We’re thrilled to unveil Photoshop's latest update, packed with new innovations to supercharge your core creative workflows. Inspired by valuable feedback from our creative community, these additions will boost your productivity and precision in image selection, compositing, adjustments, and typography all in the Photoshop desktop app and Photoshop on the web.
Starting image of cat in a field of flowers.
Selection Brush Tool
You can now easily select an area with the new Selection Brush Tool by simply brushing over it. Adjust brush settings for opacity and hardness to create selections with varying opacity and feathered edges, allowing for a more seamless and nuanced effect.
The Selection Brush Tool provides more ease and flexibility when you are selecting, compositing, and applying Filters or Fills:
Quickly and intuitively select areas using a brush without having to go into Quick Mask mode. In Quick Mask mode, accessible by pressing “Q,” you can use the brush, eraser, and color overlay to paint areas you want to preserve or remove from an image, adjusting opacity as needed. This requires extra steps, including entering and exiting Quick Mask mode. If you are not familiar with Photoshop, this can be tricky to understand and use, which makes the Selection Brush Tool a faster and more user-friendly alternative for making quick selections.
After brushing on a selection and adjusting brush settings, you can seamlessly apply Fills or Filters to create a desired effect. For example, you can create a realistic depth of field effect in a few seconds by making a feathered selection, inverting it, and then applying a Gaussian Blur filter to the selected background area:
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| Opaque and feathered selection applied to cat using Selection Brush Tool (93 percent Opacity, 0 percent Hardness) |
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| Selection is inverted to select the background behind the cat. |
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| Gaussian Blur Filter applied to the inverted selection area in the background to create a depth of field effect with the cat as the focal point |
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