You can get the latest Photoshop version here. To follow along, you'll want to be using Photoshop 2020 or later. And we'll compare the results from CC 2020 with the previous version of Photoshop to see how much better the latest version of Select Subject really is. So along with learning how to use the command, we'll also look at a few examples of Select Subject in action. And as we'll see, it works with just a single click! Of course, as with any automatic selection tool, the results will vary depending on your image. Select Subject automatically finds the main subject in your image and selects it. And in CC 2020, Select Subject has been greatly improved. In CC 2018, Adobe brought that same technology over to Photoshop as a brand new selection command known as Select Subject. Adobe Sensei powers the search engine in Adobe Stock that lets us quickly find images of people, animals or other subjects. Everything was just pixels.īut that changed back in Photoshop CC 2018 thanks to some impressive artificial intelligence known as Adobe Sensei, Adobe's machine learning technology. It had no idea that there was a person, an animal, a tree, or any other type of object in the photo.
Yet for all its power, Photoshop couldn't see the bigger picture. It knew that different pixels were different colors, and that some were brighter or darker than others. Not long ago, Photoshop looked at images as nothing more than a bunch of pixels.