Adobe Pho­to­shop, Illus­tra­tor updates turn any text editable with AI 

Here Are the Creative Design AI Features Actually Worth Your Time

Gen­er­ate Back­ground auto­mat­i­cal­ly replaces the back­ground of images with AI con­tent Pho­to­shop 25.9 also adds a sec­ond new gen­er­a­tive AI tool, Gen­er­ate Back­ground. It enables users to gen­er­ate images – either pho­to­re­al­is­tic con­tent, or more styl­ized images suit­able for use as illus­tra­tions or con­cept art – by enter­ing sim­ple text descrip­tions. There is no indi­ca­tion inside any of Adobe’s apps that tells a user a tool requires a Gen­er­a­tive Cred­it and there is also no note show­ing how many cred­its remain on an account. Adobe’s FAQ page says that the gen­er­a­tive cred­its avail­able to a user can be seen after log­ging into their account on the web, but PetaPix­el found this isn’t the case, at least not for any of its team mem­bers. Along that same line of think­ing, Adobe says that it hasn’t pro­vid­ed any notice about these changes to most users since it’s not enforc­ing its lim­its for most plans yet.

The third AI-based tool for video that the com­pa­ny announced at the start of Adobe Max is the abil­i­ty to cre­ate a video from a text prompt. With both of Adobe’s pho­to edit­ing apps now boast­ing a range of AI fea­tures, let’s com­pare them to see which one leads in its AI inte­gra­tions. Not only does Gen­er­a­tive Work­space store and present your gen­er­at­ed images, but also the text prompts and oth­er aspects you applied to gen­er­ate them. This is help­ful for recre­at­ing a past style or result, as you don’t have to save your prompts any­where to keep a record of them. I’d argue this increase is most­ly com­ing from all the gen­er­a­tive AI invest­ments for Adobe Fire­fly. It’s not so much that Adobe’s tools don’t work well, it’s more the man­ner of how they’re not work­ing well — if we weren’t try­ing to get work done, some of these results would be real­ly funny.

Gone are the days of own­ing Pho­to­shop and installing it via disk, but it is now pos­si­ble to access it on mul­ti­ple plat­forms. The Object Selec­tion tool high­lights in red the pro­posed area that will become the selec­tion before you con­firm it. How­ev­er, at the moment, these lat­est gen­er­a­tive AI tools, many of which were speed­ing up their work­flows in recent months, are now slow­ing them down thanks to strange, mis­matched, and some­times baf­fling results. Gen­er­a­tive Remove and Fill can be valu­able when they work well because they sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the time a pho­tog­ra­ph­er must spend on labo­ri­ous tasks. Replac­ing pix­els by hand is hard to get right, and even when it works well, it takes an eter­ni­ty. The promise of a cou­ple of clicks sav­ing as much as an hour or two is appeal­ing for obvi­ous reasons.

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I’d spend hours clone stamp­ing and heal­ing, only to end up with results that did­n’t look so great. Adobe brings AI mag­ic to Illus­tra­tor with its new Gen­er­a­tive Recol­or fea­ture. I think Match Font is a tool worth using, but it isn’t per­fect yet. It cur­rent­ly only match­es fonts with those already installed in your sys­tem or fonts avail­able in the Adobe Font library — this means if the font is from else­where, you like­ly won’t get a per­fect match.

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Adobe announced Pho­to­shop Ele­ments 2025 at the begin­ning of Octo­ber 2024, con­tin­u­ing its annu­al tra­di­tion of releas­ing an updat­ed ver­sion. Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments is a pared-down ver­sion of the famed Adobe soft­ware, Pho­to­shop. Gen­er­ate Image is built on the lat­est Adobe Fire­fly Image 3 Mod­el and promis­es fast, improved results that are com­mer­cial­ly safe. Tom’s Guide is part of Future US Inc, an inter­na­tion­al media group and lead­ing dig­i­tal publisher.

These lat­est advance­ments mark anoth­er sig­nif­i­cant step in Adobe’s inte­gra­tion of gen­er­a­tive AI into its cre­ative suite. Since the launch of the first Fire­fly mod­el in March 2023, Adobe has gen­er­at­ed over 9 bil­lion images with these tools, and that num­ber is only expect­ed to go up. This update inte­grates AI in a way that sup­ports and ampli­fies human cre­ativ­i­ty, rather than replac­ing it. Pho­to­shop Ele­ments’ Quick Tools allow you to apply a mul­ti­tude of edits to your image with speed and accu­ra­cy. You can select entire sub­ject areas using its AI selec­tion, then real­is­ti­cal­ly recol­or the select­ed object, all with­in a minute or less.

