy for the odd shot but it should also be noted that it can be prone to abuse by people also to give overly flattering shots.

Atmosphere adds mist and Fog to your shots again via its 3d depth mapping so the results are very realistic and this effect alone will save you tons of time if this is something you are inclined to do from time to time.

Mood Adds different looks to your shots in mere seconds by adding different LUTs to your photographs, again you can choose what look you want or buy even more from the Luminar Marketplace and don’t forget my discount code can also save you money there.

There are of course loads more features and too many to list here but if you have a look at my Luminar Neo Review and Tutorail video above where I run you through nearly every one of them and also how to use them.