Can’t wait to try this out!
We’ve been thinking a lot about how generative AI can make editing feel faster, smarter, and more intuitive without losing the control creators love.
Today at #AdobeMAX, the #AdobeFirefly team previewed Layered Image Editing: bringing the power of layers and compositing together… pic.twitter.com/VVPtv9hVbK
— Alexandru Costin (@acostin) October 28, 2025
I’m down in LA having tons of great conversations around AI and the future of creativity. If you want to chat, please hit me up. firstname dot lastname at gmail.
“Nodes, nodes, nodes!” — my exasperated then-10yo coming home from learning Unreal at summer camp 🙂
Love ’em or hate ’em, these UI building blocks seem to be everywhere these days—including in Runway’s new Workflows environment:
Introducing Workflows, a new way to build your own tools inside of Runway.
Now you can create your own custom node-based workflows chaining together multiple models, modalities and intermediary steps for even more control of your generations. Build the Workflows that work for… pic.twitter.com/5VHABPj8et
— Runway (@runwayml) October 21, 2025
Hmm—consider me intrigued:
Alloy is AI Prototyping built for Product Management:
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Check out the brief demo:
It’s official – I’m excited to introduce Alloy (@alloy_app), the world’s first tool for prototypes that look exactly like your product.
All year, PMs and designers have struggled with off-brand prototypes – built with “app builder” tools that look nothing like their existing… pic.twitter.com/DztKl2HtQg
— Simon Kubica (@simon_kubica) September 23, 2025
Twitter (yes, always “Twitter”) can be useful, but a ton of the AI-related posts there are often fairly superficial and/or impractical rehashes of eye candy that garners attention & not much else.
By contrast, Photoshop expert Jesús Ramirez has put together a really solid, nutrient-dense tour—complete with all his prompts—that I think you’ll find immediately useful. Dive on in, or jump directly to one of the topics linked below.
I particularly like this demo of using Flux to modify the text in an image:
I really enjoyed Jon Stewart’s super accessible, thoughtful conversation with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. Now I’m constantly going to be thinking about edge detectors, neurons, and beaks!
I was initially surprised to see VSCO tapping into Flux for generative smarts, but it makes sense: they’re leaning on it to add really good object removal—and not, at least for the moment, to make larger changes. It’ll be interesting to see how their user community responds, and whether they’ll tip some additional toes into these waters (e.g. for creative relighting).
I had a great time chatting with my fellow former Adobe PM Demian Borba about all things AI (creativity, ethics, ownership, value, and more). You can check out the conversation below, and in case it’s of interest, I used Gemini inside YouTube to create a summary of topics we discussed.
Creative Director Alexia Adana constantly explores new expressive tech & writes thoughtfully about her findings. I was kind of charmed to see her deploying the latest tools to form sort of a self-promotional AI herald (below), riding ahead with her tidings:
“Call your abuela! She is missing you and she has nothing to do.” :-p
Remember those studies showing that using AI makes us dumber? Yeah, about that… 🙂
This long strip is equal parts heartfelt & hilarious. You should read the whole thing (really, it’s very good), but this bit stuck with me:
As did this sick burn :-p
The team at BFL is celebrating some of the most interesting, creative uses of the Flux model. Having helped bring the Vanishing Point tool to Photoshop, and always having been interested in building more such tech, this one caught my eye:
Best Overall Winner
Perspective Control using Vanishing Points (jschoormans)
Just like Renaissance artists who start with perspective grids, this Kontext LoRa lets you control the exact perspective point in AI-generated images. pic.twitter.com/phAY41KYdP— Black Forest Labs (@bfl_ml) October 1, 2025
“With just a few clicks and the energy demands of a small European nation, you can create an ass-load of dumb shit with zero meaning!” :-p
Back when I worked in Google Research, my teammates developed fast models divide images & video into segments (people, animals, sky, etc.). I’m delighted that they’ve now brought this tech to Snapseed:
The new Object Brush in Snapseed on iOS, accessible in the “Adjust” tool, now lets you edit objects intuitively. It allows you to simply draw a stroke on the object you want to edit and then adjust how you want it to look, separate from the rest of the image.
Check out the team blog post for lots of technical details on how the model was trained.
The underlying model powers a wide range of image editing and manipulation tasks and serves as a foundational technology for intuitive selective editing. It has also been shipped in the new Chromebook Plus 14 to power AI image editing in the Gallery app. Next, we plan to integrate it across more image and creative editing products at Google.
I was pleasantly surprised to see my old Google Photos manager David Lieb pop up in this brief clip from Y Combinator, where he now works, discussing how the current batch of AI-enabled apps somewhat resembles the original “horseless carriages.” It’s fun to contemplate what’ll come next.
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