The recent Adobe update to add selectable track mattes to After Effects is much appreciated. This will make projects much cleaner and the workflow much faster. Traditionally, you had to make an individual matte for each layer that you wanted to apply a matte upon. Now, you can select the
Mask Amount slider in Lightroom Classic
Photoshop has a new Photo Restoration function that is easy to use. You may use their AI-trained filter to help restore old or damaged photographs. What is Photo Restoration exactly? Photo Restoration is available in Photoshop Beta. Adobe announced it in June 2022. It restores aged or damaged photos by
Adobe has made it easy to select people in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. The Masking Panel helps you achieve precise editing, quickly adjusting skin, teeth, eyes and more. How does it do this? Adobe Camera RAW 15 and Lightroom 12 automatically detect all the people in the photo using
The Photoshop 2023 desktop (version 24.0.0) has doubled down on selection improvements. These include the powerful One-Click Delete and Fill, and Delete and Fill with the Lasso Tool. Let’s take a real-world look at what they can do. One-Click Delete and Fill This feature does pretty much what you think
For many years Adobe has been trying to improve the Healing tools in Lightroom Classic. Each update brings some improvement. This current update brings us an AI-generated Content-Aware Remove to remove objects is another step forward. Where to find Content-Aware Remove In the Develop Module, look for the Healing tool,
Among the new additions to the recent Lightroom Classic update is the new Select People tool. In the previous version of Lightroom, you could use Select Subject to mask people in your photos and then edit them separately from your background. The new Select People tool takes it even further.
Adobe just announced updates to a variety of products, including Lightroom. One of which I am pretty excited about is the updates to the masking tools. I took a look around the updated Masking tools area, with Select People, Objects and one-click Select Background. So let’s have a little look
Adobe Sneaks are a fan-favorite at Adobe Max. What are they? Adobe Sneaks are a view into the future of what Adobe is working on. They demonstrate innovative, cutting-edge technologies that could become features in their products. This year Kevin Hart co-hosts the unveiling of the latest innovations. Check out
This is an editorial from Photofocus publisher Richard Harrington. Many of the images used in this article are screen captures from Adobe’s keynote address at their MAX conference. You can watch the original presentation here to see Adobe’s presentation on Generative AI. __________________________________________________________ The reality of generative AI has created
Are you looking for a quick easy way to smooth skin, without all the fuss of frequency separation or actions? Have you tried using the Skin Smoothing Neural Filter in Photoshop? Let’s have a look at what it can do for you. What are Neural Filters? They are AI-generated non-destructive
The Layer expression control is useful to have a layer use certain properties from another layer. In this example, we have two text layers that have different text. If we want layer two to always have the same text as layer one, we will first go to Effects > Expression
