Thank you so much. I believe you are one of the top Photoshop UA-cam teachers. I really love your content. My fav is definitely the remove distractions and the generative workspace.
I have been trying to avoid using photoshop but have always loved your tutorials, you explain everything so well. Some of the improvements on photoshop are amazing, I think I need to go back to the beginning as I want to start being a bit more creative with my photography. Thank you for the inspirational tutorials
Brilliant, short overview. Love the sensible idea of fast and slow views. Looking forward to the in-depth follow-ups - always good. I'm sure there will be masses of uses (not yet thought of) with the last section on generative workspace and really looking forward to some good in depth pointers from you. Thanks Colin!
I am so happy we have you around with all them nice turorials, that weay we can be sure to get notifyed when som new exiting features comes to photoshop. I love it all. I can see tonnes of possibilities in this. You just rule the show to wild. Keep it up Colin!
Thank you so much. It has been bugging me why it has been editing in Photoshop Beta. I now have it fixed, thanks to you. Lots of other helpful info as always!!!
Great first look at this years new features Colin. Do you know if Adobe have fixed the problem where you try to `remove people` if they are near a sign or other text/lettering, because in Beta if you removed people and there was text or signs around the people you were trying to remove, it seemed to `mash` that part of the photo up?
New features are ok, but old features are not working well at all, like spot healing etc. It’s all AI, not restoration, phasing out artist knowledge and talent. :(
Hi Colin Thank you very much for this video tutorial on the new features of Adobe Photoshop. You really do wonderful tutorials. Pat Hogarty from El Dorado Hills California.
thanks Colin 👍 if your ever in contact with the big wigs at Adobe, can you plead with them to put HSL readout in the the histogram box! Ive been asking for years, and could be done so easily... would make correcting for skin tones so easy, as you only need to hit one number, kinda like how Davinci has a skin tone line in the scopes.
Do the generative fill features still have the restriction to low resolution, which makes them pretty pointless for photographers, or do they now generate at the resolution of the image being edited?
Good presentation but I wish all you tube experts would preface these updates with a mention of whether there are any non-AI/generative fill updates. Some photographers like myself don’t care a whit about generative fill.
thank you for this video, I want to try your first part with a pathway later. I wanted to ask you if there is a way to just enhance a bird that is in a river. I love the river as it is, but I need to enhance and sharpen just the bird (a blue Heron). I tried AI Denoise and it dulled the colors and the bird doesn't look as detailed because it appears to have smoothed out the feather features and colors. Jane
i'd like to see a comprehensive video on creating text on a path. i've watched a lot of videos on how to do this and when I try the text jumps all over the place and sometimes disappears completely. I do get the idea of a start and end point markers but when I try to replicate the video I don't get the same results.
Great info and talent here! Quick question, does anyone know if the Ai tools can repeat a specific thing or character over and over again? Example: If I had a story about an old man holding a balloon, am I able to save and recreate the same old man holding a sandwich instead? Or driving a car? Liked and Subscribed!! Much appreciated, Mr. Smith!!
Thanks, as always for your tutorials. I have a question, do I need to use generative expand in Beta? It doesn’t seem to work in the current PS. Also I’m using it on an AI image, would that make a difference? Thanks in advance for any help.
Thank you, Colin. I would love to update but first I would like to be sure that Adobe has fixed the mixer brush problem that was caused by the previous two updates. These updates made the mixer brush basically unusable for artists that rely on it for their work. Do you know if the mixer brush is back to the way it worked in version 25.9.1? I have had to waste time installing and uninstalling because of this issue.
Nice insight into the new features - All those worried about AI and the power of it, we can sleep another night because it's still mostly terrible! No rock drummer should be worried any time soon
As a dedicated photographer, I feel Photoshop’s recent AI advancements are pushing the boundaries a bit too far. It’s beginning to make photographers complacent, tempting them to rely on post-processing rather than perfecting the shot itself. Plus, this push towards digital artistry risks blending photography with digital art, which can affect the value and authenticity that we, as professionals, strive to offer our clients. In the end, paying customers may become more skeptical of what they’re actually purchasing. When things get pushed to extremes like this, we risk diluting the art of capturing the moment authentically.
