At next week’s Adobe Max event, Adobe will introduce a new AI-powered photo editing tool that will make it much easier to modify photos without prior editing knowledge. According to a promotional video (via Techspot), the new “object-aware editing engine” called Project Stardust automatically recognizes individual elements in standard images, allowing them to be easily moved and modified. It’s comparable to Google’s Magic Editor, which was revealed yesterday for its new Pixel phones, but apparently more powerful.
A brief demonstration of the new software illustrates how objects in a shot, such as the yellow suitcase and its shadow in the example image, are automatically identified and selected as if they were separate using Photoshop’s lasso tool. The video then shows how elements can be moved, deleted, or otherwise changed as if they were on a different layer, and the empty space behind them is automatically filled in to resemble the rest of their environment.
Project Stardust offers a feature similar to Photoshop’s “Contextual Taskbar” that will automatically detect next steps in your design process and allow you to make quick edits. In the example video, selecting a crowd of blurry people in the background of the image causes a “remove distractors” button to appear in the taskbar, which when pressed removes the crowd.
The new editing engine incorporates some of the generative AI capabilities of Adobe’s Firefly-based Photoshop products. Aya Philémon, a project manager at Adobe, can be seen choosing a section of the shot and entering text into a floating message in the taskbar to fill the selected region with AI-generated flowers. The same functionality is used in another clip to change individual clothing items on a model by choosing the item (for example, a jacket or sneakers) and then specifying a new item of clothing to drop.
These automated design tools are becoming more widespread as generative AI advances. Canva has comparable editing features for automatically removing or changing elements in photos, as does Google Photo’s Magic Editor tool, which comes standard with Pixel 8 smartphones. Still, information about Project Stardust is scarce, and Philémon believes that the features suggested so far are “only a fraction” of its possibilities, and promises that the new engine will “revolutionize the way we interact with Adobe products.” We’ll learn more about Adobe’s upcoming AI releases at Adobe Max, which starts October 10.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn