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Enhance Photos with Adobe Photoshop Neural Filters AI: 1-Click Magic

teacher avatar Sant Kumar, Video Editing, Motion Creative Design Instructor

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:06

    • 2.

      What Are Neural Filters in Photoshop 2025?

      1:20

    • 3.

      Skin Smoothing Neural Filter

      3:32

    • 4.

      Smart Portrait Neural Filter

      3:41

    • 5.

      Makeup Transfer Neural Filter

      1:25

    • 6.

      Landscape Mixer Neural Filter

      4:00

    • 7.

      Style Transfer Neural Filter

      5:23

    • 8.

      Harmonization Neural Filter

      3:59

    • 9.

      Color Transfer Neural Filter

      3:35

    • 10.

      Colorize Neural Filter

      3:57

    • 11.

      Super Zoom Neural Filter

      3:28

    • 12.

      Depth Blur Neural Filter

      3:41

    • 13.

      JPEG Artifacts Removal Neural Filter

      1:40

    • 14.

      Photo Restoration Neural Filter

      5:33

    • 15.

      Conclusion

      1:14

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About This Class

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Adobe Photoshop’s most powerful AI-driven tools — the Neural Filters — to edit, enhance, and transform your photos with professional precision.

Whether you’re a beginner exploring Photoshop AI tools or a professional designer looking to save editing time, this class will teach you how to make Photoshop’s AI work for you.

Through step-by-step lessons, you’ll discover how to use every major Neural Filter in Photoshop 2025, including:

  • Photo Restoration — Repair old, damaged, or faded images.
  • Colorize — Add realistic color to black-and-white photos.
  • Harmonization — Match color and light between subject and background.
  • Makeup Transfer — Instantly apply or change makeup looks.
  • Smart Portrait — Adjust age, facial expressions, gaze and lighting.
  • Landscape Mixer — Transform seasons or weather using AI.
  • Style Transfer — Apply artistic styles from any reference image.
  • Super Zoom — Zoom and enhance detail without losing quality.
  • Depth Blur — Create cinematic shallow-focus effects.
  • JPEG Artifacts Removal — Clean low-quality, compressed images.

You’ll also learn best practices for non-destructive editing, masking, blending, and output workflow, so your results always look polished and natural.

No prior experience is required — you just need Photoshop and your creativity.

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Sant Kumar

Video Editing, Motion Creative Design Instructor

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My name is Sant Kumar, and I am a professional Video Editor, Motion Graphics Designer, and Creative Instructor with over 10 years of industry experience. Throughout my career, I have successfully completed 100+ projects, creating engaging videos, motion graphics, visual effects, and creative digital content for clients across various industries.

I specialize in video editing, motion graphics, visual storytelling, animation, and graphic design, using industry-standard tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop. My passion lies in transforming ideas into compelling visual experiences that capture attention and deliver results.

