Microsoft's MAI Image 2.7 Preview debuted October 27 at No. 2 on the Artificial Analysis image editing board, 6 Elo behind GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. It has no price or API yet. Here is how it compares, what rivals cost per edit, and how to test it.
Bria Fibo 2.0 is the top-scoring open-weights image editor, trained on licensed images. It costs about what Nano Banana 2.1 does, scores lower, and the free download is non-commercial.
You can turn one phone photo of a product into a clean white-background listing image and a set of styled lifestyle scenes in about an hour with AI, and part of the toolkit is free.
Restore a cracked, faded or stained family photo with AI in well under an hour: scan it, repair it in Photoshop or the free Gemini app, sharpen small faces with MyHeritage, add color, then check every face against the original.
Krea 3 edits images in under 8 seconds at 2K for $0.06 each. It undercuts Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 but not Nano Banana 2.1, and speed is the real gain.
Remove a stranger, a power line or a stray bin from a photo in under a minute. Free AI erasers in Google Photos, Apple Photos and Windows, plus Canva, Photoshop and Lightroom, with the exact taps and fixes for leftover smudges.
FLUX 3 Image launched on 1 October with box-based layouts, ten references and 4K output. We tested its pixel-exact edit claim on BFL's own samples: 67.8-94.1% of pixels stay identical, and three of nine edits change areas far from the object.
Feyn released MultiMatte on 10 September 2026, a background removal model you steer by naming the subject you want to keep. It returns an alpha matte rather than a binary mask, and its benchmarks come with one caveat worth reading first.
Adobe shipped a prompt-based AI Assisted Editor and Firefly Image 5 in Photoshop on August 27, 2026. Here is what is new and how to use it.
ComfyUI-Angelo v2.2.1 adds one-click outpainting and 2x super-resolution to its click-to-refine sampler for FLUX 2 Klein, Qwen-Image-Edit, and SDXL.
Black Forest Labs ships a full editing pipeline. Here is the complete FLUX toolkit, the order to run the tools in, and what each tier costs.
Topaz Labs shipped a Mac update that makes upscaling and enhancing images 1.7x to 2x faster on Apple Silicon via NeuroStream 2.
Indie macOS photo editor Feather launches May 2, 2026 with on-device AI infill, magic selection, and stacking on Apple Silicon. Pay-once 20 dollars with code HUNT20.
Adobe released Lightroom Classic 15.3, Desktop 9.3, and Mobile 11.3 on April 16 with background AI processing that keeps photographers working while Denoise and Super Resolution run.
Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant on April 15, 2026, a creative agent that takes a plain-English brief and executes multi-step workflows across multiple Creative Cloud apps at once.
Six open-source releases in two weeks just made a full creative pipeline possible without a single subscription Between March 1 and March 15, 2026, something happened that has never happened before in creative AI: open-source models matched or exceeded commercial tools across every major creative...
Xiaohongshu's Intelligent Creation team released FireRed-Image-Edit 1.1 on March 3, 2026, achieving a composite score of 7.94 across five authoritative benchmarks and claiming the top spot among open-source image editing models