Adobe Adds New AI Tools to Photoshop and Illustrator

[MacRumors]

Adobe today updated its Illustrator and Photoshop Creative Cloud apps, introducing a range of new features that streamline productivity. Many of the additions take advantage of generative AI and machine learning to save creators time.

Photoshop has a new Selection Brush Tool for selecting areas by brushing over them without having to use the Quick Mask mode. The tool has opacity and hardness settings for feathered edges, allowing for more seamless selections.

The Adjustment Brush Tool, which has been in beta, is also available. It allows for painting on adjustments to brightness, saturation, and more, with options for fine tuning selections. Photoshop's Generate Image text to image feature is also out of beta, and it can be used to generate dozens of ideas in minutes using a text prompt and/or reference images.

Other new Photoshop features include an improved Contextual Task Bar, support for bulleted and numbered lists, and an Enhance Detail option for Generative Fill.

Adobe Illustrator has a Generative Shape Fill feature for filling shapes with detail and color. Adobe says that users can match the style and color of their own artwork to create multiple editable and scalable vector graphic options.

Text prompts are used to fill vector graphics for Generative Shape Fill, and there are options to add styles like 3D, geometric, or pixel art.

Adobe improved the Text to Pattern feature in Illustrator, making it simpler to create, edit, and scale seamless vector patterns. Vector graphics that are generated using the feature are crisper, plus there are new UI controls and better editing options.

With Mockup, designers can see their creations on objects like product packaging and apparel, with the tool automatically adjusting art to fit the edges of the object. Other new features in Illustrator include the Dimension tool for precise sizing, enhanced selection capabilities, and faster pan and zoom speeds.

These new features are available in the latest versions of Illustrator and Photoshop on the desktop. More information can be found on Adobe's website.

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[satchmo]

I suppose for mockup purposes or businesses who need 'free' content.

But for personal work, where is the joy in creating art...when you didn't actually create it?

 

[mansplains]

I suppose for mockup purposes or businesses who need 'free' content.

But for personal work, where is the joy in creating art...when you didn't actually create it?

It's simply another tool in the belt. Most music production involves using samples recorded by others. I'm not a vocalist, and using vocal samples doesn't diminish what I did in making the rest of the piece. It was still enjoyable, even if I can't afford to hire a vocalist and book a recording session.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

I actually tried this out with a portrait, it was able to get rid of the subject and generated in the background pretty well.

 

[kylelerner]

Adobe: "Give us your idea, and then we'll add to it/complete it. Oh, and then we'll train our models off of it! It's ours now. We'll also train each generative attempt, whether it's the one you saved at the end or not."

 

[jeremz1ne]

Just another notch under adobes belt

 

[kylelerner]

Can I use Adobe AI to create a Photoshop product that isn't on a subscription?

 

[satchmo]

It's simply another tool in the belt. Most music production involves using samples recorded by others. I'm not a vocalist, and using vocal samples doesn't diminish what I did in making the rest of the piece. It was still enjoyable, even if I can't afford to hire a vocalist and book a recording session.

I've art directed many campaigns and understand the creative process of pulling various elements together to complete a vision or look.

Yes, prior to AI, people would collage clip art together to create an original. Heck just look at Andy Warhol.

What I was referring to was passing off an AI generated image as something you created. In your example, you could use vocal samples, but you certainly wouldn't say that it's your voice.

 

[Eureka20]

I suppose for mockup purposes or businesses who need 'free' content.

But for personal work, where is the joy in creating art...when you didn't actually create it?

I think it's time for me to cancel my adobe subscription because this kinda crap is not what artists asked for

 

[Art Mark]

I guess it will speed up the creation of more 'content' that no one looks at or pays attention to as every company and artist keeps pouring out more and more meaningless stuff to get a few milliseconds of attention. So there's that...

 

[unchecked]

I suppose for mockup purposes or businesses who need 'free' content.

But for personal work, where is the joy in creating art...when you didn't actually create it?

For those of us who aren’t as artistically and visually inclined, there’s also joy to see magic happen.

It’s really useful for one-man-shows and lean teams starting out and don’t mind the jankiness of AI.

 

[fullauto]

Thanks for building our business, artists. Now everyone can be a designer. Just click and type! - Adobe's Bank Account

 

[madebybela]

adobe's good will with artists is already burning so surely this will get them back!!!!!!!

 

[icanhazmac]

Adobe adds “all your creations are belong to us” functionality!

 

[Digital Dude]

I think it's time for me to cancel my adobe subscription because this kinda crap is not what artists asked for

I beat you to it last week. 🙌

 

[Darren.h]

WHO NEEDS APPLE AI WHEN YOU HAVE THESE RESULTS.

 

[StoneJack]

Ai drawings really have weird colors

 

[DocMultimedia]

Another tool in the digital toolbox. Adapt to the times and use what's available. I do.

Or just use physical media. There are options for everyone.

No need to ridicule modern things such as electricity, the wheel, or radio.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Wow, so glad that Photoshop can now fabricate Bob Ross' hair!

 

[xbjllb]

Wow, so glad that Photoshop can now fabricate Bob Ross' hair!

His hair? Who do you think is modeled in the AI putting a little color here, a little cloud here, some waves here.....

 

[MichaelDroste]

Left adobe when they went subscription- hope they fail…

 

[picpicmac]

Photography has long been a craft about lying through the visual, and Adobe is advancing that craft.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Love Adobe. As long as they keep offering student prices I'll keep using them until I die.

 

[XboxEvolved]

Pixelmator Pro has a lot of useful AI tools that are actually help you be more creative and at a sliver of the cost. I’ll stick with it.

 

[Hallouminati]

I beat you to it last week. 🙌

Have they fixed up the cancel subscription mess? I read so many horror stories about needing months to get out and huge cancellation fees. I know it isn't for everyone but as a one man business the smallest subscription might work for me, if they fix that cancellation process.