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To the MAX! - The Best of Adobe’s 2021 Conference By Ric Getter Once again this year the renowned Adobe MAX conference was open to the entire world as a free, all-virtual event. Though no entirely new applications were unveiled, the company revealed its intent to break ground on a new platform. And of course, there was no shortage of noteworthy improvements to the existing product line-up, including several of great significance. As last year, Adobe MAX 2021 spanned three days, webcasting 24 hours per day to accommodate its global user community. Leading with the product-focused main keynote, following up with the ever-popular Adobe Sneaks and interspersed with celebrity-studded Mainstage Broadcasts it included over 400 classroom sessions. Here are some of the highlights that we think will have the greatest impact in the coming year. Very Selective Adobe Sensei, the collective name for a host of AI-powered features and tools, only just celebrated its fifth birthday, but continues to prove itself a true prodigy and increasingly talented assistant. Adobe Photoshop’s addition of a Select Subject feature was something of a jaw-dropper when it first appeared as a MAX Sneak in 2017. It soon found its way into a Photoshop beta and then arrived in the production release, on the desktop and now on the iPad. With its latest enhancement, all you have to do is hover your mouse and Photoshop will highlight a subject as a potential selection. If there are multiple objects you need to mask in a single layer, a new option in the Object Selection Tool will allow you to do that, too. Photoshop’s Neural Filters have become Sensei’s favorite playground and a wonderful toybox for Photoshop users. Additions announced this year (as betas) include the Landscape Mixer that give scenes seasonal looks, including foliage in fall and snow in winter. If it’s more of a color look than a specific season you’re after, the Color Transfer filter will let you apply the color palette of one image to another. Harmonization can harmonize the background colors of an image with a new subject composited over them (via a Smart Object selection or any other way). Photoshop’s Color Transfer Neural Filter warms things up