Adobe said on Tuesday that it plans to place a tool for full artificial intelligence image generation in its popular Photoshop software later this year.
Adobe’s image and video editing tools are widely used by creative professionals, but it faces rising competition from startups such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Midjourney and Stability AI, all of which offer services that can generate images from text prompts.
As of December 2023, Photoshop had 22 million subscribers online. According to Adobe, more than 90% of creative professionals worldwide use Photoshop.
The US-based software company is developing its own image-generation AI system called Firefly, which is trained on data that Adobe has rights to, in order to avoid copyright infringement claims against users.
Adobe previously released image-generation tools in Photoshop that can fill in or expand parts an…
