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get the edges just right without any additional pixel-poking on your part. Based purely on its designation, Photoshop’s new Neural Filters sound like something that would be useful for attending family gatherings or perusing social media. But that’s not exactly what they do. Several of those shown made their first appearance in previous years’ Adobe Sneaks with some still shipping in their beta form. They prove that Adobe is nowhere near done with the idea of “photoshopping” reality in Photoshop. Colorize (beta) will analyze a black and white photo and turn it into color (blue sky, green grass, flesh-tone people), a bit like what Turner Broadcasting did to classic black and white movies a while back. It can lend a hand intelligently cleaning up complexions or dust and scratches. But things start getting freaky with Neural Filters that can change a face’s mood from grim to happy, and another to either add or remove years. (Adobe tacitly promised that no men will lose their hair in the aging process, but Neural Filters can improve the look of what you have or wish you did.) Photoshop for iPad added the powerful Select Subject feature, the ability to easily rotate the canvas to your preferred drawing angle, and several other neat new tools. It also inherits Fresco’s live-streaming capabilities so you can broadcast your work in real time with a running commentary. Adobe revealed more about its role in the Content Authenticity Initiative, an industry consortium developing standards for identifying and tracking the ownership of “ingredient assets” used in images as well as methods for cataloging modifications that may or may not be made for purely artistic reasons. The initiative was launched by Adobe, The New York Times, and Twitter, and has grown to include a host international media giants and content creators. Teaching by Example In many respects, Adobe Fresco is the company’s model mobile app. It epitomizes how a tablet can enable an artist to respond to inspiration anywhere using nearly any medium. At MAX, Adobe unveiled an even easier path to the paintbox or sketchpad, Fresco for the iPhone. The Fresco interface has been rather ingeniously augmented for the smaller screen but still a fast and familiar way to create art. Fresco also added support for Adobe Fonts, expanding the app from the fine arts to some of the more practical kind. But Fresco remains one best examples of its efforts to allow artists not only to share their work, but share their skills. Fresco took the lead by letting artists record their work, stroke by stroke and now lets them stream in real time as they’re working. This safely socially-distanced over-the-shoulder remote training has been spreading quickly (dare we say virally?) to a number of other Adobe CC products. be.net/live has become something like Twitch for creative pros, but far more enlightening. Adobe Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom Mobile all added features sure to make photographers happy. Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile recently added the ability to create named versions of your images, for example, a monochrome and color version of the same original. The two applications will be adding an