A game-changer for compositing

Photoshop's new Al-powered Harmonize tool makes blending images and creating composites a breeze

- James Paterson

If, like me, you've been creating composites in Photoshop for years, you'll know that the biggest challenge is often in making the combined elements look like they belong together. This used to involve all sorts of digital trickery, from adding shadows, reflections, colour shifts or noise so that the object we want to blend works harmoniously with the backdrop behind it. However, there's a new Photoshop tool that has the potential to change all this. Harmonize uses Al to alter the subject to match another scene, adjusting the lighting and colour so that the person or object seems as though it was shot under the same conditions as its new surroundings. If the scene requires, it can also add shadows or reflections. Here, in attempting to replace hard studio strobes with soft natural light, it completely reworks the face.