Show Notes
It’s a Photoshop Q&A episode of The Grid, with Scott Kelby joined by KelbyOne producer Christina Sauer, plus a special studio audience joining the fun. Scott and Christina answer viewer questions while exploring some of Photoshop’s latest tools, including how Scott is using generative AI to tackle edits that once would have taken forever. He also takes a closer look at Find Distractions for automatically removing wires, graffiti, vehicles, and other clutter, and shares a simple non-destructive technique for bringing back anything the AI removes that you wanted to keep. Christina puts Find Distractions to the test with a great question that leads to a second cleanup pass, and they also tackle when to use Lightroom versus Photoshop, which AI features use generative credits, and why some of the tools photographers have relied on for years were already using AI long before we started calling it that.
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