The two programs are designed to work together in the Cloud, and when you open Photoshop, it’s possible to open up and work on images saved in Lightroom. For a free photo editor, there’s certainly a lot going on, which is not a bad thing.Īlthough Adobe Photoshop CC is available as a standalone subscription, buying it as a package with Lightroom CC will revolutionize the workflow of many modern photographers. Mix allows users to work with blending layers and cutouts (the app does a surprisingly good job at recognizing subjects), while Retouch is solely for improving portraits (and selfies). Editing tools include standard adjustments like Exposure and Sharpness, plus Themes, Stickers, and Looks, a tab that works similarly to Presets in Lightroom. The app's home interface has five buttons: Edit, Mix, Collage, Retouch, and Capture. Photoshop Express for mobile devices and tablets offers more fun editing features than its full desktop counterpart. In all of our experiments, the software did a great job of finding the horizon line and masking features such as cliffs it’s genuinely surprising how easy it is to transform a landscape shot on a dull day into something more inspiring, which will be a boon to generation Instagram or hobbyists who don’t want to faff around. Sky Replacement is definitely not in Beta mode, and the results are incredibly convincing, in part thanks to the ability to fine-tune the lighting so that the foreground tones match the sky. While it’s always been possible for landscape photographers to create drama in their scenes by blending in a new sky in Photoshop, in the past, this involved careful and time-consuming masking. And of course, all edits are non-destructive, so you can easily remove an effect you don’t like.Īnother Adobe Sensei offering, which was updated in August 2021, is the Sky Replacement feature. Given how machine learning works, it’s likely these Beta filters will improve in time and with more testing. This isn’t surprising, as the Neural filters work by adding new pixels that weren’t there in the original image.

When we tried adding a smile with the Smart Portrait filters, for example, the teeth ended up looking like a creepy caricature. It looks as if there’s a lot to please retouchers or portrait photographers, however, the results we got were a mixed bag. The featured filters include Skin Smoothing, JPEG Artefacts Removal, and Style Transfer, plus many more that are currently listed as Beta options, such as Smart Portrait. Neural filters is a new workspace which enables users to enhance skin, add expressions to portraits, and more. As well as an updated list of supported cameras and lenses, the improved Sky Replacement feature makes it easy and effective to swap out bland skies for dramatic ones.

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