Everyone will want to use Photoshop's upcoming People Distractions Tool

A highlight of attending Adobe Max is getting a peek at what's coming next for the host of creative tools. And this year is no different. We were given a taster of three main tools that will be coming up across Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro. 

The standout sneak is a tool that'll be useful for everyone, not just professionals - one that can remove a sea of people from the foreground of a photo. If you've had substandard holiday snaps, this is for you. I've shared details below - and you can see the Photoshop updates announced right here (and a selection of Photoshop AI tutorials here). 

Imagine you've taken a beautiful photo of a beautiful landmark but there are pesky tourists everywhere. Before, you'd have to lasso each individual person and remove them. As Creative Cloud Evangelist Terry White says this could take five minutes. But a future Photoshop tool will allow you to remove them with one fell swoop. 

I got a close look at the results, and in its current form you'd likely need to retouch a little for very busy pictures (there was some blurring on one of the Colosseum photos above). But it'll no doubt get more powerful in the months before release. See a different finished image below, of London's National Gallery.

Generative Remove for Lightroom

Today marks the expansion of Generative Fill/Remove on Photoshop, and this sneak showed us that the tool will be coming to Lightroom, too. You'll be able to use adjustment brushes directly on your phone to remove objects. Perfect for on-the-go creating.

Premiere Pro

Ashley Still, SVP and GM of Creative Cloud opened her section of sneaks by stating that "2024 is the year generative AI becomes relevant for video editors" so we know Premiere Pro must be firmly on the agenda.

Actually, we already knew about these features (see our piece reporting on Adobe's tease of generative AI in Premiere Pro), but Adobe has included them in the Sneaks portion of today along with a video exhibiting a lot of the features (see above). 

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These include adding and removing objects, extending a shot, text-to-video and using third party AI models in a video. The last, as we have discussed before, is a controversial move - but Adobe is clear that the ethical approach to AI integration is continuing in Premiere Pro. 

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Georgia is lucky enough to be Creative Bloq's Editor. She has been working for Creative Bloq since 2018, starting out as a freelancer writing about all things branding, design, art, tech and creativity - as well as sniffing out genuinely good deals on creative technology. Since becoming Editor, she has been managing the site on a day-to-day basis, helping to shape the diverse content streams CB is known for and leading the team in their own creativity.