AI Masking

Photoshop 2025's Updated Select Subject Is Smarter Than You Think - Here's How to Use It
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Photoshop 2025's Updated Select Subject Is Smarter Than You Think - Here's How to Use It

I’ll be honest: selections have been the part of my workflow I’ve complained about longest and improved at slowest. Early in my freelance career I was spending 20-plus minutes hand-painting masks for sky replacements that any sane person would have finished in three. I kept thinking there had to be a better way, and for years “better” just meant slightly less tedious. Then Photoshop’s AI selection tools started actually getting good, and now with the 2025 update they’ve crossed a line I didn’t expect to cross this soon.

AI Snow Masking in Photoshop and Lightroom Just Changed How I Edit Winter Shots
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AI Snow Masking in Photoshop and Lightroom Just Changed How I Edit Winter Shots

Winter landscape photos have always been a mild headache for me. Snow blows out highlights, the sky goes flat, and the trees end up looking like sad gray sticks. I’d usually spend way too long painting manual masks just to bring some texture back into the snow without torching everything else in the frame. Not anymore. Adobe just dropped an update to their AI Landscape masking tool, and it now detects snow as its own separate, editable region.