Adobe Sensei is powering a pair of new features in the Select and Mask workspace: Refine Hair and Object Aware Refine Mode. It seems every major release of Photoshop includes substantive improvements to making selections in your images and the latest release is no different. Today’s Photoshop release includes around 25 sky presets. There are creative controls as well, including the ability to zoom in and select a portion of the sky and move the sky around the scene. You can select from Photoshop’s database of skies or add your own. Using the power of AI, Photoshop can analyze your image to detect what areas of your image are foreground versus sky and then perform masking and blending in order to realistically change the sky in your image.

You can learn more about how Neural Filters works and how they can be used in your workflow by visiting Adobe’s dedicated webpage. In addition to making AI-powered adjustments to portraits, Neural Filters also includes features to help repair damaged images, including Photo Restoration, Dust and Scratches, Noise Reduction, Face Cleanup, JPEG Artifacts Restoration and even a Neural Filter for colorizing a black and white image, a task which takes a considerable amount of skill and time to perform manually. As you can see below, you can even adjust the direction of light in an image. AI analyzes the portrait to allow you to change aspects of your subject’s features, such as changing the direction of the subject’s head, gaze and the intensity of their smile. Smart Portrait allows you to transform a portrait subject along parameters such as age, expression, pose and more. The Neural Filters workspace offers users access to non-destructive filters including Skin Smoothing, Smart Portrait and more. Adobe wants to get as many of them into the hands of users for testing. The Neural Filters workspace is a ‘complete reimagination of filters and image manipulation inside Photoshop.’ The first version includes a large set of filters, some of which are still in a beta state.

The primary new features are Neural Filters, Sky Replacement, improved Refine Edge Selections and the all-new Discover panel. Adobe calls Photoshop 2021, also known as version 22.0, the ‘world’s most advanced AI application for creatives,’ so let’s see what’s new.

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