Adobe to Introduce AI Image Generation Tool in Photoshop

Published: 23 April 2024 at 17:29

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Adobe plans to launch a new AI image generation tool called Firefly in Photoshop, aiming to compete with other AI startups like OpenAI and Stability AI. The tool enables users to generate images from text and uploaded images, but is not intended for creating realistic depictions of real or historical events. It is designed to streamline the workflow for creative professionals without infringing on copyright, offering an easier way to create compositions based on rough sketches or photos.

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Artificial intelligence art (Wikipedia)

Artificial intelligence art is any visual artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as text-to-image models.Artists began to create AI art in the mid- to late 20th century, when the discipline was founded. In the early 21st century, the availability of AI art tools to the general public increased, providing opportunities for use outside of academia and professional artists. Throughout its history, artificial intelligence art has raised many philosophical concerns, including those related to copyright, deception, and its impact on traditional artists, including their incomes.

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Photoshop contest (Wikipedia)

A Photoshop contest, or sometimes Photoshop battle (often abbreviated to PS Battle), is an online game, in which a website or user of an Internet forum will post a starting image — usually a photograph — and ask others to manipulate the image using some kind of graphics editing software, usually Adobe Photoshop, however other editors are commonly allowed, such as Corel Photo-Paint, GIMP, PaintShop Pro, Paint.NET or even Microsoft Paint. People can also use video editing software to create these images, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Kdenlive, OpenShot, or NCH VideoPad.While Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program, Adobe Systems, the publisher of Photoshop, discourages use of "Photoshop" to refer to anything other than their photo editing software, to prevent their trademark from becoming generic.

Photoshop (disambiguation) (Wikipedia)

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe.Photoshop may also refer to:Adobe Photoshop Elements software, a consumer level edition of the Adobe Photoshop softwarePhotoshop contest, a competition to produce digitally modified imagesPhotoshopping, a slang term originally taken from Adobe Photoshop and now used generically for digitally altering photographs"Photoshop", a song by Bis from their 1997 album The New Transistor Heroes

Adobe Lightroom (Wikipedia)

Adobe Lightroom (officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is a piece of image organization and image processing software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family. It is supported on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and tvOS (Apple TV). Its primary uses include importing, saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images. Lightroom's editing functions include white balance, presence, tone, tone curve, HSL, color grading, detail, lens corrections, and calibration manipulation, as well as transformation, spot removal, red eye correction, graduated filters, radial filters, and adjustment brushing. The name of the software is based on darkrooms used for processing light-sensitive photographic materials.

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Adobe Photoshop (Wikipedia)

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing. Owing to its fame, the program's name has become genericised as a verb (e.g. "to photoshop an image", "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") although Adobe disapproves of such use.Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics (especially through clipping path for the latter), as well as 3D graphics and video. Its feature set can be expanded by plug-ins; programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.Photoshop's naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October 2002 (following the introduction of Creative Suite branding), each new version of Photoshop was designated with "CS" plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop CS and the ninth was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two different editions: Standard and Extended. With the introduction of the Creative Cloud branding in June 2013 (and in turn, the change of the "CS" suffix to "CC"), Photoshop's licensing scheme was changed to that of software as a service subscription model. Historically, Photoshop was bundled with additional software such as Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central and Adobe Camera RAW.Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop Mix. As of November 2019, Adobe has also released a full version of Photoshop for the iPad, and while initially limited, Adobe plans to bring more features to Photoshop for iPad. Collectively, they are branded as "The Adobe Photoshop Family".

Tech watchdog report reveals AI image generators can be manipulated to create misleading election-related images

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Runway (company) (Wikipedia)

Runway AI, Inc. (also known as Runway and RunwayML) is an American company headquartered in New York City that specializes in generative artificial intelligence research and technologies. The company is primarily focused on creating products and models for generating videos, images, and various multimedia content. It is most notable for developing the first commercial text-to-video generative AI models Gen-1 and Gen-2 and co-creating the research for the popular image generation AI system Stable Diffusion.Runway's tools and AI models have been utilized in films such as Everything Everywhere All At Once, in music videos for artists including A$AP Rocky, Kanye West, Brockhampton, and The Dandy Warhols, and in editing television shows like The Late Show and Top Gear.

AI boom (Wikipedia)

The AI boom, or AI spring, is the ongoing period of rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence. Prominent examples include protein folding prediction and generative AI, led by laboratories including Google DeepMind and OpenAI.The AI boom is expected to have a profound cultural, philosophical, religious, economic, and social impact, as questions such as AI alignment, qualia, and the development of artificial general intelligence became widely prominent topics of popular discussion.

Photograph manipulation (Wikipedia)

Photograph manipulation involves the transformation or alteration of a photograph. Some photograph manipulations are considered to be skillful artwork, while others are considered to be unethical practices, especially when used to deceive. Photographs may be manipulated for political propaganda, to improve the appearance of a subject, for entertainment, or as humor.Depending on the application and intent, some photograph manipulations are considered an art form because they involve creation of unique images and in some instances, signature expressions of art by photographic artists. For example, Ansel Adams used darkroom exposure techniques, burning (darkening) and dodging (lightening) a photograph. Other techniques include retouching using ink or paint, airbrushing, double exposure, piecing photos or negatives together in the darkroom, and scratching instant films. Software tools applied to digital images range from professional applications to basic imaging software for casual users. Photoshopping is a verb for photograph manipulation as a genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop.