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Business Standard
30-07-2025
- Business Standard
Adobe updates Photoshop across platforms with new AI tools: What's new
Adobe has rolled out a new set of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features across Photoshop on desktop, web, and mobile. The latest update introduces tools such as Harmonize, generative upscale, and improved object removal capabilities through its remove tool. According to Adobe, all these features are built to streamline tasks like background clean-up, image enhancement, and seamless compositing. These features are focused on removing manual effort and accelerating workflows. Availability These features are rolling out now in the Photoshop beta for desktop and web, and the latest mobile version is available on iOS. Adobe Photoshop AI features: What is new Harmonize The new Harmonize feature blends the added objects into a scene by automatically matching lighting, colours, visual tone and shadows. This helps users create more realistic and seamless images with fewer manual adjustments. Harmonize is powered by Adobe Firefly Image Model. It is available in beta across Photoshop on desktop and web, and in early Access on mobile (iOS). Generative upscale Another addition is generative upscale, which lets users increase image resolution up to 8 megapixels without losing clarity. As per Adobe, this feature is helpful for improving older photos, prepping images for print, or adjusting visuals for different social media formats. This feature is also available in beta. Improved remove tool Photoshop's remove tool has also been upgraded using Adobe's Firefly AI model. It can clean images with more precision and quality than ever before. It can erase background clutter or fix product shots. Adobe said the improved remove tool not only eliminates unwanted elements but also generates realistic content that fills the gaps with better quality and accuracy. Projects A new feature called Projects (beta) lets users better organise and share their work. It gathers assets into one space so collaborators can access and work on them together. This removes the need to constantly send files back and forth. Whether a user is working on client campaigns or building mood boards, Projects helps keep their workflow streamlined and everything in one place. Gen AI Model picker For flexibility, Photoshop now offers a Gen AI Model Picker for its Generative Fill and Expand tools. Users can choose between different Firefly image models (Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3) to get the style and output that fits their creative needs while using Photoshop's Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools.
Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Adobe adds new AI-powered image-editing features to Photoshop
Adobe is bringing more AI-powered image-editing and enhancement features to Photoshop using its Firefly models. The company said today that it is rolling out an image-upscaling feature, an object blending, and an upgraded object remover to Photoshop. The company said that the Generative Upscale feature will enhance an image up to 8 megapixels. This is useful for restoring details to old photos, upscaling images for prints, or adopting assets for various platforms. In 2024, Adobe teased a feature called Project Perfect Blend, which works on correcting colors, shadows, and lighting for new objects being added to an existing image. The idea is to have the new object, such as a sofa chair in a room, blend in with the environment. Now Adobe is rolling out this feature under the Harmonize moniker, letting you place an object in a scene, remove its background, and have Photoshop use Firefly models to adjust color, lighting, shadows, and visual tones to fit the object in the scene. The company is also rolling out an improved object-removal tool. Previously, when you used generative fill to remove the object, the tool considered the whole scene to fill in the gap of the removed object and at times, that resulted in unwanted artifacts in the image. The company has reworked the algorithm to have it focus on just removing the object and filling the gap with the background. In a demo seen by TechCrunch, when Adobe's director for product management at Photoshop, Joel Baer, used an earlier version of object removal to remove a small bowl of pico de gallo from a picture, the tool just added a green blob. The new version was able to successfully remove the object and replace it with the background. Adobe is also adding a few small features to Photoshop, including a better way to manage putting assets in a shared and organized space. Plus, the company lets you choose the version of the Firefly model you want to choose while using AI features. 'We have talked to photographers, designers, and content creators to understand what are the pain points in their workflows and what slows them down. These new features will help them save time, remove friction from their workflows, and take on some of the time-consuming tasks on their behalf,' Shambhavi Kadam, senior director of product management for Photoshop, said in a briefing. The Generative Upscale, Harmonize, and improved object-removal features are available in beta for Photoshop on desktop and web versions. The Harmonize feature is also available on the new Photoshop iOS app through an early access program. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Techday NZ
30-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Adobe brings new AI tools & workflow upgrades to Photoshop
