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Undetered I decided to apply the same adjustments on another six similar images with very similar results in terms of the time it took to do the job although this time bokah was applied to all six images.Īs i said, this test was perhaps a little unfair but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility to want to apply relighting and bokah to a series of images so at least you know the likely outcome. It also failed to apply bokah on two of the four images which surprised me somewhat. So long in fact I found myself staring out of the window watching the seagulls hover on the thermals while I waited. Luminar Neo is still hyper-sluggish when doing serious editing such as this so don’t expect immediate results, you are going to have to wait for the edits to be applied and this can take some time. Now I have to say that in no way was this achieved at speed. It did do a good job though on relighting the subject and adding bokah to the image.

Note that Neo not only had to contend with relighting the scene, but the very front cart had significant movement blur just to confuse things. Here’s the result on one of the images in the batch. In all I applied the adjustments to four similar images albeit that almost nothing in the first image matched exactly with the the objects in the four others. In truth, it managed to do a reasonable job on some but not all of the images. Now these were incredibly difficult to fathom out when editing manually so to ask Luminar Neo to do something positive with these images was a tough ask. I decided to throw caution to the wind here and hit Neo with a really difficult ask which was to apply Relight Ai and Bokah Ai to some dodgem cars at a fair.

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This key omission from the initial release is a welcome update bringing the ability to quickly apply adjustments to similar images, whether applied singularly or to a small batch of images. I do use external SSD / Hard Drives but only for archiving and backup.

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I also optimise the hell out of my PC and I maintain it regulalry, using DISM / Scannow, at least once a month. In testing this drive was the fastest on offer to me as this laptop only has older USB1 ports so adding on fast external SSD drives is actually detrimental to performance. catalogues, cache etc to the fastest internal SSD in the laptop, in this case a partioned SSD drive. In addition I save everything editing related e.g. The graphics chip in the laptop is an Intel Iris 530.

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Basically I am using an older Asus i7 laptop running under Windows 10 with a 4K screen, 12GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX960 graphics card with 2GB RAM. Now, before we move on let me just tell you about the hardware I am using as this may be important to you. What I do intend here to do is to summarise how I feel about some of the recent improvements and additions as these should be helping to move Luminar Neo forward. Now I don’t intend to labour on these differences here, for that I suggest you visit my initial article on Luminar Neo which can be found here as well as take a look at how I have used it as a plugin to Affinity Photo – visit here. It does however include some simularity to Luminar 4 and to Luminar Ai with regards it’s tool sets, although the layout and design of the application is significantly different.

Luminar Neo is not however simply an update to any of these earlier releases, it is described by Skylum as a new and vastly improved image editor based on an all new processing engine and advanced Ai capabilities. Earlier releases included Luminar 2018, Luminar 3 (my personal favourite), Luminar 4 and more laterly, Luminar Ai. A little bit of History never hurtsįor those living in a bubble or who have zero experience of photo editing software, Luminar Neo is a 4th generation photo editor from Skylum inc. The release also included a number of bug fixes which weren’t specified. This includes the ability to copy and paste (sync) adjustments from one image to another, both singularly and as a batch, some improvements to the core processing engine to speed up slider response, the ability to transform your images to adjust perspective, the opportunity to work with PNG files and lastly to be able to add folders with images in Windows. has received a few updates which have improved usability and functionality so I thought that this would be a good time to take another look.The key question on everyones mind, does Luminar Neo v1.0.2 get Skylum closer to the perfect editor? What’s NewĪbout three weeks ago Skylum released version 1.0.2 which includes some key functionality missing in their initial release. Since it’s launch back at the begining of February Luminar Neo from Skylum Inc.

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