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Adobe’s pending purchase of Figma, the popular online graphics editing and interface design application, is facing yet another challenge. The European Union Commission plans to begin an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, according to a report from The Financial Times, attributed to four sources familiar with the matter.Back in February, the EU Commission noted that it had received numerous requests to review the business deal. The international watchdog announced that it would need to clear the proposed merger,…

Photoshop is one of the most versatile and powerful photo and image editing tools available, and Adobe is adding amazing new AI features to make it even better. AI is also coming to Illustrator and Adobe Express. I took a look at how Adobe is expanding possibilities with AI and the results are impressive and easy. AI image generation Photoshop beta has AI image generation capabilities. You’ll never have to worry about starting with a blank canvas if you use Photoshop Beta’s image generation feature. Create a blank…

Adobe Inc. is planning to sell subscriptions for new artificial intelligence services — including legal assurance against copyright infringement claims.Business customers will be charged a flat-rate subscription for company-wide access to new so-called generative AI tools — the type that can generate content such as text or images from a prompt — across Adobe products, Ashley Still, Adobe senior vice president, said in an interview. Still said pricing will be negotiated with individual customers depending on the size of…

Adobe announced the latest version of its Adobe Express app on Thursday during its Adobe Summit EMEA. This app will work in conjunction with its Adobe Firefly Generative AI models to bring an all-in-one creative experience to users. Adobe is also adding Firefly to Google Bard, bringing text-to-image features to Google’s chatbot. The new Adobe Express app is currently available as a free beta version for desktop users and will soon also be available for mobile. The app is also accessible through Adobe Express Premium…

Adobe’s Photoshop has grown to become an incredibly capable and powerful image editing tool, but its ever-increasing complexity also makes it harder for new users to learn how to use it. That could change later this year, however, as Photoshop will soon introduce some new AI-powered tools that allow users to perform complex edits by simply asking the app to do it for them.In March, Adobe revealed its AI image generation tool, called Firefly, which stood out from similar tools with a promise that it wouldn’t infringe upon…

A few examples of images created with Adobe Firefly. Adobe Adobe and Google are partnering to bring Firefly, a collection of AI image tools, and Adobe Express into Google Bard. Firefly’s unique capabilities and training set it apart from other AI image generators. Aa announced at today’s Google I/O event, you’ll be able to ask Bard to create images with Firefly using descriptive text prompts. Bard will respond with an image rather than text, similar to Bing Image Creator or Dall-E. What makes Firefly different is…

Portrait photographers can spend hours perfecting a single headshot in Adobe’s apps—everything from erasing skin imperfections to making the subject look much younger than they really are. Some of those advanced photo-retouching techniques just got a lot easier, as today Adobe announced several AI-powered Lightroom upgrades, including automatic beard darkening.Gif: AdobeAI-Powered Beard Darkening (And More)First introduced last year, Adobe’s Adaptive Presets are AI-guided filters designed for portrait photography where…

You no longer need a TV studio, millions of dollars of equipment, and a team of editors, animators, colorists, and artists to produce professional looking video content. You do, however, need a bit of talent, but maybe not for long, as Adobe is introducing new video tools that let you enhance, manipulate, and even edit videos with just a few typed commands.Making the Facebook Papers PublicBack in March, Adobe finally threw its hat into the AI image generation ring with the reveal of Adobe Firefly, a tool that promised to…

Photoshop maker Adobe Inc has agreed to pay $3 million to settle U.S. kickback allegations involving federal software sales, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday. The settlement resolves allegations that Adobe made improper payments under its Solution Partner program to companies that had a contractual or other relationship with the government that allowed them to influence federal purchases of Adobe software, the Justice Department said. Between January 2011 and December 2020, Adobe allegedly paid…

Adobe just announced a breakthrough in video editing with Premiere Pro that synchronizes changes from a transcript to the timeline, minimizing the time it takes to cut long interviews into targeted presentations. In a press briefing before the announcement, Adobe shared an example of the new workflow, which looked almost effortless. The first step is to import video with auto-transcribe enabled. The transcription appears in a panel on the left. Adobe Automatic transcription can identify multiple speakers, and you…