

Yes, I know you you can buy presets for other editing software but if you take 30 photographs and add a preset to all those images you will find you need to adjust each photograph differently as it’s just applying specific presets to each shot. The cool trick with Luminar AI is that it can see what type of photograph you are working on and suggests the correct templates, hence speeding up your workflow for you. Well it edits your photographs quickly and easily with their new template system, which is similar to the looks effect in Luminar 4 but often times you will find clicking on a template will adjust the image more or less the way you want it to look.


I have an in depth article where I compare Luminar Neo vs Luminar AI here if you want to have a read of it. If you want to quickly edit images and keep it short and sweet then you can’t beat Luminar AI for that. If you want to delve deeper into photography editing then Luminar Neo is probably the better option one for you. Luminar AI was always the number one bit of photography editing software I recommended to clients on Photography Workshops that is until Luminar Neo (review here) came out. The AI facilities which I will get into again later on in this post are great and this software simply speaking just works. You can also completely revert to manual editing and edit your photograph exactly as you want too. It is incredible value for money and helps to not only streamline your editing and automate it a small bit too. Luminar AI is without a great all round editing platform and especially with update 1.4 now and the addition of Portrait Bokeh AI. You can read my full Luminar Neo Review here if you want to know more about it.

Luminar AI is a great bit off editing software but I have to say if you are looking at new photography software I would highly recommend you get Luminar Neo instead.
