I worked for the ICT department within our school for 26 years so I have some experience with software and computers. I appreciate other forum members and their contributions but I used more Luminar versions from Luminar 4 to Luminar AI and now Neo but for whatever reason the sotware simply won't run stable on my system. Ever had issues with Luminar like instabilibty or slowness ? I tried the trial version for DXO and this software seems to work great on my hardware. So going back to Lightroom or trying DXO. I do not want to start a 'bash Luminar' thread on this forum but for me it is a waste of money, effort and it was affecting the pleasure I had in editing and taking photos.

I was just curious if you ever had any of these experiences. I have a laptop with a 4K screen and it seems like Luminar needs to sort of render the pictures. Slow while loading catalog and it takes a long while for pictures to be displayed correctly while browsing the catalog. I reinstalled my laptop completely, used all the new software and graphic drivers (again) but yes, same issue as a few months back. This issue occured earlier with a previous update for Luminar Neo. I installed the lastest update and then again my catalog was becoming very slow. That doesn't guarantee it'll stay ahead of Adobe, the 800-pound gorilla of photo editing, though.I sincerely hope your experience is different but I just removed Luminar from my laptop. Skylum has put AI front and center with its Luminar software, which is designed to let photographers quickly jazz up their shots without lots of fiddling. Luminar Neo, however, shows the spread of these approaches to heavy-duty PC tools, too. AI technology, which uses techniques based on human brains, is widely used to spruce up smartphone shots. The software's new AI tools, which were trained with real-world data, are an example of tasks that are out of the reach of traditional data processing algorithms.

It can also create a depth map that lets you apply changes to scene elements depending on whether they're in the foreground, middle distance or background. Luminar Neo can automatically remove power lines in backgrounds or erase dark blotches caused by dust on your camera's image sensor.

Software maker Skylum released on Thursday a new version of its Luminar Neo photo editing tool that uses artificial intelligence to handle what used to be mundane but time-consuming tasks.

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