Adobe expands Photoshop and Firefly Boards with new generative AI tools and third-party models

Multinational creative software company Adobe Inc. is updating its suite of products with more artificial intelligence models to support professionals where they work.

The company announced today that Firefly Boards, an AI-native software workspace for users to explore, iterate and collaborate in real time, will receive new AI generative video models including Runway AI Inc.’s Aleph and Moonvalley AI’s Marey.

Photoshop, Adobe’s flagship image editor, is also gaining access to Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, nicknamed “Nano Banana,” and Black Forest Labs Inc.’s FLUX.1 Kontext Pro.

Adobe said it is rolling out Firefly Boards worldwide with new features such as presets, generative text edit, and describe image.

Presets allow users to generate images in different styles. For example, “Product and Character” helps visualize products using image generation, while “Virtual Try On” lets users apply clothing to a model in a photo.

Now in beta mode, generative text edit allows users to swap text directly in visuals, maintaining the style and context of the image. For example, a user might want to change the text of a neon sign or words on a billboard. Using text edit allows them to change the text, while maintaining the same “look” of the original neon letters or keep the font, structure, color and orientation on a sign.

“Using Firefly Boards, I can quickly generate and iterate multiple visual concepts for a creative commercial proposal,” said Malick Lombion, filmmaker and creative director.

The new describe image functionality allows users to generate a ready-to-use natural language prompt that can be used as text for image generation. Users can edit the prompt afterwards to fit their needs. For example, a user could take an image of a brightly-colored bird and transform it into a text prompt, which they could then edit to change its setting, coloration, species or any number of other qualities and then have an Adobe image model render an image based on the new text.

Photoshop’s generative fill gets an upgrade

Photoshop already includes Adobe’s Firefly AI models, which are commercially safe for use in creative workflows. The addition of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and FLUX.1 Kontext broadens what creatives can do with generative fill, a feature that allows users to add, remove or transform parts of an image using natural-language prompts.

“This represents a first in Creative Cloud applications to integrate partner models,” Joel Baer, director of product management at Adobe told SiliconANGLE in an interview. “This is the beginning of our journey of integrating these models into Photoshop.”

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image excels at stylized elements, graphic details and scene additions while staying context-aware. It is also more consistent at making subtle edits without unintended changes.

FLUX.1 Kontext is tuned for contextual accuracy, perspective, and environmental harmony. It performs well with complex tasks such as adjusting settings, working with human anatomy or transforming backgrounds while preserving core elements of a scene.

When using these models, Photoshop automatically generates non-destructive layers that record both the prompt and the model used. This allows creatives to refine their edits, apply masks and separate AI-generated changes from the main image.

For example, a designer could use Flash Image to add props or change a wine glass into a champagne flute, while FLUX.1 could transform an office desk from wood to glass without disturbing the items on top.

“Many of our customers are using third party services in in combination with Photoshop as part of their creative process, whether it’s for ideation or even editing images,” said Baer said. He added that integrating these new models will open up more options for users in their creative flow. “Photoshop has always kind of been the place you go when you’re not maybe totally sure what you need to do to your image, but you know Photoshop can do it.”

Adobe said for a limited time during the beta the new models, Image Flash and FLUX.1, will be available to everyone with a subscription and not deduct AI credits. Subscribers to standard plans will receive 100 lifetime generations per model and existing premium subscribers will get 500 generations per day per model.

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