Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator get new features and tools: All details

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator get new features

American software firm Adobe has announced the addition of new features and tools in its professional design apps Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Adobe claims that the new Photoshop and Illustrator innovations will accelerate everyday creative workflows and give creators more control.

Adobe Photoshop’s new features and enhancements: Selection Brush Tool, Adjustment Brush Tool and more

Adobe Photoshop is introducing intuitive features to accelerate core creative workflows and streamline repetitive tasks with the Selection Brush Tool, Adjustment Brush Tool and enhancements to the Type Tool and Contextual Taskbar.

According to Adobe, these tools unlock new levels of productivity, precision and control when selecting, compositing, adjusting images and working with type.

Adobe Photoshop is also introducing new ways to ideate and create with Generate Image, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model. With AI as a creative assistant, Adobe Firefly adds generative AI innovations in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Generate Image in Photoshop removes the blank page by jumpstarting ideation and creation directly in Photoshop, powered by Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model.

Enhance Detail in Generative Fill in Photoshop delivers greater sharpness and detail in large-size image formats, claims Adobe.

Adobe Illustrator gets new tools like Generative Shape Fill, Dimension Tool and more

To accelerate creative workflows, Adobe has introduced new tools in Illustrator including an all-new Generative Shape Fill (beta) to enable designers to quickly add detailed vectors to shapes by entering text prompts directly in the Contextual Taskbar. Generative Shape Fill is powered by the latest Firefly Vector Model (beta), designed to support creators with additional speed, power and precision.

Additional innovations in Adobe Illustrator include the Dimension Tool, Mockup (beta), Contextual Taskbar, Retype, enhanced selection tools, Text to Pattern (beta), Style Reference and more workflow enhancements to speed up tedious tasks and save designers time.

The Dimension tool in Illustrator helps designers plot precise sizing to projects with a few clicks for packaging design, architectural drawings, fashion patterns and more.

Mockup in Illustrator is about easily creating high-quality visual prototypes of art on objects like product packaging, apparel and more by automatically adjusting the art to fit the curves and edges of the real-life object.

As per Adobe, the Enhanced Text to Pattern in Illustrator speeds up the creative process, allowing designers to ideate, create and scale customised vector patterns across design projects using simple text prompts.

Style Reference in Illustrator helps designers quickly edit and scale vector graphic creations, including subjects, scenes and icons, in their own unique style.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator features and tools: Availability

The latest Firefly Vector Model (beta) is now available in Adobe Illustrator powering Generative Shape Fill (beta), Text to Pattern (beta) and Style Reference. Additional innovations including Mockup (beta), Dimension Tool, Retype, Enhanced Pan and Zoom and Contextual Taskbar are also available now in the Illustrator app.

The Selection Brush Tool, Adjustment Brush Tool, Generate Image and more are all generally available in the Adobe Photoshop desktop app and web app.