Adobe is adding an AI-powered image generator to Photoshop | CNN Business

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Photoshop is about to look a little different.

Adobe said Tuesday it is adding an artificial intelligence image generator to Photoshop, with the goal of “dramatically speeding up” how users edit their photos.

The tool, called Firefly, allows users to add or remove elements of images with only a text prompt, according to Adobe. It can also match the lighting and style of existing images automatically, the company said.

It’s currently available in a new Photoshop beta app. The company plans to release the product to all Photoshop customers later this year.

Adobe’s move comes after it released a recent series of AI tools that can generate compelling written work and images in response to user prompts, with the potential to change the way people work. they create and communicate with each other.

“[N]As we enter a new era of AI, the advent of generative models presents a new opportunity to take our imaging capabilities to another level,” wrote Pam Clark, vice president of product management and product strategy of Photoshop, in a blog post. “Over the past few months, we’ve built this new technology into Photoshop in a major step toward a more natural, intuitive, and fun way to work.”

Firefly launched in March at the Adobe Summit as a web-only beta. He was trained on Adobe’s stock image collection as well as publicly available assets. Adobe has called the tool one of its most successful beta releases, with more than 70 million images created in the first month.

By relying on its own collection of images and media available for public use, Adobe can avoid the backlash that other AI image-generating tools have faced for using a large amount of content in line as formation.

In January, Getty Images sued Stability AI, the company behind the popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, alleging copyright infringement by the tech company. Getty said that Stability AI copied and processed millions of its images without obtaining the proper license.

Stability filed a motion earlier this month to dismiss the lawsuit.