When it comes to your images, how often do you think about the colors? Do you know what effects they could create or how to balance them together? Understanding color science can play a bigger role in your images than you thought.
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Microsoft Surface Hub 2S is a $22,000 85-Inch Touchscreen That Runs Photoshop
If you have deep pockets and have been dying to edit your high-res photos on a ginormous touchscreen, you may want to take a look at the 85-inch Microsoft Surface Hub 2S, which will begin shipping in January 2021. It’s a $22,000 display that can run Adobe Photoshop.
Microsoft first unveiled the Surface Hub 2S in April of last year before revealing more details this week.
The original Surface Hub unveiled in 2015 was extremely limited in what it could run — it was essentially an ultra-expensive whiteboard and videoconferencing solution.
What’s neat about the new Surface Hub 2S is that it will run Windows 10 Pro, allowing you to have the full Windows desktop experience on the giant display.
What this means is that all the apps you use to work with photos on Windows 10 will be supported — software like Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP, Capture One Pro, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW, Affinity Photo, etc.
The Surface Hub 2S supports multiple modes of input, from using the Surface Hub 2 Pen to touch to a standard mouse/keyboard combo.
“The Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise configuration on Surface Hub 2S gives people a truly personalized Windows experience on a brilliant large screen with all of the familiar features in Windows they enjoy on their PC, like the taskbar, Start menu and the window management customization,” Microsoft says. “Also included are features like browser favorites, the ability to run any app like they would on their PC, and task view that can be synched across other PCs for continuity no matter the device people are working on.”
Compared to the original Surface Hub, the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S features bezels has 45% smaller bezels and is 20% thinner and 30% lighter.
The 85-inch 16:9 IPS LCD display measures 44.5×62.8×3.4 inches (1130x1595x85.6mm), weighs 185 pounds (84kg), and has a resolution of 3840×2160. With a PixelSense Display, it features 10-bit color, anti-glare viewing, and support for 20 simultaneous touch points.
Inside the computer is a quad-core 8th Generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and a 128GB SSD. Graphics are powered by Intel UHD Graphics 620.
While photographers can now take advantage of the new Windows 10 Pro support, the Surface Hub 2S is designed for team collaboration in today’s hybrid physical/digital workspaces, so you’ll still find the same whiteboard and videoconferencing capabilities offered by the display’s predecessor.
Microsoft has opened up pre-sale reservations in the US, but currently only to commercial customers. It’ll be offered to additional markets in the coming months, and it should be available to customers around January 2021.
Adobe Demonstrates Powerful New Sky Replacement Feature Coming to Photoshop
One of the most well-known features of the new AI-processing technologies in various post-processing programs is automated sky replacement, which takes a lot of the time and effort out of what is traditionally a rather tedious task. Adobe is the latest to offer their own version of the technology, as demonstrated in this new video.
This is the Sky Replacement Feature Coming to Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop will soon be getting a powerful Sky Replacement feature that lets you instantly swap skies in and out of your photos with a click. Here’s a 3-minute video that offers a sneak peek at the AI-powered system.
The Sky Replacement feature will be found under the Edit menu.
It’ll bring up options for choosing a sky, shifting or fading the edge, making adjustments to the sky or foreground, and selecting what it should output to.
There’s a selection of preset skies you can choose from, but you can also choose your own sky photo from your computer. The sky photos can be grouped into convenient collections.
Sky Replacement automatically distinguishes between the foreground and sky of your photos. Clicking any sky automatically instantly replaces the current one. In just moments, your photo can take on drastically different looks:
“Adobe Sensei-powered models do the heavy lifting of masking and blending,” Adobe product manager Meredith Stotzner says in the video.
The AI also uses algorithms to “harmonize the foreground of your image with the sky.” What this means is that as you change the sky, Photoshop will automatically adjust the colors and lighting of the foreground to match the sky, making the photo more believable.
If you only want a portion of a sky photo to be used in your shot, you can resize the sky with a Scale slider and then click and drag it around in your photo. And as you scale or reposition the sky, the look of the foreground will continually be updated to match it.
“What’s the most powerful part of this feature? The full force of Photoshop that’s preserved with every layer, mask, and non-destructive adjustment,” Stotzner says.
Adobe first teased a SkyReplace feature back at Adobe MAX 2016, but Skylum beat Adobe to the punch by releasing its own AI-powered automatic sky replacement in Luminar 4 back in July 2019.
If you’re a Photoshop user who has been waiting patiently for the technology to be released, the good news is that your wait will be coming to an end very shortly. Adobe says it will be sharing more about this feature at the virtual Adobe MAX 2020 conference that’ll be held October 20-22.
How to Add Textures and Overlays to an Image Using Photoshop
Beyond technical applications like retouching, Photoshop is a fantastic place to really explore your creativity by pushing your edits further. Using textures and overlays is one way to enhance your edits, and this great video tutorial will show you how it is done.
A Beginner’s Guide to Layers in Photoshop
Photoshop is a very complex tool full of a wide variety of powerful features, but perhaps no feature is more crucial to editing images than layers. If you are new to Photoshop, this great video tutorial will show you how layers work in just a few minutes.
Easy Sky Replacement in Photoshop and Luminar: Which Is Easier?
One of the nice options in Luminar is Sky Replacement. It is a very effective way of replacing a boring sky for a more interesting one. I have been using it for my real estate photography. But how much easier is it compared to Photoshop?
How to Retouch a Double Chin Using Photoshop
A double chin is one of the most common cosmetic issues a client is likely to want you to correct, but once you understand how to retouch it, it is not particularly difficult to do. This great video tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop to retouch a double chin.
Learn How This Golden Hour Portrait Was Shot and Edited
Golden hour portraits are the favorite of many photographers who love the combination of soft, flattering, and warm light with a dramatic sky as a backdrop, and they tend to be a favorite of many clients as well. This awesome video tutorial will show you both how to shoot and edit a golden hour portrait.