Using Adaptive Presets
in Photoshop Camera Raw Filter

Adobe Photoshop is full of Adaptive Tools, one of which are Adaptive Presets. These are one of those hidden tools and in this instance are found in Photoshop’s Camera Raw Filter which is accessible from the Filter menu directly inside Photoshop.

What are Adaptive Presets?

Adaptive Presets are AI generated and work very similarly to any normal preset with the difference being that they concentrate on an area. This is a specific area such as the background, a person, the sky, they actually work on these specific attributes by automatically generating masks.

You can hover the cursor above the preset, apply it and even edit it inside the filter.

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Turn off SmartObject Layers in Photoshop

What are SmartObjects anyway?

SmartObject layers in Photoshop contain all the same information ans any normal raster (Photoshop) layer and are great if you just want limited editing resources.

They are great when you need to retain the integrity and original look of a vector image /graphic so are great if you want to rescale, skew, rotate with no loss of quality but are limited when the intention is to edit and manipulate pixels.

Basically this comes down to the way Photoshop works with what are known as destructive and non-destructive workflows.

Quite often though you’d prefer to open an image as a pixel based layer and not have to go through the rigmarole of rasterising it. (rasterisation converts the Smart Object back to a regular raster layer. Once rasterized, the content is flattened, and the special properties of the Smart Object (like scalability, linked updates, and editable filters) are lost).

So if you rarely use SmartObjects it makes sense to turn them off by default.

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