Pam Clark
January 27, 2026
Creative professionals move fast. Ideas evolve from a quick spark to a finished image in moments, and even minor interruptions can break momentum. Whether you’re compositing complex scenes, refining depth and lighting, or polishing fine details during rapid iterations, unnecessary steps often slow the creative process.
To solve this, Photoshop introduces a new wave of innovations designed to reduce friction, enhance realism, and provide deeper precision and control. As a result, creators can stay in flow longer and focus more energy on bringing their creative vision to life.
What’s New in Photoshop
Non-Destructive Editing with New Adjustment Layers
Photoshop now introduces all-new Clarity, Dehaze, and Grain adjustment layers. These powerful additions support non-destructive, layer-based, and fully maskable editing, giving creators precise control without altering original pixels.
Community feedback played a key role in shaping these updates. Many creatives praised adjustment layers for improving accuracy and flexibility, which led to the general release of these highly requested tools.
With Grain, images gain depth and texture. Through Dehaze, atmospheric interference can be reduced while lighting stays balanced. Meanwhile, Clarity enhances structure and crispness in subjects. Each adjustment blends seamlessly, allowing complete creative control over the final output.
Dynamic Text (Beta): Shape Text in One Click
Now available in beta, Dynamic Text simplifies complex typography workflows. Any text layer can be instantly transformed into circular, arched, or bowed shapes with a single click.
Instead of relying on workarounds, creators can select a shape and let Photoshop automatically fit and resize the text. As a result, designing, repositioning, and refining text along paths becomes faster, smoother, and far more intuitive.
Firefly-Powered Tools Deliver Higher Quality Results
Major upgrades now enhance Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and the Remove Tool. Powered by the latest Firefly Fill and Expand model and Remove Tool 3, these features produce sharper details, fewer artifacts, and up to 2K resolution output.
Additionally, results align more accurately with prompts. Seam transitions appear cleaner, while lighting and depth feel more natural. Together, these improvements deliver polished, realistic edits that require less manual correction.
Greater Control with Reference Image for Generative Fill
Reference Image for Generative Fill receives a significant upgrade. Creative professionals now gain stronger control over object identity during generation and compositing.
This enhanced system preserves geometry, scale, rotation, lighting, color, and perspective. Consequently, generated objects align more naturally with existing scenes, ensuring consistency and realism throughout complex compositions.
AI Innovation Designed for Creative Professionals
Photoshop continues to see strong adoption of AI-powered tools. That momentum reflects how essential AI has become within modern creative workflows.
Adobe remains committed to advancing this innovation with tools that prioritize power, precision, choice, and control. Each update supports creative exploration while respecting professional standards and expectations.
Explore the Latest Updates Today
These new features are now available in Photoshop desktop. Firefly-powered upgrades for Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and the Remove Tool will also arrive in Photoshop on the web.
Together, these innovations reinforce Photoshop’s role as a creative partner—one that works at the speed of imagination.