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I def­i­nite­ly don’t want to have to pay over 50% more at USD 14.99 just to con­tin­ue pay­ing month­ly instead of an upfront annu­al fee. What could make a lot of us pho­tog­ra­phers hap­py is if Adobe con­tin­ued to allow us to keep this plan at 9.99 a month and exclude all the gen­er­a­tive AI fea­tures they claim to so gen­er­ous­ly be adding for our ben­e­fit. Leave out the Gen­er­a­tive Remove AI fea­ture which looks like it was intro­duced to counter what Sam­sung and Google intro­duced in their phones (allow­ing you to remove your ex from a pho­to­graph). And I’m cer­tain lat­er this year, you’ll say that I can add but­ter­flies to the skies in my pho­tos and turn a still pho­to into a cin­ema­graph with one click. Adobe has also improved its exist­ing Fire­fly Image 3 Mod­el, claim­ing it can now gen­er­ate images four times faster than pre­vi­ous versions.

Mood-boarding and concepting in the age of AI with Project Concept — the Adobe Blog

Mood-board­ing and con­cept­ing in the age of AI with Project Concept.

Post­ed: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

I hon­est­ly think it’s the only thing left to do, because they won’t stop. Open let­ters from the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Media Pho­tog­ra­phers won’t make them stop. Giv­en the eye-water­ing expense of gen­er­a­tive AI, it might not take as much as you’d think. The rea­son I bring this up is because those jobs are gone, com­plete­ly gone, and I know why they are gone. So when some­one tells me that Chat­G­PT and its ilk are tools to ‘sup­port writ­ers’, I think that per­son is at best mis­guid­ed, at worst being shame­less­ly disingenuous.

The Restora­tion fil­ters are help­ful for tak­ing old film pho­tos and bring­ing them into the mod­ern era with col­or, arti­fact removal, and gen­er­al enhance­ments. The results are quick to apply and still allow for fur­ther edit­ing with slid­er menus. All Neur­al Fil­ters have non-destruc­tive options like being applied as a sep­a­rate lay­er, a mask, a new doc­u­ment, a smart fil­ter, or on the exist­ing image’s lay­er (mak­ing it destructive).

Alexan­dru Costin, Vice Pres­i­dent of gen­er­a­tive AI at Adobe, shared that 75 per­cent of those using Fire­fly are using the tools to edit exist­ing con­tent rather than cre­at­ing some­thing from scratch. Adobe Fire­fly has, so far, been used to cre­ate more than 13 bil­lion images, the com­pa­ny said. There are many cus­tomiz­able options with­in Adobe’s Gen­er­a­tive Work­space, and it works so quick­ly that it’s easy to change small vari­a­tions of the prompt, fil­ters, tex­tures, styles, and much more to fit your ide­al vision. This is a repeat of the prob­lem I show­cased last fall when I pit­ted Apple’s Clean Up tool against Adobe Gen­er­a­tive tools. Mul­ti­ple times, Adobe’s tool want­ed to add things into a shot and did so even if an entire sub­ject was select­ed — which runs counter to the instruc­tions Adobe point­ed me to in the Light­room Queen arti­cle. These updates and capa­bil­i­ties are already avail­able in the Illus­tra­tor desk­top app, the Pho­to­shop desk­top app, and Pho­to­shop on the web today.

The new AI fea­tures will be avail­able in a sta­ble release of the soft­ware “lat­er this year”. The first two Fire­fly tools – Gen­er­a­tive Fill, for replac­ing part of an image with AI con­tent, and Gen­er­a­tive Expand, for extend­ing its bor­ders – were released last year in Pho­to­shop 25.0. The beta was released today along­side Pho­to­shop 25.7, the new sta­ble ver­sion of the soft­ware. They include Gen­er­ate Image, a com­plete new text-to-image sys­tem, and Gen­er­ate Back­ground, which auto­mat­i­cal­ly replaces the back­ground of an image with AI con­tent. Addi­tion­al cred­its can be pur­chased through the Cre­ative Cloud app, but only 100 more per month.

