Noiseless AI is tool that can help with removing noise and recovering lost details in images. Regardless, Skylum have now, sadly, stopped selling Aurora HDR meaning that it is only available to existing users that had already bought the program prior to it being absorbed into Luminar Neo. That being said, Luminar Neo’s HDR merge is not all-powerful and while it is a simple and straightforward way of merging bracketed shots, it lacks some of the more advanced features that should arguably have allowed Aurora HDR to co-exist with Luminar Neo, instead of being outright replaced by it. Adding the HDR merge feature as an add-on to a stand-alone editing program improves even on Adobe’s workflow, where the photographer has to merge images in Photoshop before uploading the image into Lightroom to apply further edits. Luminar AI users previously had to purchase Aurora HDR on the side to merge these images, before uploading the merged image into Luminar AI for further editing.

This allows Luminar Neo users to combine several bracketed shots at different exposures to create one extremely high dynamic range image to which further edits can then be applied. Shortly after Luminar Neo’s launch, Skylum also added a feature that was missing and long requested for Luminar AI: the HDR Merge add-on.

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