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It even blurs the foreground particles to add a bokeh effect. The new Moving Overlay tool adds animated particles to static shots, creating a social-media friendly cinemagraph. These fun photo-enhancers add particle based-effects (such as floating dandelion seeds or butterflies) to static subjects. Photoshop Elements 2022 builds on the Moving Photo tool introduced last year by adding animated overlays. Elements still has its traditional collection of filter effects but these are very dated, so the new AI enhanced autistic effects are a welcome addition.Īn effective way to make your stills standout from the crowd on social media sites is to add motion to them (which creates a Cinemagraph). Some of the filters produce pretty garish colours - Acrylic we’re looking at you – but you can choose to preserve the photo’s original colours for a more realistic result.

You can dial down the intensity of the AI filters using a slider and even limit the filter effect to the main subject (or the background) at the tick of a box. This Japanese inspired woodblock filter adds carved swirls to the sea but not the boat for example.

AI enhanced artistic filters apply different strokes to different areas.

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