Adobe’s Photoshop CC 2024 release was a big update. While Adobe had already started playing around with AI features, last year’s release was the first one to properly be outfitted for the generative AI era. The new “generative fill” feature allowed you to use AI to change parts of an image, expand images, and overall edit images to your will using AI. Now, a better version of this feature is coming to Photoshop’s upcoming 2025 release.
At MAX London, Adobe’s big annual event, Adobe unveiled a new beta version of Photoshop, featuring advancements in Generative Fill and adding overall improvements to Photoshop with a bunch of extra new AI additions. All of this new stuff is powered by Adobe’s new Firefly 3 AI model, which is more capable than its predecessors, and should result in not only new AI features, but also improvements to all the features you already had access to. Images and outputs generated by the model should look better, more realistic, have more detail, and the model should stick to your prompts more closely as well. It’s not the only AI addition by Adobe to its software in recent memory, but Photoshop’s AI features are perhaps among the most used.
Photoshop’s AI generations weren’t bad by any means, but as other image generation models like DALL-E 3 started landing, the outputs by Photoshop started to look a bit lacking in comparison, so this was a much needed improvement. It also enables new features such as Reference Image, Generate Image, Generate Similar, Generate Background, and Enhance Detail, providing users with tools to bring their creative visions to life quickly.
Generate Image allows users to just generate an image completely from scratch, like DALL-E 3 does, while Reference Image will allow you to take an existing image as reference for an AI generation. Generate Similar and Enhance Detail are also self-describing. Other additions include Adjustment Brush, Improved Font Browser, and Adjustment Presets.
The features are now available in the beta version of Photoshop, and if you want to play around with it, you can give it a spin on your computer now. The “final” version of these improvements will be landing later this year, so if you don’t want to play with beta-grade software, you’ll probably want to wait.
Source: Adobe
