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Review of Skylum Luminar

7.5out of 10
Last tested: 07/09/2026 The Clothoff AI desk Five weighted criteria

No commercial relationship: this entry carries no affiliate link and the provider plays no part in the mark; the weights are the same across the catalogue — how we review.

Summary

Editorial verdict

Skylum Luminar scores 7.5 out of 10 in the editorial test of 07/09/2026. The mark combines five weighted criteria and rests on the data the provider publishes on its own site. What it leaves unpublished is recorded as an absence and costs it marks, rather than being estimated.

Skylum Luminar is a third-party service that the Clothoff AI desk reviewed on 07/09/2026. A desktop SFW photo editor (macOS and Windows) with a mobile app. This site describes the service, does not operate it and processes no reader images.

Strengths

  • A legitimate, long-standing editor with a one-off licence
  • Non-destructive editing, RAW and batch processing
  • A plug-in for Lightroom Classic and Photoshop
  • A stated 30-day refund

Weaknesses

  • It has no undressing feature: the search intent is mistaken
  • The official page publishes no fixed amounts, only promotions
  • AI tools with 1 year of access and renewal via Luminar Prime
  • Luminar Web is not available yet (announced for autumn 2026)
Checked: 07/09/2026

Verified data

Type of serviceA desktop SFW photo editor (macOS and Windows) with a mobile app
Category featureNot applicable: it offers no undress-type processing of any kind
LicencesComputer only · All platforms · Max, all of them a one-off payment
AI toolsGenErase, GenSwap, GenExpand, Restoration and AI Assistant: 1 year of access, then renewal with Luminar Prime
PricesNot published as fixed amounts; the page shows discounts of up to 50%
RefundA 30-day guarantee stated by the provider
PlatformsmacOS 12+, Windows 10 (1909, 64-bit)+, mobile; a web version announced for autumn 2026
LanguageAn official site in Spanish; the app languages are not documented on the page

Every figure in this table comes from the provider's own public pages, read on 07/09/2026, in the currency the provider itself uses. Prices in this category change often and without notice.

Five weighted criteria

Score breakdown

Privacy and security (30%)

The provider publishes no retention period for the images and no location of processing. No tool in the catalogue reaches full marks on this criterion, because none documents the complete life cycle of the uploaded file.

Output quality (25%)

Quality is judged on the samples the provider itself circulates, looking at the finish along the edge of the mask, at anatomical coherence and at consistency across successive generations. No photograph of a real person was uploaded at any point in the process.

Price and free tier (20%)

Computer only · All platforms · Max, all of them a one-off payment. The provider does not document a free tier with concrete limits on the page consulted. What we mark is not the amount but whether the cost of a single generation can be worked out from the public page without signing up.

Speed (15%)

The provider publishes no concrete generation times on the page consulted. The check consisted of reading the provider's pricing, terms, help and data-policy pages, and setting what it advertises against what its own terms allow.

Support and transparency (10%)

macOS 12+, Windows 10 (1909, 64-bit)+, mobile; a web version announced for autumn 2026. A translated interface changes neither the applicable jurisdiction nor the handling of the data, two things that depend on where processing happens and not on the language it is read in. The full breakdown of the method, with the weight of each criterion, is published separately.

Editorial test note

How we checked

  • 07/09/2026 — reading the sources: the provider's pricing, terms, help and data-policy pages, under the protocol published in how we review.
  • 07/09/2026 — checking the figures: the amounts and limits in the table are copied from those pages in the original currency, with no conversion and no rounding on our part.
  • Nothing uploaded: the check involved no photograph of a real person, neither our own nor anyone else's.
Common questions

Questions about Skylum Luminar

Is there a free tier?

The provider does not document a free tier with concrete limits on the page consulted.

How much does Skylum Luminar cost?

Computer only · All platforms · Max, all of them a one-off payment.

What does the service do with an uploaded image?

The provider publishes neither a retention period nor a location of processing. We record that as an absence, not as an estimate.

Which photos may be used?

Only your own photos, or photos of adults who have given explicit consent. The grounds are set out in responsible AI (in Spanish), and the takedown route in NCII report (in Spanish).