Adobe Photoshop Beta Ships 'Rotate Object' — AI-Powered 2D Image Rotation That Shouldn't Be Possible

Adobe's new Photoshop beta feature uses generative AI to rotate objects in 2D photos as if they were 3D models, then applies lighting correction via a companion 'Harmonize' tool. It's the kind of thing that breaks your brain a little.

Adobe quietly dropped one of the more technically impressive creative AI features this week: a Photoshop beta tool called "Rotate Object" that lets users take a flat 2D image of an object and rotate it in three-dimensional space, as demonstrated by @icreatelife. The tool generates novel views of the object that didn't exist in the original image — essentially hallucinating what the back or side of an object looks like based on learned priors. A companion feature called "Harmonize" then adjusts lighting and shadows to match the rotated object's new orientation within the scene.

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