Exciting news for designers and creatives! Adobe has just integrated generative AI into its flagship product, Photoshop. The beta release includes Generative Fill, which brings Adobe Firefly’s generative AI capabilities directly into design workflows. This is part of Adobe’s ongoing effort to inject more artificial intelligence into its creative products, and Firefly is a new family of creative generative AI models that was introduced in March.
Generative Fill is a game-changer. It automatically matches the perspective, lighting, and style of images, and users can add, extend, or remove newly-generated content in generative layers, allowing for rapid iteration. For example, when adding a puddle and floating bubbles to a photo of a corgi, the puddle shows the reflection of the corgi and the bubbles appear transparent.
Supercharging Adobe Photoshop with Generative AI
Generative Fill “uses the native powers of Photoshop and supercharges it with generative AI,” says Maria Yap, Vice President of Digital Imaging at Adobe. By bringing Firefly capabilities directly into Photoshop, users who felt nervous about using generative AI can realize they remain fully in control of their creativity — that it is simply another tool in their arsenal.
“Our customers are excited because Firefly is a commercially safe model, using high-quality images, making sure that there’s no copyright infringement in the creation process,” she said. “Then they’re really seeing the power of it — the reaction has been so incredible, we’ll literally hear comments like, ‘My jaw is on the desk, I cannot believe the power of this.'”
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Adobe’s well-known Photoshop software has had an update. With the program now featuring Firefly capabilities, it has integrated a generative AI directly.
This new integration allows a range of creative opportunities not seen before with Photoshop. Instead of manually selecting or drawing parts of an image, the Firefly AI takes over and does the work for you. This in turn allows users to spend more time on the creative process rather than the mundane jobs and offers fast and accurate results.
The new system works through conversation. It is a natural language interface allowing Photoshop users to ask questions such as “Can you find me an image of a tree?” via voice or text. The technical term for this is query-based object retrieval, and it is used to enable the Firefly AI to produce what you are asking for.
The AI also has the ability to learn from its experience. It uses a range of algorithms to classify images into categories such as color, composition, pattern and subject matter. By allowing the AI to learn the user’s preferences, it can offer recommendations to further enhance the image.
Adobe’s introduction of Firefly capabilities and generative AI is a significant advancement in the world of digital imaging. It has revolutionized the way images can be created and altered, with users now able to spend less time on mundane tasks and more time on creativity. It offers fast and accurate results, as well as recommendations and suggestions which will help further enhance the image.
Adobe’s Photoshop has certainly come a long way and its new Firefly capabilities and generative AI are just another example of why it remains the best software for digital imaging.