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1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. Sant Kumar and welcome to this Photoshop tutorial. In this video, we're diving deep into one of the most powerful AI features inside Adobe Photoshop, the Neural Filters. These filters are powered by Adobe sense AI, and they let you do some truly mind blowing things like restoring old photos, colorizing black and white images, adjusting facial expressions, transferring styles, and even adding realistic depth or atmosphere, all with just a few clicks. Whether you're a photographer, designer or digital artist, Neural Filters can save you hours of editing time and open up a whole new world of creative possibilities. In this course, I'll walk you through every major neural filter one by one, explaining what each does, how it works, and how to combine them for professional level results. I'll also show you practical workflows, how to work non destructively, output, clean results, and refine effects manually when needed. So grab a photo, open Photoshop, and let's start exploring the power of neural filters together. 2. What Are Neural Filters in Photoshop 2025?: Neural Filters in Photoshop, one of the most powerful AI driven tools that can transform your images in just a few clicks. Whether you want to retouch portraits, colorize old photos or add artistic effects, neural filters make it super easy. I'm using Photoshop 2025 updated version. You can find them by going to the top menu, Filter Neural Filters. Once you open it, you'll see the Neural Filters panel on the right side. Some filters are available directly, while others need to be downloaded from the Cloud first. To use the neural filter, just click this button to turn it on. Once it's enabled, you're all set to start using it and see the magic happen. This is the preview section. Here you can clearly see the before and after comparison of your image. Next, we have the output section. This is where you'll find several output options. You can choose to apply the result to the current layer, create a new layer, or even a new layer with a mask depending on how you want to keep your edits flexible. And here you'll see the wait listed filters. These are the upcoming ones that Adobe is still working on. They'll be added in future updates, so keep an eye out for them. 3. Skin Smoothing Neural Filter: This lesson, I'm going to show you how to use the Skin Smoothing Neural Filter in Photoshop, step by step. First, let's make this layer to Smart filter for non destructive editing. This filter is perfect for portrait retouching. It helps you smooth the skin, remove small blemishes, and make the face look naturally soft without losing details like eyes or lips. It uses Adobe sense artificial intelligence to detect faces automatically and smooth out imperfections instantly. Instead of manually retouching with the healing brush or frequency separation, this tool can do the hard work in seconds. Now you'll see two main sliders, blur and smoothness. Let's understand how they work. Blur slider. The blur slider controls how much overall softening is applied to the skin. Moving it to the right increases the smoothness by blurring out fine skin texture, pimples or pores. But be careful. Too much blur can make the face look plastic or fake. Smoothness slider. The smoothness slider controls how evenly the smoothing effect is applied across different areas of the face. When you increase it, Photoshop blends the skin tones more evenly, giving a polished and soft look. But again, subtlety is key. You'll notice how the skin looks smoother and more refined. Once you're happy with the result, click Okay to apply it and see the changes. Since we're using a Smart filter, you can easily turn the effect on or off or even edit it anytime. But honestly, this isn't the best method for skin smoothing because it tends to blur the entire skin, which doesn't look very natural. So let me show you the best way to use this filter. First, apply the skin smoothing filter and set the output to a new layer. Now, take a look at the result. We've got the effect on a separate layer which gives us more control. Next, go to layer. Layer mask, hide all, and Photoshop will add a black mask to hide the effect completely. Then select the brush tool and set your foreground color to white. Choose a soft brush, adjust the size. Now gently paint over the areas you want to smooth. And this way, you can control exactly where the effect appears for a much more natural and professional result. And that's how you can use the Skin Smoothing Neural Filter in Photoshop to get perfect natural looking portraits in just a few clicks. 4. Smart Portrait Neural Filter: This lesson, we're going deep into Smart Portrait of Photoshop's Neural Filters. With Smart Portrait, you can adjust facial expressions, head direction, gaze, lighting, age, hair thickness, and more all via AI. Let's jump in. Inside Smart Portrait, you'll see multiple sliders categorized into groups. I'll explain each how to use them the possible pitfalls and combinations you can try. Happiness moves the face toward a more joyful or smiling expression. Extreme values can look unnatural or creepy. Photoshop may invent teeth, et cetera. Let's go ahead and reset by clicking this button. Now, try using smaller values, that'll help you get a softer, more natural looking result. Facial age slider. This slider can make the subject look younger or older. Positive value can make the subject older. It also influences skin texture, lighting, and sometimes hair color, so hair may appear darker when younger. Use moderate values too extreme may alter identity. You can see the changes live in the preview, so try to keep the values within a natural range. Let's bring the slider down a bit and check the result. Always move this slider gently. Small adjustments will help you achieve a more natural and realistic result. Hair thickness, adjusts the fullness or thinness of hair, sliding