The masking feature appears in many of the menus on the editor, like the color controls. You can see an example of this in the image at the top of the page. I also selected Flora, and the masking got the trees, although it missed some other vegetation. I could then apply some structure to just the mountains. With the auto-masking turned on, I selected mountains, and with a click, it did a good job. It takes around 20 seconds to identify what's in your image. When you turn on the MaskingAI feature, you get an animation that lets you follow the process visually. I'm just back from a photo shoot at Canyon de Chelly in Northern Arizona, so I was anxious to see how this new version worked. I gave this new version (1.0.6) a spin before its official release. This leaves full control over the image to creatives. MaskAI works alongside the manual Paint, Radial, and Gradient Masks that are already present in Luminar Neo, so in case of imperfections or unexpected results, it is possible to edit the mask selection manually. Additionally, in the Mask Actions tab you can show, fill, clear, copy, paste or invert the detected mask. Then, you can effortlessly apply the mask by simply pressing the button with the name of the element that you want to mask. When you press MaskAI, Luminar Neo automatically detects all the elements that are present in your photo.

With MaskAI, there is no time-consuming brushing involved. As the AI learns, more elements will be added in the future. The neural network behind Luminar Neo’s MaskAI not only recognizes the main subject but automatically detects separate elements in a photo: people, skies, architecture, transportation, flora, water, mountains, natural ground, and artificial ground. But those features are back, and an editor can work in the traditional way or now can let AI do the masking. I'd been holding off using Neo because of the lack of any masking - no gradient masks, no radial masks.

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