Neural Filters in Photoshop 2021 – New Feature

Learn how to use Photoshop 2021 Neural Filters. Neural Filters help you improve your images by generating new contextual pixels that are not actually present in your original image. Neural Filters in Photoshop is a new workspace in Photoshop with a library of filters using machine learning-powered by Adobe Sensei.

To get started, download filter from the cloud and start editing. You can find both featured and beta Filters in the Neural Filters workspace. You can get to these new filters by coming up here to Filter, Neural Filters. Any filter that shows a cloud icon next to it will need to be downloaded from the cloud before you can use it the first time. Simply click on the cloud icon to download each filter you plan to use. So here the Style Transfer as a cloud icon, I’m going to click on that right now and download it. So these icons here, this top one means it’s the featured filters. The next one down means it’s the beta filters. So these are available to you. You’re probably going to have to download the filters before you can use them.

Skin Smoothing Neural Filters in Photoshop

So to use the filter, all you need to do is click on the button and it executes immediately. You could see this wheel turning here, that’s because some of these filters process some of the operations in the cloud. So internet connectivity is required to fully benefit from these filters. So there’s some skin smoothing there. I’m going to add a little bit more blur, some more smoothness say around 30, just so that you can see how this looks. Let me zoom in here a little bit. And that is the skin smoothing, down here is a preview changes on the lower left of this interface here. So there’s the before and there’s the after. This blue dot means that I’ve applied a filter. So when I click on that, it says I’ve only applied just a skin smoothing to this image so far. And if I need to reset these parameters up here on the top, the Neural Filters panel, it says reset parameters. So here’s all the output options I like to duplicate layer masks, and say okay. So here’s our first example with this skin smoothing, works pretty good.

Makeup Transfer Neural Filters in Photoshop

So let’s continue with this image and let’s go for another filter. If I click on this icon here it will show all the other filters that are available. And we have one here called makeup transfer. In on a click on the button here and it needs a reference image. There needs to be another image open in Photoshop, that is right here. I’m gonna select it and it’s working. So there’s the reference image. So Photoshop transferred that makeup from the lips, eyes, eyebrows, face and so if I click on this blue button here, it shows me that I’ve applied the skin smoothing and the makeup transfer. And so I’m going to put it as another duplicate layer masks and say okay, so this is just like a starting point, these filters, you have this mass gray here. And if I click on the mask and use my brush tool, and I’m gonna paint with black. And I’m gonna go over her eyes here. They’re kinda red. So I removed the red from her eyes and that looks a lot better. There’s the before and there’s after with two of the filters used, the skin smoothing and the makeup transfer. Let’s see what else we can do. Hey, if you’re getting value out of this so far hit that like button.

Smart Portrait Neural Filters in Photoshop

Let’s have a little fun with this portrait of me. One of the filters that is available here is the smart portrait. Now, a lot of this processing of this filter is done in the cloud so you’re going to see some time it will take to complete some of the processing. I’m gonna click on the button to enable it. And here’s all our options here. Let’s go with facial age first, click that. Oh, that makes me a little bit older here. Let’s see how this looks. Oh, very good. Okay. I’m older. And I think I want to look a little bit younger. Let’s try, see how that goes. Okay. Look a lot younger there. Nice. I’ll just stay in the middle. let’s go, hair thickness put it’s somewhere in the middle there. Okay, got a little bit more thickness in my hair there. Let’s make it thinner. Ooh. It will even thin out your hair. No, I don’t like that. Let’s go back to the middle. Let’s try head direction here. I’m moving it to the left. Let’s see if it moves it to the left. Oh, good. Okay. Let’s see if it’ll go back to the other way. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So I want facial age. I want thicker hair. So I wanna look younger, my hair thicker. Let’s see what that does. There you go. I’m gonna go with this. And of course, duplicate layer mask. And there you have it. There’s the before there’s the after. Great job Photoshop.

Colorize Neural Filters in Photoshop

Let’s use a Neural Filter for this black and white image. We have something here called colorize. So let’s click and see what Photoshop does. The trees and the grass, green. Of course the sky blue, not too much color up here in the rocks, but you can always make these adjustments here and see what direction that will take you. You can add all these other colors into the image. It says here, click to select focal points. So if I click say at the top of those rocks and add some red, can use the color picker here. Pick some red and click and it’s thinking. And so you can actually pick points like this red point right here, is what they call a focus point or a focal point. And I can press alter option drag to duplicate it but you can play with Photoshop and try and colorize with this, and I can make it lighter, something like that. But you have to play with all these different controls. And I’m going to output this to a duplicate layer masks. That’s an example of colorizing a black and white image. With colorize neural filters in photoshop.

See my photography website https://wwwcharlescabreraphotography.com

Check out the previous article on Photoshop 2021 New Features https://charlescabrera.com/sky-replacement-in-photoshop-2021-new-feature/