Julieanne Kost outlines ten significant enhancements to Adobe Photoshop aimed at streamlining creative workflows and improving image manipulation.
She details advanced AI-powered tools designed for the automatic removal of distractions and reflections, alongside a new feature for adjusting the perspective of isolated objects. Significant updates to dynamic text allow for flexible placement along curved paths, while layer cleanup utilities help maintain document organisation.
Julieanne also highlights the new collaborative cloud workflows and the integration of the latest Firefly generative models for high-resolution editing. Furthermore, the updates introduce transparency in credit usage and modernisation of the actions panel to assist professionals in managing complex tasks.
Collectively, these improvements are said to represent a major leap in automation and precision for digital designers and photographers, and probably moving even further in the future to maintain their current income growth rate through subscriptions enhanced by AI credit spend.
Photoshop is now an AI partner with powerful features hidden in plain sight.
- Dynamic Text on Paths: Snap editable text to curves with new reversibility and path-positioning icons.
- Advanced Distraction Removal: The Remove Tool identifies 26 categories like poles without using generative credits.
- 3D-Style Rotate Object: Adjust 2D perspective in 8-bit workflows while AI generates unseen sides.
- The “Broom” Icon: This AI utility renames and purges empty layers for workspace clarity.
- Firefly Cloud Roundtripping: Seamlessly link Firefly Boards to Photoshop PSDC files.
- Dedicated Reflection Removal: Eliminate glass reflections and lens flares instantly in 8-bit images via Edit > Reflection Removal.
- Partner Model Support: Gemini 2.5 and Flux use reference images for identity, hair, and facial structure.
- Credit Transparency: A persistent icon tracks generative credit balances and real-time usage.
- InstructEdit AI: Firefly Image Model 5 follows text commands with 2.4MP support.
- Modernized Actions Panel: Search and custom icons now modernize professional automation.
These tools shift focus from labor to creative direction. OR as some believe the migration of Photoshop to a total AI environment where cost will be even more critical in determining the User base.
“The remove tool doesn’t use credits.” – Julianne Cost