In this video I put Luminar Neo through a real “is this actually better than Lightroom?” test, because the marketing makes it sound like an AI Lightroom killer… and I’m not buying hype without results. I walk through the big headline features—sky replacement, the Light Depth tool, portrait edits, and AI object removal/denoise—and I’m paying attention to the stuff that matters for creators: speed, consistency, and whether the edits look clean without a ton of babysitting. I also compare the workflow to Lightroom, because features don’t matter if the day-to-day editing experience is clunky. I break down what’s beginner-friendly, what feels genuinely helpful, and where Luminar Neo starts to feel like it’s trying to impress you with AI buttons more than it’s trying to fit into a real editing pipeline. By the end, I give you my value take—who Neo is for, who should stick with Lightroom, and what you’re actually paying for when you choose an “AI photo editor.”