The words “generative AI” are on everyone’s lips right now. These technologies can create text, images or video clips from simple prompts and could change the media landscape as we know it. Adobe certainly thinks generative AI deserves further investigation and is putting its marketing muscle behind Generative Fill, a new feature in Photoshop that lets you edit or manipulate your images in entirely new ways.
You can see for yourself how it works in the image below: drag the slider left and right to see the before and after. The empty areas have been filled in, that is, extrapolated from the rest of the image, by Photoshop’s artificial intelligence. Thanks to technologies like this, it has never been easier to transform images from portrait to landscape format.
Generative Fill is still officially in beta. We’ve been using the Photoshop beta for several weeks now, and we continue to be surprised by it almost daily. Some results are incredibly realistic. Others are so imprecise they’re funny.
Installing and Using Photoshop Beta
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If you want to install Photoshop beta, you will need a valid Adobe Creative Cloud license and an active internet connection, as the Generative Fill feature requires cloud processing. Once you have a license, open Creative Cloud and select Beta Apps from the left tab. Select this and then you can install the beta version of Photoshop and start using it right away.
Photoshop Generative Fill: Limits
With great power comes great responsibility. Luckily, Adobe knows you can do big damage with AI, so there are plenty of rules for keeping “creative content high.” Anyone who does not follow the Adobe Generative AI beta usage guidelines may have their account blocked.
Adobe prohibits the use of generative AI for certain purposes:
- Pornographic material or explicit nudity
- Hateful or highly offensive content that attacks or dehumanizes a group on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, religion, serious illness or disability, gender, age or race. sexual orientation
- Graphic violence or gore
- Promotion, glorification or threats of violence
- Illegal activities or property
- Self-harm or promotion of self-harm
- Depictions of naked minors or minors in a sexual manner
- Promotion of terrorism or violent extremism
- Distribute misleading, fraudulent or misleading content that could cause actual harm
- Personal or private information of others (such as full name, home address, phone number, email address, government-issued identification, or other information about an identifiable individual)
Photoshop generative fill: how to get started
Generative Fill AI saves time. A plot of time. It retouches unwanted image elements, enables new perspectives, and creates new things, all through a text command. The possibilities are limitless. You simply select the area, using the appropriate selection tool (shortcut: M), in which the AI should perform its work.
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To fill in the rest of an image, you’ll want to leave the search field blank to allow Adobe’s AI to scan the image and fill in the empty area. Photoshop then creates three different variants for you to choose from.
You get three variants. Which do you prefer?
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You can switch from one option to another. If you don’t like any of the options, you can try the process again or add descriptive words in the search field.
Photoshop Generative Fill: false realities and extraordinary landscapes
At first glance, this appears to be a normal image. At second glance, you notice minor inconsistencies, such as the door handles and the windows of the house in the background. things are not enough LAW.
Have you photographed Neuschwanstein Castle in portrait orientation, but want something more panoramic? No problem, Photoshop will fill in the rest.
Of course, the results have nothing to do with reality. Anyone familiar with the surroundings of Neuschwanstein Castle will recognize that the AI-created content is artificial. It’s image manipulation. But to the untrained eye, it’s quite spectacular.
Photoshop still has big problems with people and animals. While the dog in the image below looks quite realistic, it’s immediately obvious that something is wrong with the man’s face.
Hands are also a problem for Photoshop’s AI. The fingers are often deformed and look unnatural and sometimes have extra digits.
Hands Still Give Photoshop AI Problems. Left: the original. Right: the AI version, with five fingers and a thumb.
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Realistic textures and large-scale AI content can also be problematic. It entirely depends on the subject. While AI can handle nature images well, architecture is obviously more of a challenge.
Photoshop struggles to create a realistic urban environment.
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AI manipulation is easier to spot if you know the original image, of course, but large-scale changes can also be evident. Small changes are the key to success. Would you notice even if we only enlarged the image a few pixels? AI comes in particularly handy in cases where, for example, you want to turn a 3:2 image into a 16:9 image.
In another test, we took an image of a church tower (left), cropped it (center), then set Photoshop to reconstruct the tower (right). Apart from the church clock, the result is quite respectable.
Photoshop Generative Fill AI designs a church steeple and has trouble with the clock.
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This article originally appeared on Macwelt and was translated and edited by David Price.
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