Photoshop AI feature automates image subject selection

[Reefa]

 

The AI-based selection feature Adobe introduced back in November is now available to users. The feature arrived in Photoshop version 19.1 and it is called “Select Subject.” With this — and thanks to Adobe Sensei — Photoshop is now capable of isolating the main subject in an image from its background automatically, saving users time. Select Subject is joined by several other features.

 

Adobe Sensei is the company’s artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning system. With this, Adobe has packed a new smart feature into Photoshop that helps users finish their projects faster by performing some of the basic tasks itself.

 

Select Subject is the perfect example of this ability, using advanced machine learning technology to identify the most prominent subject in an image. The system is trained to identify all manner of objects, including toys, people, animals, cars, and others.

 

When the feature is used, the system automatically selects that subject, though the user can then further refine the selection if necessary. For example, if the automatic selection feature accidentally selects a small portion of the background, the user can use the “Subtract from Selection” tool to get rid of that part of the selection.

 

The new ability arrives at a time when Adobe faces growing competition in the image-editing software market. Notably, Pixelmator recently released an image editor called Pixelmator Pro that packs multiple AI-powered features, including object removal, automatic horizon identification, and layer naming.

 

In addition to its new Select Subject feature, Photoshop 19.1 adds Windows High-Density Monitor support, improvements to Select and Mask, as well as better support for the Microsoft Surface Dial. Those aside, Adobe says there’s also a “long list” of bug fixes.

 

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[KRS]

interesting function is the one that I just read, we hope to have it already installed. I continue with previous versions and little heavy. Virtual reality.

[dcs18]

Sounds like a masking solution that most folks been waiting for.

 

Would like to give it a shot — unfortunately, the latest build of Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.0.38906 has not yet been posted out here.

[tiliarou]

3 hours ago, dcs18 said:

Sounds like a masking solution that most folks been waiting for.

 

Would like to give it a shot — unfortunately, the latest build of Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 19.1.0.38906 has not yet been posted out here.

Isn't it available via creative cloud ? You just have to create a dummy account, install trial version via creative cloud app, and then apply AMTlib crack.

[Katzenfreund]

Those people are trying to take the skill and talent out of graphics design. 

 

On a practical note, I expect it would choose the wrong (part of the) object a high percentage of the times, necessitating corrective or overruling intervention, while it would be heavy on resources. And taking into account that outlining the desired object roughly by hand is not such a demanding task, I see its usefulness as less than revolutionary.

 

I add that, generally speaking, a multiplicity of features intended to facilitate work with a tool, to some extent have the opposite effect in that they make the tool interface cluttered and daunting, and the learning curve steeper.

[capt_blake]

On 1/24/2018 at 3:57 PM, Katzenfreund said:

On a practical note,...

..elaborate.
Hm, I am more optimistic about the introduced 'select subject'. We'll see.
I am waiting for the portable from punsh to have a look.
--and compleeetely off-topic: about the beauty of the German language, by John le Carré:
I love it.
Why we should learn German

[Katzenfreund]

17 hours ago, capt_blake said:

On 1/24/2018 at 3:57 PM, Katzenfreund said:

On a practical note,...

..elaborate.

It means what I expect to happen in practice, as opposed to theoretical marketing hype. But of course, the operative words are: “I expect” and as Niels Bohr said,

“It’s very difficult to predict anything, especially the future.”

 

My skepticism, or realism as I prefer to call it, is based on unfortunate previous experiences with software development, which often spoils a good product.

 

As merely an example, I mention the old media player Winamp that I was using at the time. So they kept adding features to it and making it heavier, slower and less transparent, till it was a pain to use on my old computer, and I uninstalled it. And it seems other people thought the same, as the program was eventually abandoned.

 

Of course, it doesn't have to happen like this, so your optimism is not necessarily unjustified.