AI technology, which uses techniques based on human brains, is widely used to spruce up smartphone shots.

Luminar Neo, however, shows the spread of these approaches to heavy-duty PC tools, too.

That doesn’t guarantee it’ll stay ahead of Adobe, the 800-pound gorilla of photo editing, though.

Adobe’sLightroom and Photoshop got their own AI-powered sky selectionfeature in 2021.

The Adobe apps also can use AI to select subjects and increase photo resolution.

Expect more AI as it matures within the computing industry.

Apple’s M1 processors bring dedicated AI acceleration circuitry to Macs, which Luminar and Adobe software both employ.

On Windows, Luminar taps intoIntel’s OpenVino softwareto bring AI software to its processors, Skylum said.