Top 21 Photoshop 2021 New Features in 21 Mins!

this slider is guaranteed to blow your mind let's take a look all you have to do is to take it all the way to the left and wait for the magic hello instagram it's insane isn't it but this is just the beginning it's that time of the year and photoshop 2021 has been dropped like a bomb with some of the coolest features in this video i'm going to show you the top 21 feature photoshop has to offer this year and also for your convenience this video has been divided into sections and time stamps you can use these to skip to any feature that you like so without any further ado let's get started the sky replacement is one of the highlight features of photoshop 2021 all you have to do is to go to edit and then sky replacement you can choose the sky of your choice using this drop down you can also import your own skies and there are lots of options for you to adjust the skies and match it with that of the image for example in the original image the light is coming from the right hand side and in the sky it is coming from the left so we can easily flip the sky also if you have a look there are some halos around the trees but it has done it perfectly it is just the halos so let's open up the foreground adjustments and then try to adjust the light and it automatically fixes that you can even take it all the way to the right to absolutely fix that you can also match the colors of the sky with that of the foreground by simply increasing the color adjustment and let's take a look how easy that was you have all the tools and sliders available to adjust the mask adjust the sky and also adjust the foreground to match that better with that of the sky and guess what the best part is once you are satisfied and once you hit ok photoshop gives you manual control over everything every adjustment you have done to the sky every adjustment you have done to the foreground you have actual manual control of that curves or you have actual manual control of that lighting and if you brightened or changed the temperature of the sky you would have controls for that one as well you can modify the mask it is a hundred percent customizable here is another example that i did with the sky replacement feature let's take a look at the before and after so here is the before and here is the after if you have a look closely it also retained the birds it's crazy isn't it amazing feature although i love this feature my only wish is that it would have been great if it also worked with reflections at the moment right now i don't know of any software that does automatic sky replacement also with reflections luminar ai is coming out and they have tweeted that they're gonna do it but i'm looking forward to it and i hope adobe also supports reflections as well the next feature is brought to you by neural filters it's a whole new set of super cool ai filters and the first one that we're gonna talk about is skin smoothing all right so all you have to do is to go to filter and then neural filters inside of that there are some beta filters we're going to talk about that later but for right now let's turn on skin smoothing keep in mind blur controls the skin texture and smoothness controls the overall smoothness of the skin so i want a little more skin texture so i'm going to take the blur a little bit towards the left and if you want more smoothing take it all the way to the right i'm going to do excess so that you can see the difference so let's take a look here is the before and here is the after it gives a good starting point i would hit okay it creates a brand new layer at the top and then you can use masks to take it away from certain areas so we can create a mask take the brush and just probably i'll remove it from the nose area and it's pretty much good to go here's the before here's the after now let's talk about the coolest feature of the show and that is smart portrait this feature has a lot of potential i don't think it's very ready yet but it's super cool so let's go to filter and neural filters as i told you this is beta and even photoshop tells you that so let's go to beta filters and turn on smart portrait now keep in mind this feature works in the cloud which means that we might have to be a creative cloud member which i'm sure you are if you're using photoshop 2021 right you can control the expression let's make him more happy less surprised and less angry now he looks chill you can also change his gaze make him look a little bit to the right you can also change the hair thickness give him a little bit of haircut take it a little bit to the left heck you can also change the head direction so if you want him to look a little bit towards the right inside he would move crazy now make him turn left great and you can also modify the direction of light so if you want the light to be coming from extreme right we can do that and it looks crappy let's uncheck that just play with these sliders it is super fun once you're satisfied just hit ok and then you can always create masks to apply it in certain ways and it's totally customizable so here is the before and here is the after maybe a completely different person but this feature is just in beta coloring black and white photos has also been easier so inside neural filters this is still in beta let's go to the beta tab and turn on colorize and it will automatically try to color it and have a look this is insanely amazing right now on top of that you can color the road you can tell photoshop how the road is going to be so let's pick a gray color ish thing for the road so something like this would work and hit ok and then you can place this color point right over here and photoshop would know how to color the road if you know the color of