Midjourney and Adobe Firefly are among the most widely used AI image generators for different reasons, with Adobe finding a home among traditional artists and designers and Midjourney the darling of a new generation of AI artists.

Facing increasing competition from generative AI tools pushing into visuals, Adobe has released a new version of Firefly that boasts "photographic detail."

Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs they generate. Powered by Adobe’s new Firefly Image 3 foundation model,

Firefly 3 was trained on billions of licensed stock images, including more detailed labelling for lighting, structure and style, to improve the overall output. It is initially available through the Firefly website and will roll out to other Adobe products in the future, including alongside AI video models like Sora in Premiere Pro.

Adobe said on Tuesday it plans to place a tool for full artificial intelligence image generation in its Photoshop software later this year. Adobe's image and video editing tools are widely used by creative professionals,

Adobe has given its signature Photoshop a boost, enabling users to adopt the style of another picture or create an image with a line of text