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hi there this is umesh from picks and
perfect how are you doing i hope you're
having a fantastic day and making it a
brilliant one and if not know that you
can turn it around anytime you wish by
the way did you watch the latest video
on photoshop 2022 new features if you
have watched the video and if you do
read the comments there was one
particular comment that got my instant
attention it was from someone from adobe
and it read mesh thanks for the great
instant review of the latest photoshop i
was hoping you'll review our depth blur
one more time we really worked hard on
it to make it better after your first
review a couple months ago give it a try
alexandru from adobe well thank you so
much alex andrew and this video is
dedicated to you and by the way i felt
like i owed adobe one because the last
time you and i explored this feature we
discovered a lot of limitations like
extremely long wait times for every
little change we make inaccurate masking
inconsistent results and also most
importantly we couldn't even use that
feature practically in this video we'll
find out have they overcome these
limitations how much better is this and
can we actually finally use it in our
workflows we're gonna do some rigorous
testing and also we'll compare it
against luminar's bokeh ai and see how
that holds up stay till the end because
we are going to cover some of the
biggest concerns that you need to watch
out for so without any further ado let's
get started
back in the magical world of photoshop
2022 and first of all let's talk about a
new switch that has been added to depth
blur by the way to access steps blur we
need to go to filter and then neural
filters let's scroll down select
deployer and turn it on that's all now
did you notice something it's processing
on device we'll talk about that later
but for now have a look it has been
amazingly improved if you compare it to
the previous version now if you scroll
down right here you will discover this
new button called focus subject first of
all let's zoom in
and take a look at the outline around
the subject it looks so perfect so
without this if i just increase the blur
strength all the way to the right hand
side have a look what happens
so this just doesn't look right however
if i scroll up and try to focus just on
the subject by clicking on the subject
see what happens
still it's not as good the hands are out
of focus the face is in focus but the
outline is so jaggery i don't know if
that's a word but you get my point now
if you look at the legs you will also
notice that it's kind of out of focus
so to make the entire subject in focus
and that too precisely i think they're
using the select subject engine i don't
know i'm not sure so if you just scroll
down and you choose focus subject have a
look this instantly improves look at the
outlines look at the focus it's stack
sharp if you scroll down have a look at
the legs it's stack sharp there are some
errors here and there we'll get to that
later but for now it is much better
than the previous version now let's
compare the quality improvements in
comparison to the previous version so
this is photoshop 2021 the previous
version and as you can tell the quality
is not as good and it took a lot of time
to process again we're going to get to
that later have a look at the abrupt
changes right over here look it's just
not realistic also look at how it has
focused on the subject it's all blurry
around the edges and it's also not
accurate as well a couple areas of the
subject are already blurred and there's
no focus subject button or checkbox
right here as well even if you try to
click on the subject on the lady's head
and try to focus that again it's taking
time because it's processing in the
cloud see it's even more inaccurate and
there are a couple areas of the car also
blurred and it just doesn't look right
and these abrupt changes as well let's
compare it to the newer version back to
photoshop 2022 and here we already have
the old depth blur processing as a layer
so that we can compare it with the new
one so let's make a copy of the
background layer and place it at the
very top let's name it new depth flare
now let's go to filter neural filters
simply turn on depth blur make sure
focus subject is checked and i'm going
to take the blur strength all the way to
the right hand side you can choose to
output it to a new layer or the current
layer even have it as a smart filter so
i'm just going to choose current layer
and hit ok for ease of comparison
all right so this my friend is the new
depth flare have a look how much refined
the edges are and it all looks so much
better now let's compare it to the
previous version so this is the new
version this is the previous version
so inaccurate here and there so abrupt
but the newer version
it just looks so much more refined and
much better if you're someone who was
concerned about privacy internet
connection internet speeds and overall
the speed of the plug-in or i might say
the slowness of the plug-in or the
feature i have good news for you the
first one is if you apply depth blur
right now in 2022 have a look it's
processing on device it's no more
processing in the cloud so that's one
also it's much faster than it's on the
cloud so we're going to do a test with
this image and these are the time
differences between processing in the
previous version and the newer version
and as you can clearly tell there's a
night and day difference now let's talk
about a feature that has been added to
this feature that even luminar doesn't
have my friends at luminar you guys
really need to add this all right and
that feature is adding grain adobe
thinks i might not like them i criticize
them all the time but the thing is i do
give them credit where credit is due all
right so let's turn on depth blur as you
can see there's a lot of noise in this
image right and if we simply add
background blur here the background just
won't look right because there's still
noise in the subject but the background
is blurred so there's no noise there so
how do we match it up with that of the
subject very simple first of all let's
increase the blur strength to have more
background blur now let's scroll down
and then there's this new slider which
was not there in the previous version
and that is green let's take it all the
way to the right hand side and now have
a look
it's processing right now and it's
pretty fast now look it's matching so
well with that of the subject what it
does is that it tries to compensate for
the noise that it had lost for all the
blurring that it did so that it matches
with the areas which are not blurred and
still have the noise i hope that made
sense now let's take a look have a look
it's matching so much better now i wish
there was a slider for color noise as
well because there's a lot of color
noise on the subject which is not in the
background i'm absolutely nitpicking but
it's very very good to have slider so
here we have opened the same image in
luminar ai and we can increase the
portrait bokeh ai or in other words the
background blur and it's much faster in
my opinion but anyway there is no option
if you zoom in no option to match the
noise of the subject with that of the
background as you can see there is no
noise in the background there's a lot of
noise in the subject and there's no
slider here to mash that up another new
slider that has been added inside this
feature is tint again this is not in
lumina so you can change the tint to
whatever you wish so you can make it
