Hands On: Adobe Firefly in Photoshop

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Adobe this week announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) art generation tools, collectively known as Firefly, are being added to Photoshop. Notable for Photoshop is Firefly's Generative Fill tool, which fills in or expands an image based on a text prompt you give it. The AI can also extend an image by guessing how it looks beyond its edges, add or remove objects, generate image-based letters, and recolor vector art.

Firefly for Photoshop is available now in beta when used as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, and there is a beta web app where you can demo some of the features yourself.

I got early hands-on access to Firefly and was impressed by how it can support artists and their work.

Adobe Firefly is a still-breeding family of AI-powered generative art tools. If you're lost on the words "generative art," see the section further down that unpacks it.

A standalone web-based Firefly Beta app is now available for testing features such as Text to Image, Text Effects, and Generative Fill. To get it, go to the Firefly page(Opens in a new window), log in with your Creative Cloud account, and sign up. Or you can download the beta Photoshop app(Opens in a new window) to experiment with Generative Fill, though you need a Creative Cloud individual, team, or enterprise license for that.

Adobe's vision for Firefly is to help people expand their natural creativity and boost their ability to express ideas. As an embedded model inside Adobe apps, Firefly will offer generative AI tools made specifically for creative needs, use cases, and workflows.

Photoshop is the first Creative Cloud app to integrate Firefly natively. Note that there are two new releases: Photoshop (v.24.5) and Photoshop Beta (v.24.6). In this article, I