Key Takeaways
- Photoshop’s AI brings more control with precise removal tools for distracting elements like cables and wires.
- Premiere Pro now has Generative Extend and Generate Erase tools to assist with footage editing, both video and audio.
- Adobe Express introduces a Dynamic Reflow Text tool and a one-click brand application to enhance productivity and customize designs.
Adobe Max 2024 unveiled a range of exciting updates, introducing powerful new AI tools to Adobe’s suite. Let’s dive into what these tools are and why I’m so excited about them.
Photoshop’s AI Offers More Control
Photoshop’s latest AI features bring in more precise removal tools, allowing you to brush an area for Photoshop to identify the distraction and remove it seamlessly. It works great for removing cables and wires that distract from a beautiful skyscape.
Photoshop Beta’s Generative Workspace allows your generated images to have a new home. Previously, when generating images, you had to manually click to open them and save them each as a file or an artboard—but the Generative Workspace allows you to keep track of all your generated images across the Adobe suite.
You can find the Generative Workspace under Properties > Variations in Photoshop Beta. The tool allows you to add different variations to your library and apply edits globally to them all, including adding variables for prompt generations.
Premiere Pro Gets Generative AI
Premiere Pro’s Generative Extend allows you to generate extra footage from your existing timeline pieces. This means you can fix wonky ending footage, add a few seconds to fit your timeline, or just add B-roll to your video. And it works for both video and audio.
Although Premiere Pro’s new generative tool comes with some caveats for now, I’m hopeful those will be eliminated in future updates
Generate Erase has also been added to Premiere Pro. This works similarly to Photoshop’s Generative Fill, but for video. This incredible tool will reduce the time and patience it takes to remove objects from your moving footage.
Mask Tracing is the coolest AI feature to be added to Premiere Pro. It’s like using Photoshop’s Object Selection, but on your video. It works incredibly well, even tracking objects that move against similarly toned or colored backgrounds. It makes a mask of the shape that moves as the object moves around the video. It even masks hair pretty well—impressive.
Adobe Firefly Video Model
This upcoming tool takes the power of everything seen in Adobe Firefly AI functions and applies it to generative video.
Adobe announced the future of video generation with the Adobe Firefly Video model, expecting it to be the first publicly and commercially safe video generation tool. I expect this will be available within Premiere Pro, and who knows how it will transform your future workflow? You’ll be able to create a video using either a text prompt or an existing image.
Adobe Express Adds More Productivity With AI
Adobe Express introduced a Dynamic Reflow Text tool, allowing you to easily resize your Express artboards—using the latest generative expand resize tool—and the text will dynamically flow to fit the space you’ve created. While it may not be perfect, it saves a lot of time initially on reformatting for a new space.
You can now remove video backgrounds in Express, allowing you to apply the same edits to your content whether you’re using a photo or a video of a cut-out subject.
You can also now animate your entire artboard with one click, using Animate All. The tool applies auto-animated effects to everything in your Express project. They can be edited to your liking, but it uses intelligence to apply animations to specific element types.
1-Click Brand allows you to apply your brand assets—stored in the Adobe Express Brands library—to any design. this is great for taking pre-made designs and color schemes and applying your brand to them, without spending hours recoloring or changing fonts and other elements.
The new caption generator lets you take the hard work out of writing social captions. Provide a short prompt, choose a writing style or tone of voice, and you can even apply it to specific words or sections of the caption rather than the entire thing (if you only need a small change). Then you can use the content scheduler to set your post to publish automatically.
Lightroom Mobile Has Quick Tools and Adaptive Presets
Lightroom Mobile already has a great toolbox, and it just gained an AI, non-destructive Remove tool. This works similarly to Photoshop’s Remove tool, but it is only available in Lightroom Mobile for now. Brush over the areas that you want to remove, then pick your ideal variation from the four results.
The new Adaptive Presets use AI to scan your image and suggest presets that suit the content of the image best. While they can edit them to your liking, they’ll adapt to what the AI thinks your image needs most. For example, the sky will be identified, and clouds can be removed all within an Adaptive Preset.
The new Quick Actions will halve your editing time. These work similarly to Adaptive Presets, but they’ll pop up and disappear depending on what’s identified in your image. If a person is smiling, you’ll see Quick Actions relating to whitening teeth, making eyes pop, or realistic skin smoothing, for example.
As expected, Adobe revealed an exciting array of AI features across the whole range of the Adobe suite. You don’t have to be an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber to access all these tools—in fact, many of them are available in the mobile apps, like Express and Lightroom Mobile, and Firefly’s video model may become available for public use like the Firefly Image Model 4.
While there are even more features beyond what I’ve covered here, these are my favorites and I’m truly excited about their potential.
