Adobe’s latest AI tools debut in Illustrator and Photoshop; Premiere Pro & After Effects to come?

A whole host of new Firefly-powered tools are making their way into Illustrator and Photoshop while other established AI tool ones move out of beta.

Adobe has piled a whole load of new tools into its professional design apps Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Illustrator is introducing new tools including all-new Generative Shape Fill (beta) to empower designers to quickly add detailed vectors to shapes by entering text prompts directly in the Contextual Taskbar. Generative Shape Fill is powered by the latest Firefly Vector Model (also beta) which Adobe reckons adds additional speed, power and precision into the mix. Additional innovations in Illustrator including the Dimension Tool, Mockup (beta), Contextual Taskbar, Retype, enhanced selection tools, Text to Pattern (beta), Style Reference, and more.

Meanwhile, Photoshop is introducing the Selection Brush Tool, Adjustment Brush Tool and enhancements to the Type Tool and Contextual Taskbar.  And it is also introducing new ways to ideate and create with Generate Image, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model.

The handy new Contextual Toolbar

Here’s the full list of features with a few details on each. First the Firefly generative AI stuff:

• All-new Generative Shape Fill in Illustrator empowers designers to quickly add detailed vectors to shapes in designer’s own unique style for concept ideation or more detail in existing artwork and designs;
• Enhanced Text to Pattern in Illustrator speeds up the creative process, empowering designers to ideate, create and scale customized vector patterns across design projects using simple text prompts;
• Style Reference in Illustrator helps designers quickly edit and scale vector graphic creations, including subjects, scenes and icons, in their own unique style;
• Generate Image in Photoshop removes the blank page by jumpstarting ideation and creation with new levels of creative control directly in Photoshop, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model;
• Enhance Detail in Generative Fill in Photoshop delivers greater sharpness and detail in large size image formats.

Elsewhere:

• Mockup in Illustrator delivers the ability to easily create high-quality visual prototypes of art on objects like product packaging, apparel and more by automatically adjusting the art to fit the curves and edges of the real-life object;
• Dimension tool in Illustrator helps designers easily plot precise sizing to projects in a few clicks for packaging design, architectural drawings, fashion patterns and more;
• Retype in Illustrator helps designers conveniently convert static text to live, editable text and identify the perfect font for projects;
• Enhanced selection capabilities in Illustrator including the new Enclosed Rectangular Marquee Selection helps designers select objects more precisely and with more precision, which is especially useful in intricate and crowded designs;
• Enhanced Pan and Zoom capabilities in Illustrator deliver faster and smoother performance so designers can navigate highly complex documents with speed and ease – up to 10 times faster with scalability from 3.13% to 64,000%;
• Contextual Taskbar speeds up workflows with a menu that presents relevant next steps in user’s design process;
• Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop makes selecting, compositing and applying filters intuitive;
• Adjustment Brush in Photoshop enables users to easily apply non-destructive adjustments to specific portions of images;
• In Photoshop, enhancements to the Type Tool delivers faster and less-manual ways of creating bulleted and numbered lists and improvements in the Contextual Taskbar introduce popular settings for working with shapes and rotating objects.

Gen shape fill in Illustrator

For now, all this is constrained within Illustrator and Photoshop. But, as is the way with these tools, especially ones developed within the over-arching Adobe ecosystem, there’s a very good chance that they will soon progress from static images to moving ones and we may see a roll out into Premiere Pro and After Effects.

The two brushes in particular — Selection Brush in Illustrator and Adjustment Brush in Photoshop — both feel that they could easily find applications within a video workflow. And while there will be challenges in porting the Enclosed Rectangular Marquee Selection, once you get through the difficulties of tracking multiple objects from frame to frame that could have some interesting uses too.