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Adobe Finally Added a Remove Button (And It's Better Than What We Had)
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Adobe Finally Added a Remove Button (And It's Better Than What We Had)

There’s a specific kind of frustration that lives in the gap between “I just want to delete this thing from my photo” and “Photoshop has added a mysterious object to my photo instead of deleting it.” I’ve burned through generative credits on this exact problem more times than I’d like to admit. You make a selection, leave the prompt blank, click Generate, and instead of a clean background you get… a slightly different version of the thing you were trying to remove.

Photoshop's Generative Upscale Tool Might Save Your Old Photos (And Your Print Jobs)
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Photoshop's Generative Upscale Tool Might Save Your Old Photos (And Your Print Jobs)

I have a folder on my hard drive called “Client Assets - HANDLE WITH CARE” and it is, genuinely, a disaster. Blurry product shots. Ancient family photos scanned at the wrong resolution. Images that looked fine on a phone screen but would print like a watercolor painting left in the rain. For years, my workaround was a combination of third-party upscaling apps, crossed fingers, and gently managing client expectations. Then Adobe quietly dropped a tool in Photoshop Beta that makes most of that song and dance completely unnecessary.

Photoshop 2025's Remove Tool Just Got a Serious Upgrade — Here's What Actually Changed
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Photoshop 2025's Remove Tool Just Got a Serious Upgrade — Here's What Actually Changed

There’s a particular kind of freelance pain that comes from spending fifteen minutes cleaning up a busy background with the Clone Stamp tool, only to realize the result looks like a crime scene painted by someone who’s never seen grass before. The Remove Tool changed that for me when it first showed up, but it always had a ceiling. Big objects, complex backgrounds, anything that required more than a light touch — it would choke.

AI Disclosure Requirements Are Coming to Creative Software—Here's What It Means for You
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AI Disclosure Requirements Are Coming to Creative Software—Here's What It Means for You

AI Disclosure Requirements Are Coming to Creative Software—Here’s What It Means for You I’ve been watching the generative AI landscape shift lately, and honestly? The transparency movement just hit a major turning point. About one-fifth of Steam Next Fest demos now include some form of AI disclosure, and this trend tells us something important about where creative software is headed. Why This Matters More Than You’d Think Here’s the thing: the gaming industry is essentially running an experiment right now.

The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art
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The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art

I’ve been using Photoshop for almost two decades. I teach it. I write about it on this blog every week. And I want to be honest with you about something that’s been bothering me for a while, because I don’t think enough people in our craft are saying it out loud. The AI tools that shipped in Photoshop over the last two years are genuinely useful. Generative fill, generative expand, neural filters, Sky Replacement, content-aware masking.

Adobe Just Let You Clone Your Own Art Style (And It's Kind of Wild)
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Adobe Just Let You Clone Your Own Art Style (And It's Kind of Wild)

Your Style, But Make It AI I’ve been watching Adobe’s Firefly tools evolve for a minute now, and honestly, they just crossed into territory that’s going to change how a lot of us think about our creative process. The company quietly rolled out Firefly Custom Models into beta, and the core idea is almost too good: you can now feed the AI your own work and have it learn your specific style.