Adobe's Neural Filters leverage advanced artificial intelligence to deliver professional-grade retouching and creative enhancements that were previously time-consuming, difficult, or impossible to achieve. This comprehensive course explores these powerful tools and teaches you how to apply them strategically to your photography and image editing work across multiple contexts, specializations, and creative scenarios. Neural Filters represent a fundamental shift in how photographers and designers approach post-production work.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Restore deteriorated photographs by removing scratches and fading with minimal manual effort
- Colorize black and white images automatically and with convincing realism
- Enhance portrait images by adjusting facial expressions, lighting patterns, and emotional tone
- Enlarge images dramatically while preserving fine detail and sharpness in every pixel
- Create shallow depth-of-field effects and atmospheric depth in any image
- Refine skin appearance, minimize blemishes, and enhance facial features naturally
- Apply color grading reminiscent of professional cinematography and film production
Neural Filters excel particularly at solving previously intractable problems. Image enlargement maintains intricate detail that standard scaling methods destroy, a transformative capability for photographers with legacy images that need modern sizing. Atmospheric transformations allow you to fundamentally change the time of day or season, shifting mood and aesthetic entirely. Transform a bright, flat midday scene into dramatic sunset lighting with warm golden tones, or shift a summer landscape into winter conditions with appropriate color temperature and atmospheric adjustments. Photoshop's intelligent algorithms handle computational heavy lifting automatically, freeing your mind to focus on creative decisions rather than tedious technical work.
About the Class:
Photoshop's Neural Filters harness the power of artificial intelligence to achieve professional-level retouching, creative enhancements, and practical edits efficiently. One notable capability of Neural Filters is their ability to remove JPEG artifacts and restore the crispness and clarity of your images, breathing new life into compressed files.
Scaling up an image without sacrificing quality has always been a challenge for digital photographers, but Neural Filters provide a unique solution that allows you to enlarge your images substantially while preserving intricate details and sharpness that matter. Whether you're preparing images for large-format printing or expanding images for web use, this capability changes your options fundamentally.
Neural Filters give you the ability to completely transform the mood and ambiance of your images in ways previously requiring manual adjustment. You can effortlessly change the time of day or season, giving your photographs a fresh and dynamic appearance you never imagined possible. Whether you want to turn a sunny summer day into a chilly winter scene or transfer the essence of a vibrant sunset to an image shot midday, Neural Filters allow you to accomplish these transformations with remarkable ease.
Who this class is for:
- Anyone proficient in Photoshop who appreciates efficiency and wants to tackle difficult imaging challenges with ease
- Photographers and designers who like to explore the creative possibilities to get the most out of their images
- Those who are confused about all the options available in Photoshop's filter menu
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop (Beta) v25.0.0
About Your Instructor:
As a photographer, Ben Willmore has shot in all 50 states and explored over 85 countries. He has been pushing Photoshop and Lightroom Classic to their limits since their beginning. Ben is part of a select group of non-employees that Adobe trusts with pre-release beta versions of their software, so he can have a voice in the future direction of their tools. Having written over a dozen books on digital imaging, which have been translated into 9 languages, Ben's expertise is recognized worldwide. He has contributed over 100 articles to major magazines and was honored with induction into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. As a sought-after speaker, he has taught over 100,000 individuals at events held on all seven continents.
