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Ideate, combine and refine images in Photoshop.

Streamline your workflow by ideating concepts from descriptive prompts. With the new AI image features in Photoshop, you can brainstorm quickly, refine ideas and create complex composites and assets.

How to generate images in Photoshop.

  • Select Generate Image in the Contextual Task Bar that appears on a blank canvas. You can also navigate to Generate Image from the Edit menu or the Tools panel.

    The Generate Image feature window opens to display a text prompt box, an inspiration gallery you can use as is or edit further and other creative controls to help you to generate an image from scratch.
  • Choose the Content type (Art or Photo) and select Style Effects to apply to your image. Refine your generation process and explore various styles to achieve your desired look.
  • You can upload your own image by clicking Reference Image directly within the Generate Image feature or Browse from a gallery. This helps you control and refine the generated results, ensuring that they align with your preferred style.
  • Enter a descriptive prompt and select Generate. A new image is created on a generative layer and three variations appear in the Properties panel, which you can also view on canvas from the Contextual Task Bar.
  • Refine further by uploading a Reference Image or changing the Content type in the Contextual Task Bar or the Properties panel to adjust the style and effects after generating.

Questions? We have answers.

How does Photoshop's AI image generator work?

Discover new ways to ideate and create assets with the Text to Image feature (‘Generate Image’ in Ps UI), powered by the new Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model. Use generated assets to create customised composites without leaving Photoshop or combine multiple generated images on a canvas to ideate and refine ideas more efficiently.

This update gives you even greater control over your generative workflows and outputs, unleashing more freedom and flexibility than ever before for personal use, work projects or anything in between.

How does text to image work?

Control and guide the Text to Image (‘Generate Image’ in Ps UI) feature to ideate or create the exact images you want using additional settings for Reference Image (e.g., allows you to upload an image with a desired style aesthetic that will influence the generated result), Content Type (i.e., photo or art) and Style Effects (e.g., Movements, Themes, Techniques, Effects, Materials, Concepts).

How is the Photoshop AI image generator different from Firefly?

Photoshop AI image generator, powered by the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model, creates images from text prompts using various creative controls within the app. Firefly is Adobe's broader generative AI platform used across multiple Adobe applications.

Can AI-generated images from Photoshop be used for commercial purposes?

Generative AI features in the Photoshop desktop app are powered by the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model, designed to be safe for commercial use. This ensures you can push the bounds of your creativity, knowing that the current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock along with openly licensed work and public domain content. Please note that generative AI features in the Photoshop (beta) app are not for commercial use.

How is Generate Image different from Generative Fill?

Generate Image empowers you to ideate and create the exact assets you want using additional settings for Reference Image. You can also explore the Firefly Community Gallery with user-generated images and prompts for inspiration or editing.

In contrast, Generative Fill adds or removes content from a selected area of an existing image, ensuring the new content matches the lighting, shadows and perspective for seamless blending without needing detailed text descriptions.