Adobe plans to announce a ridiculously cool picture editor at Adobe Max, dubbed Project Stardust, that makes use of AI to grasp objects in your images as…objects — permitting you to rapidly edit and modify them.

Adobe launched a teaser for Project Stardust on YouTube, the place Adobe staff confirmed off how Stardust may “understand” {that a} picture of a lady pulling a suitcase was made up of discrete objects. Simply by clicking on the suitcase, Stardust seems to grasp that it’s an object, and that it may be moved round or deleted.

Though considerably late to the AI get together (following the launch of Midjourney and different early examples of AI art generators), Adobe launched its Firefly AI generative device final 12 months and rapidly added AI options like outpainting to Photoshop earlier than adding Firefly to Photoshop via generative art tools, albeit with a credit plan. Now, Adobe appears poised to take the subsequent step.

Anyone who’s used Photoshop earlier than in all probability understands that deciding on an object advanced from rigorously outlining it, to utilizing the Magic Lasso device, and so forth. Now, it seems that you don’t even need to sketch the form of an object — clicking on it’s going to distinguish it from the remainder of the scene. In the YouTube teaser, Adobe staff confirmed how merely shifting the suitcase in query additionally tweaked the thing’s corresponding shadow, too. Then, Stardust used Firefly’s generative AI fill operate to exchange the suitcase within the mannequin’s hand with a bouquet of yellow flowers.

An much more attention-grabbing feat that Stardust apparently provides is the flexibility to eliminate “distractions,” a command which might be typed into the generative fill field. Stardust is seemingly sensible sufficient to pick background objects which could take away from the topic, after which take away them — filling of their absences with AI-generated backgrounds.

All in all, Stardust seems to be a brand new tackle capabilities that we’ve seen earlier than — eradicating folks from Google Photos, for instance — however with extra ranges of sophistication. Adobe stated it’s going to speak additional about it at its Adobe Max convention subsequent week.

(Star Wars nerds, in fact, know that “Project Stardust” was the Empire’s secret challenge that later grew to become what was referred to as the Death Star. Let’s hope that there isn’t something to do with an “exhaust port” inside Stardust, no?)