Luminar NEO: How to use Skin AI Tool

The Skin AI tool in Luminar NEO scans your image and can automatically enhance and retouch a person’s skin while giving you complete control over how the content-aware adjustments are applied. Skin AI can also eliminate various skin imperfections, including acne, freckles, and moles. It can also smooth the skin, but ensures small details like hair and eyelashes are sharp. In this blog, we are telling you everything there is to know about the Skin AI tool of Luminar NEO.

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In this article:

• What is the Skin AI Tool
• Introducing Skin Tool sliders
• Getting started with the Skin tool
• Video tutorial
• Luminar NEO

What is the Skin AI Tool

The Skin AI tool is part of the Portrait tools available in Luminar NEO software. This tool scans your image and can automatically enhance and retouch a person's skin while giving you complete control over the content-aware adjustments applied. The Skin AI tool can eliminate various skin imperfections, including acne, freckles, and moles. It can also smooth the skin while ensuring that small details like hair and eyelashes are sharp.

Introducing Skin AI Tool sliders

Amount

This slider smooths the skin and removes unwanted variations while preserving texture and detail.

Shine Removal

Excessive shine on the forehead or cheeks ruins an otherwise perfect photo. The Shine Removal tool generates realistic-looking skin to restore patches of the face that were washed out by excessive light. This slider adjusts the intensity of the Shine Removal effect.

Skin Defects Removal AI

Select this checkbox to remove skin defects in a portrait automatically.

Getting started with Skin AI Tool

1. Open your image and move it into the Edit module (E).
2. Open the Skin AI tool located in the Portrait section.
3. Push the amount slider to 100 to see the result the tool can give. Then, adjust it to your liking, bearing in mind that you want to keep a natural look.
4. Use the Shine Removal slider to minimise the shine of your subject.
5. Select the Skin Defects Removal AI tool to fine-tune the removal of skin imperfections.
6. If you need further skin adjustment, feel free to use the Erase tool (click here to read the blog).
7. If the SkinAI tool removes details you’d like to preserve, use the Edit Mask tool to paint them back in.
8. At any time during the edit, click on the Eye icon to see the before and after results.

Skin AI Tool video tutorial

Watch the full video tutorial covering all controls in this tool.

Luminar NEO

Luminar Neo is the latest editing software from Skylum. It was announced back in September 2021 and has been highly anticipated.

Luminar Neo is an AI-powered photo editing software. Skylum has said that Neo isn’t replacing their previous release—Luminar AI. But Neo sets out to fix some of the issues users faced with Luminar AI.

We were impressed with the AI tools in Luminar AI. But like many others, we encountered performance issues. Luminar Neo uses the same AI tools, but the new high-speed core engine improves speed and performance.

Luminar Neo isn’t just more of the same. We’re happy to see Skylum has taken Neo in a different direction, adding layer and mask AI tools to the program. This broadens Neo’s appeal, taking it in an Adobe Photoshop direction.

Learn more about Luminar NEO here.

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