

My guess is that this is achieved by alignment and colour averaging over the aligned areas. Upgraders get 20 off.Īdobe Premiere Elements is available for the same price and conditions, and includes several new features, first among which, noise reduction: The other new guided edit “add creative sparkle with photo patterns”.Īdobe Photoshop Elements is available immediately for a penny off a hundred US bucks as a perpetual license. One of the two new ones is called “Make unwanted photo objects vanish”, and does what it says on the tin – here, I’ll bore you with an example: Adobe’s example of removing an unwanted part of a picture The number of guided edits available has been expanded from 55 to 57. This can be used, for instance, in the replacement of the background of an image: On the unabashedly positive side, it’s done a very good job on the stray hairs – better than similar mobile apps tend to do.Ī further AI-supported feature is “subject selection”, which relies on automatic subject recognition, and is claimed to operate with a single click: One of Adobe’s examples of subject selection The effect resembles iOS’ “portrait mode”, and suffers from the same problems/features – in this case, the extreme blurring of the chair is noteworthy arguably, it helps draw attention to the main subject and isn’t upsetting if you’ve never seen the original image.

“Photo effects Auto Creations” now include a depth of field effect: Adobe’s example of its depth of field effect The AI’s role may be limited to selecting which frequencies to omit: Adobe’s example of skin smoothing Skin smoothing is also claimed to be supported by Adobe Sensei, although the results suggest a frequency separation technique.
