If you have a lot of old family photos that have been tarnished by the ravages of time, it probably sounds like an ideal solution to fix them in Photoshop. But while it is doable, the process is tedious and difficult. That is until Photoshop’s new neural filter arrives that does the job with a single click.
Photoshop showed the new tool in a video on YouTube, and at first glance it looks quite powerful. On the first pass, with no additional options, a single click repaired tears, cracks, and blur in an old worn-out photo. But that’s not the full scope of what Photoshop can do.
With just a few extra options, Photoshop completed missing parts of the photo, corrected blemishes, and even colored an old black-and-white image — still all with just one click. In theory, you can do all of this right now in Photoshop — coloring, content-aware padding, and patchwork tools are already part of the program. But it’s up to you to use them manually to recover old photos, which can take time and tedious effort.
The beauty of the new neural filter is that it does all that work for you with just one click. You need a relatively recent computer to use the tool, something with at least Windows 10 or macOS 10.15. And of course, the more powerful your computer is, the faster the filter is likely to work. But those aren’t high standards for anyone who already lives in Photoshop.
Unfortunately, we don’t know when Adobe plans to release the new tool: the company will just say it’s coming “soon”. The sooner, the better, we say.
Source: Adobe
