Photoshop’s answer to Dall-E hints at the future of photo editing

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This year’s Adobe Max 2022 was big on 3D design and mixed-reality headsets, but the AI-generated elephant in the room was the rise of text-to-image generators like Dall-E. How does Adobe plan to respond to these revolutionary tools? Slow and careful, according to the keynote – but an important feature buried in the new version of Photoshop shows that the process has already begun.

By the end of the release notes (opens in new tab) for the latest Photoshop v24.0 is a beta feature called ‘Backdrop neural filter’. What does this do? Like Dall-E and Midjourney, this allows you to “create a unique background from a description”. You just type in a background, select ‘Create’ and choose your favorite result.