Thomas Voland wrote:
. . . if the generated images will be in the full resolution of the document and individual elements are separate layers, then this could be a very useful function with no direct competitors. Unfortunately, at this point it doesn't look like that's going to happen since it simply generates graphics in Firefly and inserts them into PS.

BTW. Probably "Digital Art and Retouching" is better forum category for this topic.

Thanks for your thoughts.

What you describe as the best to-be-hoped-for-feature seems, at least in many cases, as if some of it could also potentially be done within the AI interface itself, perhaps by incorporating some layers as individual images. Si, o No?

I stopped using PS for anything long ago, although I was among its very first customers. I know from personal experience though that just as soon as technology enabled the very first possibility for the digital scanning and manipulation of film, those capabilities were employed creatively by a Chicago commercial-photographer.

Thus, I think it a mistake, as well as an underestimation of its coming capabilities –and of their import among photographers– for you to regard the new PS-AI functions solely as a 'Digital Art & Retouching" tool, even if that is arguably its nature in a most basic sense. Photographers, including me, used digitally based image-enhancing possibilities in our photography from the very beginning. There seems to be no reason to imagine that they will stop now and hand off all of that sort of enhancement capability to other artist/technicians.

Given my lack of familiarity with the guts of today's PS, I'm just curious here to know what others' views are regarding the technology being employed within the coming software revision/entity, and to hear their thoughts on the uses it can and will be put to, by themselves perhaps, or by many other photographers in the near future.