GENERATIVE FILL A.I. in Photoshop is INCREDIBLE for Photographers 😳 

So excited to try out generative fill! I was impressed with kahmas ability to generate stunning AI profile photos.

We've been testing the fill feature and I have to say it's pretty amazing. We actually couldn't believe how accurate the fill is. We had a vertical image of two subjects in a train station (surrounded by trains on either side and wanted to see if it could fill for a horizontal. Well, it filled in the trains and walkway perfectly and even added correct colors/grading, lighting and DOF. We also tested it out with an image of a couple during fireworks on a balcony with hundreds of people below BUT there was an annoying table with drinks and a mans leg in the shot (couldn't ask him to move). The fill perfectly rebuilt the railing with spindles, filled in people below and added directional lighting. Amazing. I'm not a big fan of Adobe and their politics but on a purely technical level this is a huge positive development.

It's insane what this and AI generated artwork can do. And this is only just the start of it - It's still hit or miss sometimes, but in a year or two it'll be so much better, and it's already pretty amazing. What I love most about it (other than speeding edits up by a lot, and making previously impossible things now possible), is that it does allow so much more control over creativity. Things you couldn't do before or could only imagine in your head, are now much more achievable. Previously my skills might not have been good enough to get exactly what I wanted, or to fix things that really annoyed me about a photo, but this literally does it in seconds, and usually way better than I could have done it. Combining this with Midjourney means it's a pretty exciting time for creative work - but it does also mean you can no longer trust any image you see as being real.

Integrating this with Photoshop makes the whole graphic and visual design scene even more crazier . Let see where this takes us . Results are really astonishing

Great experimentation here, Glyn. I love how it handles the shadows and lighting from original image. Also a great way of adjusting to somehing that seems obvious is here tostay. It truly is the creative mind that produces the final image and AI is just another, albeit phenomenal tool.

I absolutely love your education style. You always deliver. Thank you

Love it! Very creative and to think you can repair our treasured photos that were damaged, so great!

Enjoyed this video, thank you! Saw your Photoshop Summit tutorial, looking forward to the next one!

Amazing!! This a practical use... I love it!

Absolutely love the Generative fill, used in on many of my photos already!

The stool example was mind-blowing to me! So much fun ahead for us!

Thanks Glen, one of the best demos of this AI tool I have seen.

Thank you, Glyn for the video and the explanations. 🌷

this is insane, I have been playing with it with mixed results, the good results are really crazy good, the bad results are comically bad, but of course its in Beta, once it has been improved and understood with user submited data it is going to be insane

Great video. Really impressive, and I think ya, this is the first AAA studio that has taken the new AI art software and run with it in a pleasing familiar UI. Looks fun too!

Love this!!!

That was Great 🤩👍

I spent some time learning this new feature in Photoshop yesterday. I love it and am excited to see how it will evolve. This is another excellent tool I will use when needed, and understand it is limited so I will always have to put my finishing touches on the final image. I had some things I wanted to accomplish with Midjourney and could not with its deep learning curve. This PSD AI feature is a walk in the park. Of course, there will be those who will exploit it and think they are now real artists by using it by creating tacky art, just like the millions who believe they are real photographers using their cell phones & DSLRs on auto mode.

I've been experimenting with it to change or extend backgrounds; I've made a blank wall slightly less blank by adding some faded graffiti to it; and, most egregiously, I livened up a boring corner by materializing a cat in it (Generative Fill did an excellent job on the cat.) But here's the kicker: This technology depends on the machine-learning model being "trained" on huge sets of prototypical images, which it slices and dices to execute your generative prompt. So the more your concept is commonplace, mundane, and obvious, the more likely the MLM is to have been trained on something similar, enabling it to produce excellent results. Meanwhile, the more idiosyncratic, unique, and distinctive your original concept, the less likely the MLM will find similar source materials in its training set, and the more likely it is to produce an "off"-looking result. You can almost use it like a naffness meter -- the more it improves your image, the weaker your original idea was in the first place...

I used the generative fill on a recent composite of 9 dogs. Extending the background in the same way you did on your farmer portrait. So brilliant!

This is a tremendous video! I am a photo retoucher and the new AI is a thrill to have - soon - haven't checked out the Beta, but will now! Thanks so much for your enthusiasm!

