Photoshop AI tools can instantly add elements and enhance backgrounds

• Adobe is the first to bring generative AI tools to Photoshop.
• Generative fill allows you to instantly add or remove elements from an image or enhance an image from a text prompt.
• The tool is currently in beta for Photoshop paying users and will be available to the general public later this year.

Adobe Photoshop joins the generative artificial intelligence boom sparked by OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT.

The company announced a new “Generative Fill” tool in a blog post on Tuesday. With this tool, you can change the sky in a photo from night to day, and you can even use text prompts to replace lasso with pasta, as demoed by Adobe.

The tool is currently in beta for Photoshop subscribers, according to the company. This blog post provides an overview of the basics of a new suite of AI tools called “Firefly”, with over 20 sample images showing how generative fill tools can quickly add or remove detail from an image. .

The new tools will allow Photoshop users to complete tasks that previously took hours, even for advanced photo editors, in seconds, the post said. Playing on the movie genre “spaghetti western,” Adobe showed a simple version of what the generative fill feature can do, showing how to replace a cowboy’s lasso with a similarly shaped spaghetti.

In a blog post, Pam Clark, vice president of product management and product strategy for Photoshop, said Firefly was the most successful beta test in Adobe’s history, noting that users had “over 100 million assets” in the six weeks since the AI ​​tool’s launch. said to have generated Bringing AI image creation and editing capabilities to Photoshop is an “incredible new feature” for creators, she said.

New Photoshop tools can add, remove, or replace specific elements in a photo, like the edits made to the stone-in-the-grass photo above, but they can also add, remove, or replace specific elements in a photo based on user-specified text prompts. can also be extended.

The new tool isn’t intended for commercial use while it’s in beta, but once the generative fill feature is released to all Photoshop users by the end of the year, images should be free from copyright issues, Adobe said. Stated. Adobe’s Firefly-generated AI was trained on Adobe’s own stock image library and other licensed public domain images.

While AI image generators have grown in popularity and quality in recent months, along with generated text chatbots like ChatGPT, disputes over the copyrighted images used have also led to lawsuits.

Editing with Generative Fill isn’t always perfect, as the example created by The Verge’s writers shows. But like other photo editing services like the one Google announced earlier this month, the technology is designed to learn and improve over time. Google recently announced similar features and other AI upgrades at its I/O developer conference. This includes the ability to augment existing images with new AI-generated parts, which will be rolled out to select users later this year.

Let’s take a look at some more examples of the capabilities of Photoshop’s new Generative Fill tool.