Keeping expectations in check, the results are remarkable-colors aren’t vibrant or photo-realistic but in our tests, the software accurately colorized a red T-shirt and brown building without knowing those were correct, not to mention adding different shades to blue jeans worn by multiple subjects. There are four variations to choose from in automatic mode, or you can switch to manual for additional control. Where colorization required painstaking, time-intensive labor, Colorize Photo requires little more than a single mouse click. Powered by Adobe Sensei AI, Colorize Photo intelligently colorizes even various shades of blue jeans in one click. It’s the modern equivalent of colorization, which transformed vintage Hollywood movies like It’s A Wonderful Life to make catalog titles more palatable for a new audience during the 1980s home video boom. One unique new feature to really show off the power of Adobe Sensei is Colorize Photo, which does an amazing job of converting black-and-white photos to color. This works effortlessly, although the patterns-hearts, balloons, fireworks, butterflies and the like-tend to be a little on the frilly side for our tastes. This guided edit walks users step-by-step through the entire process with a Protect Subject option (enabled by default) that restricts Pattern Brush to the background only, rather than apply it to subjects in the foreground. Pattern paintingĪutomatic selection also factors heavily into Pattern Brush, another new Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 tool which allows novice shutterbugs to spice up images by painting with one of 15 decorative brushes. Use the Pattern Brush option to decorate photos without affecting foreground subjects. Auto selection also makes possible two of the four new Auto Creation tools to add faux depth of field or convert backgrounds to black-and-white, which helps make subjects in the foreground stand out. The results aren’t always perfect and highly dependent upon lighting, background, and other factors, but PE2020 comes awfully close even on challenging photos, at least reducing the amount of time required to make necessary adjustments.

What once required tediously drawing around the edge of a subject or repeatedly mashing Quick Selection or Magic Wand tools has now been (mostly) reduced to a single mouse click thanks to the Select > Subject menu option. This comes in handy for replacing backgrounds or extracting objects from one photo to composite into another. One such feature allows users to automatically select subjects in an image.

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