Adobe brings new AI tools & workflow upgrades to Photoshop
Expanded features across platforms
Adobe's latest set of features is designed to streamline the editing process for users, regardless of whether they are designers, photographers, or content creators working on the move. The company notes that the feedback from the creative community was a key driver behind the new developments.
A spokesperson stated, "Today we're introducing new innovations across Photoshop on desktop, web and mobile that eliminate those tedious steps, reduce friction, and make precision editing faster and more intuitive, so you can spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time focused on what matters most: bringing your creative visions to life. These new innovations come from our ongoing conversations with the creative community, where we hear how we can evolve tools in Photoshop to remove barriers and bring you a more intuitive, intelligent, and fun creative experience. Whether you're a designer building assets for a campaign, a photographer retouching fine details, or a content creator producing social assets on the go, we built Photoshop's latest tools with you in mind."
The release brings notable new features in beta, such as Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and Projects, as well as enhancements to the Remove tool and a new Gen AI Model Picker for generative edits.
Harmonize: blending objects
The Harmonize feature, powered by the Adobe Firefly Image Model and available in beta, facilitates seamless integration of added objects into existing compositions by automatically adjusting lighting, colour, and shadows. This capability reduces the need for manual adjustments, providing a tool for producing more cohesive composites in fewer steps.
According to the company, "When you add a new object to a composition, Harmonize intelligently analyses the surrounding context, automatically adjusting color, lighting, shadows, and visual tone to create seamless, cohesive composites. This significantly reduces the need for time-consuming manual adjustments and is ideal for designers creating surreal composites, marketers building dynamic campaign visuals, or digital artists experimenting with whimsical scenes. This makes the process of producing high-quality, realistic composites faster, more intuitive, and more efficient than ever before."
Generative Upscale and image precision
The Generative Upscale tool is now in beta for desktop and web, enabling users to increase image resolution to 8 megapixels while maintaining or improving sharpness. This tool has been introduced to meet the needs of photographers and social media managers requiring high-quality images for various platforms without extensive post-processing.
Adobe said, "We're introducing Generative Upscale in beta for Photoshop on desktop and web, bringing high-quality resolution enhancements up to 8 megapixels without sacrificing image clarity. If you're a photographer, Generative Upscale is helpful for refining edits and especially useful for enhancing image quality for print, delivery, or reworking older files. If you're a social media manager, it can also be useful to help you adapt assets for various platforms. This has been one of the most requested updates from the Photoshop community and is a powerful new creative tool that delivers sharper, more detailed results with minimal effort."
Remove tool improvements
The Remove tool has been updated with the latest Firefly Image Model to improve accuracy and realism in content-aware erasing. The enhancements aim to produce cleaner edits with fewer artefacts, supporting more professional-looking results.
Adobe noted, "The improved Remove tool with the latest Adobe Firefly Image Model, available on Photoshop desktop and web, helps you clean up your images with more precision and quality than ever before. Whether you're erasing stray power lines, tidying up a portrait backdrop, or polishing a product photo, the Remove tool not only eliminates unwanted elements but also generates realistic content that fills the gaps with better quality and accuracy. Edits blend more naturally into the background with fewer artifacts, so your results look cleaner, more professional, and ready to share."
Collaboration with Projects
The Projects (beta) feature introduces new capabilities for managing and collaborating on assets within Photoshop desktop. With Projects, users can organise all creative materials within a single shared space, reducing the need to locate files or manually exchange assets.
Adobe stated, "In Photoshop desktop beta, we're introducing Projects, a new way to manage and organise your creative work. By bringing assets together into a shared, organised space, Projects eliminates common pain points: files scattered across local drives, slow and fragmented collaboration, and the need to manually send individual assets back and forth. With Projects, you can share entire collections at once, reducing versioning issues and keeping your creative process moving forward smoothly. Whether you're working on client campaigns or building mood boards, Projects helps keep your workflow streamlined and everything in one place."
Model Picker for creative flexibility
The Gen AI Model Picker offers users the choice between different Firefly Image Models, including Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3, for Generative Fill and Expand. This aims to allow greater control over style and output for a variety of creative applications. "Creativity thrives on choice. That's why we're excited to debut Gen AI Model Picker, a new capability within Photoshop desktop that allows you to choose between different Firefly Image Models (Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3) when using Photoshop's Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools. Each Firefly model has unique strengths and styles and the Model Picker gives artists, illustrators, and social creators unmatched flexibility and choice to experiment and tailor outputs to their unique style and creative vision."
Access to updates
The new Photoshop features, including all the beta releases, are available on desktop, web, and the latest mobile version on iOS, enabling users to access creative tools in diverse settings where their work takes place.
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