While also revealing some flash new tricks for video editors, Adobe hasn’t forgotten about graphic designer-types and people who work with photos for living.
Shown off to the crowd at the AdobeMAX 2024 creativity extravaganza in Miami, Photoshop is gaining some sweet new tricks designed to “empower the creative community to bring their visions to life”. Here’s are some of the big updates coming to Adobe’s AI-enhanced image editor in the coming months.
Photoshop 2025
Distraction Removal
A fab new timesaver is the new Distraction Removal tool. This identifies common objects that tend to get in the way of your compositions. It could be people, wires, poles and other unsightly things – no offense to the poles. Using AI (of course), the tool automatically vanishes the sunburnt tourists in your travel logs or fugly power lines littering that architecture-digest money shot.
Distraction Removal builds on the existing Remove tool, only now you don’t need to select individual objects. Just click the ‘find distractions’ button, and it will rid your photo of distractions all at once.
Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model
Photoshop’s Generative Fill and Generative Expand were a huge hit when they dropped back in May 2023. Now, powered by an updated Firefily Image 3 Model, these tools are even more capable.
The new image model is 4 times faster, and has improved photorealism, more variety, and can understand complex prompts. With Generative Fill, you can simply select an area of a photo that you want to alter, like plonking a tree frog on a leaf, and it will generate a photorealistic frog with the correct lighting and shadows. If you don’t like that version, you can choose from other versions as well. More realistic and lifelike results are also available with Generative Expand, which is perfect for extending an image’s canvas from portrait to landscape.
With the Generate Similar option, you can create variations of your subject to narrow down to the version you like best without having to type in text prompts.
The Generate Background tool is super helpful for adding a background that matches your subject’s context, lighting, shadows and perspective. Great for embellishing product shots, or just pretending you’re on vacation…
Generative Workspace
Sometimes you need the space to create, and the new Generative Workspace is a great place to dream up all kinds of out-there ideas.
This is stand-alone generative AI workspace that you can explore multiple visual concepts at the same time, curating your favourites, reusing ideas, adding your own inspirational images and trying out different prompts. Plus it keeps a history ‘notebook’ which is everything that you’ve dreamed up in one place.
For example, a designer could start with a reference image of a wooden chair, then start writing text prompts for variations with purple fur cushions, then refining the results by changing the wood type, number of chair legs, arm rests, etc. Using Generative Workspace, the designer could create many variations quickly, sift through the history, only stopping when inspiration hits.
The Generative Workspace is available to try out in the ‘Edit’ menu of the Photoshop (beta) app.
Substance 3D Viewer
3D design is not an easy skill to learn, and the tools are hard. Now, Adobe has made it easier for 2D designers to work with 3D objects created in Adobe Substance. The Substance 3D Viewer is a stand-alone desktop app that connects to Photoshop (Beta), meaning designers can avoid Substance altogether.
Once in the viewer, designers can rotate position, change colours, lighting and surfaces of 3D objects, which are then converted into 2D Smart Objects and imported into Photoshop projects.
There are many more updates to Photoshop, coming in 2025. For more, check out the Adobe blog. To try them out, you’ll need a license and the beta version of the Photoshop app.
Valens Quinn attended the AdobeMAX 2024 conference in Miami as a guest of Adobe Australia.
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