{"id":24237,"date":"2026-09-01T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24237"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:47:14","slug":"photoshop-combines-generative-imaging-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/photoshop-combines-generative-imaging-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop combines generative imaging &#038; masking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems I&#8217;m on something of a Photoshop kick lately (<em>something something you can take the boy out of West 10, but&#8230;<\/em>), so I&#8217;ll mention a couple of interesting-sounding enhancements that have <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adobe.com\/en\/publish\/2026\/08\/27\/new-photoshop-innovations-bring-you-more-choice-control-at-every-stage-of-your-creative-process\">landed in the latest release<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Instruct Edit with Masks<\/strong>, powered by Firefly Image 5, understands the full context of your image so you no longer need to precisely mark every edit area yourself. Just describe the precise edits you\u2019re looking for \u2014 such as opening closed eyes or placing a hat on a specific person\u2019s head \u2014 with simple prompts. <strong>The unmasked areas remain untouched<\/strong> so your other important elements, like faces, logos, or brand assets, are protected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Light Adjustment Layer<\/strong> gives you professional-grade lighting controls \u2014 Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks \u2014 in a new non-destructive adjustment layer, so you get Camera Raw-level results without ever leaving your Photoshop layers workflow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Markup<\/strong> lets you visually communicate edits by drawing directly on an image to show the model what you want \u2014 select areas to recolor, sketch arrows to indicate position, or brush in rough shapes to suggest new elements \u2014 so you can get results that more closely match your vision while reducing the ambiguity of text-only prompts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PS.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PS.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PS.webp 800w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PS-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PS-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I&#8217;m on something of a Photoshop kick lately (something something you can take the boy out of West 10, but&#8230;), so I&#8217;ll mention a couple of interesting-sounding enhancements that have landed in the latest release:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24239,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}