Adobe announces more AI enhancements for Photoshop

The march of AI technologies continues at pace, with Adobe announcing it's expanding the generative AI capabilities in the beta of Photoshop AI.

The standout new feature is Reference Images, which allows users to pull an image into a project to use as a reference to match AI creations to the same colors, tones, and styles of the reference shot.

Adobe announced several other new features including: Reference Image, Generate Image, Generate Similar, Generate Background, and Enhance Detail at its London MAX event overnight.

The new capabilities are possible because of the new Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, which was also announced on Tuesday.

Firefly Image 3 is available natively within Photoshop, where it powers Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and Generate Image. Users can also now use a reference image for Generate Image and Generative Expand.

“This massive new update to Photoshop takes creativity to unprecedented levels—whether you are a professional or brand new to Photoshop,” said Ashley Still, senior vice president, Creative Product Group at Adobe.

“Through new Firefly-powered features in Photoshop, we are bringing ideation and creation closer together and making editing images both more powerful and approachable so everyone can realize their creative vision."

Another new AI feature is Enhance Detail. This promises to improve the apparent crispness of images through tweaks to sharpness and clarity. In addition, a new Adjustment Brush enables users to apply non-destructive adjustments to specific areas of an image, similar to how the tool works in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.

Adobe is also updating its font browser, which will gain real-time access to Adobe’s 25,000-plus fonts in the cloud.

All new features and improvements are available in Photoshop's AI version beta as of today, and according to Adobe they will be "more generally available later this year."