Adobe Photoshop adds AI image creation feature

The San Jose, California-based company says it will be the start of an “invasion” of AI technology into programs and applications for professional creators.

Illustration of how to use the "Generative Fill" feature in Photoshop. Photo: Adobe

Programs like OpenAI's Dall-E have gained public attention by converting text prompts into images, but they have yet to be widely used by large corporations due to legal concerns surrounding the data used to train the systems.

Adobe has sought to address those concerns with a core technology system called “Firefly” – a platform built specifically with copyrighted image data that the company says can be legally used commercially.

The company that owns Photoshop tested Firefly for six weeks on an independent website, before announcing it was bringing AI features based on the platform to its most popular photo editing software.

A new feature called “Generative Fill” allows users to replace the original image with computer-generated content based on text prompts. For example, a flower can be “magically” transformed into a flower field with a mountain range in the background.

Ely Greenfield, CTO for digital media at Adobe, said the idea behind the tool is not to replace graphic artists, but to help them create new images from ideas quickly. Previously, graphic designers had to spend hours searching through image archives and combining them by hand.

“This tool speeds up production significantly,” Ely asserts.

(According to Reuters)

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