Tired of buying useless presets? Discover why presets are for clueless amateurs and learn to craft your own unique style with Luminar Neo. Craig Boehman explains the pitfalls of relying on presets and offers a step-by-step guide to creating your own, tailored to your specific photography needs. Elevate your editing skills and stand out in the crowded world of photography.

Luminar Neo is billed as a creative photo editor. I'm on board with this definition because all the heavy lifting I still do in Photoshop. And primarily, I use Luminar Neo as a plugin with Photoshop. But for black and white images, I feel that Luminar Neo can handle the vast majority of my black and white work and I wouldn't miss Photoshop at all. That's because apart from the artificial intelligence technology built-in to Luminar Neo, which makes it a joy to work in creative ways quickly and effectively, there's also a Raw file developer module that can handle many of the basic and advanced edits.

I’ve been using SKylum’s Luminar AI, and its successor, Luminar Neo, since before the public launch dates for each of these apps. As someone who has had to come to terms with the fact that he’s always late to the game in regard to most technical innovations, I made it a point to jump aboard the artificial intelligence ship before the official passenger list was tallied.

Had I rekindled my passion for photography straight out of school I might have been a fashion photographer in another lifetime. Not one of those guys who's stuck on set all the time in a lifeless studio, but someone who does fashion outside in the "real" world. As it is, I'm always looking out for fashionable people on the streets even though my preferred locales in Mumbai are almost always void of such individuals.