toward positive adds volume toward negative reduces it, works well in combination with age or expression modifications. Eye direction moves the gaze direction of the eyes left or right. Useful if your subject was looking slightly off and you want them to look at the viewer. Combined with head direction, it can produce more natural alignment. Now expressions emotion Sliders. Surprise, raises the eyebrows, widens the eyes, use carefully high values can distort the face. Anger, changes mouth shape, introduces tension. Best used with mild adjustments or negative shifts, reducing anger for natural look. Now see the before and after. Head direction turns the head slightly left or right. Photoshop attempts to regenerate the underlying structure. Sometimes head misalignment may occur. Use alongside fixed head alignment slider to correct any unnatural separation or floating head effect. Light direction, adjust the lighting direction relative to the face. After turning the head, you can compensate lighting to maintain a believable shadow highlight pattern. Helps in multi photo consistency or creative retouching. Retain unique details, Ranges, EG zero to 100. Higher values prioritize preserving recognizable facial features. Lower values allow more generative freedom, and that's your complete guide to Smart Portrait Neural Filter in Photoshop. With the right tweaks, you can push expressions, age, gaze, lighting, and hair while keeping the identity intact. 5. Makeup Transfer Neural Filter: In this lesson, we'll explore the Makeup Transfer Neural Filter, a powerful but experimental tool that lets you copy the makeup style, eyes, lips, eyebrows, from one image, and apply it to another. This filter can give you amazing creative flexibility for fashion editing, portrait retouching, or concept styling. It works by taking a reference image with makeup you like and analyzing the makeup style, lipstick, eye shadow, eyebrows, et cetera, then applying those makeup traits onto your target portrait image. Now, we're going to transfer a makeup style from this image onto this image. To do that, open the Neural Filters panel. And turn on the makeup Transfer filter. Then select the reference image. And you'll instantly see the makeup style applied to your photo. Now see the before and after result. And that's a deep dive into Makeup Transfer Neural Filter in Photoshop. It's a fairly new and experimental feature, but when used smartly, it can speed up your beauty retouching creative stylings and fun transformation. 6. Landscape Mixer Neural Filter: This lesson, I'm going to teach you how to use the Landscape Mixer Neural Filter, one of the most creative generative tools in Photoshops Neural Filters. With this filter, you can change the season, time of day, mood, and even mix in another landscape image all with AI, now open Neural Filters and enable Landscape Mixer filter. Landscape Mixer is a neural filter, often under Beta slash Experimental Filters that lets you transform a landscape or scenery image by mixing in features from another landscape or presets, such as seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter, time of day, sunset, twilight, color shifts, weather mood, and so on. These are the preset styles. You can easily apply a theme just by clicking on any of the images. And in the custom section, you can even use your own image or upload a new one to apply its style to your photo. It's a great way to create a completely unique look let's try this one. And as you can see, the photo instantly transforms into a winter style look. If you want to reset it, just click the Reset button. Now, let's try another theme. This time, a sunset look. Let's increase the sunset value a little. Now we've got a nice warm sunset effect. But there's a small issue. If you look closely, you'll notice the filter also changes the subject's shape. Let me show you before and after. To fix that, turn on the preserved subject option and to match the subjects tones better. Tick, harmonize colors. Still, we have a few areas that don't look quite right. Now we need to fix these area, set the output to new layer and click Okay. Now we have two images, one original and one with the effect applied. To fix these issues, let's mask this layer and use the brush tool to carefully fix the problem areas. Now use a soft brush, gently paint over the areas that need correction. Now it looks much better. Now, let's refine the colors a bit more, create a new layer and change its blend mode to color. Pick a color that matches the tones you want and with a soft brush. Gently paint over the areas that need correction. Finally, apply a slight Gaussian blur to blend everything smoothly. Now, let's adjust the opacity to fine tune the effect and get a perfect result. I next, group layer one and layer two together. And take a look at the before and after. I think we can make it even better by slightly adjusting the fill as well. And there you go, check out the before and after. Looks amazing. And that's a deep dive into the Landscape Mixer Neural Filter in Photoshop. With this tool, you can transform your sceneries, change seasons, time of day, or merge with other landscapes all with AI support. 