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A promotional photo of BLACKPINK's Rosé for Apple drew online ridicule after fans claimed the image was heavily edited, including an apparently edited-in iPhone, amid news of Rosé's partnership with Apple for a new music video.
Adobe is rolling out a beta update to Photoshop that introduces an AI-Assisted Editor—an optional UI that surfaces all AI features in a single toolbar, including a prompt-based image editor, background remover, AI image extender, and more, plus a markup tool to guide AI edits without text prompts. It also adds updates to Instruct Edit with Masks, leveraging Firefly Image 5 to understand the full image context so you can describe changes (like opening closed eyes or adding a hat) rather than marking every area.
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.
Adobe is rolling out conversational AI assistants across its Creative Cloud suite—Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io—in a public beta. Each app’s AI helper acts as a specialist, letting users describe edits in natural language to auto-organize assets, streamline workflows, and perform app-specific tasks, such as Premiere’s bin sorting and timeline markers or Photoshop’s layer organization and background changes, with Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io offering parallel capabilities.
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.
Anthropic’s Claude now includes agentic AI that can remotely operate a user’s macOS computer to perform repetitive tasks—like batch-resizing photos in Photoshop and adding logos—via the Claude Dispatch app, with previews limited to Claude Pro/Max; it prioritizes connectors to services but can execute tasks directly if needed, raising security concerns about accessing sensitive files.
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.
Adobe launches a public beta of an agentic AI Assistant in Photoshop for web and mobile, letting users describe edits or have the AI perform them, plus a new AI Markup tool and expanded Firefly-powered image editing features across Photoshop apps.
Wine-Staging 11.2 adds patches aimed at improving the Adobe Photoshop installer and app support on Linux, continuing work started with Photoshop 2025; it includes new MSHTML/XML-related changes, updates VKD3D, and drops several outdated patches like NVCUDA due to the PE/Unix split, with several patches still not upstreamed in the main Wine release.
Ariana Grande addressed a Vogue Japan photoshoot image that sparked online chatter over an apparent extra finger, responding with a playful comment about needing extra appendages for an album, while fans debated whether the edit was AI-generated or a sloppy Photoshop job.
Nintendo says AI was not used in the My Mario marketing images, despite widespread online speculation triggered by unusual finger poses; a model involved in the campaign and diverse AI detectors have offered mixed signals, with emphasis on post-shoot editing rather than AI. Nintendo also previously denied AI use in Mario Kart World, and Miyamoto has suggested Nintendo may take a different direction from the broader AI trend in development.
Adobe Max 2025 is scheduled for October 28-30 in Los Angeles, where Adobe is expected to announce major updates to Photoshop and Lightroom, likely featuring new AI-driven features, with keynotes and Sneak peeks revealing upcoming software innovations.
Adobe has integrated Google's Nano Banana and Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 AI models into Photoshop Beta's Generative Fill tool, enhancing creative options for stylized elements and environmental accuracy, while maintaining seamless control with traditional editing tools.
Trump Mobile's T1 smartphone appears to be a Photoshopped image of a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, with misleading claims about its American manufacturing and features, raising questions about the company's transparency and the actual product.
Adobe is launching new beta AI-powered tools in Photoshop, including Generative Upscale for enhancing old photos, an improved Remove tool for realistic erasing, Harmonize for seamless composites, and a Project management feature, all aimed at making photo editing faster and more intuitive.