Neural Filters Photoshop Not Working
Carmina Piette
After photoshops latest update seven days ago, the skin smoothing filter in neural filters is malfunctioning. I often edit couples, I often only want to smooth the skin on the female. So I obviously select the female's face alone and apply the filter. Just in the last week or so, after the update, the filter would also apply to the non-selected face. Since I don't want the second face smoothed, the filter is essentially useless. Please fix Adobe.
First image is the before. Second image is the after. Only the woman is selected. Hence the blue box only on her face. When I turn on skin smoothing, the male has clearly received the filter. I know it's the update because if I "rollback" this doesn not happen.
Mine will only apply to one face and then when I selct the second face, it REapplies it to the first face and doesn't change the second one at all. Did you figure out a fix to your problem? Maybe it will fix mine as well. Thank you!
I have a problem with the Photo Restoration filter. I tried to restore some old photos - various file sizes, pds, tiff, jpg. On some of the photos the filter doesn't work and instead gives me a message "We've temporarily disabled this filter because of an error."
I've contacted an agent in support, and we spent over 1,5h trying to fix the issue - reinstalling and uptading graphic card drivers, photoshop, restarting the PC. Nothing helped. The filter just doesn't work on some photos, seemingly without a pattern.
The filter worked during the many hours I've spent using it after discovering it. It stopped working only at certain photos. I chatted live with a very helpful and kind consultant, who took control of my computer, tried restarting everything, installing new drivers ect. I sent him the files that the filter didn't work on, and it worked in his Photoshop. So it's not a matter of the specific files, or the filter being Beta in general (because it worked flawlessly at the consultant's computer). It's a bug that I was asked to report by the consultant I talked to. It's still not working.
I have the same exact problem, it worked for about 50 or so photos, the closed Photoshop and then I have this message since. Changed some parameters according to deiffferent forums, removed Beta, no difference, even change to larger sratch disk, whatever I tried, that plugin doesn't work anymore. Even with different contrast photos, even more sepia ones.
Just an update on my issue. I reinstalled PS Beta, Neural Photo Restore failed again, tried the colorization one, worked, tried Photo restore, worked. I alternated for about 4-5 photos and it worked, then again Photo Restore failed. Then I tried JPEGs with a maximum of 1000 pixel instead of CR3 or TIFF, it owrked for 4 photos, then again would not complete the task, one after another one or alternate with a different Neural filter. What deception.
after discovering the brilliant new Neural Filter feature (specifically the coloring tool), it did not continue to load after opening a new picture. It ended up constantly loading the Neural Filter window. I tried the following:
I ran into the same problem and found a fix. This would happen after I opened a black and white image in the Grayscale mode and then tried to launch the Neural Filters. However, if I opened the black and white image and then switched to RGB mode and then opened the Neural Filters everything would work just fine.
This is what fixed mine. I only had the problem of them not loading when i was trying out the Colorization filter. Apparently neural filters are not designed for gray scale yet. Switching to RGB had them load 100% of the time. Thank you Ray this was such a headache
I also have problems. Photoshop closes with an error and Adobe experts cannot help!
I have a new laptop with a Ryzen 4800H processor and a built-in Vega video card
I have all the Windows updates.
I've tried all versions of photoshop.
I disabled my video adapter to speed up my work
ALWAYS PHOTOSHOP CLOSES WITH ERROR
I AM ALREADY TIRED OF FIGHTING THE PROBLEM
I contacted a specialist Adobe and he could not help me!
If you've got the latest Photoshop CC update you've got to check out how hilarious the new neural filters are, with strange, face-bending results.Adobe dropped some new artificial intelligence features in the latest version of Photoshop CC a few weeks back to take advantage of Adobe Sensei, their A.I. learning machine. They even released a bunch of beta filters for everyone to try out and give feedback on, and while there are some features that are genuinely helpful, there are others that will have you rolling on the floor laughing.
I decided to try out a few of these features with some pretty standard portrait photos and found some interesting results. Want to smooth skin quickly and efficiently? Great. Need someone to look like The Joker from Batman? Just open up the neural filters and start sliding stuff around. Let's take a look at what I mean.