I have had Gen Fill do a decent job of this by telling it to 'Remove reflections' in the prompt. It was one of those, I don't know if it will work, but it is worth a try situations.
I shoot lots of headshots. Can any/many of these features help me edit one photo for many things like blemishes, acne, cleaning stray hair, teeth, eyes, overall skin tones, body blemishes, etc. and batch to all the other photos from the same shoot?
(sorry for my bad english) I would find it better, when the variable Variations of the color (for example) would give us the the same Picture, with only different color T-Shirts.
how to change number of variations in generative fill in ps 2025? I only have one option and not the 3. I know I can resubmit but would prefer to see more than one at a time. Thanks
Hi. Just did the update. There seems to be a bug? in the new remove tool using AI on or auto AI. Selecting the section to remove results in an error message (send a report) and PS closes down. This happens with a raw file or dng. It works fine with AI off. After testing on a number of files it appears to be an intermittent issue...sometimes it works other times not. In some cases it produces a grey opaque blotch where the section to be removes is. Using win 10 PC...plenty of ram and latest Nvidia drivers. Thoughts?
Great video but sadly nothing I would love to see in Photoshop 2025, too many remove features and AI generative stuff but very little updates to things I use in Photoshop. Truly thought Parametric filters would make it into the full release by now, been in the public beta since whenever
@@photoshopcafe Better repeat features such as in Affinity Photo, better pattern creation (again, something in Affinity), improvements to the brushes, effects more like AE tools, more type features would be great, would love to see the neural filters actually finished off as many have been in the waiting for ages, 3D to be back within Photoshop and so much more. AI features really leave me cold, perhaps it is just me. And as mentioned, parametric filters, seem to be in a holding state for ages and ages and I can't say I have seen any changes to them since I first used them
Use ai as a tool. Ai doesn’t replace creativity, it just speeds up workflow so if a creative designer finds himself less creative because of ai, ai is not the problem in that equation.
Hey Colin. Colin here. I'm really struggling trying to generate realistic shadows via AI to an image I want to place into another, say a frog to be put on the side of a swimming pool. How do I reliably generate shadows for odd shapes?
I have a question about new PS. As I am casual user but I have a good knowledge of an old version (PS7) would I find the new version totally foreign and a huge learning curve?
what should we do for PS 2024 version? the old LUTS and actions are located in previous versions of PS not in the PS 2025 folders. and what happen if we delete the PS 2024, will our old actions and luts be gone ?
In comparison with eg. ComfyUI+Flux, Ai generated Images in PS are useless. And function: "remove hair from face" will be more usefull then "remove wires". I remember times when new version of PS used to bring us really usefull new features.
@@photoshopcafe I think your videos are great, and any tips and tricks directly transfer to the so many other software packs that do it so much better then adobe. And, no slaveware fees. :)
PS updates used to be more exciting, now is just tools related to firefly/generative AI, which help in some stuff, but it's the kind of tool that I use only 1% compared to other tools on PS. Sincerely, I wish adobe could spend a whole year just fixing bugs on PS without adding any new feature, versions after 25.0.0 are horrible, last week I just tried the latest version of the 25.x.x and it was impossible to use, too many bugs, had to downgrade back to 25.0.0
It keeps telling me that the upgrade failed since yesterday. Any idea what I should do?! Do I need to delete the previous version? I opted for that a couple of times but it made no difference. Thanks.
This is a personal opinion borne out of frustration. Adobe has shot themselves in the foot and it appears I am not alone with many are moving away to alternate platforms with the same functionality. I used and upgraded Adobe Creative Suite releases for years up the CS6 and was willing to buy AND own the software when an upgrade included something that I would provide a step improvement. A hard disk failure and the attempt to restore my 'existing' Adobe Suite was a major issue with Adobe prevented me do so from their site. Supporting Adobe's corporate strategy to milk their users to increase their bottom line shows a complete disrespect for their customers. I believe they are willing to take the risk by expecting they have locked in enough people into their workflow framework. They may need to think again as the competition out there is increasing at a rapid pace, and it is not tied into the Adobe black hole.
