Five tools are launching with this program. The first is a Magic Brush, which customers can use to highlight an area of an image and have the AI adjust it based on user instructions. For example, you could hover over a person and tell the AI to replace it with a horse or anything else you can conjure up. This tool is similar to Google’s upgraded Magic Eraser, which is included with the tech company’s relatively new AI-editing toolkit.
An Expand Image tool has also arrived that imagines what an image would look like if the camera was zoomed out and expands the photo accordingly. Variations is a new tool that can produce similar but altered images of stock or AI-generated content. Shutterstock’s demonstration example was a closeup of a flower as a source image, where the variations had varying petal types and stem angles.
Another new feature is the Design Assistant, an AI-powered text box where customers can type their ideas in and have a back-and-forth with the AI as it gives you recommendations and generated images. There is also Background Remover launching with this update that allows users to highlight a subject and then tell the AI what to transform the background to. Shutterstock’s AI image generator is also said to be getting an update soon to the latest version of Dall-E.