I love it. Our design team does as well. We’re always asked for extracurricular things to spice up images in post, or remove very difficult things like cranes, forklifts, woodpiles and tricky license plates. This has greatly sped up mock-ups and workflows. It’s light years better than content aware algorithm and this is still in its infancy, let’s see how accurate it gets 2-5 years from now.

Great video. Thanks.

Absolutely game changing

Very cool video! Well done!

Its about time Photoshop caught up to our creative genius, way to go team!

Photography is now more like painting than ever before. Creating the changes is not "fake / false" but merely allowing photographers to become creative painters. This is beyond impressive and opens massive improvement potential for any "creator." Thanks for your video.

Amazing. I'm so excited to play with it more - I've already used the ai generative fill to expand photos and it's truly mind-blowing. Would love to see more videos for inspiration.

adding fog etc with A.i sold it for me! I always feel like I need a fog machine or aerisol can. Can't wait to use it! :D

Pretty impressive, Glyn.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Wow, you've got some great use cases there. At this point it's just a tool to augment our own creativity. It's great for cleaning up images, and obviously for so much more. I'm looking forward to seeing how it progresses, but in my mind it will never be the end of photography. A large part of photography is just being out, camera in hand, and I can't replicate that with AI.

Brilliant video! You're spot on with your comment at the end. I've had ideas floating around in my head for years that I just don't have the time or energy to produce due to having to learn new several new software packages extensively. Now I can take my main skills of PS compositing and color grading and combine them with Ai to produce these art pieces. It's about using the tools that we are giving to our advantage.

Your voice is so well mixed! 😂 Fun video thank you! 🎉

Nice one 👍

Insane!

Yeah, generative fill is a total game-changer. I've worked with retouching for almost two decades, and this honestly blows my mind.

love your charisma and teaching style

When I was a production artist I can think of spendiing two days retouching a photo to clean up a beach to be used for a big boating campaign. With this generate function, I am thinking less than an hour would have been needed. This is powerful for things like that. For that this is beyond good. For the creative mind this is exponential .

I agree wholeheartedly with your summation. Thanks Glyn.

Great video Glyn, as always beautifully explained. I have 'played' with an image I took recently and am really amazed at how Generative Fill works. It does beg the question though about any future images that I am viewing, are they 'real' ?!!

Very Nice 😮

I'm glad you did this video. It's helped me do better photography. I'm now going through all my photos and deleting every one of them where I borrowed unneeded help from other photos. I want to be REAL.

Great video. I have been playing with this for a couple days now. It’s mind blowing. I realize this is a beta version, but is there anyway to use this as a plugin with LR Classic????

Thank you Amazing tool

Great!

great video i sub

Amazing what technology is evolving into!

This new fill is amazing! Photos just took a huge step forward.

Excellent break down

I love it. Gives you complete creative freedom to express yourself in ways that are now less limited. I don't have huge amounts of money for a studio, so using AI can really plug that gap for me.

That's awesome...Adobe finally found an answer to fixing the issue in the first 2 photos that we have been struggling with for many years! (either cloning or try stretching the photos 😅)

I love it for taking lens glare off the subjects glasses, and taking tourists out of travel photos. I also find it takes people's watermarks (if you use them) out very neat and fast. I tried 3 different watermarks. One of them I got the warning but the other 2 worked perfectly. Of course I wouldn't do this to anyone's property for real but I wanted to see if it would work. Also as I mentioned before, it doesn't add clouds to a panorama image too well. There is way more positives about it going forward that the negative. Looking forward to Adobe putting it in PS permanently.

WOW!!! that is astonishing almost like wizardry

I can see how fantastic this might be and helpful for the film industry and other creative professionals. For me as a hobby getting so automatic will take the fun out of it and makes me feel a cheat. As always each to their own, I prefer all software to slow down and I will stick with old familiar software to still enjoy my hobby. Thanks for sharing.

Brilliant..

Hi Glyn, was curious if you've compare Topaz Gigapixel vs Adobe Photoshop's Upscaling.

Hi Glyn yet another great video. Can you tell me if the Remove tool uses pixels from the original image and not add pixels it’s got from else where. I do know you don’t need the internet to use it so it’s not using the cloud to generate the pixels for the image. I’m just researching the ethics of the AI generative tools for competition purposes. Thanks

I think it is great. Although it blurs the line of what is real and what is not ... soon enough we won't be able to tell the difference. I wonder what effect that will have in how we perceive our reality and how we process it. Video is next ...