the land right there you can just add a point in the land area and then choose the color of the land so i'm gonna choose brownish color right there that works and hit okay and the land will be filled with that cutter you can easily modify the trees to be a little more greenish that land color that's absolutely up to you maybe i'll make it a little more darker and orange-ish now take a look it changes along with that and then you have sliders to modify the whole scene as well the pattern preview gives you a real-time infinite preview of the pattern that you're creating does allowing you to create seamless and amazing patterns let's take a look so if you were to create a pattern like a zigzag or like a wave you would have to worry about whether this pattern is going to be continuous or seamless or not right if you turn this into a pattern see what happens so if i select it all and then if i go to edit and then define pattern and hit ok all right and then if i add that pattern again by clicking on the adjustment icon and then choose pattern select the pattern that i just created which was this one and if we decrease the scale have a look it is all broken right how do we create a pattern that is seamless how do we make it easy for us just turn on this new feature called pattern preview right now if we go to view and then pattern preview let's take a look at this just here okay ignore this and now when you paint see what happens it just completes it from the other side and now you can join it now you know how your pattern is going to look right and let's try to create some interesting patterns and that's all we had to do if we zoom out have a look it is absolutely continuous and seamless it gives you an infinite preview of the pattern and if anywhere you feel you need to add something just paint even if it is outside the frame if you paint it you're getting a real-time preview now even if we turn off the pattern preview by going to view and then pattern preview have a look how in the world would you tell that this pattern was going to be a seamless pattern therefore pattern preview saves you a ton of steps pattern preview also works excellent with elements like these so if i want to move anything it will be moved throughout the entire place even if you are moving stuff outside the pattern if you feel like this thing needs to move a little bit to the left if you move it it'll move throughout the pattern if you change the size of it you would know how would it affect the entire pattern a super time saving and convenient feature isn't it this new photoshop comes with a few quick actions and you can access them by going to help and then photoshop help inside of that just go to quick actions and you have simple things like remove background apply it and it will take the steps to remove the background and it does a decent job for one button let's revert it by clicking on revert and there's also blur the background let's take a look at that there are some other ones that you can take a look yourself let's hit apply and it slightly blurs the background if you want to increase the blur double click on the gaussian blur right there and just increase it now i did not expect this from adobe come on adobe you know this at least you could have used your own content aware fill to fill it before blurring it because right now there is some ghosting effect going on right it this area needs to be filled before you apply background blur right but i guess i'm complaining too much this is just a simple feature for beginners let's move on to the next one live shapes are more enhanced which means that you can modify it even more even after rotating let's take a look so let's say we were creating the rounded rectangle tool right and we can control the roundness by using one of these points right there and the great part right now is even if you rotate it just like this and you apply it it does no more take away the ability to change the roundness and the length and the width so right now you can easily change the roundness even after rotating it you can modify the width and the height you can do everything in previous versions of photoshop we did have limitations we also have a brand new line two so if we choose the line tool right now it only has two points earlier it used to have four points it was basically a rectangle and now it just has two points very very convenient if you just increase the stroke from right here there's also a brand new triangle tool so if you select the triangle tool and if you single click on the canvas you have the choice to make it equilateral you also have the choice to draw the triangle from the center where you clicked so if i check equilateral it will definitely be an equilateral triangle you can of course modify it and also there is roundness control here as well by the way you can also change the settings using the properties tab right here we have a brand new help panel which is finally helpful so let's go to help and photoshop help let's say you are looking for the desaturate function you don't remember where that is so let's type in desaturate and you have desaturate by going to image desaturate you have the hue saturation adjustment layer showing up you can use that to desaturate as well so let's say i want to use this so it will tell you you have to go to image adjustments desaturate it'll point it right over there it's that helpful by the way if you're feeling a little lazy you can also directly click here it will do the job for you the help panel also has some hands-on tutorials so if you go there and if you search anything like how to change background it has a lot of hands-on tutorial right over here so let's go ahead and choose this one and start the tutorial and now