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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