How Figma is borrowing from Photoshop with new AI tools
This news piece looks at a set of AI upgrades inside Figma. The design platform is adding features like erase and isolate for images, letting people remove unwanted objects or separate elements without bouncing to a dedicated photo editor. The tools are powered by generative models that fill in backgrounds and guess what should be behind a deleted area.
The Verge author explains that this is part of a larger trend. Productivity apps are quietly absorbing the capabilities of traditional creative suites. Instead of exporting assets to another program, designers expect lightweight but powerful editing shortcuts directly in their UI tool.
The bigger idea is that AI is dissolving the boundaries between roles. When a product designer can retouch hero images or social assets inside the same canvas where they draw flows, teams can move faster, but they also have to rethink how responsibilities are divided.
Read the original article on The Verge: Figma adds more Photoshop like AI tools for image editing
