So Photoshop is now 30 years-old as of today. Pretty crazy right? When I think about Photoshop and my history with it, I can’t even begin to imagine the beginning days Photoshop. Heck when I started with Photoshop a little under 10 years ago, I didn’t know Photoshop was actually an app for digital painting and illustration. Photo editing wasn’t even on the road map, initially. Today, I use Photoshop quite regularly and try to share tips and tricks that have helped me along the way in my photography career.
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Now that it’s Photoshop’s birthday, Adobe has announced some updates to the Photoshop product line. Of course, you’ll get some overall performance boost. Adobe also announced a performance boost to its AI-centric Content-Aware Fill workspace. This is one of my favorite features of Photoshop as the Adobe Sensei AI is quite magical when it comes to removing objects or filling spaces in an image. I previously did a video tutorial showing how to use this tool.
Next, lens blur is an update that can be useful for creating or simulating a shallow depth of field (DOF) in an image. For example, if you know what a “portrait mode” image looks like on your smartphone, you can better create this type of effect in your pics without having to manually brush in an unsharpened background.
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Last year at Adobe Max, the Adobe team showed off a couple of big Photoshop-related items. The object selection AI and Photoshop on iPad. The object selection tool has now been updated to grab multiple objects within one lasso or marquee selection from your mouse. This feature is available on both desktop Photoshop as well as Photoshop for iPad.
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The significance of the selection updates on Photoshop for iPad is the ability to create even better composite images. Easy selections make placing objects into a scene a breeze. This should be even easier with the power of the Apple Pencil on iPad.
Photoshop on iPad took quite a beating from critics with the version 1.0 release. According to a previous press briefing I had with Adobe, the ratings are now better, but there’s still room for improvement. Unfortunately, there are no mentions of RAW file compatibility on Photoshop for iPad at this time. Adobe knows this is important and will eventually release this feature. Hopefully sooner, rather than later. I mean, I can open RAW files in Lightroom on iPad. Why not on Photoshop for iPad?
Happy birthday to ya, Photoshop. Here’s to many more and also, more features. Get yourself access to Photoshop and Lightroom for as little as $10 per month with my affiliate link. #CreateAndDominate