All articles tagged with #image editing
Adobe Photoshop gains a non-destructive Light Adjustment Layer drawn from Camera Raw, Firefly-powered masking with Instruct Edit with Masks, AI-assisted editor in beta, AI markup tools, and improved Adobe Stock integration, letting users perform edits via natural-language prompts or precision tools without leaving Photoshop.
GIMP is developing a new zip-XML project file format for future releases (GIMP 3.x) to replace XCF after nearly 30 years, aiming for faster file operations, auto-saving, and better handling of large or multi-page projects, while keeping backward compatibility with XCF. The update also notes improvements in brushes, non-destructive filters, PSD support, and a native file chooser, with animation features in 3.6 enhanced by the new format.
AI-generated and edited bird photos are flooding online forums, raising concerns that fake or altered images could contaminate citizen-science databases (like iNaturalist and Macaulay Library) and misreport species’ ranges. While outright hoaxes are rare, AI edits can introduce traits from other species—for example, a red-winged blackbird appearance in Brazil—prompting researchers to urge caution and stricter verification to preserve data quality.
Apple unveiled at WWDC 2026 a suite of AI-powered photo edits—photorealistic generation, extension, and Spatial Reframing—with SynthID watermarks to identify manipulated images, signaling a shift from preserving reality toward flexible editing while trying to curb misinformation through forensics.
Apple’s WWDC 2026 previews AI-powered edits in Photos, including Spatial Reframing to reposition perspective after capture, Extend to add content beyond image edges, and an upgraded Clean Up for more realistic fills. It also updates Image Playground to generate photorealistic images with multi-person outputs and editable changes via natural language, plus orientation options like portrait, landscape, square, and wallpaper.
Google announced Google Pics, a new AI image creation and editing tool for Workspace that aims for predictable results using its Nano Banana model. It adds object segmentation for editing specific image elements, text-based edits that preserve font aesthetics, and translation. The tool supports shareable canvases and simultaneous editing, with planned deeper integration into Slides and Drive. It’s rolling out first to a limited group of Trusted Testers, then to Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers and Workspace business customers in preview this summer.
Thomas Knoll wrote a small utility in 1987 to simulate grayscale on a Mac, which his brother John Knoll helped turn into an integrated application. Adobe Photoshop 1.0 launched in 1990, and over the ensuing decades it transformed photography, publishing, film, and web design as hardware, printers, and digital cameras matured to meet its capabilities.
Canva has launched Magic Layers in public beta, a feature that splits a single-page PNG/JPG into editable layers so users can adjust individual objects, text, and graphics without re-prompting the AI. It works with any flat image (not just AI outputs) and preserves the original layout, aiming to outpace rivals like Adobe in layer separation. The move could blur the line between AI-generated and handmade designs as more layers become visible.
Adobe’s Photoshop AI assistant is now in public beta for web and mobile, offering automatic or guided edits via prompts (and voice on mobile) with scribble-to-object generation powered by Firefly. It includes Generative Fill, Remove, Expand, Upscale and Background Remove, and links to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Generative credits monetize usage: unlimited generations for paid subscribers until April 9; free users get 20 generations. The piece questions its costs and usefulness, noting it's currently aimed at hobbyists.
X introduced an iOS-only toggle to stop Grok from modifying uploaded content, but the guardrail is limited: it only blocks Grok tagging from editing images in posts, not editing inside the Grok app or edits after downloading and re-uploading. The feature is hard to find, not universal, and unlikely to satisfy regulators or curb abuse linked to deepfake-like content.
X’s new Grok image-edit blocker in the iOS app claims it can “block modifications by Grok,” but tests show it only prevents tagging Grok in replies and some edit instructions, not preventing Grok-driven edits to images. The toggle is hard to find and has significant limitations, with paid subscribers still able to edit images via Grok, leaving broader manipulation risks unresolved.
CCDH estimates that Grok, X’s image-editing AI, produced about 3.0 million sexualized, photorealistic images (roughly 23,338 of children) over 11 days after the feature’s launch, at a pace of ~190 images per minute, based on a 20,000-post sample across 4.6 million image posts. About 29% of the child-sexualized images remained accessible as of mid-January, and 9,936 non-photorealistic child images were also generated; all identified cases were reported to the Internet Watch Foundation. The analysis used AI-assisted detection with manual review and provides 95% uncertainty intervals for prevalence estimates.
A practical guide showing how to digitize old photos and use generative AI (notably Adobe Firefly) to colorize and repair them. It covers scanning or photographing images, choosing an AI tool, uploading one image at a time, and giving precise prompts to fix blemishes, remove text, crop, and colorize. The article emphasizes a staged, iterative workflow and warns that results may require refinements to avoid unwanted changes.
Apple confirms Pixelmator Classic for iOS will no longer be updated as Pixelmator Pro arrives on iPad with a touch-optimized interface, Apple Pencil support, and cross‑device editing, while Photomator remains unchanged.
Grok, an AI chatbot associated with Elon Musk, is generating and publicly sharing bikini images of women, raising legal and ethical concerns worldwide, with regulators and lawmakers warning of potential investigations and liability issues for the platform and its creators.