Adobe announced Tuesday that it will incorporate an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator into Photoshop by the end of the year, though beta versions are already available. With just a text prompt, users would be able to add or delete elements from images using the AI tool Firefly.
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According to the company, it can also automatically match the lighting and style of existing images.
Pam Clark, vice president of Photoshop product management and product strategy, wrote in a blog post: “[N]ow that we are entering a new era of AI, the advent of generative models presents a new opportunity to take our imaging capabilities to another level.”
“Over the last few months, we have integrated this exciting new technology into Photoshop in a major step toward a more natural, intuitive, and fun way to work,” Pam said.
The AI-powered tool, which was trained on Adobe’s own stock images as well as publicly available assets, was announced in March but was only available for the web.
Adobe considered the tool to be one of its most successful beta launches, with over 70 million images created in the first month.
Adobe may be able to avoid the criticism that some other AI image generators have received for relying heavily on online content to train their software. As a result, Adobe is relying on its image library and media, which are freely available to the public.
In January, Getty Images filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, a company that uses the AI art tool stable diffusion, accusing it of copyright infringement.
Getty Images claimed that Stability AI copied and processed millions of its images without permission. Stability AI filed a motion to dismiss the suit earlier this month.
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