The original (left) and final image (right) using the Photoshop Sky Replacement tool. While there may be times when some of them may be useful for an actual portrait, most can totally change the portrait into something else entirely.

You can change expressions, head, eye, and light direction, hair thickness, and even age. The Smart Portrait Neural Filter allows you to make major changes to your portrait image. One of these, Depth-Aware Haze, adds environmental haze and warmth behind a foreground figure, both controlled by a slider. Many of these are currently inoperative, others require downloading, and the two included at present require processing in the cloud. These presets add creative effect overlays onto straight portraits.īelow the icon that selects those two filters is an icon to select 15 other filters. Style Transfer requires you to download 177.7 MB of presets to apply to your image. Skin Smoothing has sliders for blur and smoothing. Skin Smoothing and Style Transfer head the list.

The addition of a sky replacement function and a single click refine hair button are also worth taking a look at.Īdobe Sensei and NVIDIA artificial intelligence drives the new Neural Filters, which have their own position in the drop-down Filter menu. New Features in Photoshop and Lightroom 2021Īdobe calls Photoshop 2021, also known as version 22.0, the “world’s most advanced AI application for creatives,” and it has the greatest number of new features including Neural Filters (which have received the most attention), Sky Replacement, improved Refine Edge Selections and the all-new Discover panel. We will look at the major features using the desktop applications. Both the desktop and iPad versions of Lightroom and Photoshop incorporate these updates. Adobe Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop all received updates, ranging from minor bug fixes to major new features. Adobe MAX 2020, which launched in October as a virtual and free conference, saw the introduction of new versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications for professional photographers.

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