photoshop will guide you through the software as to how to achieve that so it says click on the girl layer and then it will tell you the next step which is choose select color range so if you go to select color range and one by one it will guide you with everything photoshop is now the ability to search presets inside the panels so let's say you have the patterns panel open by going to window and then let's open up patterns and if you were searching for something you could easily search that it is searchable so i can search for tree so the trees show up it works with any preset panel we can go to swatches and it is also searchable if you had saved the color with a particular name you can search it as the name suggests this feature maintains a history of the versions of the document when you saved it now keep in mind it only works with cloud document so let's go ahead and save it as cloud save it on the cloud by going to file and then save as let's choose save to cloud documents if your dialog box shows up where it saves in a location in your computer just click on save on the cloud and i'm going to keep the name as it is and click on save right we have saved it once now let's say this is looking a little too saturated for me so maybe i created a hue saturation adjustment layer and maybe i decreased the saturation just a little bit and then saved it again okay by pressing ctrl or command s then i changed my mind maybe came later and thought i wanted black and white so let's create a black and white adjustment layer and then i saved it again by pressing ctrl or command s if you open version history by going to window and then version history right there it'll have all those three stages saved right there so this one is the one that i saved right now this is the one which was earlier with a little less saturation and this is the one with a little more saturation now these versions will be deleted after 30 days so till 30 days you have a backup however if you want to permanently save a version all you have to do is to mark it so let's say i like the black and white i want to keep it so just mark it and you can also name it black and white and there's also one more version that i like the first one you can just mark it or name it and it'll forever be there the rest of the versions will be deleted after 30 days it says versions expire after 30 days and by the way if you want to revert to any version just click on the three dots and choose revert to this version or if you want to create another document of a different version you have to choose open in a new tab the select subject button inside of select and mask has been massively improved so if we go to select and mask i'm not talking about select subject outside but inside the selected mask and right now if you click on select subject it considers and refines the hair as well let's take a look with just one click let's change the background to on white increased opacity and brilliant brilliant masking the select subject now has two engines for refining the edge take a look have a look at the background it's so complicated right so first let's enter select and mask and then we will try to select the subject and in this case let's change the background to on black now the fur is not really masked out properly so you can take the refine edge brush tool and brush it there or just simply click on this button refine hair that's a new one we're going to talk about this later for right now just click on that button and it does a fantastic job so as i told you it has two engines color aware and object aware object aware looks at the object analyzes the object and on that basis masks the hair or the fur in my opinion it is best for hair and fur with complex backgrounds on the other hand i would recommend color aware if you have a simple background which is contrasting a lot with that of the subject if you choose that in this case it won't do a pretty good job see it just messes up so in this case with complex backgrounds and hair and fur i would recommend object aware but still try both have a look at this scenario it has a very simple background and it's contrasting a lot with the hair so in this case let's click on select subject and let's change the view to on white alright it is pretty good it's not the best but it's okay right now it is that object aware if in this case we choose color aware because it's a simple background and not contrasty see it does a much better job it gets all the hair and on top of that you can easily work with the color blend mode to remove the yellow color cast that's all there is to it but the easiest thing to do is to try both speaking of select and mask now you can save presets inside of that so let's say you are dealing with images from the same shoot or similar images now what you can do let's say you want to come down and for these kinds of images for these cat series you want to shift the edge a little bit towards the right see more hair and fur coming and maybe you want to feather it just a touch and you want to keep it this way if you want you can increase the radius right there and turn on smart radius whatever your choice was you can save this as a preset by going to preset right there and click on save preset you can save it as whatever you want cat one and it is now preset now anytime you open similar images all you have to do is to choose cat one and all of these sliders will be set to these positions let's say you spent a little time making the selection of the subject using either the pen tool or the quick selection tool or the object selection tool whatever tool of your choice then you want to get into select and mask to work on the hair right now definitely the hair doesn't look right so let's go to the