7. Style Transfer Neural Filter: This lesson, we're going to explore the Style Transfer Neural Filter in Photoshop, one of the most creative AI powered filters that lets you apply an artistic style from a painting, illustration, photography style or your own custom image onto your photo in just a few clicks. Whether you're turning a portrait into a Van Gogh style artwork or giving your image a graphic poster like effect, this filter opens up a world of possibilities. In practical terms, you pick a photo you want to transform, open the filter, select a style, or upload one, adjust how strong it is, and output the result. In the Style Transfer tool, you'll find two main sections presets and custom. In the custom section, you can upload your own image to apply its unique style to your photo. Now, let's talk about the preset section. The preset section is divided into two categories, artist styles and image styles. You'll see a grid of thumbnails, some inspired by famous painters and others featuring more graphic or abstract looks. Each style tells a story, so choose one that matches the emotion or mood of your photo. When you use Style Transfer for the first time in Photoshop, you'll need to download some of these styles. For example, in the image styles category. If you see a small download icon on a thumbnail, it means that particular style needs to be downloaded. You can either download all styles or simply click on the one you want, and Photoshop will automatically download it for you. Now, in the artist style section, let's apply one of these styles and see how it works. Once the style is applied, you'll find several important controls. Let's go through them one by one. Style strength controls how strongly the style is applied to your image. Let me show you before and after. Style opacity, adjust the visibility or intensity of the applied style. Detail controls how fine or textured the brush and patterns appear. Background blur adds a blur to the background for a softer depth effect. Brightness increases or decreases the overall brightness of your image. Saturation controls the color intensity, making your image more vivid or more muted. Preserve color, keeps the original colors of your target image, or lets the style override them. If you check this, you retain your photos color palette more. Now, take a look at the before and after. You can see how beautifully the style transforms the photo. Remember, small adjustments often give the best results, play around with different styles, tweak the strength, and you'll discover endless creative possibilities. Let's go ahead and reset the style and try another one. Adjust the sliders to fine tune the result. And again, check the before and after. And once you're satisfied, set the output to new layer and click Okay. And again, check the before and after. Now, let's move on to the image style section. Choose this style. And you'll see how the photo instantly takes on that artistic look. And again, check the before and after. Adjust the sliders again until you're happy with the result. Let's go ahead and reset the style and try another one. And again, check the before and after. Adjust the sliders again until you're happy with the result. Again, check the before and after. And once you're satisfied, set the output to new layer and click OK. In short, the artist style image is the heart of the Style Transfer filter. It defines the brushwork, the color scheme, and the overall artistic feel that Photoshop applies to your picture. You can use the built in artist presets inspired by great painters or upload your own unique style image to create one of a kind results. And always remember, subtlety brings the most elegant outcomes. Experiment with different styles, adjust the strength and explore the creative freedom that Style Transfer offer 8. Harmonization Neural Filter: This tutorial, we're diving into a super powerful tool in Photoshop 2025, the Harmonization Neural Filter. If you've ever done a composite, placed a person or an object into a new background and struggled to make it look real, this filter is designed to help you match lighting, color, tone, and shadows automatically. In this document, we have two layers. One is the subject, and the other is the background. We've taken a subject from another photo and placed it here, but as you can see, the colors and lighting don't quite match the background. So let's fix that using the Harmonization Neural Filter. First, select the subject layer, then open the Harmonization filter from the Neural Filters panel. Next, choose the background layer as the reference, so Photoshop can automatically match the subject's colors to the background. Take a look at the before and after. You can already see a nice improvement. The subject now blends much better with the background. Let's fine tune it a bit more for a more natural look. Adjust the strength. This controls how strongly the filter applies the color match. Then tweak the colors, saturation and brightness sliders until everything looks well balanced. Check the before and after again. And now the image looks great. Once you're happy with the result, set the output to new layer and click Okay. Let's take another look at the before and after. The difference is clear and much more natural. Now, let me show you one more example. Again, we have two layers, one for the subject and one for the background. Let's match the subject's color and tone. Right now, it doesn't blend well with the background. First, select the subject layer and open the Harmonization Neural Filter. And choose the background layer as the reference. Instantly, Photoshop adjusts the color and tone to match perfectly. See the before and after. You can still fine tune the sliders, strength, color, saturation, and brightness for a more natural blend. Take a look at the before and after again. Now the subject fits beautifully into the scene. The colors are balanced, the lighting looks natural, and the result is seamless. Remember, it all depends on how much you want to match the subject's color with the background. A little adjustment goes a long way toward achieving a perfect, realistic result. The Harmonization Neural Filter is a game changer for composite work. Remember, the key to a believable composite is balance. Even though the AI does most of the heavy lifting, your artistic eye and subtle manual adjustments make the difference between a good result and a professional one. So whenever you blend multiple photos, don't skip the Harmonization filter. It saves time, maintains realism, and gives your work that cinematic look. 9. Color Transfer Neural Filter: This lesson, we'll dive into the Color Transfer Neural Filter, an AI Power tool in Photoshop that lets you take the color palette and