Sorry if someone has already asked about this, but I don't get the option to upload a reference picture in the toolbar, have deleted and installed Photoshop have the latest 26.0.0 and still not there, anybody else
Maybe watch your audio more. I love your presentations and I often listen with my Bose buds in my ears and everytime you pound your keyboard it's like thunder. My buds are EQed properly but it's your mic placement that causes the distraction.
I like seeing new features and improvements in Photoshop, but when I went to my computer to initiate the update, my first thought was "I wonder what's broken this time?" Past "favorites" include horrible performance when moving a fixed-size rectangular selection with an existing selection, stair-step effects when doing refine selection, minute-long stall followed by out-of-memory error with the remove tool (sdtill present), etc., etc, not to mention the infamous "Photoshop encountered an error"-type error that appears to be happen more often now that than what I was used to CS6
Auto selections for things like remove background and remove distractions are sub-par. Combine that with frankly woeful AI gen when stacked up alongside the big boys of text-to-image and the 2025 update is frankly a hot mess right now.
![Affinity Designer 2: Tutorial for Beginners [2024]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8y5CDmJSt8g/mqdefault.jpg)
Colin, your reviews and tutorials are always miles ahead of other UA-cam posts. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Thanks so much
Thank you so much. I believe you are one of the top Photoshop UA-cam teachers. I really love your content. My fav is definitely the remove distractions and the generative workspace.
Wow, thank you!
I have been trying to avoid using photoshop but have always loved your tutorials, you explain everything so well. Some of the improvements on photoshop are amazing, I think I need to go back to the beginning as I want to start being a bit more creative with my photography. Thank you for the inspirational tutorials
Brilliant, short overview. Love the sensible idea of fast and slow views. Looking forward to the in-depth follow-ups - always good. I'm sure there will be masses of uses (not yet thought of) with the last section on generative workspace and really looking forward to some good in depth pointers from you. Thanks Colin!
Well, you convinced me. Concise and to the point. Exactly how I like 'em. A new subscriber.
Thanks for the sub!
Thank you, Colin, for the excellent and comprehensive overview of these new tools. It was truly insightful and much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
I am so happy we have you around with all them nice turorials, that weay we can be sure to get notifyed when som new exiting features comes to photoshop. I love it all. I can see tonnes of possibilities in this. You just rule the show to wild. Keep it up Colin!
Thank you so much Colin! I always enjoy your video tutorials and learn from them! Good luck!
thanks!
Wow, I may be able to become a digital artist after all! Thanks for the informative tutorial.
Thanks Colin. That was an excellent overiew of these new tools.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, look forward to the in depth tutorials.
Just adding my thanks - as always.
Thank you too!
Great tutorial and features thank you looking forward to seeing the new tutorials
Could you do a tutorial on how to use the multiple feature to create a background for a person that I've already photographed.
Thank you so much. It has been bugging me why it has been editing in Photoshop Beta. I now have it fixed, thanks to you. Lots of other helpful info as always!!!
Thanks Colin. Great run through new goodies in Adobeland.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks Colin. Great video as always.
Great first look at this years new features Colin. Do you know if Adobe have fixed the problem where you try to `remove people` if they are near a sign or other text/lettering, because in Beta if you removed people and there was text or signs around the people you were trying to remove, it seemed to `mash` that part of the photo up?
Great as always!
Thank you for your objectivity. Success my friend!
Thank you! You too!
Great features! Thanks for showing them!
You bet!
As always, great video! And great new features.❤
Thanks so much!
@@photoshopcafe I have been watching your films for a long time and I have learned a lot from you. Thank you very much for that.
Great, Thanks
Great, fast video. Looking forward to the in-depth tutorials
Love some new features to play with
Fun!
New features are ok, but old features are not working well at all, like spot healing etc. It’s all AI, not restoration, phasing out artist knowledge and talent. :(
Love the remove tool and new version of Generative AI.
