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Luminar Neo
✓ verifiedPaid
One-time-purchase AI photo editor for landscape, portrait and general editing, usable standalone or as a Lightroom/Photoshop plugin.
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ZestyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
An image-to-image AI editor for creators wanting fast style transfer or cinematic photo effects without a photoshoot.
Pricing
Perpetual Desktop License: $119.00 one-time
Perpetual Cross-device License: $159.00 one-time
Perpetual Max License: $179.00 one-time
Starter: $9.69/month (80 monthly credits)
Mini: $19.69/month (200 monthly credits)
Plus: $36.69/month (400 monthly credits)
Pro: $59.69/month (700 monthly credits)
Core features
- ✦AI sky replacement and relighting
- ✦Generative erase, expand and object-swap tools
- ✦Portrait tools: skin smoothing, face and body enhancement
- ✦Noise reduction and AI upscaling
- ✦Focus stacking and HDR/panorama merging
- ✦Layers and masking support
- ✦Raw file support for 1,000+ cameras
- ✦Cross-device editing between mobile and desktop (higher tiers)
- ✦Photo-to-photo style transfer with 100+ preset effects
- ✦Cinematic color grading and detail-enhancement presets
- ✦AI photo restoration, face swap, and background removal tools
- ✦Image upscaling and text-to-image generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation alongside image editing
- ✦Free tier usable without a credit card
Use cases
- →Landscape and wildlife photographers replacing skies or enhancing detail
- →Portrait and wedding photographers retouching skin and faces
- →Photographers wanting a non-subscription editor
- →E-commerce and real estate photo cleanup
- →Editing on the go and finishing on desktop
- →Turning ordinary product photos into polished marketing visuals
- →Applying consistent artistic or cinematic styles across a content batch
- →Quickly generating social media visuals without a designer
- →Restoring or upscaling older photos
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