People can be decidedly awkward, wandering into your photos when you’d really rather they b******d off. In some circumstances, people are simply unavoidable, such as popular tourist locations, and unless you fancy spending the next ten years in HMP Wandsworth for calling in a fake bomb hoax there’s no easy way to get rid of them. That’s about to change.
Although not in the current beta, Adobe has demonstrated a Photoshop feature that allows you to select all the people in an image from a drop-down menu, in the same way you can select a subject. You can them perform a generative remove, where Photoshop vanishes the people and fills in the gaps.
To be clear, Photoshop has offered this “context-aware fill” facility for many years to remove objects, but until now…
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