From the Layer menu, users can now create masks for all the subjects detected in an image. Photoshop for desktop also gains a new ability to mask all objects in a photo with a single click. Adobe also claims selections made with the Object Selection Tool “are now more accurate and preserve more details in the edges of the selection.” This enhanced selection method utilizes Adobe’s Sensei AI machine learning and should only improve over time. On the desktop, The Object Selection Tool is being improved to allow users to hover over an object and make a selection with a single click. Starting things off, Adobe is releasing “a major feature release of Photoshop on the desktop and iPad.” Photoshop for iPad is gaining Camera RAW support and the ability to edit Smart Objects on the go, which I covered in a separate post.

Illustrator CC and Illustrator for iPad.

The presets are available for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the Web.

Adobe has another blog post that details the presets and the photographers that created them. More presets will be added to the list with future updates.

The presets have seven categories such as Portraits-Deep Skin, Portraits-Medium Skin, Portraits-Light Skin, Cinematic, Futuristic, Vintage, and Travel. These presets have been developed by professional photographers.

Lightroom now utilises a new feature called Premium Presets. Adobe has also adapted its Illustrator and InDesign apps that now see 65 percent and 59 percent improvements, respectively, on the M1 chip over the Intel chip. The new Super Resolution feature is thrice as fast and back editing photos is four times as fast on the M1-powered Mac computers. A benchmarking test conducted by Pfeiffer Report suggests that the app is twice as fast on M1-powered Mac computers compared to its Intel counterpart. Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic now utilise the full potential of Apple's M1 SoC. The update for Adobe Lightroom was announced on Adobe Blog on June 8. Adobe Illustrator and InDesign get major performance boosts with the update. Alongside, Adobe has also updated the Lightroom app for other platforms. Adobe Lightroom gets updates for collaboration features, new Premium Presets, among other feature improvements. Adobe also claims that through third-party benchmark testing, the updated Creative Cloud apps are 80 percent faster on M1-based Mac computers compared to Intel-based Mac computers. Adobe has adapted its Creative Cloud apps such as Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign to work seamlessly on the Apple M1 SoC.

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