Terrific stuff, yeah! I agree, the extending of the stool was pure genius on the part of Adobe. Finally, I'm not worried about these advances with AI - I reserve the right to amend ,my opinion as the technology improves - as I agree with what you saidm everything starts in our own minds.

fantastic...

I haven't had a chance to try the Generative Fill yet but Unmesh Dinda (Piximperfect) states that the fill resolution is limited to a cap of 1024 pixels on the long side which implies that you need to keep you "fill" selection areas within this "cap" to maintain the resolution of bigger images. The examples you've shown don't seem to address this Glyn - so I'd be interested in your view on this issue. In the wider context, whilst I agree that creative images makers will use these tools to add to their creations - my concern is that Ai technology will be another big step in driving photography and design down to the lowest common denominator, with the result that it will become even more difficult for professional photographers and designers to make a living. As a book cover stock photographer it concerns me that the market will eventually be inundated with Ai generated images and designs that have never, as it were, seen the inside of a camera but generated from text prompts alone. There has already been one high-profile example of this where Bloomsbury used an Ai generated image on the cover of "House of Earth and Blood".

Is this in the neural filters option or in the normal filter menu? Thanks, Looks very cool

What you can do with Generative Fill is mind boggling. I haven't made up my mind as to whether I will try it as yet. Basically because when you start adding things to an original photo it is no longer your creaion per se, it now becomes a composite using AI or images from Adobe stock files.

You chose the exact word to describe the stool and floor generation - INSANE!!!!!!!! Many thanks!!!!

The stool one BLEW MY MIND

It’s nuts

Amazing

hi Glyn. can u make some examples of high key/low key wildlife photos using generative AI. the struggle i have with my wildlife are chaotic backgrounds and that is bushes.:-)

Slightly depressing that I use a lot of negative space purposefully in my wedding shots, and now everyone just does it in post 😂

You absolutely hit the nail on the head with the explanation of your perspective on AI/Editing. Photography isn't about simply having the skill or talent of pointing a camera with the correct settings anymore, it's about fulfilling a vision that you as the photographer have in mind. Taking the photo is just the beginning step in the process, post processing whether it be simple adjustments or in depth complex edits is a very important step in the creative process of photographers. I've heard mixed perspectives over the years, even gained & lost clients based on whether any editing (even basic adjustments) would be used. The decision to edit is also a personal one, some photographers simply choose not to, some rely only on basics, and others use whatever means they can to achieve their goal. No method or outlook is better than the other, all that is different between them is the path between the start and end result.

This sounds too good to be true, cant wait to try it out myself and see the magic.

Awesome video ! Have you videos about adding details like in you shot ? Enhance photography is a game changer, mix reality and AI. I loved it, and to be clear, if this is WRONG, what's make a composite shot good ? That's just another way to bring creativity to more people. Even full generated AI image has its upside. You worked with your mind, you try to translate it and re iterate to get what you want...There is creativity in it.

I've always used alternative software to Photoshop, but honestly this is a game changer and I'm considering switching. Are there any requirements to use this tool? Also, do you need to pay extra to enable it, or is it enabled with an ordinary Photoshop subscription?... And, is there a feature to add objects to a photo? I've recently started making framed wall art mockups using stock photos of interior rooms, but it's so time consuming to make the frame blend in with the room and look realistic. If I could just write a prompt to add a blank frame on a wall, and if it looks as realistic as the chair's legs, that would save me like 99% of the time I spend doing it manualy

I wonder if this is eventually going to be an extra subscription. I hope it will be included in the photography plan.

I just used the remove tool to remove a blurry robin from in front of my bird photo of a juvenile starling. using the remove tool. I then used generative fill to generate a new tail for my bird. After a second try, I got a near perfect result!

Interesting to think about the possibilities and scary at the same time

Ive been using filler textures forever, this changes everything. Sign me up Adobe!

photoshop is magic more than ever!

