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Luminar Neo

Luminar Neo is AI photo editing software for macOS and Windows that enhances, retouches and restores photos.

What Luminar Neo does

Provides AI-driven tools that detect and adjust areas of a photo to improve it. Lets users work with layers, masks and non-destructive edits on raw and common image files. Offers tools to upscale, sharpen, denoise and merge exposures or panoramas.

Built for

  • Photographers
  • Beginners

Key features

  • AI image enhancement that detects areas to improve
  • Support for raw and many other image file formats
  • Layer-based editing
  • Non-destructive editing that keeps the original image
  • Batch processing of multiple photos
  • Upscaling while preserving detail
  • Panorama stitching and HDR merging
  • Generative removal of distractions and objects

Pros

Pros

  • Original images stay unchanged while edits remain adjustable.
  • Batch adjustments can be applied to many photos at once.
  • Works as a plugin alongside Lightroom classic and Photoshop.

Where Luminar Neo is listed

Luminar Neo is listed under photo editing and retouching in Design and images AI tools.

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Fotor

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Fotor is an online photo editor that does the same enhancing and retouching job as Luminar Neo, with AI background and object removal, and it is listed for web, desktop and mobile.

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Jewels Retouch

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Kokon

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Kokon edits photos by describing the change, covering the same editing job as Luminar Neo, and runs Qwen-Image 2.1 locally on your own GPU.

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