Luminar AI

Available as standalone software and as plugins for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, it provides a non-destructive editing workflow powered by AI tools that can replace skies, remove blemishes, relight portraits, and enhance landscapes with single-slider controls rather than multi-step manual techniques.

The Sky AI module is Luminar Neo's signature feature: it detects the sky region of any photo, replaces it with a new sky from the included library or a custom upload, and automatically adjusts the foreground lighting and color temperature to match the replacement sky producing results that are convincingly realistic without the masking, compositing, and color correction work that sky replacement requires in Photoshop.

For real estate, landscape, and travel photographers, this feature alone saves hours of retouching time per project.

Portrait AI tools in Luminar Neo handle skin retouching, eye enhancement, slim face, and body reshaping with sliders rather than manual clone stamps and liquify tools.

The AI correctly identifies facial features across different ethnicities, skin tones, and lighting conditions a notable improvement over earlier face-detection algorithms that struggled with diversity.

Professional portrait photographers use it to accelerate post-processing workflows for batch shooting events like weddings and headshot sessions.

Luminar Neo operates as a standalone app or integrates as a plugin within existing Lightroom and Photoshop workflows, allowing photographers to apply specific AI tools to individual images without committing to an entirely different editing environment.