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Adobe's been really busy putting new features inside of Photoshop

and Photoshop beta right

now let's have a look at the five top new features inside of the current version of Photoshop beta

so there's some big updates happening to Photoshop right now we're in the Photoshop beta

and we're going to look at the five top new features

and the first of those features is the new spectrum interface

so it's supposed to be more high visibility and less clicking so if you look at it,

notice we get some nice kind of rounded corners here.

It's not as boxy looking.

When we roll over the different tools, they just pop open.

So we don't have to click on that little disclosure triangle anymore to see what tools are there.

And this is really great because I don't know about you, but sometimes I get confused with the new selection and removal tools.

And it's a lot easier to find them without clicking around.

You'll also notice that the interface is darker.

Now this is customizable.

If we go up under the beta settings here, we see have the ability here to enable the modern user interface.

If we turn this off, it's going to go back to the old interface.

The other thing we can do though, is even with this interface going, we could choose different colors.

So if you prefer a slightly lighter gray, or you even want to go to the lighter

Photoshop, you can change those up here as well.

Now, one of the options which was off by default was the modern color user interface.

Let's have a look at that.

So we're just going to click OK.

And then what happens is when we go to the color picker,

you'll notice that the recently selected colors or the recently used colors are now available at the bottom,

which makes it nice and easy to recall other colors that we've used.

Now when you click and drag in here, you'll notice it feels just kind of nice and smooth.

So one of the things I'm noticing here is the web safe color option is not here.

And if we turn this option off, go to the old color picker, notice the web safe colors.

It makes it easy to select certain colors because I know I like to use these grays a lot.

Another one I like to use this for is when I'm going into the oranges.

I can pick my corporate colors very easily because those are on the WebSafe.

That just restricts it to 216 WebSafe colors.

So if we go to community .adobe .com, go into the beta here, it says that they've updated 24 panels.

And you can see these are the panels that have been updated, and it's built on Spectrum.

And the thing about beta is we don't know for sure

when things are going to go into the main version of Photoshop and if all features will actually make it.

They could change.

That's why some beta for testing.

Now, one of the things that historically happens is during

Adobe Max, which is their annual conference, which is happening in a couple of weeks.

Historically, Adobe have dropped the full version releases.

So unfortunately, I will not be at Adobe Max this year.

And for those of you who also are not going to be there, I've got something for you.

Sam.

So what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be doing a live stream

and I'm going to share with you an in -depth look at the new

Photoshop features announced at Max.

And if you want to know when I'm doing that, just make sure you join the newsletter.

I'll give you a link and then I'll send out a email to let everyone know

when we're going to do our live Sam.

So here's a little update on what used to be called dynamic layers, which I did a video on recently.

It's now called restyle layer.

So what we're going to do is we're going to go to the taskbar and we're going to choose the partner models.

By the way, GPT image two has been added and I actually generated this image with it.

So what we're going to do though, is we want to maintain a lot of things and just change some things.

So we're going to use Gemini 3 .1, which is not a banana two here.

We're going to do exactly the same scene, but winter and a hundred years later.

So hopefully this might show some degradation and also some snow.

All right.

So let's have a look at a before and after.

And we can see some cars and vehicles there, some power lines.

Oh my God, some cell towers.

That's actually hilarious.

So this is giving us the hundred years later.

So now we have two layers where the positions of things are the same, but things are changing.

So now what we want to do is we go up to the top here and it says generative restyle.

Now this tells us how many credits it's going to use.

This is expensive.

It uses 80 credits.

Let's click on it.

Why does it use so many credits in a create a video layer?

And if you have noticed videos for expensive to use in generative credits, and there's new features in this tool

that i didn't cover in my last video okay here it is

and now there's some new features that i'm going to show you

but first of all let's have a look and we can drag drag this through where we start.

and then we slowly progress until it's fully snowed out.

Now, the point of this is

that we're supposed to be able to find the point in time that we want for our image.

Notice the quality is lower, but here's a nice thing.