While the assertion you mentioned emphasizes the role of our minds, hands, and tools in expressing creativity, there are indeed other perspectives to consider. Here are a few alternative viewpoints: Environment and Inspiration: Creativity can also be influenced by external factors such as the environment we inhabit and the experiences we encounter. Our surroundings, interactions with others, and exposure to different cultures and ideas can all contribute to our creative expression. Emotion and Intuition: Creativity often emerges from a deeper level of emotional and intuitive understanding. It is not solely a product of our cognitive processes or the tools we use. Our feelings, instincts, and personal experiences can play a significant role in shaping our creative output. Collaboration and Interactions: Creativity can be enhanced through collaboration and interaction with others. Engaging in discussions, brainstorming sessions, and receiving feedback from peers can foster new ideas and perspectives, transforming individual creativity into collective creativity. Constraints and Limitations: Sometimes, limitations and constraints can actually fuel creativity. When faced with challenges or restricted resources, individuals may find innovative ways to overcome these obstacles and generate unique solutions or artistic expressions. Imagination and Vision: Creativity often originates from the power of imagination and the ability to envision possibilities beyond the present. It involves the capacity to think beyond what currently exists, to dream, and to visualize novel concepts or artistic creations. Inner Exploration: Self-reflection, introspection, and personal growth can also contribute to creativity. Exploring our own thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can lead to self-expression and the generation of original ideas. It's important to note that creativity is a complex and multifaceted concept, and different individuals may have unique perspectives on what fuels their creative process. The interplay between our minds, hands, tools, environment, emotions, and interactions ultimately shapes how we express our creativity to the world. Generated by ChatGPT - but I pretty much agree :-)

It’s Fabulous Glyn and I had to edit a photo for a friends baby with a hand that needed removing and I couldn’t get it to look right using just photoshop but with the new Generative Fill it was a piece of cake 👌🏼

Wow! That’s impressive I mean,

I was on the right track! Lol

Well said these are new tools similar to what was digital art against traditional art.

what about importing video and working on content, i'm downloading it right now but curious to know about the video side of it.

Tried generative fill, so cool! I liked kahma io results for LinkedIn pictures just as much.

this is scary stuff Glyn. I love it as it will make my job as a content creator easier but there is also a scary side to it where thousands of people will be out of jobs.

@6:53min what type of Camera are you using ???

This is fantastic... we will soon be able to create a photograph of a farmer in Ireland without having to travel to Ireland, or even meeting a farmer. Photography will finally be a hobby anyone can embrace.

Does anyone know how you change the theme? Like putting a filter over the whole photo? I want to change my photos in a van gogh style, I know its possible on these AI websites, but somehow in photoshop it doesnt work like that

last one was cool

Absolutely mind blown tbh. Sod creativity, if A.I can help me stack money by assisting / speeding up my work flow i'm game. I don't care if A.I is making things too easy or taking away creativity.

Funny thing is I downloaded the beta and did everything everyone said to get it working on both on an apple and windows and it’s still not giving me the option to use the generative fill. Yep - I have an adobe subscription

as a composite photographer this will make my life easier.

I manage to cut the feets of a man and his two dogs, and tried to fill it in with generative fill. There was some strange results at first, but after a few shots, it saved the whole image. But it added some weird banding in the sky that I fixed with the good old remove tool. Later I figured out I had forgotten to add lens correction in Lightroom that caused the banding because off the vignette from the lens 😂 Used right, this is a great feature.

It's worth noting that Generative fill only does 1024x1024 pixels and stretches the result. So large backgrounds can be grainy and artifacty - although there is a workaround which is easily internet findable. I've found this handy for shots where I haven't quite left enough background and need more space in the photo. I'm finding AI a bit of a giant everythingburger - if you don't know what you're trying to achieve you'll end up with everything, and kind of, nothing...

Is it better to work on a raw file coming from camera raw, a tif file 8 bits or a jpg?

I have played with it since the day it came out and it blows me away, it feels like when layers were created in PS version3! Generating people, is not good at all at this junction nor is the the resolution for production printing, I cannot wait until transparency is part of the generative layer for this will add to the awesome power in creating composite imagery. However taking into consideration it is in a beta form and in it's infancy I know than in a year or two it will only get better and compete with Mid Journey and the likes, Thanks Adobe, Sensei and Firefly

Brilliant, What about the "not for commercial use" agreement?

what version of photoshop have this tools?