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Good Hair Day Speaking of Photoshop magic, the AI- powered Select Subject feature in the last release was one of the most useful compositing tool ever created. The June release of Photoshop took this one step further with Select Portrait, optimized for faces and, more importantly, hair. Many photographers will also be pleased with June's redesign of the Camera Raw interface. It has been overhauled to resemble Adobe Lightroom. Lightroom itself received a good deal of attention. Camera Raw Defaults has been enhanced in ways that will likely make a previously arcane feature more useful to more photographers. You can tweak the settings that are applied on import to bring images closer to what you imagined, either more like the image that was displayed on your camera's viewscreen or setting them up for your signature look. One of these tools is the ISO adaptive preset, useful if varied lighting conditions on a shoot require your ISO settings to be all over the map. Adobe's default import process has been doing this for you, but now you can create your own adaptive presets. All your presets can be applied to specific camera models and even to identical models by serial number. The other new big deal in Lightroom is a tool to apply localized hue adjustments. This new slider that appears in the panels for masking tools like the Adjustment Brush, Graduated and Radial filters lets you manipulate the hue of a selected area. What you can do ranges from subtle local corrections to skin tones, to adding a Mars-red sky to your scene. The tool is pretty smart when it comes to figuring out the main color you have selected and leaving the others alone. At this point, it almost goes without saying that Lightroom also received another round of performance boosts under the hood. The team seems to know that whatever a monster of a Mac we may have at home, we often travel with the lightest hardware that will do the job; our cameras are heavy enough to lug around.