Concise, sourced updates on what changed in AI for Photo & Imaging.
18 articles
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Generative Restyle is out of beta. You describe a new look for a photo, and Photoshop puts it on its own editable layer with a slider for how strong it is, so you can find the right amount without rewriting the prompt.
Photo & Imaging
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ON1's new release groups similar frames and flags closed eyes and soft focus, alongside a rebuilt RAW engine and new NoNoise AI models. The culling help is a MAX-only feature, and ON1 is light on detail about how it works.
Photo & Imaging
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The unified Affinity app is now on iPad with Pixel, Vector, Layout and a new Sketch Studio, it opens the same .af files as desktop, and only the Canva AI features cost anything.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging
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Pixelmator Pro gets a describe-what-you-want fill, Final Cut Pro absorbs MotionVFX, and Keynote, Pages, and Numbers open up to outside agents through MCP. It all lands in November, and Apple left a few big questions unanswered.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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Canva's first in-house image model sketches a written plan of the composition and any text before rendering, which is meant to make its images easier to split into editable layers with Magic Layers.
Brand & Graphic, Photo & Imaging
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Lightroom on mobile now spots closed eyes and offers a one-tap generative fix called Open Eyes. Adobe calls it free, but early hands-on reports say it spends generative credits, and the new eyes aren't always a perfect match.
Photo & Imaging
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The perspective and distortion tool can now select a single subject and reshape just that part of the frame, opens Raw files directly, and DxO is clear the AI only selects, it never fills or invents anything.
Photo & Imaging
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Krea's new editing model returns most 2K edits in under 8 seconds, takes several reference images per edit, and is pitched at keeping labels, logos, and faces intact while the scene around them changes.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
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Relight, a generative layer that started in the Photoshop beta, is now in the main Photoshop 28.0 release. You drag lights around the canvas, set their color and softness, and Photoshop replaces the photo's lighting on a separate layer. Each final render costs 30 generative credits.
Photo & Imaging
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A new Rerun (Thinking) button on V8.2 jobs has the model look for where it missed your prompt before generating again. The same alpha update adds shared folders, so a team can generate into one place.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging
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Black Forest Labs' new image model takes a layout, not just a prompt: you draw a box for each element, describe it, and the model builds the image around your composition. You can then edit, swap, or move one region and tell it to leave the rest alone.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
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Ideogram's new model is aimed at the stage after generation: changing one part of an image, over and over, without the rest of it slowly drifting, softening, or shifting color.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
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Lightroom desktop's September 29 update adds an early access Prompt to Edit tool powered by Google's Nano Banana model. It's handy for restoration and big changes, but it produces a new generated image, not an edit you can dial back.
Photo & Imaging
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Krea's AI agent, which plans a job, picks from more than 150 models, and generates or edits images, video, and audio from one prompt, no longer needs an invite.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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A quiet Firefly update triples the crop options for GPT Image 2 on the web and in Boards. Small on paper, useful in practice if you generate assets for more than one placement.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration, Brand & Graphic, Web
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Canva has grouped its four pro acquisitions into one connected suite, and the headline Affinity 3.3 update adds a Blend Tool, InDesign file import, JavaScript scripting, and a paid Layer to 3D feature.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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A new alpha edit model lets you open any generated image, describe a change in plain language, attach up to four reference images, and see every edit in a session lined up in one place.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration
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A new fast tier of Recraft's image model trades reference-image input and aspect-ratio range for generation times of about 1.4 seconds, at $0.007 an image.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic