At MAX 2024, Adobe was thrilled to announce a new Photoshop update that delivers more speed, power, and precision than ever before. The latest updates improve core imaging and design workflows and include the ability to automatically remove common distractions from images and bring 3D models into your 2D Photoshop designs.
Adobe has also expanded generative AI features to further accelerate and enrich ideation and asset production. Their commitment to creatives is at the core of everything they do, with generative AI features designed to serve as a creative companion that streamlines your creative process. As they develop these advanced technologies, they take pride in the fact that they do so responsibly and always respect the rights of creators.
Here’s a deeper look into the updates released recently, which build on key workflows and enhance highly popular features like the Remove tool and Generative Fill in the Photoshop desktop application and Photoshop on the web:
New updates in the Photoshop desktop app and Photoshop on the web
Distraction Removal in the Remove Tool
It can be difficult to remove objects from images without the right tools. Released last year, the Remove tool allows you to brush over or circle around an object to remove it and fill the space with content that seamlessly matches the background. Adobe has added a new capability to the Remove tool that automatically removes common distractions like people, wires, and cables with a single click. The ability to remove people is also available on Adobe Photoshop on the web with more to come later.
Distraction Removal can accelerate creative workflows in a variety of useful ways, for example:
- A graphic designer who works with an architecture client can automatically remove unwanted wires and people to clean up dense city scenes and create polished images that emphasize the architecture’s features in an urban environment.
- A travel photographer can remove tourists from her travel blog images.
- A wedding photographer can easily eliminate unwanted background distractions from photos.
Final image with unwanted people in the background removed with one click.
Adobe Firefly in the Remove tool
The Remove tool automatically chooses from many technologies to deliver the best result. Now, Adobe has added Adobe Firefly as one of the options. You can let the tool decide which technology to use, or you can choose among several options: “Generative AI on”, “Generative AI off”, or “Auto (May use generative AI)”, When in “Auto” mode, the Remove tool will determine which technology will produce the best results in each selection, based on the image and scene.
You can also use Firefly-powered features to add content to your images. In this release, Adobe introduced the general availability of the latest Firefly Image 3 Model into the Photoshop application and Photoshop on the web to power Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Similar, and Generate Background. The new Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model produces greatly improved photorealistic quality, better understands complex prompts, and generates more variety in results, which enables you to explore different creative directions.
After months of testing and optimisation based on user feedback in their beta application, Adobe is excited to bring these updates out of beta and make them generally available in Photoshop desktop app and Photoshop on the web:
Generative Fill with the latest Firefly Image Model
With Generative Fill, you can add or remove content from your images using simple text prompts right inside Photoshop. Imagery is automatically generated with the appropriate shadows, reflections, lighting, and perspective, enabling realistic results in just a few simple steps.
Here are a few examples of how Adobe has brought this to life:
Generative Fill is used by a digital creator to add royal clothing and accessories to images of herself to make them look like museum portraits, which she turns into mini magnets. With the improved model, her results have even greater photorealism and variety.
Generative Expand with the latest Firefly Image Model
To extend any image with new, generated content, select the Crop Tool, expand the canvas, and select Generate. The generated content blends seamlessly with the original image and produces high-quality results in seconds with the latest Firefly Image Model. Members of the creative community have found various applications for this feature. For example, users extend the canvas to create space for text or add generated content to the edges of images to straighten tilted horizons or fill in the rough edges of panoramas.
Generate Similar with the latest Firefly Image Model
Generate more variations similar to the one you like using Generate Similar. This feature is supported in Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Background, and Text to Image, and empowers you to narrow down to the generated output you like without having to guess which text prompts to use.
Generate Background with the latest Firefly Image Model
Replace your background with generated content that matches the subject’s lighting, shadows, and perspective in just a few steps. This feature has been embraced by the community, with creatives using it in a variety of meaningful ways:
Additionally, the Remove Background workflow is now streamlined in the Contextual Task Bar, which presents options to Colour fill, Import background and Generate background once the original background is removed.
Object based editing in Photoshop on the web
A new technology in Adobe Photoshop on the web automatically selects all the objects in your image. AI will automatically scan, identify, and select various elements on the canvas, enabling you to edit the selected areas more efficiently, accurately, and with greater control.
New updates in the Photoshop (beta) desktop application
Adobe uses the Photoshop (beta) app to build and test new features with the help of their community. Recently, they released a new feature and a plug-in to power more of your creative process:
Generative Workspace
Create the assets you need for your images and designs faster than ever. Ideate, brainstorm, and explore multiple concepts at the same time. Curate your favourites, search and reuse prompts and images from an automatically organised history notebook, and instantly explore different variations. Available in English while in beta and accessible via the Edit menu for all beta users, Generative Workspace accelerates your creative workflow, helping you quickly create the elements you need to realise your vision. For instance:
- A graphic designer imagines how adding a vase of flowers might enhance her design. She can now quickly explore dozens of ideas and variations — different flowers, colours, types of vases, lighting — all at the same time, quickly experimenting to achieve what she imagines. Generative Workspace generates assets in the background, so she can stay in her creative flow, curate ideas, and iterate on many concepts without waiting.
- A digital creator can use her own content as a reference image, drafting variations to see her style or composition applied to many different concepts. She can easily reuse prompts and images she’s favourited from her history, combining ideas, before seamlessly refining and perfecting them with Photoshop.
Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (beta) application
The Substance 3D Viewer (beta) application is a stand-alone desktop app designed to help you view and work with 3D files. Available in English, French, German, and Japanese, it can be downloaded via the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application by all Adobe users. By working with the Photoshop (beta) application, it enables graphic designers to seamlessly view and integrate 3D content into their Photoshop 2D designs as editable Smart Objects. Users gain new freedom, autonomy, and control to work directly with 3D files in their projects in a more streamlined and intuitive experience without jumping between multiple programmes and 3D production teams. More specifically:
- Graphic designers can use the Substance 3D Viewer (beta) application to adjust 3D models of products, modifying position, lighting, and surface properties. These models can then be integrated into 2D designs in Photoshop (beta) application to create marketing materials for websites, social content, and advertisements. This workflow is non-destructive and allows for quick updates when designs change and creation of marketing assets for different product versions without multiple physical prototypes or photo shoots.
- After adjusting the lighting and angles of 3D models of clothing and accessories, designers can incorporate them into 2D fashion mock-ups to create detailed, realistic images for marketing materials.
- Designers can edit the appearance and position of 3D models of event booths and signage, then integrate them into 2D designs to create accurate and polished event layouts for client proposals.
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