Adobe Photoshop 2021: What’s New, More AI Than Ever

Although there are still a few weeks to go, finally, this year 2020, many companies are already presenting their new products with which to help us work throughout the new 2021. Adobe, the largest design and publishing company, has been one of the first to present, and launch, its new products for next year. A few hours ago, Creative Cloud users received the new versions of their programs, and the best has been, without a doubt, the new Photoshop 2021 , a new version that now brings more Artificial Intelligence than ever.

Photoshop is the most complete image editing program that we can find. But it can still be much better than it already is. Adobe has been working on its own Artificial Intelligence, known as Adobe Sensei, for a long time. This is present in the main programs of this company, and they help us to make the task of retouching and editing the images as easy as possible.

Adobe Photoshop 2021

Artificial Intelligence helps thousands of users to improve their projects and work better with Adobe software every day. For this reason, the new version 2021 of Photoshop has mainly focused on adding new functions and features based on AI to take the editing experience to a new level.

What’s new in Photoshop 2021

In total, the big news in this new version of Adobe software are summarized in 5: Neural Filters, Sky Replacement, a new Discover panel and two new refined selection tools.

Neural Filters

Neural filters are one of the largest implementations of Artificial Intelligence within this program. These new non-destructive filters (that is, they can be modified or disabled without altering the original photo) are intended to help us reduce workflows. We can find several filters for retouching and improving photos, and most importantly, 6 new much more advanced “beta” filters that will allow us to do all kinds of wonders, such as, for example, changing the facial features of any image. The Smart Portrait filter, for example, allows us to open closed eyes, change the direction of our gaze, move our head and even make us smile.

Adobe Photoshop 2021 - Cambio cara

Sky Replacement

As its name suggests, this tool will allow us to replace the sky in our photos completely naturally, without leaving any sign that the photo has been modified. This function makes use of Sensei to automatically separate the sky from the rest of the photo and allows us to replace it with the one we want. Photoshop 2021 comes with a series of skies by default, although we can load the ones we want also on our own. Changing the sky automatically adjusts the brightness, colors, and contrasts of the photo to make it as natural as possible.

Adobe Photoshop 2021 - Cambio cielo

There are also filters to highlight details in photos, remove skin blemishes, and even colorize black and white photos. All this thanks to AI.

Discover

This new panel has been designed primarily so that all users can become more familiar with this Artificial Intelligence. In it we will be able to find all kinds of tools and tips that will allow us to work faster and better with this program. Thanks to AI, it can offer us recommendations based on our way of working and certain automatic tasks that will save us work with just one click.

Adobe Photoshop 2021 - discover

Selection tools

We are also going to find two new smart selection tools, based on AI, that will help us obtain much more precise results. Specifically we are talking about Object Aware Refine Edge and Refine Hair, two tools that, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, will allow us to select much better hair and all kinds of backgrounds and complex objects.

Adobe Photoshop 2021 - selección inteligente

Other novelties

In addition to the above, other interesting changes that we will find in the new Photoshop 2021 are:

  • Preview of patterns.
  • Living forms.
  • Reset smart objects.
  • Plugin improvements.
  • Collaboration through Creative Cloud.

Of course, we cannot forget about the corregidor errors and the optimizations of the whole program.

Buy and download

The new Photoshop 2021 is now available to all users as a free update. All those who are already paying for their Adobe CC subscription (either individually for Photoshop or in one of the plans, such as photography) will be able to update Photoshop to the latest version from the Creative Cloud client.

Those users who are not paying and want to try these AI-based innovations can download a 30-day trial version totally free. Once that time has passed they will have to pay for one of the subscriptions, the most interesting being the Photographic Plan, which includes both Photoshop and Lightroom for 12 euros per month.