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Adobe Adds New AI Tools to Photoshop and Illustrator

Adobe Adds New AI Tools to Photoshop and Illustrator

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Adobe today updated its Illustrator and Photoshop Creative Cloud apps, introducing a range of new features that streamline productivity. Many of the additions take advantage of generative AI and machine learning to save creators time. Photoshop has a new Selection Brush Tool for selecting areas by brushing over them without having to use the Quick Mask mode. The tool has opacity and hardness settings for feathered edges, allowing for more seamless selections. The Adjustment Brush Tool, which has been in beta, is also available. It allows for painting on adjustments to brightness, saturation, and more, with options for fine tuning selections. Photoshop’s Generate Image text to image feature is also out of beta, and it can be used to generate dozens of ideas in minutes using a text prompt and/or reference images. Other new Photoshop features include an improved Contextual Task Bar, support for bulleted and numbered lists, and an Enhance Detail option for Generative Fill. Adobe Illustrator has a Generative Shape Fill feature for filling shapes with detail and color. Adobe says that users …

French artist Laurent de Brunhoff, an author and illustrator of ‘Babar’, died at 98

French artist Laurent de Brunhoff, an author and illustrator of ‘Babar’, died at 98

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A portrait dated 13 March 1969 of Laurent de Brunhoff, son of French artist Jean de Brunhoff who created the series “Babar” in 1931. – / AFP French artist Laurent de Brunhoff, the author and illustrator of dozens of children’s books starring the affable elephant character Babar created by his father, died Friday, March 22, at the age of 98, US media reported. De Brunhoff’s wife, Phyllis Rose, had posted on Instagram Wednesday that he had recently suffered a stroke and was in hospice care at home in the United States. Rose told The New York Times on Friday that De Brunhoff, who was born in Paris in 1925, had died at home in Key West, Florida. Created in 1931 by Laurent de Brunhoff’s parents, the Babar series has sold millions of copies around the world and has been translated into over a dozen languages. The illustrated Babar series follows the exploits of the eponymous jungle-born elephant, who receives an upbringing in Paris following his mother’s death by a hunter, then travels back to found …

Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’ | Art

Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’ | Art

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Josh Kirby’s art has adorned hundreds of book covers – perhaps most notably dozens of Terry Pratchett novels, especially the bestselling Discworld series. His body of work is far more wide-ranging, though – Kirby’s paintings have graced the covers of volumes by Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, HG Wells, Jack Kerouac, Herman Melville and Neil Gaiman, and he’s done posters for movies including the Star Wars franchise. Now the family of the artist, who died in 2001, is looking for a philanthropist of the arts to keep the vast collection of original paintings together and make sure Kirby’s original artworks are preserved for posterity in one or more museums or galleries. Josh Kirby worked in a cramped space in a former rectory in Norfolk. Rob Liano, representing the Kirby estate, said: “There are roughly 400 finished paintings but also a couple of hundred sketches of various media, ranging from detailed gouache renditions to pencil and pen sketches. It’s a vast collection spanning seven decades and a beautiful narrative of Josh’s workflow, creative process and artistry. “Our …

Adobe Firefly’s generative AI models can now create vector graphics in Illustrator

Adobe Firefly’s generative AI models can now create vector graphics in Illustrator

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Illustrator is Adobe’s vector graphics tool for graphic artists and it’s about to join the generative AI era with the launch of the Firefly Vector Model at Adobe’s MAX conference today. Adobe describes the new model as “the world’s first generative AI model focused on producing vector graphics.” Like Firefly for creating images and photos, Firefly for Illustrator will be able to create entire vector graphics from scratch. And like the other Firefly models, the vector model, too, was trained on data from Adobe Stock. In its beta, Illustrator will now let you create entire scenes through a text prompt. What’s nifty here is that those scenes can consist of multiple objects. So this isn’t just a jumble of vectors that make up the overall graphic but Illustrator will automatically generate these different objects and you can manipulate them individually to your heart’s content, just like any other group or layer in Illustrator. Image Credits: Adobe Alexandru Costin, Adobe’s VP for generative AI and Sensei, told me the company used tens of millions of vector …