Photoshop Officially Comes to Browsers With AI Tools and a New Paywall

Not only has Adobe been expanding Photoshop's capabilities with new AI-powered tools, but it's also been expanding where the popular photo editing app can be used. After bringing it to mobile devices like tablets a few years ago, Adobe Photoshop is now generally available right inside your web browser.

Adobe Photoshop on the web, which was previously only accessible as a free but limited beta tool for anyone with an Adobe account, was finally added to the company's ever growing toolset yesterday.

As with the mobile versions of Adobe's graphics tools, Photoshop on the web has a limited number of options compared to its full desktop counterpart, but users can still stack and re-arrange various graphical elements in layers, perform basic photo touch-ups, add text and even enhance imagery using adjustment layers and layer effects. Photoshop on the web also includes Adobe's recently-released Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools, which rely on commercially-safe AI models to fill in missing parts of an image, or expand its canvas to fit alternate aspect ratios.

Although accessible from almost any modern browser at Photoshop.adobe.com, the online photo editing tool is now only available to those who are logged into an Adobe account and are paying for an active Photoshop subscription, which starts at $9.99/month. According to The Verge, while Adobe had offered a free version of Photoshop on the web during its beta, the company has no plans to continue it now that the browser-based photo editing app is available to paying customers.