Adobe has announced a series of updates across Photoshop on desktop, web, and mobile, focusing on enhancing workflow efficiency and expanding editing capabilities for creators and creative professionals. Expanded features across platforms Adobe's latest set of features is designed to streamline the editing process for users, regardless of whether they are designers, photographers, or content creators working on the move. The company notes that the feedback from the creative community was a key driver behind the new developments. A spokesperson stated, "Today we're introducing new innovations across Photoshop on desktop, web and mobile that eliminate those tedious steps, reduce friction, and make precision editing faster and more intuitive, so you can spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time focused on what matters most: bringing your creative visions to life. These new innovations come from our ongoing conversations with the creative community, where we hear how we can evolve tools in Photoshop to remove barriers and bring you a more intuitive, intelligent, and fun creative experience. Whether you're a designer building assets for a campaign, a photographer retouching fine details, or a content creator producing social assets on the go, we built Photoshop's latest tools with you in mind." The release brings notable new features in beta, such as Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and Projects, as well as enhancements to the Remove tool and a new Gen AI Model Picker for generative edits. Harmonize: blending objects The Harmonize feature, powered by the Adobe Firefly Image Model and available in beta, facilitates seamless integration of added objects into existing compositions by automatically adjusting lighting, colour, and shadows. This capability reduces the need for manual adjustments, providing a tool for producing more cohesive composites in fewer steps. According to the company, "When you add a new object to a composition, Harmonize intelligently analyses the surrounding context, automatically adjusting color, lighting, shadows, and visual tone to create seamless, cohesive composites. This significantly reduces the need for time-consuming manual adjustments and is ideal for designers creating surreal composites, marketers building dynamic campaign visuals, or digital artists experimenting with whimsical scenes. This makes the process of producing high-quality, realistic composites faster, more intuitive, and more efficient than ever before." Generative Upscale and image precision The Generative Upscale tool is now in beta for desktop and web, enabling users to increase image resolution to 8 megapixels while maintaining or improving sharpness. This tool has been introduced to meet the needs of photographers and social media managers requiring high-quality images for various platforms without extensive post-processing. Adobe said, "We're introducing Generative Upscale in beta for Photoshop on desktop and web, bringing high-quality resolution enhancements up to 8 megapixels without sacrificing image clarity. If you're a photographer, Generative Upscale is helpful for refining edits and especially useful for enhancing image quality for print, delivery, or reworking older files. If you're a social media manager, it can also be useful to help you adapt assets for various platforms. This has been one of the most requested updates from the Photoshop community and is a powerful new creative tool that delivers sharper, more detailed results with minimal effort." Remove tool improvements The Remove tool has been updated with the latest Firefly Image Model to improve accuracy and realism in content-aware erasing. The enhancements aim to produce cleaner edits with fewer artefacts, supporting more professional-looking results. Adobe noted, "The improved Remove tool with the latest Adobe Firefly Image Model, available on Photoshop desktop and web, helps you clean up your images with more precision and quality than ever before. Whether you're erasing stray power lines, tidying up a portrait backdrop, or polishing a product photo, the Remove tool not only eliminates unwanted elements but also generates realistic content that fills the gaps with better quality and accuracy. Edits blend more naturally into the background with fewer artifacts, so your results look cleaner, more professional, and ready to share." Collaboration with Projects The Projects (beta) feature introduces new capabilities for managing and collaborating on assets within Photoshop desktop. With Projects, users can organise all creative materials within a single shared space, reducing the need to locate files or manually exchange assets. Adobe stated, "In Photoshop desktop beta, we're introducing Projects, a new way to manage and organise your creative work. By bringing assets together into a shared, organised space, Projects eliminates common pain points: files scattered across local drives, slow and fragmented collaboration, and the need to manually send individual assets back and forth. With Projects, you can share entire collections at once, reducing versioning issues and keeping your creative process moving forward smoothly. Whether you're working on client campaigns or building mood boards, Projects helps keep your workflow streamlined and everything in one place." Model Picker for creative flexibility The Gen AI Model Picker offers users the choice between different Firefly Image Models, including Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3, for Generative Fill and Expand. This aims to allow greater control over style and output for a variety of creative applications. "Creativity thrives on choice. That's why we're excited to debut Gen AI Model Picker, a new capability within Photoshop desktop that allows you to choose between different Firefly Image Models (Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3) when using Photoshop's Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools. Each Firefly model has unique strengths and styles and the Model Picker gives artists, illustrators, and social creators unmatched flexibility and choice to experiment and tailor outputs to their unique style and creative vision." Access to updates The new Photoshop features, including all the beta releases, are available on desktop, web, and the latest mobile version on iOS, enabling users to access creative tools in diverse settings where their work takes place.