I appreciate what Adobe are heading towards with their neural filters. They're an intelligent set of filters that can take out the tedious technical grunt work that we image editors need to put in before we can start creating our work. That's self-evident as soon as you click through to the first neural filter, skin smoothing.
There's no more need for my skin softening plugins that I often turn to when I don't have time to manually work on skin. I don't do a lot of this kind of work anyway, but occasionally I'm asked by a client to "make them look a bit younger". Limited though it is with only two sliders to control the effect, it's good enough for what I need and it does a nice job. The skin looks realistic and you can vary the intensity with the blur and smoothness sliders as seen above. So far so good.
You know what comes after a little taste, don't you? Yep, like me, you've probably skipped ahead to whack up the slider to its maximum. Oh deary me. One side of the face has definitely moved around a lot more than the other. What I do like about this beta filter though is that it's rather seamlessly introduced a set of teeth and parted the lips for me. This is very clever. I've seen this kind of facial morphing from various other software and experimental image editing platforms over the years so it's nothing new to me, but it's a novelty seeing it now embedded into a program I already own and use on a regular basis. It's a way off of being perfect, but I can think of some ways to improve it already.
Adobe need to introduce a bit more complexity for users. Think of it as an advanced drop-down menu that we could access to refine the face morphing process. By anchoring certain features (eyes, nose, lips, etc) we could freeze those sections and avoid the wonk we're getting now. Although, I assume Adobe hasn't done this because they're trying to automate the entire process through AI rather than getting us to do the dirty work.
"So Jase, what happens when you turn everything up to the max?" Well... this. Honestly, I was laughing my arse off when I saw this. I nearly wet myself. I've got a very happy, surprised, angry woman now looking off to the side, seemingly screaming at a passerby, all with a strange, thin mane. Of course, this isn't what you're going to be doing when leaning on this type of edit, but it's nice to know just what each bit does.
Although the above photo looks insane I have to admit it still looks like a human. The eyes are convincingly looking off to one side and it gives the appearance of having a tilted head. It's even now drawn in a rough tongue. Pretty damn cool and I can't wait to see where this goes in a year from now.
For all the laughs and japes you can get with the beta filters, there are some genuinely moving and important features being added here. For example, the great colorization option for black and white photos. Okay, it's not perfect but considering I've literally clicked a button, I'm blown away. I'll be using this as a starting off point for colorization and then editing properly from here. In fact, it looks like that's what Adobe wants you to do based on their video over here which I only spotted after doing exactly that.
The Colorize filter is a good introduction to those who want to give colorization a go. It's a bit fiddly to make adjustments with the selective pins you're given to decide what parts are specific colors. It reminds me a little of the adjustments you can make in Snapseed for mobile (which actually does this better as you can visualize a mask overlay to see what you're affecting.) I would like to see more masking options for this and expand a little with the complexity of it, as this filter has real legs.
Overall, I'm impressed with what Adobe has done here by integrating the artificial intelligence machine Adobe Sensei with image manipulation. It's certainly the direction I see lots of photo editing work going in the future. Though, I still think we could benefit from a few more manual controls for those that want it, at least until the A.I. has caught up with the precision that most of the public demands. It could be easy to go down the gimmicky route and make everything look surreal and stylized, but I think the really useful work lies in the subtle face mods and colorization filters. Adobe has already placed examples of other filters that you can register interest in, such as photo restoration (yes please!) and face cleanup, so it'll be good to try those out if and when they're released.
The fact that "pro" software is trying to compete with gimmicky phone apps is just stupid. It's bloatware and they are having a laugh at our subscription expense. Put this crap in Elements and work on pro features for pros.
You laugh now.Once all the "AI" filters and other automated processes are ironed out, some accounting intern will be doing Photoshop for the company as well. That's already happening, studios are using non-pros with actions and other automation to bypass hiring professionals to handle the work, even bypassing the outsourcing to India. I suspect within 5 years Adobe will have "the one ring to rule them all", and they'll have completely automated online production services that anyone can use, regardless of skill, and all the retouchers, layout and design people will be standing on an unemployment line.