How to use Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop

It automatically adjusts to the perspective, lighting, and style of the selected image. But the capabilities of Generative Fill don’t end with mere touch-ups. Portraiture, an art that captures the essence of an individual, can be further refined using this tool.

For example, if the pink tree created by AI fill is too small for your purposes you can add “large” or “tall” as a new adjective. Each time you wish to re-edit you can change your text command to create a new AI fill, you only need to envision dictate and AI will obediently create. At any time when working on the image, you can click on the Generative Fill layer to edit without affecting the original image. In seconds the AI Generative Fill tool will work its magic and devise a design for you based on your text. Photoshop (Beta) includes AI options including Generative Fill, if you already have installed this version of Photoshop you can skip this step. While the Generative Expand tool is still in its infancy, it’s already making the lives of millions of photo editors, graphic artists, and other professionals much easier.

Access The Photoshop Vault

Use the rectangle selection tool to select a section of the image as well as the blank area to extend an image beyond its initial borders. You can leave the prompt blank if you want the AI to make its own decisions, or you can input something like “white mountains in the background” to guide the AI. This is referred regarded as “outpainting” in the AI world. The realm of artificial intelligence continues to expand endlessly. While the revolution began with ChatGPT and its alternatives, it has now seeped into even images.

Once you have an active selection you can follow the same steps 2-5 above for generating an object. If you want to add that effect without retaking the image, you can manually do so in Photoshop. However, this requires advanced knowledge, a bit of time, and lots of patience. If you want to try working on reflections, see our guide on creating a water reflection of replacement skies in Photoshop.

Don’t be Afraid to Leave the Prompt Blank

This, too, can have unpredictable results depending on what you’re looking to create. Generative Fill instead looks at the context of the image and attempts to create what would make sense in its place. In the examples above where we removed the tourists, Photoshop recreated the lines and colors of the buildings and matched the texture of the ground. Once you click ‘Generate,’ Photoshop produces three Firefly-generated variations and shows you the first. You can cycle through them using buttons in the Contextual Task Bar or by clicking the thumbnails in the Properties panel.

And people with true fashion sense are likely to quibble with Photoshop’s choices. We can perhaps chalk this up to the feature being pre-release, although more likely it reveals that despite the amount of machine learning, the software is still just Yakov Livshits making guesses. Learn 5 key reasons designers choose certain photos over others in Stock from a designers perspective. When I get time, I’ll flesh out the rest of the written steps. Here is a short tutorial on how to get the Photoshop beta.

Photoshop (Beta) is the Photoshop version that includes the new AI Generative Fill tool. Generative Fill will only work when there is an active selection. To install head to your Creative Cloud account and in the left-hand side menu of the homepage you will find the Beta Apps button, click on this. Thanks to recent updates, Generative Fill also makes Photoshop the best program to restore old photos. Since Generative Expand is still under testing, you can only use it in Adobe Photoshop (Beta).

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

Ai is just going to rehash images that are already out there into more mass marketed tat for consumers. Go learn to paint if you want to be creative or just get in with it and accept change is unstoppable. It’s also worth mentioning that the Generative Layers can dramatically increase the size of the Photoshop file (or layered TIFFs that are created when sending a photo from Lightroom). The photo of the van above with multiple background variations ended up occupying 2.67 GB as a layered TIFF.

You’d also have to spend a few hours painstakingly working on each photo. But all of that is set to change thanks to a new feature dubbed Generative Fill. Available exclusively in Beta versions of Photoshop (for now), Generative Fill uses the power of AI to replace objects, change backgrounds, and more.

Click on ‘Beta apps’ on the left-hand side, then find Photoshop (beta) and click ‘Install’. Generative Fill relies on Adobe Firefly, a suite of creative, generative AI models developed to ensure commercial safety. Built upon Adobe Stock’s vast collection of licensed, high-resolution images, Generative Fill respects intellectual property rights and avoids generating content based on others’ work or brands. Photoshop AI’s generative fill is more than just a tool. It’s a creative companion that can bring your artistic ideas to life.

In this guide, I will walk you through how to download and install the AI-powered Adobe Photoshop and give you an idea of what it is capable of doing. But more importantly, the results can be truly jaw-dropping. This entire background was created by computer in just a couple of minutes. When making your selection it is best to include a bit of the surrounding area.

@Alex, well, photography is literally just “recording light” so as long as even 1 pixel comes from something that was captured, it is by definition photography. Editing photos radically has always been possible, it’s just that the floodgates are now wide open. This has been the case long before so-called “AI” tools (the topic of them not being actual AI is for another day). Why would anyone be interested to watch a photo if they know everything in it could be fake? And how would anyone doing photography benefit from that. PerL oh sure, we had abstract movements, cubists, impressionists, blah, blah, but don’t kid yourself that “realistic” painting ever died out!

Generative Fill is a new feature that can create brand-new imagery based on a simple text-based prompt. And in some cases like when you want to extend an original image, you don’t even need to type in a prompt. Photoshop users can now utilize generative AI to expand or reduce images with or without text prompts. And while it has the ability to impress in the way ChatGPT does, truly jaw-dropping acts of artificial artistic flare are few and far between.

However, your photo doesn’t have a reflection of the city in the water. We have created a detailed AI glossary for the most commonly used artificial intelligence terms and explain the basics of artificial intelligence as well as the risks and benefits of AI. I think you can probably see how Generative Fill might be a really big help to those using Photoshop who need to add elements. While this image was firmly for fun, I’ll be back in future weeks looking at how to use this tool for a more professional result. In the new Photoshop beta, this bar shows up whenever you have a new selection.

• What is the minimum spec (lowest power drain) graphics card needed to run this?
• It offers personalized support and features like automated ticketing.
• Because my selections were small enough, the path was shrunk down and served just fine showcasing the lawn the tank (er, laser turret) dug up to get into place.
• And in the Properties panel, I’ll enter a different prompt for the right side.

All I had to do was select where the buildings were and hit Generative Fill. The AI extended the rest of the background to that area and removed the error. It’s not perfect, but I certainly wouldn’t have been able to composite a bus into this scene without just an epic level of work. The sun and shadow on the bus are perfectly appropriate to the scene.