Hey Cafe Crew, it is Colin Smith here from Photoshop Cafe and Adobe’s just announced
Photoshop CC 2018, the latest update to Photoshop CC!
I have got 5 of my favorite features, I am going to show you right now.
The first one is ‘Light Room’ photos.
If we click here inside the opening window of Photoshop, it will now sync with our ‘Light
Room’ photos in the cloud.
Now there’s been some big updates to ‘Light Room’, check that out on another tutorial
but I can actually go in here and I can view my photos that I have got synced on ‘Light
Room’ and access them right here within Photoshop.
So, that’s tip number one.
Tip number 2, let’s open up this photograph inside of Photoshop, inside of Camera raw,
okay, so what we can do is we can just adjust this, let’s get it the way we want it but
we want to darken our background down again.
Now, we know we have got a quick select brush and we have been using this for a long time
but there’s a new feature in here that I am going to show you.
The first thing we are going to do is I am just going to turn on the mask and I am just
going to paint this quick selection right over the whole area.
And normally that would be a recipe for disaster but not in this case because if we scroll
down and we turn on order mask, now, we have a thing called range mask and we can go by
color or luminance.
We are going to choose the color and this little eye-drop will be selected.
Now I can just click and drag to select that blue region right there and notice that the
motorcycle area now became deselected.
You can also adjust this color range by tweaking it, see that.
So, I am just going to turn the mask off now.
Just go back up to our brightness and now, we can turn our exposure down on the sky without
losing it on the motorcycle.
So that’s tip number 2.
Alright, feature 3!
An improved selective mask work space which is great.
So let’s just grab the quick select tool, make a selection quickly around that model.
Now, we are going to select a mask.
So what I am going to do is, I am going to inverse the selection by clicking invert and
we can use a transparency to pull it down a little bit.
Alright, let’s show the edge right now.
Pull up that radius.
There we go, we have got an edge.
Turn off show edge.
Grab our tool here and this algorithm has been improved that we are going to get much
better selections now.
Especially in these hard edged areas, as well obviously looking good on the hair.
Let’s just go around the hair there, all the way around.
And let’s just get our edge there.
There it is, looking good, smart radius, and now turn on decontaminate colors, new layer
for layer mask but notice how much better this is looking especially around these hard
edges.
In the recent one, these hard edges just really didn’t look good and now, they are.
And feature number 4, is intelligent scaling.
So, when we resize images to go much bigger, they can look a lot better now using preserved
details 2.
So here we go, we have got the same picture, I have got in two separate documents and then
we are going to resize these.
We are going to take the first, double click, first of all take it to a 100% and same here,
double click there on the eyedroppers.
You can see these are identical.
So, let’s go select the first one and then we are going to choose image and then we are
going to choose image size.
We are going to scale up by 300% and if you didn’t know, you can use percent right there.
And, we are going to use the automatic, let’s use that or we can actually preserve details
enlargement which was actually the best that we had before.
We click okay and notice, that’s bigger.
Now, we are going to this one and we are going to choose image size, 300% and this time we
are going to use preserve details 2.
So preserve details 2 actually uses machine learning or deep learning or artificial intelligence
to actually recompose that photo.
So, let’s have a look now.
Let me hold down the H ley, click and drag and as using our Birdseye to get a there and
have a look.
Okay, so we got that.
Now, why don’t we have a look on other ones.
I am going to choose window arrange and then we are just going to choose match zoom and
location, alright, so here we go.
We can see what we have done.
The one on the left here is with the regular and one on the right is with the new algorithm.
So let’s have a look at some details here.
For example, look at the eyes, see how much more detail there is in the eye versus that
one.
See how sharper there the hotspot is and you can see these little sparkles there, look
at those compared to the other one.
Even look there see how soft that particular one is?
Versus that?
You can see now we are getting much better at scaling and of course, if we drop this
down to fill the window.
You probably won’t see much of a difference at that magnification but anyway that’s
really huge.
No pun intended!
Alright, new feature number 5 and possibly my favorite feature inside of Photoshop CC
2018, is the ability to work with 360 degree photos.
So here is a photo taken by Russel Brown and this is shot with a Reco theater on top of
his DGI Phantom drone and this is actually in Wyoming, we were there recently shooting
the eclipse.
So anyway, we now have the ability to work on this inside a Photoshop.
So all we need to do is just go under the 3D menu and we have got this spherical panorama
and choose new panorama from selected layer.
And now this is going to turn it into an actual panorama that we can zoom around and we can
see everything.
There’s Russel right there.
Okay, so as we can see the drone is in the shot but what if we want to take the drone
out of the shot?
So, let’s take the field of view and we are just going to drop this down to one, just
the smallest.
Alright, so we are just going to make a selection around here, let’s just make a quick selection
and we are going to use content to where fill.
So that Shift + Backspace, that’d be Shift + Delete on Mac and content aware and color
adaptation and click okay.
We are going to let it fill a little bit and now of course, we are just going to move this
to get the rest of it.
So, let’s make another selection over here.
We could get rid of that hotspot in the sky too if we want you know, the sun.
Alright, so that going to be good enough for rock and roll and now, if we look at this,
notice that the drone is gone, so people going around can look at this panorama.
Now, obviously we can spend time and get this absolutely perfect and I will do that in another
tutorial.
And of course we can take this, we can export this out as a panorama work in Facebook and
stuff like that and I will show you that in another tutorial, don’t forget to check
out the other tutorials I have, a little bit more in-depth on the new features here, inside
of Photoshop CC 2018.
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What’s your favorite feature, are you excited about CC 2018, do you love Photoshop?
If you do, let me know, if you hate it, let me know!
So, guys, until next time, I will see you at the Cafe.