What Is Going On With Adobe?

Perfect strawberries. Real or completely AI generated? What's your guess?The answer is at the end of this post. (click to enlarge)I can't help but notice. What in the world is going on with Adobe and their photography editing programs? For those of you who are Lightroom and Photoshop users have you noticed that Adobe, over the past 2 to 3 years, seems to be narrowly focused on features using artificial intelligence, especially "generative AI." I’m not so concerned by using just AI to help us create better selections and masks and such, but it is the ‘generative AI’ that has me concerned. It seems to me the road that Adobe is now traveling is squarely heading toward photo illustration and compositing while leaving traditional photography and photographers such as myself as well as many of you, largely behind.Some of you reading this may think these new AI based generative features are great. That is fine. I just ask that Adobe doesn’t leave the rest of us who don’t much care to use…