Simple selections: Subject Selection

Here's another newish feature (first appeared in Elements 2020). It's called Subject Selection and is the simplest and easiest process you could imagine for doing exactly what it claims: selecting a subject. Here's how it works.

Step one: Choose your image, then open it in Advanced mode. Go to Select>Subject (Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + S) and sit back for five seconds to see the subject selected. Wham! It just happens—driven by Adobe Sensei (Sensei means teacher in Japanese), you'll get a pre-selected subject. I tried this with several picture examples where the subject stood out against the background. This AI-driven feature did the job pretty well—with about a 90-95% accuracy (around the "subject").

Not bad considering I did nothing to the images other than open the files then try the selection process. Yes, it is a selection tool "dumbed down"—there's no...