And they shouldn’t scare you, either. Adobe’s new AI-powered tools in Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and other apps help you get things done faster.
Imagine using the Clone Stamp tool to remove the person from the scene in the photo above. This took about 30 seconds using Adobe AI Generative Remove in Lightroom.
34 years ago…
Photoshop came on the scene in February 1990. Photographers were shooting film. Digital cameras were a few years away. The prophets of doom were convinced that Photoshop would destroy photography’s reputation that “seeing is believing.”
Photojournalists condemned retouching, cloning and exposure changes. The photographs would no longer be credible. The fear was that Photoshop would destroy confidence in photographs.
Photography has survived Photoshop. I suggest it is a more powerful storytelling medium because of Photoshop.
Adobe AI
Adobe’s AI tools have dramatically improved the efficiency of my workflow. I’m a commercial photographer. My job is to present idealized images that are as perfect as possible. Generative Fill, Generative Enlarge, and the Remove tool are among the 100+ AI-powered features in Adobe products. They all make me more efficient and visually more eloquent.
Ethically trained
Adobe’s AI tools are trained using Adobe Stock, which currently contains over 460 million images. This means that the results produced by their AI tools are commercially exploitable. They do not violate copyrights like some large language models trained by scraping data from the Internet do. This is a huge win for Adobe users.
Authenticity of content
Adobe is a partner in the Content Authenticity Initiative. It is an open source system. It allows users to add AI information into an image or video. The Content Credentials pin in the corner of an asset means that it has content credentials. Click the pin to see more content data.
Give Adobe’s AI tools a big hug!
Adobe has been evolving its tools with AI for some time now. The more I use them, the more I want to use these tools. What I like is that when one AI tool doesn’t do what I want, there’s a good chance another one will. Embrace these time savings. I have.
