Figma’s Latest Update Brings Photoshop-Level Editing (And It’s Huge)

Figma has just become the Photoshop killer. It's kill. It's literally kill Photoshop. There are some notable updates made to our favorite web design tool that branch further into Photoshop territory. Isolate object and expand image. And you know, these aren't break, you know, these aren't crazy additions. Here you go. You can extend the image and stuff. I've been using Affinity. I've been loving Affinity's extend feature and it does a really, really good job. It just had me interested here just because we use Figma mostly for the web and app design which is vector-based not really pixelbased but I think this will they're sort of adding features here that yes we will do stuff like this for our apps for sure but this becomes slowly but surely becoming add effects as well um and all that kind of stuff it's slowly becoming I mean we do our thumbnails in here which is traditionally a pixelbased kind of editing tool. This probably will kill Photoshop for a lot of people just as they're adding more and more of these photo elements. This is genuinely this is one reason why I kind of wanted um Affinity with the AI feature because of the object fill. If if I can somehow work uh you know justify a way to have the rest of uh Figma's features in you know in my workflow then I might move on to move on to Figma. But there's a really interesting photocentric features they're adding. Yeah, we we are creating our thumbnails in like Figma and I use Figma for so many so so many things and it is becoming like more like a a tool that does it all and yeah like Photoshop it takes ages to open and then you have files you know individual files if you think about it that way like Figma has made it so much easier because you can sometimes you just do something in whatever file. It doesn't matter. You need to do something quickly. You just open it, do it where in wherever. Uh it's something that you can't do with Figma and with uh Photoshop. And we take sometimes these things for granted. But Figma fundamentally changed the the whole process of doing things and also like you do it and then your your team can uh pick it up and continue it. Like imagine I upload something and I just tell my team to continue where I uh left and yeah these images uh image edit editing tools will be just doing more of that inside of Figma available right now into in the Figma design and Figma draw uh to all user full seat professional organization enterprise plans. So yeah, pretty pretty interesting. Um, yeah, let's see where it goes. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.