[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Adobe has released a beta version of its Photoshop AI assistant for web and mobile apps and is adding AI-powered image editing features to Firefly, TechCrunch reported on Monday.

Adobe first unveiled the Photoshop AI assistant at its MAX event in October. With the update, users can use AI to remove objects or people from images and change colors or adjust lighting. Using natural-language commands, they can also add a soft light effect, crop to a specific format, deepen shadows and change backgrounds.

Adobe will offer unlimited use of the AI assistant to paid Photoshop users until April 9, while free users will get 20 uses. It is also adding an AI markup feature as a public beta, allowing users to draw marker lines on the screen and use the AI assistant to transform objects. For example, users can draw a flower or remove an object to modify the background.

Firefly is also getting generative image editing features. The Generative Fill feature offered in Photoshop for several years will be applied to Firefly, making it possible to add objects and modify backgrounds. It also adds Generative Remove for object removal, Generative Expand to extend image size, Generative Upscale to increase resolution, and a one-click background removal tool.

Adobe has offered unlimited AI generation to Firefly subscribers since February and has also added more than 25 third-party video and image generation models, including Google Nano Banana 2, an OpenAI image generation tool, Runway Gen-4.5 and Black Forest Labs Flux.2 Pro.