5 reasons to use Luminar Neo over Adobe Lightroom 

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Great stuff! Thank you for your review!

Thanks @FulaanCreative this video was a game changer for sure 👍

Great video man! Thank you

Neo sounds great! If I replaced the sky, also the foreground and perhaps the main subject, then I wouldn't even need to go out taking photos. 😂

Came across you video, what a flow of talking. Insightful content

I’m getting back into videography and I’m glad I stumbled upon your page!

As a beginner learning how to use manual mode on my camera I am excited about luminar because it gives me the opportunity to fix up my photos without having to know editing just yet it helps me to enjoy my photos a lot more. I am still interested in learning how to edit and I play around a lot in an affinity I like having an easy option. It eliminates a lot of frustration and disappointment that would otherwise be discouraging.

I just wanted to let you know I came across your channel actually looking to get more information about the software and after watching your video I decided to go ahead and purchase it. I'm old school and I've been using a stand-alone version of Lightroom that no longer supports the raw files I'm using and was looking for a good alternative. I loved your video and found it extremely informative which helped me to decide to make the change. I am now a subscriber and I want to thank you so much for taking the time out to make a video that definitely helped me.

Love your channel bro ! What camera did you use in this video ? Did you shoot in log ? Or just the picture profile ?

Thanks very helpful

Hey man. Love your content! Do you also have videos about the EOS RP? Mostly for video. Have a great one! 🔥

Great Review - i am using this software and since i have moved on to Silicone M3 Pro processor on Mac - this software is now shining, very fast - and in terms of user experience there is no competition to Luminar Neo. Best future...no contract ;)

I just purchased the perpetual with your link. Looking forward to using this. Years back, I used Apple Aperture. I dont remember the last version number before they killed off to concentrate on the Photos app, but it as a couple of versions before that. It was fantastic. I migrated to Lightroom and never cared for it. I hope I like Luminar Neo like I did the old Aperture

Question, do you get forever updates on the latest when purchasing the lifetime Luminar Pro?

Great video, thanks! Just discovered your channel a couple of days ago and I love it! PS: Fulan is a Tunisian name meaning somebody, do you have any Tunisian or Northafrican origins?

Amazing

Luminar Neo has Erase Powerlines under Erase. It is not perfect but you can select a straight line using Erase (shift key and click on the other end of the line you want to erase).

You're awesome my friend

Thanks for the rundown 🥕 I’m a Lightroom guy and having some sort of feelings 😂😂🤯

I have learnt something new

Adobe is still number 1. I used both and Luminar just cant compete. Everything you listed I can do the very same with Adobe.

Good 😌

I love you, Luminar, but just for a plug-in for Lightroom

Luminar Neo is awesome, just... something bad: its super heavy for your cpu. I run Luminar Neo and its pretty slow in my macbook pro with M2 max and 64gb RAM.

I'm with you on Neo as a pluggin, but it does not replace Lightroom for cataloging unless maybe through Bridge. In addition, I think the quality of edits are better through Lightroom in many cases, esp those involving color.

Can you shoot a music video with the R10?

This being sponsored, makes it a waste of time.

Are discount codes available for the plugins?

My biggest problem with the modern offerings are the lack of taking a good shot to begin with. Most of what these do is geared toward the Phone Bubble brains. I just want to SEE life how it Looks.

Can't batch rename, size down, and batch export takes hours where lightroom takes 15 min on something like a wedding with full size files. It all starts withe the culling. I don't beleive you can batch watermark either. Contacted Neo, they said they would share with with the dev team. It's so basic. Sure there are some pretty features with Neo. Really wanted it to work this week since adobe, being adobe. Neo needs to fix/add in what working pros use as basic daily culling necessity. Crawl, walk, run then fly. Need the basics if your volume. Great for non pros.

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The biggest con for Luminar Neo is the massive amount of RAM it pulls. I find it to work best as a plug-in to Lightroom.

can you clone from one photo to another photo?

My trial version of Liminar Neo worked well however since I paid, I have never been able to export a single photo.

Correction on Lightroom, you don't have to send it to the cloud, I don't need the cloud, so I bought the Photoshop, Lightroom combo pack with minimum cloud storage. I've paused the cloud back up. But then you get a message in a blue bar in the image window that says it could not update to the lastest version saved in the cloud. Things are saved on my pc, there is no need to use the cloud feature if you don't want to, actually need it.

Can I install luts that i already created in luminar? .cube files?

We actually own Luminar forever xd !!

Neo lists PS and LR as able to use as plugin. True, but with on BIG omission. The Gen* AI tool are NOT available as a plugin. These are the main reason I purchased Neo. This information is not readily made available. I found it in one web page after over an hour of googling. Left a very bad taste in my mouth and wondering if Neo is very legitimate.

well... I don't see Luminar as viable alternative: 1. it's product first, a tool second 2. if you have a rich library of hardware behind your photos, I bet Luminar doesn't know how to compensate for all the aberrations in your lenses etc. 3. as is, their API is not opened, so I don't see an easy way to write a conversion tool for all the presents, filters / what have you from any other environment looks like an overhyped, AI-driven toy. If that rocks your boat - all power to you. But I ask myself a question - would I trust it doing a commissioned work under the pressure of time and quality expectations? The answer is 'no'.

I honestly love Luminars software. I've been following their development for many years now, and while they changed the name a bunch of times, the product hasn't changed as much lol. It's definitely fun to use and enables beginners to do some crazy tricks. You also completely missed talking about layers, a feature I also overlooked at the start. But my largest gripe with it, and the reason I always come back to Lightroom Classic no matter how much I hate it, is the ridiculously underpowered export module. LRCs export module is insanely powerful with presets, naming templates, batch processing and even plugin support. Neo can't even rename my files on export. It's ridiculously bad, and it has not received a singular update since the very first versions of Luminar. In LRC I can run multiple export jobs at once, for internal use with camera Metadata, low resolution exports for social media with Metadata removed, and special exports with metadata overlays and watermarks all in a few clicks. It is unrivaled and saves me so many headaches I would otherwise have renaming, organizing and watermarking my deliverables.

Are you reading?

It's good as a plugin. It does most of the editing better, but DAM is way better in Adobe. Be smart Adobe as main and use Neo to do ths AI stuffI

Ah, come on Fulaan. Your review misses all of the "cons" of Neo. One of the most important tools in any editing workflow is masking and Neo fails miserably. Perhaps you have never used Lightroom's merge feature and you forgot to mention that Neo's merge feature is an add on that costs extra. You should compare Photoshop's sky replacement to Neo's. Where did you get the crazy idea that Lrc only works in the cloud and not on a desktop? Neo has created some tools that simplify the things you can do in other editing apps but please tell the whole story.

I hate Neo for all the crashes I have experienced. If u have an older PC expect to spew tons of F bombs

Welcome to the era of fake photography. Why did I even bother try to take great photos all this years?

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WOW ! 17 years of Photoshop and this is the first time i know that photoshop runs in the Clowd, What a nonesens, how much they tipped you ? Kids stick with Adobe products when it comes to pictures and design, don't do hippi crapy crowdfunded stuff

I bought this because of this recommendation. It's garbage. More bugs than the peak on COVID

I don't understand your admiration. It has nothing to do with photography. Instead of taking good photos - playing with computer graphics. This is software for photographic lazy people.

Luminar Neo - "How to fake photos and ruin photography" Lightroom can merge exposure bracketed photos into HDR. AI upscale, tell me you couldn't afford a full frame camera without telling me.

Sorry bud. That’s not photography. Channing colors, sky…. No thanks