Adobe just released a significant update to Photoshop, bringing powerful new tools that simplify editing. These changes mean you spend less time struggling with selections and adjustments and more time on your creative vision.
Coming to you from Colin Smith with Photoshop CAFE, this straightforward video highlights seven standout features in the latest Photoshop update. Smith starts with the new AI-driven masking tool inside Camera Raw, designed for quickly targeting elements in landscapes, such as architecture, vegetation, and both natural and artificial surfaces. You can instantly adjust each masked area separately without complicated manual selections. Smith demonstrates how effectively you can change exposure, shadows, or colors to enhance your images dramatically in just a few clicks. This tool significantly cuts down editing time, especially with complex scenes that would otherwise require detailed selection work.
Smith also covers the new reflection removal tool, which now works on JPEGs, not just raw files. This expands its usefulness immensely, allowing you to effortlessly erase unwanted reflections from windows, glasses, or other reflective surfaces. Even better, it offers adjustable controls so you can selectively bring back parts of the reflection if needed, or isolate the reflection entirely for creative uses. This flexibility turns the tool into more than just a fixer—it opens up new possibilities for compositing and artistic editing.
The video further explores quick color changes without manual masking. Smith illustrates this by changing the color of a skateboard and clothing with a simple click, without tedious selections. The newly improved color adjustment sliders and AI selection tools mean you can isolate and tweak colors accurately, even fine-tuning your selections so other parts of the image, like skin tones, remain unaffected.
Next, Smith highlights the improved "Select People" function, now capable of isolating clothing items like dresses and shirts with remarkable accuracy. This is especially beneficial for portrait retouching or commercial projects where quick changes in clothing color or brightness can vastly alter the image's mood. He demonstrates how smoothly this function integrates with adjustment layers, simplifying your workflow significantly.
In addition to these highlights, Smith briefly touches on enhancements in auto-selection, which handles intricate details like bicycle spokes more accurately, and the new removal tool improvements in Photoshop's beta version, effectively removing people without accidentally adding unwanted elements back into the frame. He also showcases the revamped Actions Panel, featuring intelligent recommendations based on the photo’s content. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Smith.
