Selecting people is a doddle with Photoshop

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 22:44 by Michelle Peeters | 8,365 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Adobe is working on a new feature called Select Subject. It lets you select a person in Photoshop with a single mouse click. This is currently only possible with paid plug-ins for the photo editing programme.

Under the name Sensei, they are working on features that use machine learning. A good example of Sensei is automatically naming layers in Photoshop or searching for photos. But there is more it can do.

Selecting people in Photoshop is about to become a doddle. Adobe is working on a feature that lets you select a person with one click, for example to change the background.

New Photoshop feature: Select Subject

Previously, this was only possible with plug-ins such as Akvis SmartMask and Fluid Mask. Or you had to use the pen tool or lasso in Photoshop to make a selection, which is quite a lot of work.

By using AI (Artificial Intelligence), this process should become easier. With the “Select Subject” feature, you can select one or more people with just a single mouse click.

You do not even need to make a rough selection first, as this is already done for you.

In the video above, you can see Adobe's first version. It already works quite well, but unfortunately it is not perfect yet. You can still adjust the selection manually afterwards, and Adobe will certainly continue developing and refining the feature.

The feature will be included in a future version of Adobe Photoshop CC, but it is not yet known when.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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3 comments

Reinoud wrote on Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 23:50 | reply
Interessant dat dit met Sensei kan. In Lightroom CC (de nieuwe cloud versie) leek het alsof die functionaliteit behouden was voor cloud-based software (wat je ook zou verwachten als ze het over 'machine learning' hebben). Maar de demo en voice-over spreken over 'the next Photoshop CC' version. Dat lijkt te suggereren dat het op de desktop werkt.
(of is het een indicatie dat Photoshop ook een cloud versie gaat krijgen?)
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Thursday 30 November 2017 at 12:52 | reply
@Reinoud: ik begreep uit het artikel van Elja over Lightroom CC dat bij de cloud-versies alleen de data zich in de cloud bevindt. Het programma zelf moet toch lokaal geïnstalleerd worden. Dit geldt dan neem ik aan ook voor Photoshop cloud-versie. De hele suite is CC.
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kim wrote on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 13:48 | reply
Handig !
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