Super, clear overview ! thx
id love to see more actions and how to create them. :)
Yes !!
Noted
Hi Colin
Thank you very much for this video tutorial on the new features of Adobe Photoshop. You really do wonderful tutorials. Pat Hogarty from El Dorado Hills California.
Thanks Pat
Great video, thank you !
Very interesting! Thanks for the heads up.
You bet!
Thanks sir ❤❤
Very cool, Colin. Thank you.
thanks Colin 👍
if your ever in contact with the big wigs at Adobe, can you plead with them to put HSL readout in the the histogram box! Ive been asking for years, and could be done so easily... would make correcting for skin tones so easy, as you only need to hit one number, kinda like how Davinci has a skin tone line in the scopes.
Great idea
Thank you!
Very good, thank you.
Another nice overview!
Thanks Laurie! I hope you are well
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much sir
Most welcome
firefly 3 is in beta to?
Wonderful thank you...
Do the generative fill features still have the restriction to low resolution, which makes them pretty pointless for photographers, or do they now generate at the resolution of the image being edited?
you can upscale them in the variations
Good presentation but I wish all you tube experts would preface these updates with a mention of whether there are any non-AI/generative fill updates. Some photographers like myself don’t care a whit about generative fill.
I just share the new features. I don’t decide what they are. I can’t preannounce everyone’s personal preferences. No offense meant.
Photoshop is turning into a phone app.
thank you for this video, I want to try your first part with a pathway later. I wanted to ask you if there is a way to just enhance a bird that is in a river. I love the river as it is, but I need to enhance and sharpen just the bird (a blue Heron). I tried AI Denoise and it dulled the colors and the bird doesn't look as detailed because it appears to have smoothed out the feather features and colors.
Jane
is there a way to copy mask in camera raw for use in the layers panel in Photoshop ?
Thanks again for a great video. OH! Colin do you know if you can make an ICON in the new Phoyoshop?
Thank you for that. What about the resolution of those AI generatives? is it still low-res?
yes, it is
i'd like to see a comprehensive video on creating text on a path. i've watched a lot of videos on how to do this and when I try the text jumps all over the place and sometimes disappears completely. I do get the idea of a start and end point markers but when I try to replicate the video I don't get the same results.
Great!
This is a huge field for the reporting of municipal services. They will generate the results of work that has not been carried out :)
lol!😂
I just update to the 2025 version but in the Edit menu there's no Generative workspace... 🤔 the other options are there, but not that one
Generative workspace is in the beta version
Thank you so much for another great vídeo! One question... I always use the Beta version, is there any advantage to using the Non-Beta version??? TIA
Stability
Thanks sir
Great info and talent here! Quick question, does anyone know if the Ai tools can repeat a specific thing or character over and over again? Example: If I had a story about an old man holding a balloon, am I able to save and recreate the same old man holding a sandwich instead? Or driving a car? Liked and Subscribed!! Much appreciated, Mr. Smith!!
For me the best feature is OCIO colour support. Maybe you could do a video on that one pls ?
Thanks, as always for your tutorials. I have a question, do I need to use generative expand in Beta? It doesn’t seem to work in the current PS. Also I’m using it on an AI image, would that make a difference? Thanks in advance for any help.
It should work on 2025 update
@@photoshopcafe thank you. I need more patience🌟
Is generative AI still low-resolution results? I think it was limited to 1024 x 1024?
How would the way to use your own picture, or generate ascene based in model created by yourself?
its good work good
Thank you, Colin. I would love to update but first I would like to be sure that Adobe has fixed the mixer brush problem that was caused by the previous two updates. These updates made the mixer brush basically unusable for artists that rely on it for their work. Do you know if the mixer brush is back to the way it worked in version 25.9.1? I have had to waste time installing and uninstalling because of this issue.
You can keep the old version when you update. If you are using a Mac, I believe you can even have them both open at the same time.
What’s the specific change?
Nice insight into the new features - All those worried about AI and the power of it, we can sleep another night because it's still mostly terrible! No rock drummer should be worried any time soon
Hi Colin, have you done a video about the Text to Image feature? And, with Photoshop 2025, is there any reason to keep Photoshop Beta 26.1?
