Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant called “Project Moonlight” that could do tasks for you by tapping into different Adobe apps like Acrobat, Photoshop, and Express. This product is now released as Firefly AI Assistant.
Firefly AI Assistant will be available in public beta in the coming weeks. The company did not specify whether the AI assistant will be priced differently from Firefly’s credit-based subscription tiers.
Like other creative tools, Firefly AI Assistant lets you describe what you want it to create and it will handle the rest. Adobe says the assistant can work in apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and more to do tasks for you.
Users can control the outputs from the AI assistant using text prompts, as well as buttons and sliders. The assistant can suggest actions, orchestrate between actions and applications, and run workflows, but leaves room for users to intervene at any time.
The agent will also display controls based on the project you’re working on. For example, if you’re editing a set of product photos into a forest, the assistant can give you a simple slider to increase or decrease the amount of trees and foliage. Adobe says the assistant will learn more about your creative preferences over time and suggest actions accordingly.
Adobe also releases skills, which consist of several steps, for the assistant. The “social media assets” skill, for example, can help you adapt images to different platforms by cropping or expanding, optimizing file sizes, and saving the results.
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Adobe is steadily working to launch AI assistants for Photoshop, Express and Acrobat. The company said Wednesday that it is exploring how these assistants work better with third-party major language models.
Other competitors, such as Canva and Figma, are also working on agent workflows, though Adobe says its strength lies in the integration of its existing and popular tools.
“We have an opportunity with the Firefly AI assistant and agency experiences to take some of the friction out of learning this large catalog of tools that we have and bring all that value to our customers in their hands. And that’s the opportunity we have,” Alexandru Costin, vice president of AI and innovation, creativity and productivity at TechCrunch, told TechCrunch.
Adobe is adding new features to the Firefly tool as well. The AI video editor gets an option to reduce speech noise, adjust reverb and music, a color adjustment tool, and now integrates with Adobe’s stock library. The company is also adding the Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni models to Firefly’s library of third-party AI models.
