Skylum and Google are Hooking Up to Deliver Luminar to Android and Chrome

by Mel Martin May 20, 2025 1 Comment

Skylum and Google have teamed up to bring Luminar Photo Editor to Android and ChromeOS. This move opens up powerful AI-driven editing tools to a wider range of mobile and Chromebook users.

This is a pretty interesting marriage. Luminar and Google are announcing today that Luminar Photo Editor is now available for Android and ChromeOS. Skylum says this launch brings Luminar’s powerful, intelligent editing capabilities to mobile and Chromebook users, offering a fresh, intuitive, and playful experience designed especially for creative photographers of any level. The interface has been carefully adapted for a wide variety of devices, including phones, tablets, Chromebooks, and foldable devices. Luminar dynamically adjusts to different screen sizes and aspect ratios, providing a consistent and comfortable workflow whether on a single-screen smartphone or a dual-screen foldable. This level of UX refinement ensures a seamless, device-aware editing experience that stands out across platforms.

Skylum Ceo Ivan Kutanin:

We're excited to collaborate with Skylum to bring its powerful AI-driven photo editing tools to the Android and ChromeOS ecosystems. This partnership showcases the potential of AI to enhance creativity and simplify complex tasks for users across different devices.

Maria Schmidt, Strategic Partnership Manager, Google:

We're excited to collaborate with Skylum to bring its powerful AI-driven photo editing tools to the Android and ChromeOS ecosystems. This partnership showcases the potential of AI to enhance creativity and simplify complex tasks for users across different devices

Features Will Include

Enhance AI — A single slider intelligently adjusts up to a dozen essential settings — including shadows, highlights, contrast, tone, saturation, exposure, and detail — to improve the overall image quality instantly.
Structure AI — Brings out detail and clarity while preserving a natural look. Enhances only the necessary areas of an image without over-sharpening or introducing noise where it's not needed.
Relight AI — Gives full control over the lighting in a photo, ideal for creatively enhancing mood or correcting backlit scenes. The tool analyzes the image in three dimensions to realistically adjust foreground lighting without affecting the rest of the composition.
Atmosphere AI — Adds realistic fog, mist, or haze using content-aware and depth-based masking. The effect is applied with precision to enhance mood without covering key subjects, ensuring a natural, realistic look.
Sky AI — Automatically detects the sky in the image and replaces it seamlessly with a new one, factoring in realistic lighting and reflections, specifically on water and other reflective surfaces.
Skin AI — Smooths skin and removes blemishes with a single tap, helping portraits look polished while preserving natural texture.
Body AI — Allows subtle adjustment of the torso shape — either reducing or enhancing the volume — for a more balanced appearance. AI precisely maps key body features, ensuring natural-looking edits without distorting the background.

Core Editing Tools

Develop: Adjust exposure, temperature, tint, smart contrast, highlights, shadows, blacks, whites, saturation, vibrance, vignette, and more.
Essential Tools: Crop, Details, Erase, Landscape Enhancer (Foliage Enhancer, Golden Hour, Dehaze), and Monochrome.
Filter Collection: Robust color correction, film-inspired looks, and nostalgic tones loved by many in the photography world.

These tools will be familiar to Luminar Neo users on Mac and Windows devices, as well as iOS devices, but having them on Android and ChromeOS is likely to generate a lot of interest.