This can often lead to bet­ter results with far few­er gen­er­a­tive vari­a­tions. Even if you are try­ing to do some­thing like add a hat to a man’s head, you might get a warn­ing if there is a woman stand­ing next to them. In either case, adjust­ing the con­text can help you work around these issues. Always dupli­cate your orig­i­nal image, hide it as a back­up, and work in new lay­ers for the tem­po­rary edits. Click on the top-most lay­er in the Lay­ers pan­el before using gen­er­a­tive fill. I spoke with Meng­wei Ren, an applied research sci­en­tist at Adobe, about the progress Adobe is mak­ing in com­posit­ing technology.

• Adobe Illustrator’s Recol­or tool was one of the first AI tools intro­duced to the soft­ware through Adobe Firefly.
• Final­ly, if you’d like to cre­ate dig­i­tal art­works by hand, you might want to pick up one of the best draw­ing tablets for pho­to editing.
• For exam­ple, fea­tures like Con­tent-Aware Scale allow resiz­ing with­out los­ing details, while smart objects main­tain brand con­sis­ten­cy across designs.
• When Adobe is push­ing AI as the biggest val­ue propo­si­tion in its updates, it can’t be this unreliable.
• While its gen­er­a­tive AI may not be as advanced as Com­fyUI and Sta­ble Diffusion’s capa­bil­i­ties, it’s far from ter­ri­ble and serves many users well.

Pho­to­shop can be chal­leng­ing for begin­ners due to its steep learn­ing curve and com­plex inter­face. Still, it offers exten­sive resources, tuto­ri­als, and com­mu­ni­ty sup­port to help new users learn the soft­ware effec­tive­ly. If you’re will­ing to invest time in mas­ter­ing its fea­tures, Pho­to­shop pro­vides pow­er­ful tools for pro­fes­sion­al-grade edit­ing, mak­ing it a valu­able skill to acquire. In addi­tion, Pho­to­shop’s fre­quent updates and tuto­ri­als are help­ful, but its com­plex inter­face and sub­scrip­tion mod­el can be daunt­ing for begin­ners. In con­trast, Pho­toleap offers easy-to-use tools and a sev­en-day free tri­al, mak­ing it bud­get and user-friend­ly for all skill levels.

As some exam­ples above show, it is absolute­ly pos­si­ble to get fan­tas­tic results using Gen­er­a­tive Remove and Gen­er­a­tive Fill. But they’re not a panacea, even if that is what pho­tog­ra­phers want, and more impor­tant­ly, what Adobe is work­ing toward. There is still need to uti­lize oth­er non-gen­er­a­tive AI tools inside Adobe’s pho­to soft­ware, even though they aren’t always con­ve­nient or quick. It’s not quite time to put away those man­u­al erasers and clone stamp tools.

Photoshop users in Indonesia and Vietnam can now unleash their creativity in their native language — the Adobe Blog

Pho­to­shop users in Indone­sia and Viet­nam can now unleash their cre­ativ­i­ty in their native language.

Post­ed: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

While AI design tools are fun to play with, some may feel like they take away the seri­ous­ness of cre­ative design, but there are a sol­id num­ber of cre­ative AI tools that are actu­al­ly worth your time. Final tweaks can be made using Gen­er­a­tive Fill with the new Enhance Detail, a fea­ture that allows you to mod­i­fy images using text prompts. You can then improve the sharp­ness of the AI-gen­er­at­ed vari­a­tions to ensure they’re clear and blend with the orig­i­nal picture.

“Our goal is to empow­er all cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als to real­ize their cre­ative visions,” said Deepa Sub­ra­ma­ni­am, Adobe Cre­ative Cloud’s vice pres­i­dent of prod­uct mar­ket­ing. The com­pa­ny remains com­mit­ted to using gen­er­a­tive AI to sup­port and enhance cre­ative expres­sion rather than replace it. Illus­tra­tor and Pho­to­shop have received GenAI tools with the goal of improv­ing user expe­ri­ence and allow­ing more free­dom for users to express their cre­ativ­i­ty and skills. Need a lap­top that can han­dle the heavy wokrk­loads relat­ed to video edit­ing? Pix­el­ma­tor Pro’s Apple devel­op­ment allows it to be incred­i­bly com­pat­i­ble with most Apple apps, tools, and soft­ware. The tools are inte­grat­ed extra­or­di­nar­i­ly well with most native Apple tools, and since the acqui­si­tion from Apple in late 2024, more com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with oth­er Apple apps is expected.

