October 2022

Practical Photoshop

Your monthly guide to Adobe Photoshop

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Practical Photoshop
Editor James Paterson james.paterson@futurenet.com Art Editor Rosie Webber Production Editor Richard Hill Content Director Chris George Senior Art Editor Warren Brown James Paterson Commercial Director Clare Dove clare.dove@futurenet.com Advertising
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Highlights: What’s Inside…
◼ Best and worst of Photoshop’s AI-powered filters ◼ Learn how to install and use this amazing tool ◼ Get to grips with the impressive landscape mixer ◼ Shoot and edit professional portraits on a budget ◼ Organise your photos with Smart Collections ■
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Editor’s Note
Even though it’s still in Beta mode, the Photo Restoration Filter is a true marvel. This issue we show you how to use it, and all the other amazing Neural Filters in Photoshop’s arsenal. From mixing landscapes to creating shallow focus effects, these
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History In The Making
Neural Filters have transformed the way many of us edit our photos, from automated hand-coloring to AI-assisted upscaling. Over the next few pages we’ll explore all the Neural Filters currently on offer, as well as those in the pipeline, ranked in or
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02 The Colorize Filter
Colorize was one of the first Neural Filters to truly bring home the power of AI image editing. Open any monochrome image, turn on Colorize and it will be colored. The filter is adept at recognizing different faces, objects and scenery, then adding s
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01 The Photo Restoration Filter
Photo Restoration has to be the most impressive Neural Filter yet from Adobe. It will automatically restore old photos by sharpening faces and it even rebuilds facial features. What’s more, it can automatically detect and remove scratches. At the mom
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03 The Landscape Mixer
The Landscape Mixer takes elements from other landscape photos and mixes them in with yours. Here it results in a completely transformed scene: the filter has mixed in a sunset mood from another photo and added a long-exposure look to the sea to give
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04 The Skin Smoothing Filter
This command can automatically recognise people and faces in your photos, isolate the skin and let you apply a softening effect. Spots, wrinkles and rough skin can all be eradicated with ease. Crucially, the filter retains texture in the skin pores w
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05 The Super Zoom Filter
Super Zoom is a wonderful tool for upscaling images if you want to give them a boost in resolution. Simply go to Filter > Neural Filters and turn on Super Zoom. Click the Zoom button to upscale the image by 2x, 3x or more. Your chosen Output is impor
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07 The Depth Blur Filter
Depth Blur lets you blur backgrounds and foregrounds as if using a shallow focus. Go to Filter > Neural Filter and turn on Depth Blur, then adjust the blur strength to suit your scene. You can change the focus point if necessary by unchecking Focus S
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06 The Harmonization Filter
Harmonization automatically matches the color and feel of one layer to match another. As such it can be hugely useful when you’re creating photo composites, because if you cut out and copy part of one image into another then the colors may not initia
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09 Jpeg Artifacts Removal
JPEG artifacts are blocky shapes caused by the compression that JPEGs go through whenever they’re closed and opened. They’re more apparent when the JPEG quality is set to Low, which is why you’ll often see artifacts in low-quality web images. This Ne
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10 The Makeup Transfer Filter
As the name suggests, Makeup Transfer lets you transfer makeup between portraits. First open up the two images into Photoshop. Go to Filter > Neural Filters and turn on Makeup Transfer, then target the other open image in the Reference Image settings
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11 The Color Transfer Filter
Color Transfer works by transferring the colors in one photo to another, so if you want to give one image a certain look, open a target image then run the filter. Initially the results can be rather too strong, but you can fine-tune things by adjusti
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12 The Smart Portrait Filter
Smart Portrait lets you change the angle of a head, alter an expression to make someone look surprised or angry, and age your subjects older or younger. You can also change the lighting in your portraits by subtly shifting the direction of the light
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Pro Portraits For Peanuts
With inflation and an unprecedented fall in living standards to consider, spending money on photography kit or a trip to a portrait studio just isn’t a priority at the moment for many of us. But you can create outstanding photos without incurring out
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What’s Next For Neural Filters?
Adobe keeps its updates under wraps, so we can only predict what Neural Filters it’ll come up with next. However, there is a Wait List tab in the filter that gives some indication of what to expect. So you might be seeing a Portrait Generator or Nois
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Shoestring Studio
Our key light here is a second-hand Godox flashgun, bought for £30 on eBay. We’ve crafted a softbox using an old garden waste bag, with the front covered in a white bin liner bag. There is no TTL mode on this model of flash, only manual power, but th
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Build Your Lighting
A fill light on its own should result in an underexposed subject. We began by leaving our softbox off and only firing the overhead umbrella. With our exposure settings locked in (Manual mode, 1/200 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100), we adjusted the flash power un
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Craft DIY Softboxes And Umbrellas
To make the softbox, we began by wrapping a small piece of cardboard around the end of the flashgun, leaving an overhang. We taped it in place, then cut down each bend and spread out the sides. Next, we took a larger sheet of cardboard, made a hole f
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Change Your Background
A green screen can be transformed into any color you like with a few simple Photoshop skills. Just make sure that there’s no green in the subject (like the green balls here) or this will change color too. If you like to use Camera Raw or Lightroom, s
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Essentials
If you’re relatively new to editing in Photoshop, or you just don’t know where to begin, then this section is the best place to get started. Over the next 10 pages, you’ll find an overview of the different versions of Photoshop available; a breakdown
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Creative Cloud Plans
FROM £9.98/$9.99 PER MONTH WINDOWS, macOS Photoshop is the software of choice for most professional and non-professional photographers. Beyond the standard photo-editing features, it boasts a vast array of more creative tools and filters. Layers are
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The Image-editing Workflow
The image-editing process begins as soon as you’ve transferred your photos from your memory card to your computer. 1 The first stage is to begin sifting through your pictures to discover which are the keepers. The image organizer that comes with Phot
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The Basics Of Raw Processing
The latest version of the raw file processor included with Photoshop is so powerful that most photos can be processed entirely in the raw processor, with no need for further editing in Photoshop. And by making your adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw, ra
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Six Essential Layers For Photos
Photoshop has many types of layers and adjustment layers available, but there are six that you’ll find you need to use again and again. Learning how they should be used may seem a little daunting for beginners, but once you’ve got to grips with them,
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14 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
Reset the foreground and background colors to black and white Zoom in or out of the image Create a merged copy of all the layers in the layer stack Temporarily switch the current tool to the Hand tool, for moving around the image while zoomed in Swit
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08 The Style Transfer Filter
Style Transfer is one of the most intriguing of the Neural Filters – even if the results can often be a muddled mess. The idea here is that we can transfer the style from a painting onto our own images. There’s a selection of famous paintings to choo

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