Skylum Launches AI-Powered Luminar Neo

Technology

February 22nd, 7:32am

Asharq Al-Awsat

A logo of Adobe Inc. is pictured at the company's office in Citywest Business Campus, Saggart, Ireland October 19, 2021. REUTERS/ Tom Bergin

Software maker Skylum released a new version of its Luminar Neo photo editing tool that uses artificial intelligence to handle what used to be mundane but time-consuming tasks, reported the German News Agency. According to the CNET website, the new version of Luminar Neo can automatically remove power lines in backgrounds or erase dark blotches caused by dust on your camera's image sensor. It can also create a depth map that lets you apply changes to scene elements depending on whether they're in the foreground, middle distance or background. The software's new AI tools, which were trained with real-world data, are an example of tasks that are out of the reach of traditional data processing algorithms, the website added. AI technology, which uses techniques based on human brains, is widely used to spruce up smartphone shots. Luminar Neo, however, shows the spread of these approaches to heavy-duty PC tools, too. Skylum has put AI front and center with its Luminar software, which is designed to let photographers quickly jazz up their shots without lots of fiddling. That doesn't guarantee it'll stay ahead of Adobe, the gorilla of photo editing, though.

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