The second thing I’m not keen on is the way Skylum has pivoted towards paid Extensions as a way of extending Luminar’s capabilities. First, it’s speeded up its rendering by showing only those adjustment effects ‘below’ the current one in the tools stack – this seems a real backward step in a world where other editors preview the cumulative effect all the tools in real-time as you make adjustments. Luminar Neo is not bad, in my opinion, but Skylum has done a couple of things I’m not keen on. Each incarnation features the same core message as previous versions, but with new features added and some old ones removed amid a blizzard of marketing messages. Luminar has always been an exciting and fast-moving newcomer to the photo-editing market, but some of the moves have been so fast and so erratic it’s hard to have a lot of confidence in where it’s going next. Layers has made a return to Luminar Neo and Skylum says a free update is imminent which will add a Clone & Stamp tool to Luminar Neo – that’s another feature that was already in Luminar 4, all those versions ago. It had some new AI tricks, but lost a lot of the more advanced features previously found in Luminar 4, like layers, for example. Luminar AI was not the best incarnation of Skylum’s ever-changing photo editor. It’s probably not a great surprise, as from the moment Luminar Neo was launched, the fact that the older Luminar AI stayed on sale seemed pretty odd.
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