Control versus convenience

Yes, Adobe Pho­to­shop is wide­ly regard­ed as an excel­lent pho­to edit­ing tool due to its exten­sive fea­tures and capa­bil­i­ties cater­ing to pro­fes­sion­als and hob­by­ists. It offers advanced edit­ing tools, var­i­ous fil­ters, and seam­less inte­gra­tion with oth­er Adobe prod­ucts, mak­ing it the indus­try stan­dard for dig­i­tal art and pho­to edit­ing. How­ev­er, its steep learn­ing curve and sub­scrip­tion mod­el can be chal­leng­ing for begin­ners, which may lead some to seek more user-friend­ly alter­na­tives. While Photoshop’s sub­scrip­tion mod­el and steep learn­ing curve can be chal­leng­ing, Lumi­nar Neo offers a more user-friend­ly expe­ri­ence with one-time pur­chase options or a sub­scrip­tion mod­el. Adobe Pho­to­shop is a lead­ing image edit­ing soft­ware offer­ing pow­er­ful AI fea­tures, a wide range of tools, and reg­u­lar updates.

Film­mak­ers, video edi­tors and ani­ma­tors, mean­while, woke up the oth­er day to the news that this year’s Coca-Cola Christ­mas ad was made using gen­er­a­tive AI. Of course, this claim is a bit of sleight of hand, because there would have been a huge amount of human effort involved in mak­ing the AI-gen­er­at­ed imagery look con­sis­tent and pol­ished and not like nau­se­at­ing garbage. But that is still a promise of a deeply uned­i­fy­ing future – where the best a cre­ative can hope for is a job pol­ish­ing the computer’s turds. Orig­i­nal­ly avail­able only as part of the Pho­to­shop beta, gen­er­a­tive fill has since launched to the lat­est edi­tions of Photoshop.

Pho­to­shop Ele­ments allows you to own the soft­ware for three years — this license pro­vides a sense of secu­ri­ty that exceeds the month­ly rental sub­scrip­tions tied to annu­al con­tracts. Pho­to­shop Ele­ments is avail­able on desk­top, brows­er, and mobile, so you can access it any­where that you’re able to log in regard­less of hav­ing the soft­ware installed on your sys­tem. The GIP Dig­i­tal Watch obser­va­to­ry reflects on a wide vari­ety of themes and actors involved in glob­al dig­i­tal pol­i­cy, curat­ed by a ded­i­cat­ed team of experts from around the world. To sub­mit updates about your organ­i­sa­tion, or to join our team of cura­tors, or to enquire about part­ner­ships, write to us at [email pro­tect­ed]. A few sec­onds lat­er, Pho­to­shop swapped out the cof­fee cup with a glass of water! The prompt I gave was a bit of a tough one because Pho­to­shop had to gen­er­ate the hand through the glass of water.

While you don’t own the prod­uct out­right, like in the old days of Adobe, hav­ing a 3‑year license at $99.99 is a great alter­na­tive to the more cost­ly Cre­ative Cloud sub­scrip­tions. Includes adding to the AI tools already avail­able in Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments and oth­er great tools. There is already inte­gra­tion with select­ed Fuji­film and Pana­son­ic Lumix cam­eras, though Sony is rather con­spic­u­ous by its absence. As a Light­room user who finds Adobe Bridge a clunky and awk­ward way of review­ing images from a shoot, this clos­er inte­gra­tion with Light­room is to be wel­comed. Mean­while more AI tools, pow­ered by Fire­fly, the umbrel­la term for Adobe’s arse­nal of AI tech­nolo­gies, are now gen­er­al­ly avail­able in Pho­to­shop. These include Gen­er­a­tive Fill, Gen­er­a­tive Expand, Gen­er­ate Sim­i­lar and Gen­er­ate Back­ground pow­ered by Firefly’s Image 3 Model.

The macOS nature of devel­op­ment brings a famil­iar inter­face and UX/​UI fea­tures to Pix­el­ma­tor Pro, as it looks like oth­er native Apple tools. It will like­ly have a small learn­ing curve for new users, but it isn’t dif­fi­cult to learn. For extra AI selec­tion tools, there’s also the Quick Selec­tion tool, which lets you brush over an area and the AI iden­ti­fies the out­lines to select the object, rather than only the area the brush defines.