When we choose

Capture as Layer, it's going to create that layer, and it's going to create an enhanced version of it,

which is a little bit crisper than that low resolution.

So we can see that before and after.

And I can capture as many layers as I want at this point.

Now, when I last showed this to people, the question everybody was asking was, can I save the video?

And back then, no, you could not.

But now if we choose here and we go up under the options here.

Let's go to the beginning.

And we're just going to export this as a video.

And the nice thing about this is we don't have to wait because the video is already created.

So we don't have to wait for it to render.

And look at this.

There's our little video file.

And so this brings us to our next new feature, which is the ability to do a quick compare.

So if we click on the icon here, we see a before and after slider.

So this is quick compare.

So we We can drag this and see what it looked like before and after.

So we can compare different parts.

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We can zoom in if we want to get very close and we could look at how things have changed.

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So this is at 409%.

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So of course it's going to look pixelated, but we can also change this from vertical to horizontal.

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So if we want to look at the horizontal changes here, we can do that.

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And of course, we can just do single view.

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And for single view, we just click on it to show the before and after.

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And this last new feature I'm going to show you, I recently did a video, but it's got a little bit of a change on it.

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So let's just go to the background.

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We'll hide the other layers and so we want to get rid of this building.

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We're going to roll over to the remove tool and we're going to paint around here to remove.

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So we can see the shadows still there.

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We want to get rid of that.

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We can move up.

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Now this is in the taskbar and we can remove related elements.

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Notice this little icons on meaning it uses a generator credits, but notice that we have the option here of clicking this little button,

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which is going to create a new layer with the results

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so that way it remains non -destructive and we're just going to choose remove

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and we can see it got rid of the shadows as well

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but just a little thing to be aware of look at the detail on the roof here yeah

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it affects everything so one way I would suggest of doing this is to just invert a mask

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so let's turn it on we're going to hold down the alt of the option key

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and we're to click on the mask.

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This creates an inverted mask, which is filled with black.

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Then we're just going to choose white with a brush.

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And now we just paint away from the area we want to get rid of.

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There we go.

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And now we can remove just that area here without degrading the rest of the image.

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So don't forget to join me for an in -depth look at the new features that are announced at Adobe Max.

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Join me for Sam.

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Just look for the link to my mailing list.

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I'll send out an email when I do that live stream.

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And to see more about removing related elements with the remove tool, check out my video right here.

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And if this is your first time watching me or you're new here, welcome to the cafe.

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Don't forget to hit that subscribe button, ring that bell so you don't miss any of my new uploads.

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And until next time, I'll see you at the cafe.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Photoshop Beta Just Got 5 Big New Features”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: color, feature, layer, Photoshop, notice. This video has 134 sentences and 1661 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:07. The speaker talks fast, about 182 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
layer noun	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
beta noun	/ˈbeɪtə/	The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental…
interface noun	/ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/	The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
adobe noun	/əˈdoʊ.bi/	An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
drag verb	/dɹæɡ/	To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
compare verb	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
mask noun	/mæsk/	A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
element noun	/ˈɛləmənt/	One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
gray adjective	/ɡɹeɪ/	Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
select verb	/sɪˈlɛkt/	To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
shadow noun	/ˈʃædəʊ̯/	A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
capture verb	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
announce verb	/əˈnaʊn(t)s/	To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
spectrum noun	/ˈspɛktɹəm/	A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
icon noun	/ˈaɪ.kɑn/	An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go up verb	To move upwards.
send out verb	To issue, dispatch or transmit.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
hold down verb	To restrain; to check.
move up verb	To promote, put onto a higher level.
roll over verb	To make a rolling motion or turn.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

You'll also notice that the interface is darker.
Let's have a look at that.
Let's go to the beginning.
There's our little video file.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	Adobe's been · we've used · they've updated
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	have been updated · be called · has been added
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	options which was · Max, which is · feature, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 47 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, disclosure /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/, degradation /ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, visibility /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like layer, beta, interface.

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