The Verge
29-07-2025
- The Verge
Photoshop just made it shockingly easy to edit objects and people into photos
Adobe is launching some new generative AI features for Photoshop that make it easier than ever to convincingly add or remove people and objects in photographs. An update rolling out today introduces AI image upscaling, improved object removal, and an automatic composition tool that can seamlessly blend new elements into images in just a few clicks. The 'Harmonize' compositing feature builds on the Project Perfect Blend experiment that Adobe showcased last year. When you add a new object to a photograph, Harmonize will automatically adjust the color, lighting, shadows, and visual tone of the added element to naturally blend it into the main image — something that typically requires a decent amount of skill and experience with photo editing software. It's launching in beta for Photoshop users on both web and desktop, and is available in early access on the Photoshop iOS mobile app. A generative AI-powered image upscaling tool is also launching in beta for Photoshop on web and desktop. Adobe says it provides 'high-quality resolution enhancements up to eight megapixels without sacrificing image clarity,' to improve details on low-quality images, helping users to restore old photographs or adapt image assets for various platforms. The automatic object removal tool for desktop and web Photoshop users is also being updated to 'clean up your images with more precision,' according to Adobe. The improvements should result in fewer unwanted background elements, and more realistic content being generated to fill in any unwanted gaps. Notably, it should also now listen to you when you ask it to remove an object without adding something to replace it, which it had a habit of doing before. These features have me both excited and fearful. While Photoshop already has generative AI features that can add new objects to images based on prompt descriptions, the results can be unpredictable, and there are safeguards in place to prevent it from generating anything concerning, like deepfakes of notable public figures, violence, or sexually explicit materials. By comparison, the only limitation to Harmonize is that the user will have to find the images they want to blend together. Photoshop will apply digital Content Credentials to edited images that contain information about how they were manipulated, which is good for accountability, but not prevention. I can imagine far more wholesome ways to use these tools than I can nefarious ones, but it's now even easier to do the latter than it was before. 'Customers who use the Harmonize feature must adhere to Adobe's terms of use, which prohibits generating unlawful or harmful content,' Photoshop product manager, Joel Baer, told The Verge. 'Adobe takes content safety seriously across all products, and has implemented safeguards such as Content Credentials, to protect users and combat harmful and misleading content. Content Credentials give the option for good actors to attach edit history to their work and create a digital chain of trust and authenticity.' Last year, I said that likening concerns about generative AI photo editing apps to Photoshop was a poor comparison. Guess I have to eat my words now. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Jess Weatherbed Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Adobe Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Creators Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Design Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
Forbes
29-07-2025
- Forbes
Powerful New AI Tools Coming To Photoshop For Content Creators And Creative Professionals
The new Harmonize tool blends elements into compositions with a few clicks for more realism. It's ... More powered by Adobe's Firefly Image Model and will be available across Photoshop on desktop, web, as well as in Early Access on mobile for iOS. Software behemoth Adobe has announced a suite of new AI-powered tools for Photoshop to make it easier to translate creative ideas into polished visuals with minimal friction. Photoshop users can use the new tools to craft and blend disparate images into convincing images. The company has also declared war tedious Photoshop tasks like cleaning up edges, adjusting lighting and finessing the countless tiny details that go to make up an image that looks completely believable. Adobe is addressing these pain points with its latest innovations in Photoshop for desktops, mobiles and the web. The new features can eliminate tedious editing steps and make precise editing a quicker and easier process, reducing the amount of time creatives spend on the boring and repetitive tasks, freeing up more time to focus on ideas. The new tools are the result of conversations Adobe has been having with its