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On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image generators. Instead of using training data dredged up from the internet, Adobe said its crafted its service only using images on its stock image site, openly licensed work, and public domain content.Folks can already request access to the Adobe Firefly beta, though as of reporting time the service seems to be inundated with requests and…

Adobe Firefly was announced today by Adobe, as the company attempts to capitalize on the surge in interest in generative AI. The text-to-image model is only in beta, but will be coming first to Adobe Express, the company’s simplest and most user-friendly application. The set of tools will function a lot like many of the other popular text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion or Midjourney. The difference here, however, is that Firefly is built from the ground up by Adobe to be used within its creative…

Pantone is making designers work with black only if they don’t cough up $15 a month.Photo: SimoneN (Shutterstock)Hell hath no fury like an Adobe designer who can’t see the colors they thought they had already paid for.Designers who use Adobe’s Creative Suite tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, are furious over a licensing change that forces them to pay Pantone an extra $15 a month (or $90 a year) to work with its signature colors in Adobe’s apps. In recent weeks, Adobe has removed support for…

Have you ever prepped a photo for printing but regretted not being more generous with your framing when snapping the image? Extending the borders of a photo before digital editing was all but impossible, and it still represents a time-consuming challenge for even Photoshop masters, but a new tool teased by Adobe on Wednesday could make it impossibly easy to “uncrop”a photograph.Adobe Max, the company’s annual “creativity conference” where it brings artists together to talk about how they use Adobe’s tools, is wrapping up…

The creator economy grew by more than 165 million creators over the past two years to reach 303 million globally, a new report has shown.The creator economy grew in the US by 34 million new creators, Brazil (73 million), South Korea (11 million) and Spain (10 million), according to Adobe's 'Future of Creativity' report."One in four people are creators contributing photography, videography, creative writing and more to online spaces including social media platforms and blogs," the report mentioned.Millennials now represent…

Digital artists have quite a few art and photo programs to choose from, but one of the most-widely used, other than Adobe Photoshop, is Clip Studio Paint.Photo: MarbellaStudio (Shutterstock)In general, it’s a very poor idea for any company to upset the artistic online community. If enough regular internet users were able to drag the Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s old design through the proverbial mud enough so that the studio completely redesigned it, how do you think you’ll get on when the people behind the pencil become…