ON1 PHOTO RAW 2025 VS LUMINAR NEO 1.21. WHICH HAS THE BETTER GENERATIVE ERASE?

This past October both Luminar and ON1 released updated or new versions of powerful generative erase tools. In this video we answer the question which one is better.
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[sounderdavis]

Agreed on the conclusions. Though I have current licenses for both ON1 and Neo, I wouldn't use Gen Erase in either one. As an Adobe Photography Plan subscriber, Photoshop's local-based Remove Tool is the best way to go, although I'm not testing it on faces or fingers--very tough. In the 10% of images where Remove Tool fails, PS's web-based Generative Fill usually gets it done. ON1 and Neo will get better. Adobe has a 2-year head start at this.

[cdoug-]

I have both On1 and Neo. While I seldom have a need to erase items in photos, in testing more complex landscape edits, Neo has outperformed On1's Local Gen AI erase (in fact, on one complicated landscape photo I tested, On1's perfect eraser did a better job than Local Gen AI). For me, On1's Stability AI erase has performed much more like Neo's as far as end results are concerned. At least for now, straight out of the box, Neo does a more convincing job when I need it and I'm not a fan of paying for another service to get similar results in On1. My biggest concern, however, is how much storage space is being used by these apps for their built in capabilities. My installation of Neo, without marketplace extras installed, is nearly 5 GB compared to On1's less than 2 GB with marketplace extras installed; and Neo is not nearly as full-featured as On1.

[robertrakowicz]

I never had Luminar and I think it's nothing for me. ON1 is a "toy" nothing more. Year after year, tons of new features, but none of them work as expected.

[nightowlnzab]

Frustrating... in general I actually like On1 specifically for the way the local edits and effect stacking/masking works - the concept of having a RAW developer tool plus some ability to apply effects and some basic editing without having to resort to a full blown editor. But, as shown here - some of the tools and this AI erase in particularly aren't great. On the flipside, Luminar seems to perform better in this aspect, but I've been burned by their software before (buggy, poor performance) and I've been cautious about forking over money to them again, since...