{"id":74258,"date":"2017-12-08T01:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/photoshop-uses-ai-to-make-selecting-people-less-of-a-hassle"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:26","slug":"photoshop-uses-ai-to-make-selecting-people-less-of-a-hassle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/photoshop-uses-ai-to-make-selecting-people-less-of-a-hassle","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop uses AI to make selecting people less of a hassle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-9qYLr15tU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Masking a human or other subject out of a scene is a pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/19\/adobe-max-cloak-smart-erase-sneak\/\">common trick<\/a> nowadays, but it\u2019s is still arguably one of the hardest and lowest-tech parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/18\/adobe-photoshop-surface-dial\/\">Photoshop<\/a>. Adobe\u2019s about to make that a lot easier, thanks to an upcoming AI-powered feature called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-9qYLr15tU\">Select Subject<\/a>. Using it is pretty much idiot-proof: From the main or \u201cSelect and Mask\u201d workspaces, you just need to click anywhere on the image, and it\u2019ll automatically select the subject or subjects in the image. From there, you\u2019re free to change the background or tweak the subject separately.<\/p>\n<p>The tech is powered by Adobe\u2019s AI platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/04\/07\/adobe-sensei-ai-selfie-edits\/\">Sensei<\/a>. \u201cComplicated details around the subject aren\u2019t an issue, because this feature is using machine learning to recognize the objects,\u201d Adobe Photoshop Product Manager Meredith Payne Stotzner says in the YouTube video (below). During the demo, she uses it select a single person on the street, a group of volleyball players, a couple on the beach and a red panda.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/11\/28\/photoshop-select-subject-masking-tool\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/11\/28\/photoshop-select-subject...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masking a human or other subject out of a scene is a pretty common trick nowadays, but it\u2019s is still arguably one of the hardest and lowest-tech parts of Photoshop. Adobe\u2019s about to make that a lot easier, thanks to an upcoming AI-powered feature called Select Subject. Using it is pretty much idiot-proof: From the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74258\/revisions\/74398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}