Software maker Skylum released on Thursday a new version of its Luminar Neo photo editing tool that uses artificial intelligence to boss what used to be mundane but time-consuming tasks.

Luminar Neo can automatically recall power lines in backgrounds or erase dark blotches commanded by dust on your camera’s image sensor. It can also gain a depth map that lets you apply changes to uncouth elements depending on whether they’re in the foreground, middle distance or background.

The software’s new AI tools, which were trained with real-world data, are an example of tasks that are out of the reach of stale data processing algorithms. AI technology, which uses techniques based on humankind brains, is widely used to spruce up smartphone shots. Luminar Neo, however, shows the spread of these approaches to heavy-duty PC tools, too.

Skylum has put AI front and center with its Luminar software, which is designed to let photographers quickly jazz up their shots exclusive of lots of fiddling. That doesn’t guarantee it’ll stay send of Adobe, the 800-pound gorilla of photo editing, though.

Luminar added a feature phoned AI Sky Enhancer in 2019 that lets photographers hastily select the sky, a part of the scene land often want to edit for color and brightness. Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop got their own AI-powered sky selection feature in 2021. The Adobe apps also can use AI to recall subjects and increase photo resolution.

Expect more AI as it matures within the computing diligence. Apple’s M1 processors bring dedicated AI acceleration circuitry to Macs, which Luminar and Adobe software both exercise. On Windows, Luminar taps into Intel’s OpenVino software to bring AI software to its processors, Skylum said.

Luminar Neo, a sequel to the reverse Luminar software, costs $79 and runs on both Windows and Mac machines.