The most impressive is Smart Portrait, which auto-detects faces in images and provides a range of tools for adjusting the expression – including Be Happy!, Surprise, and Anger. They’re loaded by selecting them from the Beta Filters button. The rest of the Neural Filters are still officially in beta, which means they may not yet give perfect results – but Adobe has included many of them anyway, so you can gauge for yourself their effectiveness. Here are three more examples of this filter: But as the effects are applied instantly, it’s easy to go through the options and select a style that you like.

The results are often surprising, and sometimes seem to bear little relation to the source style image. You can adjust the style strength and brush size, and optionally blur the background and as with all the Neural Filters, you can choose to apply it to a new layer, a masked duplicate of the current layer, or as a Smart Filter. The Style Transfer filter lets you apply graphic styles from a wide range of presets, although you can’t yet import your own style source images. It’s the quickest way yet to clean up facial blemishes, and produces impressive results in an instant: Skin Smoothing behaves just as described, with simple sliders for Smoothness and Blur. Two fully operational filters appear in the Neural Filters gallery: Skin Smoothing and Style Transfer. The most exciting new feature is a large range of filters powered by Adobe Sensei, the machine-learning tool that Adobe has been developing over a number of years.

From enhancements to everyday tools such as Refine Edge and Live Shapes to groundbreaking features such as Sky Replacement and the truly extraordinary Neural Filters, there’s plenty here to excite and impress even the most jaded Photoshop user. Photoshop 2021, unveiled at Adobe MAX, is the most feature-rich update in years.

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