The day, Adobe updated Photoshop to version
2024. Now this is the day a lot of people have been
waiting for because some of the features that were in beta are now in the main Photoshop. I'm going to let you know the new features
in this overview video, and I'm also going to answer some of the questions you may have
along the way. So let's jump in. So the first feature I want to mention is
this task bar at the bottom. Yes, it's not new, but something that you've
been wanting is. So say, for example, I'm here and I go to
make a selection, this task bar jumps around. People find that super annoying. But you can jump over here and you can choose
to pin the bar position, and then you can just drag it wherever you want. And now when I make selections, do different
things, the bar is not moving. Now, one of the big problems with this is
whenever you relaunched Photoshop, it relaunched the behavior. And I'm happy to let you know that this now
stays persistent. So wherever you leave this bar, it's going
to stay there even the next time you launch Photoshop. Yay. And if you're getting any value out of this
video, hit that subscribe button, turn on notifications. You won't miss any of my videos. And whenever I do a new feature video, people
are like, I don't see this feature in my Photoshop. So what you need to do is update Photoshop
by going up to the Creative Cloud that would be at the bottom if you're on Windows, then
go under updates. Before you do anything, this is where a lot
of people miss it, is to check for updates. Now it's going to hit the server, and if it
hadn't appeared in your panel, it's going to find it, and it's going to add it to your
panel. Then you go under new updates, and you would
see one there for Photoshop. But I already updated today, as you can see,
in your case, you would hit Update, relaunch, and then you've got the new Photoshop. So big news, Generative Fill AI is now in
Photoshop. So if I make a selection here, say, around
this camera, I can choose Generative Fill, I can click on it, and this gives me the option
to tell it what I want to put in there. So let's put in Hairdryer, and then just choose
Generate. Now what is new here is we've got these tips. Each time you do Generative Fill, you're going
to see these new tips as well, of course, it being here inside of Photoshop and not
Beta. All right. So there we go. We've got a hairdryer, and we could choose
different versions under Variations. You're going to see we've got different versions
that we can click on. The other thing is we now have, let me just
drag this out. The other thing we now have is larger thumbnail
previews if we click on there, and we can see these previews are indeed larger. If you want to generate three more, just click
Generate one more time. And as you can see, now we have six different
options here, or we can make those smaller. And now the Generative Fill is out of beta
and in Photoshop, it's approved for commercial work. All the AI training has come from Adobe Stock,
so it's all licensed work at Adobe, so it's not just going across the internet and grabbing
images without people's permission for training this AI. So there's three main things you'll use Generative
Fill for. One is to replace an object, which we've already
done. We can use it to expand. So let's zoom out. We're going to grab our Crop tool, and we
can drag this out to the side. And we could type in what we want to put there. And if you just wanted to expand the existing
photo, just choose Generate. Based on the pixels and what it can see there,
it's going to expand that. A question I'm going to get, is this high
resolution yet? The answer is no, it's not. It still generates in 1024 by 1024 blocks. So if we zoom in here, we can see the original
image is very sharp on the edges there as a lower resolution. I've done another tutorial where I show you
how to hack that and create an action to build it in smaller squares. Check that out on my playlist. So another one is Generative Expand. I'm going through these quickly because I've
covered these in other tutorials, but let's hit the Expand here and say I wanted to change
the aspect ratio to a one by one square. We want to make that larger. Let's pop that in the middle, and then we
just hit Generate. And this is basically the same thing as outcropping. If I just crop it larger, it does the same
thing, but Generative Expand gives you a few more options. Check out the dedicated video I've done on
that where I can show you to do it to a specific size or aspect ratio. And the third behavior of Generative Fill
is just basically to remove an object. So let me just do this. We take the Lasso tool, we'll go around there,
and I'll hit Generative Fill without putting any content in there and just hit Generate. And as you can see, it removes the object,
analyzes the background and creates something that should go in there to fit it. And if you look at that, it's pretty good. The shadow. Oh, okay, no problem. We just do the same thing again. And voila, it looks perfect. And speaking of Generative Fill, I created
an entire course on it. Check out underneath for a code where you
can get a discount off it. The next new tool we're going to look at,
which has brand new functionality, is the Remove tool. So some of you may know with the Remove tool,
you brush over the area you want to get rid of. And it does a pretty amazing job. Now a tip, a good way to use this is to create
a new layer, and we want to turn on sample all layers. So here's a brand new functionality. It's like the pixel foam when you have the
magic eraser. What we're going to do is just make a circle
around the area you want to get rid of, release it. It knows the area, it selects it. And look at that, it automatically gets rid
of it for you. So let's get rid of the shadow. Yeah, sometimes the results are a little unpredictable. If that's the case, undo it. And then we're just going to do it the slow
way, one bit at a time. There we go. Another useful feature are the new gradient
tools. So why don't I just add a light here and we'll
use it on a mask. So I'm going to choose color lookup. We'll click on the lot and we're going to
choose moonlight. So let's light that up. Black for the foreground color. Go up under the gradient tool, choose black
to transparent or black to white. Either one will work. Let's do black to white. We're going to use a radio gradient and make
sure we're in normal mode, opacity 100. So if I drag this out, notice that we can
create a spotlight that we can move around. Now I did a tutorial recently where I showed
you this in beta, but now it's in the main one. If you grab this dot, we can change the shape
of this. And of course, we can grab it and rotate it
and just create the spotlight effect. Now, if you're worried about it going over
the top, we can definitely fix that. What we need to do is just grab our Selection
tool, drag it across the top here. And in that mask, I would just fill it with
white. I command delete on the Mac, fills with the
background color. But when you use another tool and you go back
into the mask and you grab the gradient, notice it's still applied. So that hasn't changed that behavior is still
the same as it was before. So as far as these masks being reeditable,
they're not. If I want to add a second gradient, what I'm
going to do is make sure I use the black to transparent rather than the black to white. And this way you can add additional gradients
without affecting the gradients that you've applied before. If you do black to white, it would just reset
this mask. Notice that the transparency, it will keep
the other part of the mask so you can add multiple light sources just working that way. If we're on that mask and I choose a gradient
tool, notice it appears again. But if I apply another tool, let's clean up
the top of this, fill it with white. When I go back in here, notice it doesn't
select that mask again. Last feature I want to mention is the preset
sync. You know the one that never worked before? Yeah, it's gone. They removed it. So if you lost your presets because of it,
I'm sorry, maybe I'll do a video on how to back up presets and stuff. If you want something like that, let me know
in the comments underneath. So let me know in the comments underneath
what was your favorite new feature. And check out my other videos where I go into
all these features in more depth. If you're new to the cafe, welcome. Hit the subscribe button, turn on notifications,
and you won't miss any of my tutorials. Until next time, I'll see you at the cafe.
