#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 PRO#
#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 SOFTWARE#
#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 FREE#

The ambience set by the new sky texture matches the original photo in a better format than Luminar 4. The Sky AI tool is one of the biggest revisions from Luminar 4, and the reason why is due to the tool handling reflections from sky textures in water surfaces more realistically. And when I mean increased, I mean big time (values of 15 for Luminar 4 translated into an equivalent of 40 sometimes). The Film Grain values are increased, which is a big warning if you plan to load your previous Looks from Luminar 4. Plus, the Shadows/Highlights selection can be tricky to guess if you’re editing in a hurry. Why on Earth wouldn’t they retain the boxes showing the final tone? If you don’t work with a big enough screen size, it’s infuriating. Speaking of the Split Toning tool, one HUGE drawback is the fact you cannot see the final colour, except for a slider, when picking the values for Hue + Saturation. Some of the tools went through name changes: for example, the Split Toning tool is now the Toning tool, which took me a while to locate as I initially thought it was Selective Tone, not Split Toning. I cannot apply quick edits unless I switch to the Templates Module, and those are All-in-One effects. Unlike Luminar 4, the tools are not arranged in tabs but rather a big scroll menu.Īs you can appreciate, I don’t have access to my previously loaded presets (namely templates here). This is what I mostly found to be frustrating. Again, the more RAM the merrier, but don’t neglect dedicated graphics for AI tools. The macOS performance refreshed from Luminar 4, particularly for those users who invested in the new M1 Processor MacBook models.

Running Luminar AI with 8GB of RAM is taxing. If not, effects can take their time to load.

Moreover, you need at least 16GB of RAM and i5/Ryzen 5 processors to perform at peak capabilities. If you don’t run 3d acceleration from your graphics card, performance issues are known. The Catalog module is decluttered from Luminar 4, but it takes a while to load the image previews.

#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 SOFTWARE#

To fully enjoy the editing capabilities of this software you need to switch to the Edit tab (unlike Luminar 4 which had the Edit tab as the default option).

#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 FREE#

Honestly not worth the investment considering there aren’t that big amount of templates available for sale yet, and the Sky Textures could be acquired for way less from other vendors (or free if you create your own Sky Textures).

#LUMINAR NEO VS LUMINAR 4 PRO#

Pro Plan – Luminar X Membership ($59/year) In case you’re wondering, the “Luminar X Membership” sends you content on a regular basis: tutorials, unique sky textures for Sky AI, and gives you a 15% discount on Marketplace.īasic Plan – Luminar X Membership ($39/year)

The products shown in the Templates Tab are direct links to their Skylum Marketplace or incentives to buy the Luminar X Subscription. The software not only takes more resources to fully load, with a time increase of about three times the initial launch time in Luminar 4 (and despite running under an NVME SSD) but also comes with a lot of promotion stuff that one could initially say it’s noise. The UI was simplified, following the trend set by Adobe with Lightroom CC. In a crude comparison between the two versions, Luminar AI isn’t much apart from Luminar 4.

Luminar neo vs luminar 4