As a dedicated photographer, I feel Photoshop’s recent AI advancements are pushing the boundaries a bit too far. It’s beginning to make photographers complacent, tempting them to rely on post-processing rather than perfecting the shot itself. Plus, this push towards digital artistry risks blending photography with digital art, which can affect the value and authenticity that we, as professionals, strive to offer our clients. In the end, paying customers may become more skeptical of what they’re actually purchasing. When things get pushed to extremes like this, we risk diluting the art of capturing the moment authentically.
What about removing reflections?I remember you once showed this feature. Will it be coming soon to beta?
I have had Gen Fill do a decent job of this by telling it to 'Remove reflections' in the prompt. It was one of those, I don't know if it will work, but it is worth a try situations.
It was one of the Adobe Sneaks at last year's MAX. But they never rolled it out. Their prototype demo was great! Wish they'd developed it...
I’d love to see that come! With sneaks there is no guarantee or timeline.
I shoot lots of headshots. Can any/many of these features help me edit one photo for many things like blemishes, acne, cleaning stray hair, teeth, eyes, overall skin tones, body blemishes, etc. and batch to all the other photos from the same shoot?
There are Camera Raw updates too..
Yup! Video coming..
(sorry for my bad english) I would find it better, when the variable Variations of the color (for example) would give us the the same Picture, with only different color T-Shirts.
Nice idea. But you can easily change the color, I have lots of tutorials on that.
Nice
Thanks
How do Clone eye from another image file and paste in the current file?
Thank you so much, please suggest me how to download original photoshop 2025
how to change number of variations in generative fill in ps 2025? I only have one option and not the 3. I know I can resubmit but would prefer to see more than one at a time. Thanks
Well, i didn't find the find distractions and even Mode Generate AI off/on at the task bar. Could you help me, please? Tks!
Hi. Just did the update. There seems to be a bug? in the new remove tool using AI on or auto AI. Selecting the section to remove results in an error message (send a report) and PS closes down. This happens with a raw file or dng. It works fine with AI off. After testing on a number of files it appears to be an intermittent issue...sometimes it works other times not. In some cases it produces a grey opaque blotch where the section to be removes is. Using win 10 PC...plenty of ram and latest Nvidia drivers. Thoughts?
Great video but sadly nothing I would love to see in Photoshop 2025, too many remove features and AI generative stuff but very little updates to things I use in Photoshop. Truly thought Parametric filters would make it into the full release by now, been in the public beta since whenever
What other features would like to see?
@@photoshopcafe Better repeat features such as in Affinity Photo, better pattern creation (again, something in Affinity), improvements to the brushes, effects more like AE tools, more type features would be great, would love to see the neural filters actually finished off as many have been in the waiting for ages, 3D to be back within Photoshop and so much more. AI features really leave me cold, perhaps it is just me. And as mentioned, parametric filters, seem to be in a holding state for ages and ages and I can't say I have seen any changes to them since I first used them
@@Graphicxtras1thanks for sharing.
If ai is doing everything, then what do we have to do as graphic designers? 🤔
Use ai as a tool. Ai doesn’t replace creativity, it just speeds up workflow so if a creative designer finds himself less creative because of ai, ai is not the problem in that equation.
Hey Colin. Colin here. I'm really struggling trying to generate realistic shadows via AI to an image I want to place into another, say a frog to be put on the side of a swimming pool. How do I reliably generate shadows for odd shapes?
I have tuts on making shadows. Ai shads can be unpredictable
Also make sure your selection leaves room for the shadow
I have a question about new PS. As I am casual user but I have a good knowledge of an old version (PS7) would I find the new version totally foreign and a huge learning curve?
What if I already have a PNG with a transparent background and would like to use the generate background feature. How do I do that? Thanks!
what should we do for PS 2024 version? the old LUTS and actions are located in previous versions of PS not in the PS 2025 folders. and what happen if we delete the PS 2024, will our old actions and luts be gone ?