tone from one image and apply it to another with ease. Whether you're creating mood consistent photo sets, matching colors between images or simply giving your photo a dramatic color shift, this filter can save you hours of manual color grading. We're going to change the overall color mood of this image by transferring the color palette from this photo. Now, let's open the Color Transfer Neural Filter. Here you'll see two categories, preset and custom. In the preset section, you'll find several predefined color styles that you can instantly apply. In the custom section, you can use your own reference image to transfer its color tones to another photo. Let's start with the custom option. Now select your reference image. Photoshop will automatically transfer the colors from that photo onto your current image. Take a look at the before and after. I already looks much better. Let's fine tune it a bit more using the sliders. If you tick preserve luminance, Photoshop keeps the original brightness of your target image while applying the new color palette. This helps avoid unwanted exposure shifts. The color strength slider controls how strongly the reference palette is applied to your image. Saturation adjusts how vivid or muted the colors appear. Hue lets you shift the overall color tone slightly without replacing the entire palette. You can also adjust the brightness to better balance the lighting between both images. I think in this case, we should untick preserved luminans. It gives a more natural and evenly blended look. You can also switch between RGB channels if you want more control over color matching. Adjust the settings until you're satisfied and then click OK. Now check the before and after again. The result looks beautiful and well balanced. Next, let me show you an example using the preset styles. Here, you can choose any color theme you like and apply it directly to your image. Let's try this one. See how the overall tone changes instantly. You can still tweak the sliders to refine the result for a perfect match. And Now, let's try another preset and adjust the sliders again to see how it transforms the look and feel of the photo. Experiment with different presets and adjustments. Each one gives your image a completely different mood and color harmony, and the Color Transfer Neural Filter in Photoshop is a fast and powerful way to copy the color style of one image and apply it to another. Remember, while the AI does the heavy lifting, your creative choices, reference image, slider values, masking, make the difference between a fun experiment and a polished professional result. So go ahead. Try matching the mood of your favorite film still, give your photo a dramatic color shift or unify a series of images with one palette. 10. Colorize Neural Filter: This lesson, we'll explore one of the most magical AI powered tools in Photoshop, the Colorize Neural Filter. With this filter, you can take a black and white or desaturated image and instantly add realistic color or give a muted photo a fresh vibrant palette. Now, we need to colorize this black and white image. Let's open the Neural Filters panel and turn on the colorize filter. Instantly, Photoshop adds color automatically. And as you can see, the result already looks quite good. Let me show you before and after. By default, Autocolorimage is enabled, which means Photoshop automatically detects and applies suitable colors. If you turn this option off, you'll need to colorize the image manually. But honestly, that method isn't recommended unless you're aiming for a very specific custom look. In the profile section, you'll find several predefined color presets. You can try out different styles and choose the one that fits your image best. Below that, you can adjust saturation. You can also adjust more color setting. Color artifact reduction helps remove unwanted color patches while noise reduction helps smooth out grain and imperfections. Once you're happy with the result and take a look at the before and after, the difference is amazing. Click Okay. Now let's look at another example. Again, open the colorized filter. And Photoshop will automatically apply color to the image. But this time, let's add some custom color adjustments. Now, we want to change the color of this specific area. To do that, simply click on the part of the image. Then choose the color you want from the color picker, and Photoshop will apply it directly to that area. To extend the effect, hold Alt and click to add more points, allowing you to color multiple areas precisely. You can also increase or decrease the strength of each color point to control how intense the color appears. Et's add one more point and apply a new color. And now you can see how easily we've added extra tones to the photo. So it all depends on your creativity and how you want to colorize your photo. Now, click Okay to apply the changes. Let's take a look at the before and after. You can clearly see how the colors have transformed beautifully. Let me show you one more thing. If you want to remove or soften any extra color from the image, you can easily do that using a mask. Just click on the mask, then select a soft brush. And lower the opacity a bit. Now gently paint over the areas where you want to reduce the color intensity. This gives you smooth, natural looking control over your final result. Let's take a look at the before and after. Manually, Photoshop's colorized neural filter gives you powerful tools to bring black and white images back to life with natural beautiful colors. 