Adobe on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its Photoshop desktop app, which now includes new artificial intelligence (AI) features. Powered by its Firefly Image 3 base model, the third iteration of the company's internal text-to-image generation model, the new Photoshop will be able to generate images from text prompts directly in the application for the first time. The app is currently in beta, but the company has said it will roll out to all users by the end of the year.
Making the announcement via a post in its newsroom, Adobe unveiled the new Photoshop desktop app. The app was officially launched at the Creativity Conference event. The new beta app includes several new AI features such as reference image, generate image, generate similar, generate background and enhance detail. Existing features such as generative fill and generative expansion have also been improved.
New features in Adobe Photoshop
The company also released a short video showing the capabilities of the new photo editing software. The most important addition with the new Firefly Image 3 model is the reference image. This feature allows users to upload an image as a reference to generate images. Users can also use the reference image on top of a generated image to further enhance it. The next big addition is the debut of text-to-image generation capabilities in the Photoshop application. Previously, users could only use Generative Fill and Generative Expand within the app.
Additionally, the Generate Background function replaces and creates backgrounds, while Generate Similar generates different variations of an already generated image for granular control over the result. Apart from the AI features, Adobe has also added other tools such as the adjustment brush for non-destructive adjustments to specific parts of images, an improved feed browsing experience, and preset adjustments.
The company stated that the Firefly Image 3 base model was only trained on licensed content such as Adobe Stock. To ensure that AI-generated images can be identified from real images, Adobe follows the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard that requires AI tool makers to add an AI tag and that they include details about their creation process within the metadata. In addition, it also follows the Adobe Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) standard.
