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Just a few days before this issue's deadline, Adobe gave MacDirectory access to the beta of an app that caused a major stir at last fall's Adobe MA X conference, Photoshop Camera. Adobe product manager Chintan Intwala gave us a quick online demo and a link, with the promise of more information to come—some days after this needed to be handed in. So with little information to go on, we were let loose with what we think may become Adobe's hit-of-the-year mobile app. A lot of social media platforms and a handful of apps will let you stylize and personalize an image with a variety of filters, some just clean things up to make you look better, others go a good bit further. But imagine if you had a set of filters that combined the power of a host of advanced Photoshop and After Effects, the imagination of some of the today's most influential creative minds, and a load of AI to make ever y thing work with just a few taps. That, in a nutshell, is the genius of Photoshop Camera. A s any photographer will tell you, the lens is ever y thing. And Adobe feels the same way about Photoshop Camera. However, in this case, the lenses are not only effects, but a constantly growing collection of special effects studios at your beck and call, compositing in new backgrounds, adding animation, color grading, and seemingly all the things that top pros can do with Photoshop and After Effects, let ting you do the fine tuning to get just the right look and select the right effect to get what you're feeling across. Yes. After Effects. Many of Photoshop Camera's lenses include animated background motion and you can share the resulting image as a short video clip. The app can pull up any of the photos in your image library as well as working with your camera(s) in real time, automatically switching bet ween the