Adobe is creating artificial intelligence agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro that can suggest ways to edit your photos or videos and then complete the task for you, according to a blog post by Ely Greenfield, Adobe’s CTO of digital media.
Adobe Photoshop’s agent-based artificial intelligence, or what the company calls its “creative agent,” will be featured in a new floating Actions panel that will recommend context-sensitive edits after analyzing your photo. For example, it will be able to suggest removing people standing in the background or creating more depth of field by blurring everything behind the subject. All you have to do is click on the suggestion, and it will be executed automatically.
Longtime Photoshop users are used to manually manipulating photos by tediously masking people and objects and then creating layers so that only certain parts of the image can be modified. Adobe has already added artificial intelligence features that allow you to expand and fill in photos on a larger canvas or remove unwanted objects or people from the background with the Distractions Removal feature.
Adobe envisions that Photoshop users will be able to give natural language prompts to the agents, making it easier to learn the steps needed to complete a task (although the agent can still do it for you). And you can continue to prompt the agent to make additional changes or manually adjust layers. In one example video, someone asks the agent to clean up an image and add a text box behind a person, and then the agent lists steps, including: remove people in the background, auto-light, remove distracting objects, create a “subject” layer, create a text layer, and reorder layers.
For Premiere Pro, Adobe is using the new Media Intelligence feature introduced last week, which analyzes video for objects and composition so you can find the footage you need. The upcoming agent will allow you to control the agent to do a rough cut of the video.
“While artificial intelligence can’t replace human creative inspiration, with your input, it can make some educated guesses that can help you move a project forward,” Greenfield wrote in a blog post. “It can also help you learn how to accomplish complex tasks with a few simple keystrokes, helping you grow as an editor.” The Premiere Pro Creative Agent will eventually help editors improve their shot selection, color adjustments, audio mixing, and more. Adobe has also just launched Generative Extend, which uses artificial intelligence to add seconds to your clips to help fit in a transition.
Adobe will unveil the technology behind the first AI agent to be dedicated to Photoshop at its Max event in London on April 24.
