Photoshop can now restore and colorize your old photos in just a few clicks

Adobe will integrate new filters boosted with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. They will automatically restore and colorize your old photos.

The future of Photoshop lies in Artificial Intelligence and the power of Machine Learning. Adobe has just proved it once again by unveiling Neurals Filters, so-called “augmented” filters that are based on Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning engine.

Thanks to algorithms, the Neural Filters, generate new pixels in your images, thus allowing to apply non-destructive retouching. To show the power and potential offered by this new generation of filters, Adobe has uploaded a video in which we can see an old black and white photo, partially damaged, which is automatically restored after applying a Neural Filter dedicated to image restoration.

This restoration filter, already available in beta, automatically removes unsightly scratches and stains, reduces image noise and even allows you to colorize the image. Such a restoration, carried out here in just a few seconds, would take an experienced photographer several tens of minutes if he had to do it manually.

Neural Filters for all editing

Photoshop’s Neural Filters don’t just restore and colorize your old photos. Adobe has integrated a dozen in its retouching software to allow you to automate the most tedious tasks.

You can use it to smooth the skin of a subject, remove artifacts from JPEG compression, transfer an artistic style from one image to another, or even zoom and crop an image by adding details. Other filters, available in beta, allow you to adjust portrait photos, transfer makeup from one face to another, apply depth blur, mix landscapes, transfer colors, or even harmonize color and the tonality of one layer to those of another layer.

Adobe is not the first publisher to rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer intelligent correction filters. In the case of image colorization, many online services rely on similar technologies to allow you to colorize your old black and white photos from your web browser.

Last year, the company specializing in DNA testing MyHeritage also unveiled an amazing tool, Deep Nostalgia, which uses the power of artificial intelligence to animate the faces of your old family photos.

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