Photoshop’s NEW Harmonize: Blend ANYTHING in 1-Click!
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Date: 2025-08-02
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terr20114
The artistic journey is dying. If I was fresh out of high school and thinking of learning photo manipulation and the whole process was, Step 1 Auto select, Step 2 Harmonize, would I have still loved the art form I dunno, maybe this is how the original manual guys felt when the digital art age started. Maybe it's the same, maybe it's something worse since the skill and knowledge requirement to accomplish is getting lower an lower. You aren't trading physical strokes for digital ones, you need no knowledge of light, shadow, texture or anything. You're simply asking a machine to do the work. I love AI but I can't shake that feeling of existential dread. It's easier and time saving but there's beauty in the manual. Convenience sucks the joy out of things sometimes. You won't notice at first but overtime you'll notice something is missing, and it's that inconvenient work, the journey, that's missing. I could be completely wrong an overreacting. Lets see where we are in a decade, Pandora's box is already open.
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The artistic journey is dying. If I was fresh out of high school and thinking of learning photo manipulation and the whole process was, Step 1 Auto select, Step 2 Harmonize, would I have still loved the art form I dunno, maybe this is how the original manual guys felt when the digital art age started. Maybe it's the same, maybe it's something worse since the skill and knowledge requirement to accomplish is getting lower an lower. You aren't trading physical strokes for digital ones, you need no knowledge of light, shadow, texture or anything. You're simply asking a machine to do the work. I love AI but I can't shake that feeling of existential dread. It's easier and time saving but there's beauty in the manual. Convenience sucks the joy out of things sometimes. You won't notice at first but overtime you'll notice something is missing, and it's that inconvenient work, the journey, that's missing. I could be completely wrong an overreacting. Lets see where we are in a decade, Pandora's box is already open.
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cmptrman
VERY cool feature....BUT, I worry that it's going to end up like a lot of Adobe's other features where they put it out and never make it better because it's good enough for the influencers to do their thumbnails. They don't seem to care much for us professionals--especially those of us with Medium Format file sizes. Very little of their AI generated stuff is good enough I'd want to deliver it to a client. So yeah, it's cool...but I'll never be able to use it in my work, unfortunately. :(
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VERY cool feature....BUT, I worry that it's going to end up like a lot of Adobe's other features where they put it out and never make it better because it's good enough for the influencers to do their thumbnails. They don't seem to care much for us professionals--especially those of us with Medium Format file sizes. Very little of their AI generated stuff is good enough I'd want to deliver it to a client. So yeah, it's cool...but I'll never be able to use it in my work, unfortunately. :(
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MrBridgeinn
I think you very carefully selected the images you used for this video after much trial and error, I've just tested six different people placed onto six different backgrounds, all good quality images and the results are shockingly bad, all are turned into AI cartoons with way too dark shadowing. I appreciate that it's the beta but this is not worth bothering with yet. The new Generative Upscale works really well though, providing some excellent results.
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I think you very carefully selected the images you used for this video after much trial and error, I've just tested six different people placed onto six different backgrounds, all good quality images and the results are shockingly bad, all are turned into AI cartoons with way too dark shadowing. I appreciate that it's the beta but this is not worth bothering with yet. The new Generative Upscale works really well though, providing some excellent results.
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JacksonCarson
I haven't played with it yet but I would think for some of the quality issues for stuff like the shadows, you could use some masking and different blend modes to retain the original and just darken with the shadow, say, or do something similar for highlights. This looks like an amazing starting point for some clever work. The halos are bad, though, with the masks. Still, an amazing concept and a great start at a good implementation.
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I haven't played with it yet but I would think for some of the quality issues for stuff like the shadows, you could use some masking and different blend modes to retain the original and just darken with the shadow, say, or do something similar for highlights. This looks like an amazing starting point for some clever work. The halos are bad, though, with the masks. Still, an amazing concept and a great start at a good implementation.
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Badner83
Amazing new feature!
PiXimperfect Since the harmonizing is mostly about lighting and color grading... Would it be possible to avoid the limitation in resolution by using blend modes
Hide the generated harmonized layer, make two copies of the layer and set their blend modes to Color and Luminosity. This should apply the changes to the original layer below and keep the high resolution.
Could this work
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Amazing new feature!
PiXimperfect Since the harmonizing is mostly about lighting and color grading... Would it be possible to avoid the limitation in resolution by using blend modes
Hide the generated harmonized layer, make two copies of the layer and set their blend modes to Color and Luminosity. This should apply the changes to the original layer below and keep the high resolution.
Could this work
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gonrazortapes
Man, all these Photoshop improvements using AI make me think they're really using the AI models that anyone can use for free on our PCs using programs like ComfyUI. This new tool is using Flux Kontext, the effect is similar, all processed in the cloud of course ( and paying) but it's easy to do it for free and uncensored locally, just like generative fill and everything else involving AI.
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Man, all these Photoshop improvements using AI make me think they're really using the AI models that anyone can use for free on our PCs using programs like ComfyUI. This new tool is using Flux Kontext, the effect is similar, all processed in the cloud of course ( and paying) but it's easy to do it for free and uncensored locally, just like generative fill and everything else involving AI.
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foobaz2387
And now, you can delete 90% of unneccesary tools from the photoshop, because all essential things you ned in 99% of cases, are just one-click-ai-tools. But wait, do you really need the whole photoshop for it's money Maybe it's time for something simple, small and cheap, womething which only have few tools and AI prompt, to do almost everything
This is bad time for Adobe.
