I’m pretty sure that Tony or Chelsea can do a similar selection with the quick selection tool in the same time PS calculates what the subject is. On the other hand this will get better and with that save time for sure in the future (as it will find the perfect selection without pulling out all these feathers fromm these poor birds).

I kind of figured it wasn’t going to be perfect. The official Photoshop video they put out about this feature back in November made it look like it was going to be perfect because some sort of skynet-like artificial intelligence was gonna do it for you. I think it’s safe to say Adobe’s AI isn’t ready for world domination yet.

I love that you have photoshop and lightroom on your channel as well. I appreciate that the channel touches so many aspects of the trade and even some things that are sort of just tangent to the art. Just paying attention to the daily uploads has taught me so much, so quickly. Thanks for keeping so much of it free and open!

Looks like I need an update…

Aww Tony! You are supposed to say “No, you look beautiful without any photoshop!” Just playin : )

Not impressed. Is that supposed to be AI doing that?

Looks pretty poor IMHO?

So… It makes the simple things really simple and manages the difficult parts about as well as the magic wand?

I am beginner and you are my mentor.

It’s seems nice after a quick play, not a huge improvement over the existing magic wand/quick selection tools, though.
I’m mostly hoping they’ll finally fix all the Select & Mask crashes. It’s so brutal how often that hangs and crashes. They acknowledged the problems months ago, but three patches later and no actual fix. Without that to reliably refine the selection, I don’t see Subject select making a big impact on my workflow.

1:07 Hey Tony, you might’ve known this already but you can use the “Q” key to quickly view your selections. really handy shortcut. Nice video!!

I havent messed with this yet but one thing I do pretty often with luminosity masks is create throw away layers just for masking. Duplicate the layer and go into the camera raw filter. Push that around a bit to create a really hard contrast (basically make the sky as close to white as possible and lets say the mountain as close to black as possible)… Create the mask from that and drag it only your actual working layer and delete the other layer (I actually usually try to keep things as smart objects though so I can go back to edit the same layer again for the next mask)

I was playing with it yesterday and it does shave a little time off but everything that makes masking difficult still exists.