Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

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Adobe Photoshop is among the most recognizable pieces of software ever created, used by more than 90% of the world’s creative professionals, according to Photutorial.

So the fact that a new open source AI model — Qwen-Image Edit, released yesterday by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen Team of AI researchers — is now able to accomplish a huge number of Photoshop-like editing jobs with text inputs alone, is a notable achievement.

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Built on the 20-billion-parameter Qwen-Image foundation model released earlier this month, Qwen-Image-Edit extends the system’s unique strengths in text rendering to cover a wide spectrum of editing tasks, from subtle appearance changes to broader semantic transformations.