Adobe has unveiled significant updates to Photoshop, introducing non-destructive Clarity, Dehaze, and Grain adjustment layers. These additions aim to provide creative professionals with enhanced control and precision in their workflows. (blog.adobe.com)
Key Features of the Update:
- Clarity and Dehaze Adjustment Layers: These new layers allow users to adjust midtone contrast and reduce atmospheric haze non-destructively. The Clarity layer enhances subject structure and crispness, while the Dehaze layer balances lighting and cuts through haze. Both adjustments can be applied seamlessly with masking and blending capabilities. (helpx.adobe.com)
- Grain Adjustment Layer: This layer enables the addition of film-style texture to images, offering control over amount, size, and roughness. It allows for natural, uniform grain across composites without resorting to destructive noise workflows. (community.adobe.com)
- Dynamic Text (Beta): A new beta feature that simplifies the process of transforming text into circular, arched, or bowed shapes. Users can select Dynamic Text, choose a desired shape, and Photoshop will automatically fit and resize the text accordingly. (blog.adobe.com)
- Enhanced AI Tools: The update includes upgrades to Firefly-powered tools like Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and the Remove Tool. These tools now deliver higher-quality results with 2K resolution output, sharper detail, and fewer artifacts, producing images that better match user prompts with more natural lighting and depth. (blog.adobe.com)
- Reference Image for Generative Fill: This feature provides more control by preserving the identity of a reference object when generating and compositing. It delivers geometry-aware results that better match the scene, reorienting to the correct scale, rotation, lighting, color, and perspective. (blog.adobe.com)
These updates are available in the desktop version of Photoshop, with Firefly-powered updates accessible across both the app and Photoshop on the web. (blog.adobe.com)
For a visual demonstration of the new Clarity and Dehaze adjustment layers, you can watch the following video:
Clarity and Dehaze NOW Photoshop Adjustment layers