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And now, you can delete 90% of unneccesary tools from the photoshop, because all essential things you ned in 99% of cases, are just one-click-ai-tools. But wait, do you really need the whole photoshop for it's money Maybe it's time for something simple, small and cheap, womething which only have few tools and AI prompt, to do almost everything
This is bad time for Adobe.
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robhendriks4585
Thanks for pointing out to this feature Unmesh, as well as to strength and current limitations. One thought that came up... would it be possible to change the blend-mode of the generated layer to luminance ( 2nd duplicate in color if needed) and thus keep the original detail/resolution Curious to hear your thoughts. ;-)
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Thanks for pointing out to this feature Unmesh, as well as to strength and current limitations. One thought that came up... would it be possible to change the blend-mode of the generated layer to luminance ( 2nd duplicate in color if needed) and thus keep the original detail/resolution Curious to hear your thoughts. ;-)
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snowingrainfall
Awesome for photoshop but puts every other software at a disadvantage now amateurs will just constantly use this making it not fair for artist on other software but at the same time I really admire photosphop making it easier (mainly just complaining because all my computers break and I have to work on my phone)
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Awesome for photoshop but puts every other software at a disadvantage now amateurs will just constantly use this making it not fair for artist on other software but at the same time I really admire photosphop making it easier (mainly just complaining because all my computers break and I have to work on my phone)
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BVLVI
Adobe has charged me 200 bucks since my wife copied a document 1 time almost 2 years ago. some how she was set up for auto pay and they have been milking us monthly for an app we used once. I am going to dispute it with my bank but still, the business practice of adobe is scummy.
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Adobe has charged me 200 bucks since my wife copied a document 1 time almost 2 years ago. some how she was set up for auto pay and they have been milking us monthly for an app we used once. I am going to dispute it with my bank but still, the business practice of adobe is scummy.
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TheThebeep
Great feature. I wish Adobe improved other existing tools instead of adding new ones in the first place. eg. saving .psd files takes ages on high end PC. In comparison other photo editing software does saving 10 times faster.
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Great feature. I wish Adobe improved other existing tools instead of adding new ones in the first place. eg. saving .psd files takes ages on high end PC. In comparison other photo editing software does saving 10 times faster.
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kgpixlsinmotion
It's only going to get better... which is crazy. One thought i had was you can use harmonize as a great reference to know where to manually adjust things. Super quick to get close then manually adjust to perfect.
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It's only going to get better... which is crazy. One thought i had was you can use harmonize as a great reference to know where to manually adjust things. Super quick to get close then manually adjust to perfect.
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Ponk_80
If everything is edited by AI, can you then really call yourself an editor anymore If you don’t want to learn the craft, then it’s really not you who is doing the work, and therefore you can soon be replaced.
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If everything is edited by AI, can you then really call yourself an editor anymore If you don’t want to learn the craft, then it’s really not you who is doing the work, and therefore you can soon be replaced.
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leifn
Since the resolution is quite low i recommend doing a frequency separation to get some detail back. Again a case for using AI as a tool in a toolkit, not a final solution like everybody always thinks of it :)
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Since the resolution is quite low i recommend doing a frequency separation to get some detail back. Again a case for using AI as a tool in a toolkit, not a final solution like everybody always thinks of it :)
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piximperfect
thanks for sharing. have you tried running the output through magnific AI to see if it helps I would assume upscaling the results from harmonize in magnific would add detail and just bring it together.
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thanks for sharing. have you tried running the output through magnific AI to see if it helps I would assume upscaling the results from harmonize in magnific would add detail and just bring it together.
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gustavosaliola
Let me be a bit skeptical on this one. I'm almost sure that the limitation is going to be an extra paid feature. Like the newly implemented Credits for AI Generation, even paying on a monthly basis.
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Let me be a bit skeptical on this one. I'm almost sure that the limitation is going to be an extra paid feature. Like the newly implemented Credits for AI Generation, even paying on a monthly basis.
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amantv9326
U still gotta take the new Generation and Reupscale it and then bring it back....but a Whole new Level of AWESOME feature it is
Saw it's demo in 2024 in ADOBE MAX....was blown away...
Nice Start
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U still gotta take the new Generation and Reupscale it and then bring it back....but a Whole new Level of AWESOME feature it is
Saw it's demo in 2024 in ADOBE MAX....was blown away...
Nice Start
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ToXin_83
Another cool thing is the 4x generative upscaling. It's not Supir, but overall, Adobe
has chosen the right direction. And I must say, the result is quite good, considering the already decent image.
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Another cool thing is the 4x generative upscaling. It's not Supir, but overall, Adobe
has chosen the right direction. And I must say, the result is quite good, considering the already decent image.
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BryceDriesenga
Would love to see some more in depth adjustments with this! I wonder if using the harmonize and blend modes, like just using the color from the harmonize layer could help in some cases
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Would love to see some more in depth adjustments with this! I wonder if using the harmonize and blend modes, like just using the color from the harmonize layer could help in some cases
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HythBokh
Thanks for the video
i wish the modifications are on separate layers
In that case, we can make any adjustments we see fit
we hope that they will take this matter into consideration.
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Thanks for the video
i wish the modifications are on separate layers
In that case, we can make any adjustments we see fit
we hope that they will take this matter into consideration.
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