Adobe rolled out a major update today that supercharges Photoshop with cutting-edge generative AI tools, making it astonishingly simple to add or remove people and objects from images with just a few clicks. The debut of Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and a revamped Remove tool promises to democratize high-end compositing tasks that once demanded extensive expertise. These features are arriving in beta for Photoshop on desktop and web, with early access coming soon to the Photoshop iOS app.

Building on last year’s Project Perfect Blend experiment, Harmonize automatically analyzes the target scene and adjusts any inserted element’s color, lighting, shadows, and overall tone to match the host image. Designers, marketers, and digital artists can thus create surreal composites or polished campaign visuals without manual mask-tweaking or painstaking color correction. Harmonize is powered by Adobe Firefly’s image model and is available now in beta across desktop and web, plus early access on iOS.

Photoshop’s new Generative Upscale tool can magnify low-resolution photos up to eight megapixels while preserving clarity and fine detail—a game-changer for restoring old prints or repurposing assets for high-res prints and social media. Unlike earlier upscalers that tended to blur or artifact images, this Firefly-powered feature intelligently enhances textures, sharpness, and visual fidelity. Generative Upscale is in beta on both web and desktop and does not consume generative credits during testing.

The classic Remove tool gets a serious overhaul: powered by a specialized AI removal model, it now produces fewer seams, more realistic texture fills, and—crucially—respects your request if you simply want an object erased without generating a replacement. This addresses a longstanding frustration where Photoshop would sometimes introduce unwanted filler content in place of the removed area. The updated Remove tool is rolling out today in beta for both desktop and web users.

All three features—Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and the enhanced Remove tool—are available in the current public beta of Photoshop on desktop and web. The Harmonize functionality also appears in early access on the new Photoshop iOS app. Subscribers to the stable Photoshop release will see these tools listed under the Contextual Task Bar once they update to the July 2025 beta (version 26.9).

While creative pros are buzzing about how these updates can streamline workflows and spark new ideas, there’s a flip side: the same ease that empowers legitimate edits also lowers the barrier for convincingly fabricating reality. Deepfake-style manipulations, misleading composites, and image-based misinformation could proliferate if content platforms don’t adopt robust verification practices. Adobe does enforce content safety policies to prevent generation of illicit or harmful images, but policing user-generated edits remains a complex challenge.

To help maintain trust, Photoshop now embeds Content Credentials—tamper-evident metadata that records an image’s editing history and origin. Consumers and platforms can inspect these credentials to trace whether a photo was AI-manipulated, who made the edits, and what assets were used. This “digital nutrition label” approach is part of the broader Content Authenticity Initiative backed by Adobe and other industry players. While credentials don’t prevent fakes, they foster transparency and accountability in an era of hyper-realistic image creation.

With Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and the improved Remove tool, Photoshop is blurring the lines between imagination and reality faster than ever. For creators, these AI-driven features unlock time savings and new creative heights; for the rest of us, they underscore the critical need for tools and practices that preserve truth in visual media. As these capabilities leave beta later this year, the real test will be how responsibly they’re used—and how effectively we can verify what’s real in the age of AI-augmented imagery.