Adobe continues to incorporate A.I. into its software suite with a string of A.I. features for Photoshop. These largely include automating editing tasks that normally would be more time-intensive, such as removing an unwanted element from a picture then filling in the empty space to make it seem like the rest of the background.
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- “Distraction Removal” is the A.I. feature that removes what the user will identify as distractions within a particular photo. For instance, a skateboarding dog that happened to photobomb a candid-seeming photo of someone proposing on one knee.
- Users can choose between the generative-A.I. tools, among them Adobe Firefly, to use in the Remove feature.
- In addition to scrubbing out distractions from photos, generative A.I. in Adobe platforms can also be used to add content to photos. Or, make alterations, such as changing the color of the sky in a landscape photograph.
- This new slew of features comes after the summer 2024 controversy about users interpreting terms of agreement as Adobe trying to use users’ data (read: creative projects done on Adobe software) to train A.I. systems.
- Perhaps in light of the controversy mentioned above, the P.R.-related pivot from Adobe comes in the form of offering a service that helps protect content creators’ works from A.I. training, as well as watermarking attributions detailing information about the content creator.
The Adobe Appeal for Photographers
Though the more artistic kinds of photographers, the kinds who sell books of their photos, may staunchly sing the virtues of warts-and-all photography, there are a great many professional and amateur image engineers who are highly interested in generative A.I. to alter photographs.
The practical applications are of course attractive. Who would not want to save a bundle of minutes, even an hour or more, removing an unwanted part of a photograph, if A.I. can get the same result at the pocket-change price of less than a minute?
That may be one of the key things to realize about the appeal that these features have for photographers—it’s not so much that this technology will create photos for them (it could), but the primary appeal is that it can save a lot of sweat equity for users.
Post-Photoshoot Creativity
Of course, the time saved tinkering in Photoshop is just one of the appeals.
Among the other creative things that gen-A.I. can do in Photoshop is extend images. Not stretch the photo, mind you, but add new content to the margins of the photo so that there is suddenly more stuff in the photo.
Let’s say you took one of those square-shaped phone-held-vertical photos of the Eiffel Tower on a trip to France. Or, more precisely, the person that you trustingly handed your phone to in a tourist hot spot to take your photo in front of the Eiffel Tower held the phone vertical while snapping the pictures.
You want to turn that photo into a wallpaper for your laptop, and with the Generative Expand feature this can indeed be done quite easily, no distorting stretching of the photo necessary.
Generate Similar enables users to generate images that are—wait for it—similar to an image.
Generate Background can create a more eye-catching background, which just imagine the possibilities that will be available for creating LinkedIn profile pictures with new backgrounds.
And of course business owners will rejoice at being able to take a photo of a product against a nondescript background and just have an A.I. tool fill in the background to make it look as if the product belongs in a high-end catalog.
And Object Based Editing (sic) will automatically select all of the objects in a photo for users to individually edit at will.
Other Great GO AI Blog Posts
GO AI the blog offers a combination of information about, analysis of, and editorializing on A.I. technologies of interest to business owners, with especial focus on the impact this tech will have on commerce as a whole.
On a usual week, there are multiple GO AI blog posts going out. Here are some notable recent articles:
- For Businesses and Other Organizations, What Makes a Successful Chatbot?
- IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini: How Will Each Affect Search Engines?
- Using A.I. to Find Resources for Business Owners
- How Would Restricting Open-Source A.I. Affect Business Owners?
- The EU’s A.I. Act Has Become Law: The Implications for Business Owners (Especially American)
In addition to our GO AI blog, we also have a blog that offers important updates in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), with blog posts like “Google Ends Its Plan to End Third-Party Cookies”.
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