11. Super Zoom Neural Filter: This lesson, we're going to explore the Super Zoom Neural Filter in Photoshop. This is a very handy tool when you want to zoom in, crop or enlarge a part of your image, and still keep it looking sharp. Instead of just blowing up pixels and getting blurry results, this filter uses AI to generate new detail and helps maintain quality. It's particularly useful when you have a lower resolution image and you need a higher resolution crop or Zoom section for print, for product shots or for any task where you need quality after zooming. Now we have this banner image. Its size is 480 pixels in width and height, but this size is too small for printing, and we want to increase the banner size without making it pixelated or blurry. To do this, let's open the Neural Filters panel and enable the Super Zoom filter. By using the plus icon, we can double the image size. Let's increase it up to four times. Which gives us a new size of 1920 by 1920 pixels. Under the Fit screen option, the image will fit neatly within your Photoshop workspace, and with fil screen, it expands to fill the entire view. Now, let's take a look at the before and after results. You can clearly see that the image now has much better resolution and it's not pixelated or blurry anymore. Next, let's go through the enhancement options available in this filter. Enhance image details, improves the fine details of your photo, making it look sharper, remove JPEG artifacts, reduces compression artifacts or rough edges that often appear in low quality JPEGs. However, in some images, this feature might not work perfectly. It depends on the image itself. Noise reduction helps reduce unwanted grain or noise in your photo. Be careful not to overuse it. Too much noise reduction can make your subject look unnatural or overly smooth. Sharpen increases the sharpness and clarity of the image for a more defined look. Enhanced face details improves the facial features when the subject's face is visible. But again, results may vary depending on the image. Once you're satisfied with the result, choose new document as the output option and click Okay. Now, let me show you the comparison between the original and the enlarged image. You can clearly see the difference. The enlarged image looks sharp and detailed even after increasing the size several times. So if you ever have a low resolution image and you want to enlarge it without losing quality, the Super Zoom Neural filter is an excellent option to get clean, high quality results. Remember, although the AI does a lot of the heavy lifting, your manual check and polish are essential for professional looking results. So whether you're zooming into a portrait, a product detail or crop for print, Super Zoom gives you a big head start. 12. Depth Blur Neural Filter: This lesson, we're going to dive into the depth neural filter in Photoshop, a really powerful tool for creating natural looking depth of field, background blur, and even atmospheric haze. If you've ever wanted to simulate a wide aperture lens blur after the fact or separate your subject from the background with realistic depth, this filter makes that process much easier. In this image, we want to blur the background to bring more focus to the subject. In Photoshop, there are many ways to blur the background, but the easiest and fastest way is by using the neural filters. So let's open the Neural Filters panel and enable the depth blur filter. Instantly, Photoshop automatically blurs the background. However, you might notice some issues. For example, parts of the subject like the legs may appear a bit too blurry. To fix that, simply tick the focus subject option, and Photoshop will refocus on your main subject. Now the subject looks much better and stands out clearly from the background. Alternatively, you can define the focus area manually by clicking on the subject or any area you want to keep in focus. Let's explore a few more important settings here. Focal distance controls the depth of focus. If you increase it, the effect works in the opposite way. Blurring the subject instead of the background. Focal range lets you adjust how wide or narrow the focus area is. Blur strength increases or decreases the intensity of the blur effect. Haze adds a soft atmospheric effect useful for creating a dreamy or cinematic feel. Temperature allows you to make the image warmer or cooler. Tint and saturation help you fine tune the overall color tone and intensity. I you can also add some grain. It increases a bit of background noise, which helps the image look more natural and less digitally perfect. Adjust these settings until you achieve a natural and pleasing result. Once you're happy with the look, click Okay. Now, let's take a look at the before and after. You can see how beautifully the subject now pops from the background. If you want to reduce the blur in a specific area, you can easily refine it using a mask. Just enable the mask, select the brush tool. I lower the opacity and gently paint over the areas where you want to restore some detail. And that's it. The background looks beautifully blurred. The subject is in sharp focus, and the overall image looks natural and professional. Remember, even the best AI filter is a tool. Your creative judgment and final refinements make the difference between nice and professional. So go ahead, experiment. Use depth blur on portraits, product shots, scenic images, try adding deep blur, strong haze, subtle separation. You'll discover a lot of creative possibilities. 