more magenta you can make it more green
that's up to you see as we have made it
a little more magenta and you can create
some interesting moods for that we won't
go that far a little bit is okay have a
look how beautifully both the background
blur and the tint are working together
to separate the subject from that of the
background so again tint is new the new
deployer although much improved has
couple issues that might be very
concerning in certain scenarios let's
start with the first one so in this case
as you can see we have added a depth
blur but it has some serious halo issues
around the subject now even if i go
ahead and check focus subject it's like
it has blurred the entire image and then
just pasted the sharp subject over it
look at the halos around these areas
look at the halos around her hair any
highlight areas you will begin to see
halos look at the halo around the bell
now i know it has not done perfect
masking even luminar doesn't when it
comes to super confusing things like
wires and stuff but again there's so
many halos here and there and it's also
very tricky to remove we're gonna get to
that later but for now it has some
serious halo issues here we are in
luminar ai and let's turn on portrait
bokeh ai and as you can clearly see
there are no halo issues no matter where
you look again the masking might not be
perfect but the great thing is you can
work on this we'll get to that later but
for now know that there is no halo
that's pretty amazing the way luminar
handles halos is just brilliant you
never see them however in photoshop you
see them from time to time one other
major problem with depthler is that the
selections are very very hard so here's
the before here's the after background
blur looks nice but if you have a look
at the hair
look
there is no refined hair done here even
photoshop has its own technology for
refining hair selecting hair so
beautifully and that too automatically
even then if you look at the hair it's
all hard edges have a look at the hair
right here have a look at the hair right
here as well it's just not proper so we
can clearly say that hair and fur are
not the new depthler's strongest points
so here we are in luminar ai and
although the masking here is not very
perfect i'm turning the boated bokeh ai
on
still the hair selection is so much
better than that of photoshop if you
zoom in right here you would notice that
it's not perfect to the strand but it
just looks way more natural than that of
photoshop at least it doesn't have hard
edges when it comes to hair and fur so
there's technology already there inside
of adobe for refining here selecting
hair
i don't know i don't know much about
code i might be wrong but i think we can
use that technology inside of templar
the next comparison is a personal
preference turns out there's a
difference in bokeh quality between
portrait bokeh ai of luminar ai and
deppler of photoshop so here we have the
original image
this is done with photoshop's depth blur
and this is with portrait bokeh ai of
luminar let's turn that on
and take a look if you ask me personally
the portrait bokeh ai's background blur
kind of looks more natural to me and
looks more appealing to me and also if
you have a look at the masking i didn't
do any change in the masking this is
templar masking this is portrait bokeh
ai masking see deppler completely erased
that area portrait book i kind of kept
it now there are certain little things
that need improvement but we're going to
get to that later but for now
this is luminar and this one is
photoshop let me know which one looks
better to you in the comments now one
major advantage that depthler has that
is it can select subjects which are not
just humans whereas in portrait bokeh ai
it only can focus on people so in this
case here we have a dog and if we just
turn on depth blur and make sure focus
subject is checked increase the blur
strength you would notice that it
focuses the dog pretty darn well whereas
with luminar's portrait bokeh ai it just
won't detect it only people have a look
if you open the portrait bokeh ai see
it's grayed out now let's talk about the
biggest problem with deppler which might
make it absolutely unusable for
professional use
take a look at this example i've added
some wonderful depthler here and as you
can see depth blur is very very smart so
here's the before here's the after have
a look at the background far away it has
blurred it more look at the roof right
here it has blurred it less because it's
nearby and also
look at this bush right over here it has
blurred it because it should be out of
focus this focal plane should be in
focus also this tree is next to the
subject in the same focal plane
therefore it is in focus so as you can
tell
depth blur is very very smart but there
is one major problem let's zoom in and
take a look see there are some
inconsistencies in the masking let's
turn on the blur right
there are some hair areas which are not
selected properly the problem is and i
underline this
there is no way
inside of this module as of now
to work on the mask there is no way to
tweak which areas are going to be
focused and which areas are going to be
blurred you have to stick with what
photoshop has decided for you and that's
completely against the behavior of what
photoshop is supposed to be if you
scroll around here and there
there is no way i can tell photoshop all
right these are the areas that you need
to bring back and focus there's a bag
right there or there's no way i can tell
photoshop all right this doesn't look
right there's not even any way in which
we can take a brush and just put those
areas back into blur or bring back
certain areas and focus there's no easy
way to do that i know there's a way the
way is you can output this as a depth
map and then just load the depth map in
photoshop work on the depth map then
apply lens blur bring in that depth map
yes you can do that but then you know
there should be a way inside of this
module to easily tell photoshop all
right i don't want this area in focus or
i do want that particular area in focus
that's the biggest problem that make
this unusable so here we are luminar ai
and as you can tell it's not that smart
not as smart as adobe and it has not
even blurred the bushes that are in
front of it but luminar has an advantage
also have a look it has also blurred
this particular area but there is no
problem there
let me share with you what the advantage
is and you already might have guessed it
have a look if we zoom in
and if we want to tell lumina all right
bring that area back in focus we can
easily do that just paint over that area
and it will bring that area back in
focus if you want to remove an area just
select defocus and just remove that area
and it will be defocused so there is an
option for us to work on the mask
manually this is one of those rare
situations where luminar is acting more
like photoshop and photoshop is acting
more like the previous versions of
luminar so all this concludes that
photoshop has become more smarter but
lumina on the other hand is more precise
and gets the job done if you are
interested in checking out photoshop or
lumina both of them are linked up in the
description i believe that photoshop's
new depthler has definitely gotten to a
point where you can use it but not
professionally if you do want to add
professional shallow depth of field
effect going manual is the only way and
we have a video about it which you can
check right over here i hope you enjoyed
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