4 Levels of Background Blur in Photoshop – Beginner to Pro

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“4 levels of Background Blur in Photoshop, from beginner to expert. Colin Smith shows 4 ways to blur the background of a photo in Photoshop in this Photoshop tutorial, from beginner to advanced. Do you think levels 2 and 3 should be switched?
Written steps and the photo I used here.“

00:00 Intro
00:34 Level 1 Beginner
01:43 Level 2 Intermediate
05:52 Level 3 Advanced
07:20 Level 4 Pro

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Remove Or Transfer Reflections With Photoshop’s New AI Powered Tool

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“Photoshop just introduced a powerful new AI feature that lets you remove reflections from your photos! You can also extract the reflection and add it to a new image! In this video, I’ll walk you through how to:

  • Access the Remove Reflections feature
  • Use the Reflection Feature for best results
  • Clean up leftover reflections using Photoshop layers
  • Extract a realistic reflection from your photo and add it to a new image for creative compositing

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This tool opens up exciting possibilities, whether you’re retouching or looking to add believable reflections to your edits!”

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New Adobe Lightroom & Camera Raw AI Auto Landscape Masks

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Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use Lightroom Classic’s new Select Landscape masking tools to automatically select different regions in photographs, including sky, mountains, water, architecture, vegetation, natural ground, and artificial ground.

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Colin Smith shows you how to use the new masks in Lightroom / Camera Raw with tips and tricks to help you get better results faster.

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Top New Features In Photoshop 2025

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Colin Smith details his 7 favorite new features in Photoshop 2025.

00:00 Intro
00:18 Landscape Selection
02:46 Reflection removal Improvements
04:00 Adjust Colors
05:25 Advanced Adjust Colors
07:38 Select details
09:23 Improved Object selection
10:52 AI Remove tool improvements
11:53 New Actions Panel

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New Photoshop Auto Masks … the part no one is talking about

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See the improvements to AI auto masks in Photoshop work. Colin Smith compares old and new selections.

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Photoshop Solved Impossible Selections! (One-Click)

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“In this video, we’ll explore how this new Selection and Masking technology makes it effortless to select complex objects like hair, fur, bicycle spokes, nets, and more. We’ll compare it to the old version, discuss the improvements, and see how the new Select Subject (Cloud) and Remove Background features handle selections that were impossible before! We’ll also go over the pros, cons, and potential concerns with this feature and test it across various subjects on both flat and busy backgrounds.”

00:00 Intro – Select Subject
01:30 How to Get This Feature?
02:06 Complex Object – Example 1
03:56 Complex Object – Example 2
05:24 Selecting Hair
07:14 Select Subject – Device vs Cloud
08:53 Concerns – Will Adobe Charge Extra For This?

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Single-image Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution Technical Preview in Adobe Camera Raw

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“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates the new non-destructive, re-editable, single-image Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution technical preview in Adobe Camera Raw!”

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How To Find The Missing Tools In Adobe Camera RAW

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How to make all the tool in ACR Adobe Camera RAW available. Where is the missing crop tool? Colin Smith shows launching ACR from Photoshop with full feature set.

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