Luminar Neo’s latest update gives you more control over your edits

Skylum has launched a new update for its photo editing app Luminar Neo. Although Neo brags about its AI capabilities, photographers still find it important to have control over the final editing results. This is why the 1.8.0 update lets you fine-tune the presets and other edits you make. It also packs some other improvements to the program, so let’s see what’s new.

With Luminar Neo 1.8.0, the Edits tab now features a histogram. There’s also the Amount slider on presets so you can choose the strength of the look you’re applying. What I personally find useful when editing is Before/After – and Luminar Neo now has it as a slider.

Additionally, preview on hover is now available for LUTs in the Mood tool, the Blend Mode in Layers, and Camera Profile in the Develop RAW tool. Sorting your photos has also been made easier by using the raw filter in the Catalog.

Luminar Neo 1.8.0. includes support for new cameras like the Canon EOS R8, Canon EOS R50, and Panasonic DC-S5-ll. The Skylum team has also fixed a number of bugs so Luminar Neo should now be faster and more stable.

Luminar Neo 1.8.0 bug fixes

Here are all the bugs that have been fixed:

MacOS

• Export a photo in JPEG format with all applied layers visible for previewing in Finder.
• Press and release the Option button without changing the Clone pointer coordinates.
• Use the Crop tool without shifting the controls of the transformed Layer; all controls are displayed according to the image edges.
• Reset the Crop adjustment on a zoomed image and see the correct coordinates of the brush feature.
• Enter custom Crop values with decimal places, such as 4.2 or 2.3, without experiencing issues.
• In the Lightroom plugin, TIFF images with applied transparency are displayed correctly.
• Revert from Edit mode to the original photo without seeing the Edited icon still on the photo.

Windows

• Close Layer properties without linear and radial gradients still being present.
• After applying transparency masking to a photo in the Luminar Neo plugin, send it back to Photoshop and see the transparent mask applied.
• In the Ghost Reduction settings drop-down menu for the HDR Merge Extension, see Exposure Values displayed correctly.
• Export a TIFF image via the Open source menu and see it in Lightroom as expected after returning from plugin mode.
• In the Exif block of an image, the Make names Exif data contains the name of the camera manufacturer as expected.
• While using the Lightroom plugin, TIFF images with transparency are displayed correctly.
• Revert from Edit mode to the original photo without seeing the Edited icon still on the photo.

You can check out all the details on Skylum’s website, where you can also download the 1.8.0 version of Luminar Neo.