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01 Adobe Firefly in Photoshop If anyone should be worried about the emergence of generative AI art it’s Adobe, the company that’s had a stranglehold on computer-generated art for the past couple of decades. Adobe has been dabbling with generative art with Firefly, a beta web service that allows users to create images from text prompts (a poor man’s Midjourney; see no. 5), fill in text with specified textures or recolour vector art images. However, Adobe’s big AI breakthrough has arrived with the inclusion of Firefly in the Photoshop beta. It is nothing short of stunning. Take the sample picture shown above of the runner, for example. I extended the canvas, drew a selection box around the empty space and told Photoshop to fill it with a “pond with waterlilies”,…

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