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YOU CAN’T THROW A GRAPHICS card these days without hitting some mention of AI with it. While the large language model chatbots may give every indication of understanding what you say and being able to hold a conversation that could pass for a real human, it’s in the world of image generation that AI’s strengths are most clearly on view.

Image generation involves a text-to-image model such as Stable Diffusion or Midjourney taking a text prompt and turning it into an image. You can be as vague or detailed as you like, specifying the style of image you want to see or leaving it up to the AI to provide a creative interpretation.

Adobe has just integrated a Generative Fill command into Photoshop, where it makes use of the creative software giant’s Firefly cloud service to add new backgrounds and objects into images, as well as being able to remove existing ones.

It’s all neatly blended into the app too, with the new content appearing on a new layer to be integrated into your final composition. Especially good for creating ideas at the beginning of the creative process, the Firefly AI is trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed work, and public domain content rather than copyrighted content from the web. –IAN EVENDEN