customers. The company wanted to hear how it could evolve the tools in the world's favorite image editor so barriers could be removed, giving users a more intuitive, intelligent and fun experience. Whether a designer is building marketing assets for a campaign, a photographer is retouching fine details or a content creator is producing social assets on the go, Adobe says the new Photoshop tools have been specifically designed with those users in mind. Harmonize can intelligently analyze new objects and their surrounding context, automatically ... More adjusting color, lighting, shadows and visual tone to create a seamless and cohesive composite. Harmonize Photoshop Edits The first new Photoshop feature is Harmonize which was first previewed as Project Perfect Blend at Adobe MAX in October 2024. Harmonize blends elements into compositions with a few clicks for more realism. It's powered by Adobe's Firefly Image Model and will be available across Photoshop on desktop, web, as well as in Early Access on mobile for iOS. Adobe says Harmonize can intelligently analyze new objects and their surrounding context, automatically adjusting color, lighting, shadows and visual tone to create a seamless and cohesive composite. It also claims Harmonize can significantly reduce the need for time-consuming manual adjustments. Harmonize is suitable for designers creating surreal composites, marketers building dynamic campaign visuals or digital artists experimenting with whimsical scenes. Also new to Photoshop is Generative Upscale, which is in beta for Photoshop desktop and web. Generative Upscale creates high-quality resolution enhancements up to eight megapixels without sacrificing any image clarity. Adobe says Photographers will find Generative Upscale useful for refining edits, while social media creatives will use it for adapting assets for various platforms. Adobe says that Generative Upscale has been one of the most requested updates from the Photoshop community and can deliver sharper and more detailed results with minimal effort. Also new to Photoshop is Generative Upscale, which is in beta for Photoshop desktop and web. ... More Generative Upscale creates high-quality resolution enhancements up to eight megapixels without sacrificing any image clarity. Improved Remove Tool Photoshop will also feature an improved Remove tool using the latest Adobe Firefly Image Model. Available on Photoshop desktop and web, the Remove tool can clean up images with more precision and quality. Whether it's erasing stray power lines, tidying up a portrait backdrop or polishing a product photo, the tool removes unwanted elements and can generate realistic fill content with improved quality and accuracy. Edits are blended more naturally into the background with fewer artifacts and a cleaner and more professional look. Adobe is also introducing Projects to Photoshop desktop beta. This is a new way to manage and organize creative work by bringing assets together in a shared and organized space. Projects can eliminate pain points like files being scattered across local drives, as well as slow and fragmented collaboration or the need to manually send individual assets back and forth. The Remove tool has been improved in Photoshop and can clean up images with more precision and ... More quality. Whether it's erasing stray power lines, tidying up a portrait backdrop or polishing a product photo, the tool removes unwanted elements and can generate realistic fill content with improved quality and accuracy. Everything In One Place With Projects, users can share entire collections at once, reducing versioning issues and keeping the creative process moving when working on campaigns or building mood boards. Adobe says Projects will keep workflows streamlined and ensure everything is available in one place. Adobe is also debuting a new capability that gives users the choice between two different Firefly Image Models: Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3. Called Gen Al Model Picker, the feature is available when using Photoshop's Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools on Photoshop desktop. Adobe says each Firefly model has its own unique strengths and styles that give artists, illustrators and social creators more flexibility and choice when experimenting and tailoring output to suit a unique style and creative vision. All the new Photoshop tools will be available across all versions: desktop, web and mobile. This means the user can be working at a studio desk, sketching ideas on a tablet or making a few quick edits on their phone, bringing creative visions to life wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. Users can explore these latest Photoshop AI tools from today across the Photoshop beta on desktop and on the web or with the latest version of Photoshop mobile on iOS.
