San Jose, CA—Adobe introduced enhancements to its Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator professional design apps to accelerate everyday creative workflows.
“The most creative people across illustration, design, photography and beyond trust Adobe’s tools to deliver the most innovative features to maximize productivity and accelerate workflows across ideation, design and production,” said Ashley Still, senior vice president, digital media at Adobe. “Adobe’s new innovations in Illustrator and Photoshop are built directly into designers’ existing workflows, offering new ways to create and helping them to work faster and focus on what they do best – drawing, designing and bringing their creative visions to life.”
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Updates
Photoshop now features intuitive tools to accelerate core creative workflows and streamline repetitive tasks with its Selection Brush Tool as well as its Adjustment Brush Tool. In addition, there are enhancements to the Type Tool and Contextual Taskbar. Adobe added these tools to enhance productivity and control when selecting, compositing, adjusting images as well as working with type. Photoshop is also introducing new ways to ideate and create with Generate Image, powered by the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model.
To accelerate creative workflows, Illustrator has new tools, including the all-new Generative Shape Fill (beta), to help designers quickly add detailed vectors to shapes. They can now do that by entering text prompts directly in the Contextual Taskbar. Moreover, the latest Firefly Vector model (beta) powers Generative Shape Fill. Further, it supports creators with additional speed, power and precision.
Additional innovations in Illustrator include the Dimension Tool, Mockup (beta), Contextual Taskbar, Retype, enhanced selection tools, Text to Pattern (beta) as well as Style Reference. Also new are workflow enhancements speed up tedious tasks and save designers time.
What’s more, with AI (artificial intelligence) as a creative assistant, Adobe Firefly powers generative AI upgrades in both Photoshop and Illustrator. For instance, Generate Image in Photoshop removes the blank page by jumpstarting creation with new levels of creative control directly in Photoshop, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 model. Furthermore, Enhance Detail in Generative Fill in Photoshop also now delivers greater sharpness and detail in large size image formats.
Tools to Accelerate Workflows
To help creatives have more time to be creative, the following functions accelerate creative workflows in Photoshop:
- Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop makes selecting, compositing and applying filters more intuitive.
- Adjustment Brush in Photoshop now enables users to more easily apply nondestructive adjustments to specific portions of images.
- Enhancements to the Type Tool also deliver faster and less manual ways of creating bulleted and numbered lists.
- Improvements in the Contextual Taskbar introduce popular settings for working with shapes and rotating objects.
Commitment to Creator Friendly AI
Adobe also announced it “is determined to be a trusted partner for creators in the era ahead and integrating technology into our tools in a way that is respectful and supportive of the creative community. We’re committed to taking a creator-friendly approach and developing AI in accordance with the company’s AI Ethics principles of accountability, responsibility and transparency.” 
This includes respecting creators’ rights and never training on customer content. And delivering AI technology in a way that supports the creative community with Adobe Firefly, which provides creator-centric generative AI models designed to for commercial use, trained on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content.
Adobe is also building Firefly for direct integration into existing workflows the creative community can benefit from every day. This includes in Photoshop, Adobe Express, Illustrator, Substance 3D and InDesign. Further, Adobe will continue to innovate ways to protect its customers through efforts like Content Credentials with attribution for creators and provenance of content.
