Photoshop 2025

Photoshop's June 2025 Update Just Made Background Removal Actually Good
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Photoshop's June 2025 Update Just Made Background Removal Actually Good

There’s a specific flavor of client nightmare I’ve lived through more times than I’d like to admit. Someone sends over a photo with a person they love, shot in front of a background they hate, and they want that person dropped onto something completely different. Fine. Except the subject has flyaway hair, or wispy strands catching the light, or some other detail that makes a clean cutout feel like defusing a bomb.

Photoshop 2025's Remove Tool Just Got a Serious Upgrade — Here's What Actually Changed
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Photoshop 2025's Remove Tool Just Got a Serious Upgrade — Here's What Actually Changed

There’s a particular kind of freelance pain that comes from spending fifteen minutes cleaning up a busy background with the Clone Stamp tool, only to realize the result looks like a crime scene painted by someone who’s never seen grass before. The Remove Tool changed that for me when it first showed up, but it always had a ceiling. Big objects, complex backgrounds, anything that required more than a light touch — it would choke.

Photoshop's Cloud-Powered Select Subject Is Embarrassingly Good (And I Mean That as a Compliment)
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Photoshop's Cloud-Powered Select Subject Is Embarrassingly Good (And I Mean That as a Compliment)

There’s a specific kind of pain that every Photoshop user knows. You’ve got a photo with a subject, a complicated background, maybe some wispy hair or thin strands poking out in every direction, and you need a clean selection. You run Select Subject, it does its best, and then you spend the next 45 minutes playing whack-a-mole with the background trying to clean up the edges. I’ve billed clients for that time.