13. JPEG Artifacts Removal Neural Filter: This lesson, we're going to dive into a very practical tool, the JPEG Artifacts Removal Neural Filter in Photoshop. If you've ever received or worked with a photo that's heavily compressed, has pixelation or blocky color bands, those telltale signs of JPEG compression, this filter helps you clean up those artifacts using AI, making your image look sharper and more professional. In this image, you can see that the edges look a bit blurry and unclear. We can easily fix this issue using the Artifacts removal Neural filter. Once you enable the filter, Photoshop automatically enhances the image and removes unwanted compression or blur. Now take a look at the before and after. You can clearly see a noticeable improvement in the sharpness and clarity of the image. This filter gives you three strength options, low, medium, and high. The choice depends on your image quality. For slightly blurry or lightly compressed images, use low or medium strength. And for heavily pixelated or low quality images, high strength usually gives the best result. Try different values to see which one works best, and once you're happy with the result, click Okay to apply the changes. The JPEG Artifacts Removal Neural Filter is a useful tool for cleaning up compression artifacts, especially blockiness, color banding and edge fuzziness in heavily compressed JPEG images. Remember, this filter doesn't replace good capture or original raw files, but when you're working with compromised images, it can save a lot of cleanup time. 14. Photo Restoration Neural Filter: This lesson, we'll dive into the Photo Restoration Neural Filter in Photoshop, an advanced AI tool designed to help restore old, damaged, faded or scratched photographs with ease. If you have vintage prints, family heirloom photos, or just images that look worn out, this filter gives you a big head start in cleaning them up, removing scratches, smoothing damage, reducing noise, and restoring color or contrast. Now, let's restore this old photo using the Photo Restoration Neural Filter. Simply enable the filter and you'll instantly see the difference in the before and after view. To enhance it even more, open the filter options and make some fine adjustments for better details and clarity. The Photo Restoration filter gives you two major groups of controls depending on version. Photo enhancement adjusts overall contrast, clarity, brightness, helps bring out details in faded or low contrast images. Scratch reduction targets visible, scratches, folds, and surface damage, smoothing these out. As you can see, most of the scratches are now almost invisible, and we've got a really nice result. Let's take a look at the before and after. The difference is impressive. However, be careful not to overuse the scratch reduction slider. Using too much can distort the photo and make it look unnatural. Now, let's try the noise reduction option. Oh, looks like we've got an error. That's because this filter is still in the Beta version. So sometimes it may not work perfectly, but don't worry. I'll explain the rest verbally so you understand exactly how it works. Noise reduction reduces general image noise, grain, specs, introduced by old film or digitization. Color noise reduction, specifically targets unwanted color speckles or blotches. Half tone artifact reduction reduces circular or dot pattern artifacts often found in older printed photos. JPEG artifact Reduction helps reduce compression artifacts if the scanned photo or file has been compressed heavily. As you can see, the image looks much better now. Once you're satisfied with the result, choose new layer and click Okay. Let's take another look at the before and after. You can clearly see how much the photo has improved. If you don't have time to fix the image manually, this filter can do a really good job on its own. But if you want to achieve a truly perfect result, you'll need to use a few additional tools like the healing brush, clone stamp, and other retouching techniques to refine the final details. Now, let me show you one more example. Let's restore this photo. This time, you'll notice a new option called enhanced face. It appears automatically because Photoshop detects a face in the image. Enhanced face focuses on improving facial features so that faces become clearer and more detailed. Let's reduce the scratch reduction a bit. As you can see, in some areas, the photo has become slightly distorted. That's why at the moment, we can't rely completely on this tool for all types of restoration. But let me show you a simple trick to fix the scratches more effectively. First, click OK to apply the current filter. Then duplicate the layer by pressing Control plus J. Now open the Photo Restoration filter again. This time, reduce the value of Photo enhance and enhance face. Since we already applied it once, increase the scratch reduction slightly. Oh and click Okay. Next, go to Layer Mask and choose Hide. Select the brush tool, use a soft brush. Adjust the opacity. And gently paint over the problematic areas where scratches are still visible. By doing this, you can precisely restore only the parts you need without affecting the entire image. And let me show you before and after. Now group the layers. And let's check the before and after. You can clearly see the improvement. The scratches are gone, and the image looks clean and natural. Remember, while this AI filter speeds up the process dramatically, your artistic judgment and final manual touches make the difference between okay and professional. So go ahead, dig into your old Photo box, scan that vintage print, apply this workflow and bring your memories back to life. 15. Conclusion: That's it for this tutorial on Neural Filters in Photoshop 2025. You've just seen how these AI power tools can completely transform your workflow, helping you edit smarter, faster and more creatively than ever before. We explored how to restore and repair old photos with the Photo Restoration filter. Add realistic color to vintage images with colorize, match tones and lighting with Harmonization. Stylize your images using Style Transfer. Create cinematic backgrounds using depth blur and Landscape Mixer. The best part is you don't need to be an expert. Neural filters make complex edits accessible to everyone while still giving you full creative control. Remember, these filters are not meant to replace your creativity. They're designed to enhance it. The magic happens when you combine AI Power with your artistic vision. So go ahead. Open Photoshop, pick one of your favorite photos, and start experimenting. Each neural filter opens up a new way to see and shape your art. If you enjoy this video, don't forget to like, subscribe and share it with your creative community. Thanks for watching. Keep learning, keep creating, and I'll see you in the next tutorial.