Photoshop adds a bunch of AI features including a ‘Distraction Removal’ tool [Video]

Adobe announced a bunch of new AI features for Photoshop on Monday, including its generative tool that lets you easily “remove common distractions” from images. Yes, it’s very similar to the company’s existing “Generative Remove” tool, as well as Google’s Magic Eraser, Apple Intelligence’s Clean Up, and Samsung’s Galaxy AI tools, which let you wipe pesky details of reality from your pics.

In a blog post by Photoshop product manager Pam Clark, the company detailed more features for the graphics editing platform, which use Adobe’s generative AI model, Firefly. Highlights include a “Distraction Removal” tool within the existing “Remove” tool added last year, which lets you circle objects or people in the background to get rid of them.

The similar “Generative Remove” tool is now widely available in Adobe’s other image processing platform, Lightroom, having been launched in beta earlier this year.

Here’s Adobe’s example of the “Distraction Removal” tool in action:

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