But it’s not for the faint of heart.
After launching Photoshop for iPhone in February, a beta Android app is now available to download via Google Play. Much like its iOS counterpart, Photoshop for Android includes many features from the desktop version, including layers, masks, brushes, and Firefly generative AI tools, but with a UI optimized for mobile devices.
Adobe says all features are free to use while the app is in beta, and that more are “coming soon.”
Fresco, the creative software giant’s painting and drawing app, will now allow users to embed Content Credentials into their work that specifically identify it as “created without generative AI.” Content Credentials can already track if images have been manipulated using AI tools but clearly marking them as AI free is a new one, especially for a company that’s so heartily embraced the technology across its other apps.
Bluesky accounts for Adobe and Photoshop were dogpiled by the creative community shortly after making their first posts on the platform, attracting hundreds of negative comments before the posts were removed. The creative software giant’s image problem is no easy fix, having long been lambasted by its own users over subscription pricing models, AI adoption, and market domination.
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A universal open-source format exists, but only a handful of cameras use it.
The co-editing feature is currently in testing, and will allow multiple Photoshop users to work on the same canvas in real time while monitoring what’s being changed — similar to a Google Docs file.
It’s a notable upgrade to Photoshop’s current collaboration capabilities. A similar feature is already available for Adobe Express, and competing design apps like Canva and Figma.
Adobe snuck another experimental tool demo into its MAX event that can blend multiple photographs together by just clicking a button.
The results look a little artificial, but it can take a while for “Sneaks” projects to actually appear in Adobe apps like Photoshop — so the capabilities may improve when (or if) it does get released to the public.
After joking about “AI” being a drinking game trigger at MAX, Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky said the company is moving away from the “prompt era” of the tech — which “cheapened and undermined the craft of creative professionals” by generating anything from text descriptions.
Instead, the new “control era” aims to improve creative workflows with AI in more specific ways within Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe has added a bunch of new AI “quick actions” that automatically apply effects for retouching backgrounds, teeth, eyes, skin, and more.
Lightroom’s mobile apps also now have the “Generative Remove” feature that was introduced to the desktop editor in May — making it easier to delete annoying objects from your images on the go.
Teased during the demo for Project Concept, Adobe says V4 of its Firefly Image Model will allow users to highlight areas of a generated image to adjust without making it again from scratch— for example, adding a guitar to a specific surface.
V3 has only just rolled out to Creative Cloud apps but this latest update will be available soon according to Adobe.
Dubbed “Project Concept,” this in-development planning app allows multiple creatives to hash out ideas in real time by mind-mapping inspirational images — just like Figma’s mood board tools.
Project Concept also includes a built-in generative AI “remix” feature that blends together aspects from multiple reference images. It’s not available yet, but Adobe says we’ll know more “in the near future.”
