Nearly twenty years ago (!), I wrote here about how The Killing’s Gotta Stop—ironically, perhaps, about then-new Microsoft apps competing with Adobe. I rejected false, zero-sum framing then, and I reject it now.

Having said that, my buddy Bilawal’s provocative framing in this video gets at something important: if Adobe doesn’t get on its game, actually delivering the conversational editing capabilities we publicly previewed 2+ years ago, things are gonna get bad. I’m reminded of the axiom that “AI will not replace you, but someone using AI just might.” The same goes for venerable old Photoshop competing against AI-infused & AI-first tools.

In any case, if you’re interested in the current state of the art around conversational editing (due to be different within weeks, of course!), I think you’ll enjoy this deep dive into what is—and isn’t—possible via Gemini:

Specific topic sections, if you want to jump right to ’em:

• 00:00 Conversational Editing with Google’s Multimodal AI
• 00:53 Image Generation w/ LLM World Knowledge
• 02:12 Easy Image Editing & Colorization 
• 02:46 Advanced Conversational Edits (Chaining Prompts Together)
• 03:37 Long Text Generation (Google Beats OpenAI To The Punch)
• 04:25 Making Spicy Memes (Google AI Studio Safety Settings) 
• 05:48 Advanced Prompting (One Shot ComfyUI Workflows) 
• 07:19 Re-posing Characters (While Keeping Likeness Intact) 
• 08:27 Spatial 3D Understanding (NO ControlNet) 
• 10:42 Semantic Editing & In/Out Painting 
• 13:46 Sprite Sheets & Animation Keyframes 
• 14:40 Using Gemini To Build Image Editing Apps
• 16:37 Making Videos w/ Conversational Editing