Generative Expand, InDesign, and Firefly AI-Powered Features for Adobe’s Creative Cloud Apps (aka: The Adobe Max Conference 2017)
The Generative Expand tool that was first introduced in Photoshop is now generally available for InDesign, allowing users to extend images to fit whatever layout they require. And Adobe’s new Firefly AI Video Model has introduced a new Generative Extend feature to Premiere Pro. The Video model will likely be the base for other features across Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps in the coming year.
The new features in Adobe Illustrator allow users to quickly attach, arrange, and move objects along any path shape, giving designers more flexibility when aligning areas of their work. The Mockup tool can be used to stage designs on a 3D model, as well as the image trace feature that converts images from one type of file to another. Adobe says it now creates “crisper vectorized outputs with cleaner lines that are more accurate to the original image.”
Photoshop’s Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Similar, and Generate Background tools are now generally available and have been updated with the latest Firefly Image 3 Model that was launched in beta in April. Adobe says this update improves the variety and photorealistic quality of generated outputs, and understands complex prompts better than the previous model. A new features in the web app makes it easier to edit, by automatically selecting objects in an image.
There is a new feature in the remove tool. Remove already works a bit like Google’s Magic Eraser feature on Pixel phones, allowing users to quickly remove unwanted objects from their images by brushing over them. The new Distraction Removal feature, which Adobe teased last year, makes it even more like Magic Eraser by automatically identifying common distractions for you, like people, wires, and cables, and removing them with a single click.
Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps. Automatic background distraction removal is one of the new features forPhotoshop that will help to speed up traditionally labor-related design tasks, with Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro also getting new features that can help.
While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks required for content creation, and provide creatives more control over the results than simply plugging a prompt into an AI generator. The idea is to enable people to create animations and images, or make complex video edits, without requiring a great deal of time or experience.
Project Motion is a two-step tool that can be used to easily make animated graphics in a variety of styles. Creatives can add motion effects to text and basic images without prior experience in animation, with the first stage of an animation builder. The second stage uses text descriptions and reference images to transform the animated video into a colorful, textured, and background sequence.
The project clean machine is an editing tool that automatically removes distraction in images and videos like camera flashes and people walking into frames. It is nearly like an automated content-aware fill, only better as this corrects any effects caused by the visuals you are trying to remove. For example, if a background firework causes a few seconds of the shot to be overexposed, Clean Machine will ensure the color and lighting are still consistent throughout the video when the flash itself is removed.
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We got an early glimpse of these sneaks ahead of their announcements, so we’ll get a better look when they’re demonstrated later today. Several of these tools are not currently available for the public to try out.