view and let's change the view to on white so we need to work on the hair so usually what do we do we choose the refine edge brush tool and slowly and gradually paint around the hair and it does a pretty good job instead of doing all that now there is just one button and we already talked about it and that is refine here click on that and it will automatically do that for you there's a new tool in town and that is the content aware trace tool so let's go ahead and select that it's in the pen tool group content aware tracing but to be honest i'm not so sure about this too it only works with very high well defined edges so let's say you have to make a path around it so first of all we would work with the details and just when it has select the whole bottle according to our desire they'll stop and now all you have to do is to just click it makes a path right over there if you want to add something to it hold the shift key to add and link better to that line and click now if i just add this see there's a curve right there if you want to fix that you can always check auto trim right there and it kind of will fix that and therefore you can create a path around it so this is a brand new feature maybe you'll like it maybe not but this is a super fast way to create a path and then you can always modify the path as well now adobe has a lot of its own plugins in its marketplace and therefore you have a brand new plugins menu bar so click on that right now i have nothing installed so we can browse plugins and creative cloud desktop applications will show up and from here you can just install any plugin you wish so i'm just going to install watermark 3 hit ok and your plugin will show up right there if you go to plugin there you have watermark 3. super cool isn't it you have to enter your email address and all that stuff but you get the point now coming to depth aware haze why is everything aware these days anyway so you have to go to filter neural filter it's also part of neural filter it's also inside beta so let's go to beta filters and you have depth aware haze it adds haze based on the depth in the image so let's turn it on and let's increase the haze you can also make it warmer or cooler so i'm going to make it a little bit cooler and if you have a look closely at the distance there's a lot more haze the horse which is in the front less haze the horse which is a little further away more haze so it creates a depth map of the landscape and then adds the haze the next feature is a little funky sometimes works sometimes doesn't so here we have two portraits the first one and the second one let's say i want to apply this makeup to this portrait i want to transfer the makeup so let's go to filter again neural filter and inside of that you would find makeup transfer right there there are lots of of other filters that you can just try like jpeg artifact super zoom you can try it yourself let's try the makeup transfer let's turn it on and now we can choose the reference image which was the other one let's choose makeup transfer 1.jpg which was the other image that will try to apply her make up onto hers it kind of works um it's a little hit or miss it's okay in this image sometimes it does work sometimes it doesn't it's not excellent but something fun when you're working with a cloud document they're obviously stored in the cloud and every time you open it most of the time it loads up the file from its local cache so if you want to keep that cloud document offline permanently you can do this so if we click on the house button right there and we click on cloud documents i have a couple cloud documents you can click on the three dots or you can just check box on all the cloud documents that you want to permanently have them offline and then choose the option make available offline always so therefore you won't have to download it again and again but it will take space in your computer if you want to change it to cloud only you can do that simply click on three dots and choose make available online only and after a period of time it will be deleted from your local cache you can now absolutely reset a smart object to its original state no matter how much you have transformed it worked it rotated it it can be reset so i had already made this present smaller now if i further maybe make it flatter maybe right click on it and choose warp and deform it do some crazy stuff right over here hit enter if this is a smart object which it is which we can clearly tell by the symbol right there we can right click on it and choose reset transform now it is reset to its original state there's also one more way of doing that if i just make it flat again we can also reset from the properties panel let's open that and all you have to do is to click on the reset button if you want to remove something the content of fl workspace is way faster to access right now so let's say you want to remove this so all you got to do is to make a selection of that area right click on it and then choose content aware fill super fast isn't it last but not the least we did talk about all the presets panel having a search bar but the brush tool also has it so if we choose the brush tool and we click on this drop down where we go ahead and select the brush this has a search bar so if you were looking for spatter brushes they will show up simple nice nifty trick so that's all the ingredients from photoshop 2021 let me know which one was your favorite feature in the comments thank you so much for watching this video i will see you in my next one till then stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating

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Length: 21min 31sec (1291 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020