Adobe Adds AI Assistants to Photoshop and Firefly

Adobe rolled out AI assistants for its image-editing tools, including Firefly Image Editor and Adobe Photoshop, expanding generative editing capabilities across its creative software ecosystem.

The company said this week the AI Assistant will also integrate with Acrobat, Adobe Express, and third-party chat platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing users to generate or modify images using prompts.

Through 9 April, paid subscribers using Photoshop on the web or mobile will receive unlimited AI generations, while users of the free version will be limited to 20 generations, Adobe said in a blog post.

The AI Assistant is available in the public beta version of Photoshop for web and mobile devices, including iOS and Android.

The new tools allow users to add, replace or refine image elements using prompts, remove unwanted objects, resize images for different formats, increase resolution, sharpen details, and isolate subjects with a single click.

“Adobe Firefly makes it fast and easy to edit images with just a prompt,” the company said in a blog post.

The Firefly Image Editor combines AI generation and editing features in a single workspace, enabling users to adjust composition, style and visual detail across both AI-generated and uploaded images.

Users can allow the AI Assistant to apply edits automatically or receive step-by-step guidance to remove distractions, change backgrounds, refine lighting or adjust colors.

In Photoshop Web, the AI Markup feature lets users highlight a specific area of an image and type a prompt, such as adding flowers or mountains, after which the system generates the requested elements within seconds.

Adobe said Firefly users can select from more than 25 AI models, including Adobe’s own models as well as tools from OpenAI, Google, Runway and Black Forest Labs, and then apply editing features within the Firefly environment.