Adobe has significantly expanded Photoshop's capabilities with a focus on generative artificial intelligence.
The company said on the 31st that it had added new features to Photoshop, including a light adjustment layer, masking-based edit instructions and markup. The light adjustment layer provides professional-grade lighting controls — exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks — as a separate layer. It is designed to deliver results comparable to Camera Raw, Adobe's tool for correcting raw image files, while preserving the existing layer-based workflow.
The masking-based edit instruction feature is built on Firefly Image 5, Adobe's generative AI model, and edits images by interpreting their full context. Users describe what they want with a simple prompt, and areas outside the mask remain unchanged, protecting key elements of the image.
Markup lets users draw directly on an image to give visual editing commands — selecting an area to recolor, drawing an arrow to indicate placement, or sketching a rough shape with a brush to propose a new element. The feature reduces the ambiguity that can arise when prompts are entered as text alone.
Adobe also added Dynamic Text, Shapes and Paths, along with Stock panel integration, both intended to keep workflows uninterrupted. The Stock panel integration makes more than 900 million Adobe images and other assets available directly from a dockable panel inside Photoshop.
The company is offering AI Assisted Editor, a prompt-driven editing tool, in beta. Users can edit images with simple prompts. Tools that draw on generative AI, such as generative fill and generative upscale, were also added.
