In Photoshop 2023,
you can use AI to generate custom backgrounds for your photographs.
Go into Filter and select Neural Filters.
From here,
click on Backdrop Creator.
Then you can input a prompt
or start by using one of the popular presets.
For example, the sky background preset.
Click on Create.
And Photoshop, I'll use artificial intelligence
to generate three images based on the prompt preset.
I'll close the window for now.
And I can click to load these images onto my composite.
You can also type in your own prompt.
For example, landscape, cold morning beach, sky and HD Photograph.
Adding "HD Photograph" sometimes helps you generate higher-quality images.
Then click on Create.
Photoshop will then generate three new images based on your prompt.
I like this one here, so I'll select it.
And I would like to see more like that one.
So I can click on this icon to load more images that look like this image.
If there's another one that I like, I can click on it to select it.
Then I can go into New Layer Group and press OK.
And Photoshop will generate all those
images as layers and you can use them in any project that you want.
Remember, these images are meant to be
used as backups, something in the background with not a lot of detail.
Also, you can use a Backdrop creator
to generate textures like a wrinkled paper texture.
By the way, a lot of the new features in Photoshop 2023,
like the Backdrop Generator, are found in the beta release
of Photoshop, which I recommend you install and try out.
To install the beta version of Photoshop,
go into your Creative Cloud app
and on the left hand side tab, click on Beta Apps
and you can install the Photoshop beta.
At the time of this recording that is version 24.1.
Another incredible feature in Photoshop 2023
is the Substance Photoshop plugin.
Let me show you how it works.
Go into Window,
and select Materials.
This will open up the Substance Materials plugin.
You can think of these materials as
Photoshop patterns, but with controls for limitless variations.
All you need to do is select a material from the list, whichever one you like.
When you click on it, Photoshop will add it to the Layers panel.
You can see that here and you will see the material properties there.
You can scroll down and adjust the resolution.
Draft will give you a very low-resolution material,
but Ultra will give you a high-resolution material.
Obviously, the Ultra will take more resources from your computer,
so select the appropriate resolution for your machine.
For the tutorial, we'll leave it at Medium.
Then you can adjust the sliders
to change the look of the Material
and notice all the controls that these materials give you.
So come in here and adjust these sliders
accordingly so that you get the result that you want for your projects.
Also, if you want to get more materials,
click and drag this all the way down and click on this link here.
This will open an Adobe page with Substance 3D assets,
including Materials, and you can just click on Materials here.
Make sure that you click on Free Assets
and you have all these free assets you can download.
For example, we can download this rock pattern, click on Download,
save it to your computer, then go back into Photoshop.
And from Photoshop you can click on this plus icon
and install it into your machine.
You will find the material in the Your Materials section.
Just open it up and you will see it there.
You can click on it to apply it to your
image and make any adjustments that you want.
The Object Selection tool in Photoshop 2023 not only has a better algorithm
to detect objects in your scene, it also has a different color overlay it's.
Now pink. It used to be blue.
You can change the color from the drop down menu if you like.
But one of the best new things about this tool in this new release of Photoshop is
that you can click on your main subject to select it.
And then press Shift and Backspace
to automatically remove the main subject
and use Content-Aware Fill to fill the hole.
By the way, if you're in a different selection tool
and use that same keyword shortcut Shift in Backspace,
Photoshop will instead bring in the Fill dialog box.
If you want to use that same feature
with a different selection tool,
all you need to do is right-click on the selection
and choose Delete and Fill Selection.
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in the comments what your favorite new feature is.
Another incredible filter in Photoshop 2023 can be found under Filter and Neural.
Filters from the list go all the way
to the bottom and make sure that you enable the Photo Restoration Beta filter.
This filter attempts to restore Photos with just a few clicks.
Here is the before and after.
We can get even a better result by increasing the scratch reduction.
Also under adjustments, you have different options that you can use.
For example Noise reduction and JPEG artifact reduction.
The best thing about this filter is that you can combine it with other filters.
For example, you can also enable the Colorize filter
to automatically colorize this image using artificial intelligence.
This is totally customizable.
You can click on the shirt to change the color.
For example, we can make it blue and just by clicking on any other area,
you'll duplicate the same color that you have active.
In this case blue.
So, I'll make sure that his shirt is entirely blue.
Then I can click on the background.
I can make that gray and continue painting
the background gray just by clicking on it.
When you're done, output to a new layer and press OK.
Photoshop has now generated a new layer
with the adjustments we made in the filter.
In photoshop beta 2023.
You have access to the new Live Gradient Tool.
You can click and drag to create a gradient and you can edit it using
the onscreen overlays and the Properties panel.
When you hover over the line, you'll see the cursor with a plus icon.
When you click, you will add a new color stop.
You can double-click on that color stop to change the color if you wish.
Even though the Options bar still gives you access to the previous controls.
The Properties panel now has those controls and more.
From here, you can select a preset,
select the style of the gradient and adjust the opacity.
For example, we can turn this into a sunflower.
You can make the center swatch white and the outer swatch orange, like so.
Press OK.
And then from the opacity controls,
notice that when we select one of the swatches,
it lights up the corresponding swatch in the Properties panel.
We want to make this one transparent so that's the one on the right,
we can go into the opacity controls here, click on the far right one and bring
the opacity down to zero and adjust the location and center point
and drag the orange swatch to the left to add more color to the sunflare.
Then you can click and drag it and place it into position.
And of course, you can use blending modes to blend it better with your photo.