Software Luminar AI
Luminar AI
£59/$79
Take the tedium out of photo editing
From replacing skies to enhancing portraits,
Luminar AI has it covered.
www.skylum.com
Windows
Requires: Intel Core i5 or better, AMD Ryzen 5 or better; 8GB RAM (16GB recommended); Windows 10 64-bit
macOS
Requires: Intel Core i5 or better; 8GB RAM (16GB recommended); macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) or later
L uminar AI is designed to take the drudgery out of photo editing, handling the previously technical and timeconsuming tasks of selecting and masking and manual sliders with its own automated machine learning AI.
It’s not trying to replace Lightroom or Photoshop, or to tempt you away from software you know and love. Instead, it’s aiming at what Skylum believes is a much wider market of photographers and content creators, who simply want beautiful images without the fuss.
Luminar AI is not an upgrade to Luminar 4, but instead is being pitched as a whole new product. Luminar fans may recognise a lot of Luminar 4 in the new program, but we’re saying nothing.
Skylum has taken a bold step. It is ending development of Luminar 4 and taking its core technologies in a new direction. That may disappoint a lot of Luminar fans hoping it would become an ever more sophisticated and advanced alternative to Lightroom or Photoshop. That doesn’t look like that’s going to happen now.