Choose to keep old version and don’t remove it till everything is migrated over
Is Generative AI Off (in Remove Distractions) the same as Content Aware Fill (& no credits debited)? Or, does it use a diff process?
In comparison with eg. ComfyUI+Flux, Ai generated Images in PS are useless.
And function: "remove hair from face" will be more usefull then "remove wires".
I remember times when new version of PS used to bring us really usefull new features.
I’m very happy with my affinity. These new tools adobe adds are for newbies with no skills
A bit harsh but Adobe seem to be totally all in with AI generative stuff, nothing I have any interest in though
But here you are, still hanging out with Adobe folks. ;)
@@photoshopcafe I think your videos are great, and any tips and tricks directly transfer to the so many other software packs that do it so much better then adobe. And, no slaveware fees. :)
@@nonyabuiz2023thanks for the kind words.
PS updates used to be more exciting, now is just tools related to firefly/generative AI, which help in some stuff, but it's the kind of tool that I use only 1% compared to other tools on PS. Sincerely, I wish adobe could spend a whole year just fixing bugs on PS without adding any new feature, versions after 25.0.0 are horrible, last week I just tried the latest version of the 25.x.x and it was impossible to use, too many bugs, had to downgrade back to 25.0.0
My opinion as well ... a bit of missed opportunity with this 2025 release, not sure why I am sticking with Adobe at this point
It keeps telling me that the upgrade failed since yesterday. Any idea what I should do?!
Do I need to delete the previous version? I opted for that a couple of times but it made no difference. Thanks.
This is a personal opinion borne out of frustration.
Adobe has shot themselves in the foot and it appears I am not alone with many are moving away to alternate platforms with the same functionality. I used and upgraded Adobe Creative Suite releases for years up the CS6 and was willing to buy AND own the software when an upgrade included something that I would provide a step improvement. A hard disk failure and the attempt to restore my 'existing' Adobe Suite was a major issue with Adobe prevented me do so from their site.
Supporting Adobe's corporate strategy to milk their users to increase their bottom line shows a complete disrespect for their customers. I believe they are willing to take the risk by expecting they have locked in enough people into their workflow framework.
They may need to think again as the competition out there is increasing at a rapid pace, and it is not tied into the Adobe black hole.
exactly right.
So this is basically Photoshop AI. Who needs a camera anymore!
Anybody who wants a photo of a real person, object or location?
I don't think Fast mode has anything to do with the quality of the generations, it should only affect the resolution of them.
Sorry if someone has already asked about this, but I don't get the option to upload a reference picture in the toolbar, have deleted and installed Photoshop have the latest 26.0.0 and still not there, anybody else
With all those variations, fast and slow how many credits does this cost me?
Maybe watch your audio more. I love your presentations and I often listen with my Bose buds in my ears and everytime you pound your keyboard it's like thunder. My buds are EQed properly but it's your mic placement that causes the distraction.
Isn't firefly 3 supposed to support double that 1024x 1024 GEn Fill limit?
I have noticed that at least with the now former version, the AI still does not generate hands and feet well (distorted).
I freaking love photoshop, regardless some people whine a lot
This!
Can it auto remove birds?
For those who don't need/use AI much, not much of an update then. Nice clear video though !
What about Photoshop Elements 2025? I'm looking for the standalone version, not "hooked" to the Web.
I don't create content for Elements.
I like seeing new features and improvements in Photoshop, but when I went to my computer to initiate the update, my first thought was "I wonder what's broken this time?" Past "favorites" include horrible performance when moving a fixed-size rectangular selection with an existing selection, stair-step effects when doing refine selection, minute-long stall followed by out-of-memory error with the remove tool (sdtill present), etc., etc, not to mention the infamous "Photoshop encountered an error"-type error that appears to be happen more often now that than what I was used to CS6
so everything new is ai?
how we can downlaod phtoshop for free
does nor work on old computers from this version
Auto selections for things like remove background and remove distractions are sub-par. Combine that with frankly woeful AI gen when stacked up alongside the big boys of text-to-image and the 2025 update is frankly a hot mess right now.