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Edit photos like a pro in half the time using the power of AI

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All those hours you spend editing photos could be spent doing something way more productive—like growing your pet’s Instagram account. ("Follow my iguana, @therealslimiggy.")

Whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, editing your photography from scratch can be a long and tedious process without the right tools.

What if there was photo editing software that let you leverage AI and one-click shortcuts edit your photos in a fraction of the time?

Meet Luminar AI.

TL;DR

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Automatically adjust the color, details, tone, and depth of an image using Accent AI
Alternative to: Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
Achieve a stunning bokeh blur on any image with the Portrait Bokeh AI

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Overview

Luminar AI is an AI-powered photo editing software packed with key tools and features that help you quickly retouch any photo like a pro.

Luminar AI lets you access more than 100 AI-powered tools, templates, and one-click solutions to bring your artistic vision to life.

Edit photos like an expert using Accent AI, which automatically adjusts shadows, highlights, contrast, tone, saturation, and exposure.

Luminar AI also recognizes more than 7,000 types of objects to suggest creative problem-solving templates that speed up editing.

To get started, just add the tool as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, or download the full application for MacOS or Windows.

Accent AI

Use the Accent AI slider to instantly transform your images with professional-grade edits.

Refine your subject’s face, eyes, and mouth using simple sliders to bring out their strongest features.

Luminar AI lets you smooth out uneven textures and adjust skin tones so every subject can have a flawless complexion.

Get the most out of your edits with a one-click shortcut to remove the red-eye effect from your portraits.

Face AI

With Face AI, you can remove red eyes and reshape eyebrows to enhance your portraits.

Replace the sky in any natural landscape with a high-quality backdrop from the built-in image gallery or download your own.

Thanks to the tool’s advanced AI, it’s never been easier to add realistic reflections and relight the scene.

The Augmented Sky feature lets you add atmospheric elements like 3D fog, birds, and sun rays to create stunning landscapes.

Sky AI

Swap out the sky in your landscape photography using the Sky AI tool.

With Luminar AI, automate the masking process and create layer masks that can be duplicated and edited.

Use layers to add objects, create new textures, and apply blending modes that transform any photo into a bold work of art.

You can even achieve the perfect bokeh blur with any lens or lighting by using sliders to adjust the radius, softness, and opacity.

Portrait Bokeh AI

Create the ideal bokeh blur in any photo with sliders that adjust blur, softness, and opacity.

They say you need 10,000 hours to become a master photographer. (About 9,000 of them are spent editing).

Luminar AI gives you access to over 100 AI-powered tools to level up your photos in half the time.

Edit your photos like a pro.

Get lifetime access to Luminar AI today!

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Q: I've been using Luminar since version 1 and many of Skylum’s software even before then.

They make decent photography software. No doubt. But what I don't like, increasingly so, is the business practices of dropping support for older versions after one year and purely focusing on the latest hot thing they’re pushing.

Which gets us to the problem: Upgrades happen once a year. Luminar AI has been replaced with Luminar Neo for months now and you should expect no further development on Luminar AI from here on. This is like buying a product after the best-before-date. Many of the apps I purchased over the years (even before they were called Skylum) ended up dead-on-arrival after purchase and became incompatible with later operating systems: Snapheal, Intensify, ColorStrokes, Tonality, Noiseless, Luminar, Aurora HDR, Focus, Creative Kit, and Photolemur. On the latter, I was even told they’d be working on an upgrade to fix bugs when I purchased the app… but in the end the AI tech got merged into Luminar and users had to shell out again.

Go on their website and see for yourself. You'll be hard-pressed to find any mention of Luminar AI there.

Luminar Neo isn’t bad, but I can’t use ANY of my filters from Luminar AI. They’re incompatible. The same happened when Luminar AI came along: Previous filters weren’t 100% compatible and you were CONSTANTLY pestered through email and in-app messages to buy more filters. Annoying,

I’m starting to appreciate more and more Pixelmator and Affinity Photo these days. It’s a different approach, but at least I know my investment is valued and I’m not just buying an old pony that’s shot after a year. Caveat emptor!

triangleforcesMay 17, 2022
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Kostiantyn

Kostiantyn

May 15, 2024

A: Hi!
Thank you for your explicit feedback and the interest in our products. As for the filters (aka templates) from Luminar AI to be used in Luminar Neo, the template packs are in a process of conversion into the format, supported by Luminar Neo. You will also have a possibility to convert your custom templates to use them in Neo with a conversion tool our Technical team is working on right now.

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Q: What advantages and disadvantages does this offer have in Appsumo compared to the other offers you make?

AldebaranAug 6, 2022
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Daria_luminar

Daria_luminar

May 14, 2024

A: Hi! This deal is offered specifically to AppSumo users. You can get Luminar Neo + Luminar AI for a special price. However, please note that the deal ends on August 8th at 4:00 PM (in 29 hours).

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Q: Does this include HDR merge?

And does it include membership in Luminar X?

And does it include all the premade backgrounds and other data objects that you've built for it, or whill I need to buy lots of other things in order to make good use of it?

Thanks

dcr20854PLUSAug 8, 2022
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Q: I was stoked to use the software but trying to start the app on a clean, new Windows immediately gives me the ...

error "We couldn’t verify your activation info. Please contact Skylum Support." over the splash screen.

Among the things I have fruitlessly tried is resetting the hosts file, temporarily disabling the firewall, the ridiculous winmgmt/wbem solution, changing my password (whatever good that is supposed to do) and more. I refuse to use "CCleaner" which has also been recommended.

Researching this problem for hours, I have found 2-year-old posts from hordes of frustrated users facing the same issue without any resolution, mentioning that even support could not help them.

I despise software with so-called "protection" that makes it harder and more cumbersome for legitimate users to use it than for pirates who would presumably just strip out the activation stuff...

So can you please provide the software without this horrible non-working activation stuff or provide a simple, working solution for this issue (and add this to your website)?

Otherwise I'm afraid it'll have to be a refund and zero tacos from me. This took more than two hours of my life that I'll never get back...

RudyMa44Aug 6, 2022
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Daria_luminar

Daria_luminar

May 15, 2024

A: Hi! I'm terribly sorry to hear about the issue you encountered. Could you please kindly reach out to us via https://skylum.com/support?
Look forward to hearing from you.

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Q: How does copyright work with your software?

If, for example, I take a picture in NYC, but the weather was not great, and then I use one of your skies, or backgrounds to improve the picture:

1. Can I still sell the picture as my own?
2. Can I publish as my own?
3. Do I have to give credit to someone? Like the creator of the background?

Thank you!

alex3323302PLUSAug 6, 2022
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Daria_luminar

Daria_luminar

May 15, 2024

A: Hi! Users can use edited photos for any purpose. All the pictures for the sky replacement (SkyAI and Augmented SkyAI tools) are accompanied by appropriate documentation (photograph copyright license and consent agreements). So there's no copyright rights violation.

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