Musings on the Human Condition

This year's Summit was as good as ever! As usual, there were hundreds of sessions covering every imaginable topic. However, there were a few themes that were new this year and deserve special mention. Generative AI Adobe's implementation of GenAI comes in the form of their Firefly toolkit (currently in beta) that takes in a textual description of an image and generates artificial images that match the provided description. For example, you could ask Firefly to create a "flat design logo for a towing company featuring a tow truck using grey and orange and primary colors". And Firefly will produce several images to choose from and tweak. You can customize things like the aspect ratio, content type (photo, graphic, or art), styles, color and tone, lighting, and composition to create truly custom and unique content. Additionally, Firefly can also generate text effects.  Features under development include vector recoloring, text to brush (create custom Photoshop brushes)