The Adobe Max in-house exhibition will take place this year from 20. To 22. October virtually – and free of charge. If you are interested, you can register with Adobe. In this context, Adobe presents updates for its professional products.

The autumn update 2020 of the Creative Cloud focuses on functions with artificial intelligence, which should relieve professional users of routine tasks. Adobe combines all tools that are based on machine learning under the name Adobe Sensei. The AI ​​usually runs on a server. The relevant Creative Cloud or mobile app sends data there for analysis.

Sensei already uses Photoshop to crop objects with one click and to fill image areas with content with texture from the environment and for face recognition in the portrait work area. Adobe has significantly expanded these work areas. Artificial intelligence is also finding its way into Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC receive a color grading palette that replaces the Split Toning tool. Lightroom CC uses Sensei to automatically assign keywords to photos.

Photoshop CC A new dialog called “Neural Filter” has been assembled in Photoshop CC tools that Adobe Sensei use to manipulate images. For example, they make people age in portrait photos. With sliders you can adjust the head of hair from full to completely bald and the direction of the hair. Further controls change the expression, for example to surprise, anger or joy. The orientation of the face can also be chosen to a certain extent. Adobe creates a pseudo 3D object of the head that can change direction to optimize the position of portraits.

Smooth the neural filters in Photoshop CC skin and even change the line of sight or facial expression of a portrait.

A new dialog swaps the sky in pictures and adjusts the color mood and lighting conditions. The “Sky Replacement” filter provides various backgrounds. Photoshop CC automatically separates the subject from the background when the tool is called and creates a preview in the main window of the application after clicking on one of the given background photos. The color temperature controller changes the mood of the background image if required. Even independently of this tool, the Neural Filters can transfer color moods and image styles from other photos to an image.

The Photoshop dialog Sky Replacement fits automatically adjusts the light and color mood to the replaced sky.

Further filters are in progress, which so far only have beta status. This includes functions for scaling, for reducing image noise, for reducing compression artifacts, for retouching dust and scratches and for artistic implementation in drawings or caricatures, for example. An experimental filter colors black and white photos.

In the future, documents saved in the cloud will be versioned so that you can return to earlier processing statuses. In the future, Photoshop’s version history will show the date and time of each saved version.

Premiere Pro CC In the future, the video editing program Premiere Pro will get a text palette with which the program will generate automatic transcriptions based on the soundtrack of a video, which can be used as subtitles. This function is currently still in beta. A dialogue asks the number of speakers and the spoken language. In addition to English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin and up to four speakers are available.

Premiere Pro sends the audio track to an Adobe server for analysis. After transcription, the program creates a caption track that can be edited with the Premiere Pro text tools. This includes options for choosing Adobe fonts, size, position, alignment and zone positioning, for example in the upper left third or center right. In the caption palette, the program shows a transcript with timecodes of the subtitles created.

Artificial intelligence will be created in Premiere Pro in the future automatically subtitles from the audio track.

After Effects CC A core task of After Effects is the tracking of marked objects, for example to make people’s faces unrecognizable in the video. The new tool “Rotobrush 2” uses artificial intelligence to improve object tracking. Obviously, Adobe uses filters here that are also used for the automatic clipping of hair and similar details. You can use the Roto Brush to refine the edge of a mask in the still image, which After Effects then uses to track the entire video. So far, Rotobrush 2 is in beta. A dropdown menu allows you to choose between version 1 and 2.

Rotobrush 2 uses CC in After Effects machine learning to separate motifs from the background cleanly.

Extended 3D functions have already been introduced: Motion designers will in future be able to use After Effects to edit 3D illustrations. A 3D gizmo for camera navigation facilitates their positioning. You can also use it to scale, rotate and position objects.

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