Luminar Neo is one of my favourite tools. I have been using Skylum software for years!

It has a powerful engine for higher performance and flexibility. It also packs exciting and innovative tools that let you fulfil your vision.

Channel your creativity with the infinite possibilities of the new Layers feature. Relight an image that lacks lighting sources based on image depth.

Remove the background behind a portrait and use AI-based masking to speed up your workflow (coming in future updates). And more.

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Luminar is a powerful, easy-to-use photo editor that gives you control over your images. Use it to fix exposure problems, remove unwanted objects from your pictures, and much more. Like most professional photo editors, Luminar has a range of tools for fixing exposure problems.

The Basic panel offers a comprehensive set of sliders for adjusting exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation and so on. The Advanced panel provides tools for correcting specific issues. For example, the color noise reduction tool can be used to remove unwanted colour artefacts from your photos. From there you can use Luminar's five different panels to edit your photo.

These include the Detail panel for sharpening or softening various parts of your image; the Tone Curve panel for manipulating contrast; the HSL panel for adjusting hue, saturation and luminance; the Effects panel for adding post-processing effects like HDR or Vibrance; and the Effects Generator panel for applying presets like Cross Processing or Early Bird.

With so many tools at hand you might think Luminar is hard to get the hang of. But it's actually very simple to use thanks to its excellent user-interface design and comprehensive in-app help guides. Once you know what each tool does, it's easy to apply them