7/27/2023 0 Comments Luminar neo new features![]() But despite the chaos of a foreign invasion, Skylum’s staff are striving to retain some sense of normalcy-just last week they shipped a fairly substantial update to the brand’s flagship image editing platform, Luminar Neo, adding new features and fixing bugs. And with their country at war, times have been understandably tough. ![]() I can’t figure out why it is so slow.Although the software company Skylum has a US headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, these days, most of the company’s employees are based out of a development center in embattled Kyiv, Ukraine. For example, I just exported 12 images that were processed in Neo (these are 48 megapixel Sony images) – and it took about 30 minutes on my M1 Max based Mac. I don’t really want to think about that, so I’ll just use the avoidant nature of my personality and figure that out another day. I have not figured out a “smooth” way to integrate non Lightroom images with my last 10+ years of LR library management. You can indeed organize your photos into galleries, favorites, and the like, but it simply maintains the library in a different way. I don’t even know if I’m explaining that right. They just have a different system that is based on your existing file infrastructure on your hard drive. Neo currently lacks the same sort of Library management of LR. You can do any of the “Edits” you can do in LR. You can do anything you can do in Lightroom, but the flow may be a bit different. This can also be a bit scary via the old paralysis-by-analysis paradigm, but this is a situation I quite like! You can do, hrmmm, probably 20x more things in Neo than you can in Lightroom. What do I like best about Neo? I simply love the wild array of tools. There was limited functionality between previous Luminar and Auroras in the past but now HDR available as a add-on/extension in Luminar Neo so it’s a much more rounded experience with support for all the latest cameras, etc all added in. In addition to that, it’s been a few years now since the latest version my collaboration with Skylum, Aurora HDR, was released. ![]() It makes you experiment with new aspects of post-processing that may never have occurred to you before. It makes you look at things in a new way. I think there is something in the ever-changing brain that needs this discomfort. It keeps the brain very plastic and, counterintuitively, I am sure after decades of experience that it is important to stay “uncomfortable” and always try new things. I think it’s important for artists to always try new tools. But now I am glad I am using Neo all the time! I’ve used Neo exclusively for the last three months as I slowly decouple myself from Lightroom! I had grown so accustomed to LR and their way of doing things that I was always a bit lazy about switching to a new tool. □īefore we begin, here’s a few images I’ve produced with Neo to get you in the mood…Īnd now, on with the show… Why Luminar Neo? For those of you who are existing Aurora HDR users, that entitles you to grab the HDR extension for Neo with special pricing, depending on the version you have and for some of you that might even mean free! Just be sure to sign up for Neo with the same email you used to register Aurora HDR to get access to the best pricing. Here’s a quick and fun review of Luminar Neo! You can use the code TREY10 to get $10 off the yearly or lifetime plans.
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