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Digital product · AI-powered desktop photo editor (MacOS + Windows)Live · Developed by Skylum · MacOS + Windows · 30-day money-back guarantee

Luminar Neo

New highlights for your photos with Luminar Neo

Enter a world where revolutionary photo editing is incredibly easy — AI image enhancement, RAW processing, layers, and 120+ presets in an award-winning desktop app for MacOS and Windows.

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Award-winning UI · Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Apple Photos integrations
Free tier
Paid app · plans on skylum.com · 30-day money-back guarantee
Guarantee
30-day money-back guarantee · technical support · high-performance editor
Support
View plans on skylum.com
Built for
Hobby photographersPro photographers & retouchersLandscape & travel shootersPortrait & wedding photographersLightroom / Photoshop usersApple Photos users on Mac
120+
presets to enhance photos
50
overlays for unique effects
35
AI skies for landscapes
40
LUTs for advanced color
The painful truth

Why this product exists.

Pro photo editing has a brutal learning curve

Photoshop and Lightroom are powerful but punish beginners with menus, masks and modal panels before they get a single good result.

AI tools are scattered across 10 apps

Sky replacement here, denoise there, portrait retouching somewhere else — switching apps kills the flow and the file quality.

Destructive edits ruin originals

One wrong save and the RAW is gone. Most quick editors don't protect the source file.

Batch work eats entire weekends

Wedding and travel shoots mean hundreds of frames — editing them one by one is a job, not a hobby.

The solution

What Luminar Neo delivers.

AI image enhancement that just works

Groundbreaking AI algorithms auto-improve quality with minimal effort — for beginners and pros alike.

RAW + layers + non-destructive

Work directly on RAW files, stack layers and adjustments, and keep the original intact at all times.

Creative assets built in

120 presets, 50 overlays, 35 AI skies and 40 LUTs (Athena, Red Trace, 1960, Monterey, Palm Springs and more) ship with the app.

Batch processing + plugins

Apply edits to hundreds of photos at once and plug into Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Apple Photos.

How it works

From chaos to clarity.

  1. 01
    Import photos / RAW

    Drop in JPG, PNG or RAW files. Non-destructive editing keeps your originals intact.

    Input
    RAW · JPG · PNG · multi-image catalog
  2. 02
    Enhance with AI

    Run AI Image Enhancement, lens correction and color enhancement in a couple of clicks.

    Engine
    AI auto-enhance + lens correction
  3. 03
    Style with presets, LUTs, skies, overlays

    Apply any of 120 presets, 40 LUTs, 35 skies or 50 overlays. Stack with layers for full control.

    Library
    120 presets · 50 overlays · 35 skies · 40 LUTs
  4. 04
    Batch + export

    Run the same edit across hundreds of images, then export — or send back to Photoshop / Lightroom.

    Output
    Batch export · plugin round-trip
Examples

See it in action.

Landscape
Before
Flat sky, dull colors, harsh shadows
After
AI sky replacement + dodge/burn + LUT for cinematic landscape
Portrait
Before
Distracting background, uneven skin
After
Cloning tools + non-destructive retouching with layers
Wedding batch
Before
600 RAWs to color-grade by hand
After
Batch processing applies a consistent look in one pass
Travel
Before
Lens distortion + chromatic aberration
After
Auto lens correction + color enhancement = postcard-ready
Built for the best AI models

Tuned per model.

Standalone app
MacOS + Windows
  • High-performance native editor
  • AI enhancement, RAW, layers
  • 120 presets · 50 overlays · 35 skies · 40 LUTs
Photoshop & Lightroom plugin
Drop into your existing workflow
  • Adobe Photoshop plugin
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic plugin
  • Round-trip without leaving your editor
Apple Photos extension
Edit inside Photos on Mac
  • Photos for macOS extension
  • Enhance directly from your library
  • Great for Mac-first hobbyists
Also tuned for
Landscape photographyPortrait retouchingWedding & event batchesTravel photographyReal estate / property
Simple pricing

Invest in better results.

★ Most popular
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Standalone Luminar Neo app
View planson skylum.com
  • MacOS + Windows
  • AI Image Enhancement
  • RAW + layers + non-destructive
  • 120 presets · 50 overlays · 35 skies · 40 LUTs
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
Pro / Plugins
Add Photoshop, Lightroom Classic & Apple Photos integrations
View planson skylum.com
  • Photoshop plugin
  • Lightroom Classic plugin
  • Apple Photos extension
  • Batch processing
  • Technical support
Creative assets
Presets, skies, LUTs and overlays bundled
Includedin app
  • 120 presets
  • 50 overlays for unique effects
  • 35 AI skies for landscapes
  • 40 LUTs (Athena, Red Trace, 1960, Monterey, Palm Springs…)

🛡 30-day money-back guarantee · technical support · high-performance editor

Loved by builders

From "kinda works" to "wow".

"I replaced three separate AI tools with Luminar Neo and got cleaner edits in half the time."
Landscape photographer
Travel / outdoor work
"Batch processing 600 wedding RAWs went from a weekend to an afternoon."
Wedding photographer
Event creator
Council Q&A

Frequently asked.

  • What is Luminar Neo and who is it for?
  • Does Luminar Neo work on MacOS and Windows?
  • Can I use Luminar Neo as a Photoshop or Lightroom plugin?
  • Does Luminar Neo support RAW files?
  • Are edits non-destructive?
  • How many presets, skies, LUTs and overlays are included?
  • Can I batch-process many photos at once?
  • Is there a money-back guarantee?

Full answers live on luminarneo.de/en/ — go see it.

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