How to Use Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop | Digital Trends

Of all the features that Adobe Photoshop has introduced in the last few years, Generative Fill is the one that’s making the most noise. It’s one of Photoshop’s new features that uses AI to create incredible effects, and this particular tool works almost like magic. It makes it easier to expand an image and fill in parts not included in the original data, and easily remove unwanted elements such as removing distracting backgrounds or unnecessary text.

The Generative Fill tool is a game-changer in photo editing, and the best thing about this feature is that you don’t have to be an expert to use it. In fact, it allows casual users to do the kind of editing that would previously have required a skilled professional, and while its capabilities aren’t limitless, there are a ton of fun and useful ways to use this tool that we’ll show you below.

How to download Photoshop Generative Fill

The Generative Fill feature and its respective features are all hidden in the beta branch of PhotoShop, so you’ll need to download them before you get started.

Step 1: If you don’t currently have an Adobe account or Photoshop subscription, you can take advantage of the free trial.

If you have an account, open the Creative Cloud app and select Beta apps from the left menu.

Step 2: Search for “Photoshop (Beta)” and select that To install Button.

Step 3: When the beta is installed, select Open to start the app.

Step 4: When the beta launches, you will receive a popup informing you of the new Generative Fill feature. If you want Photoshop to help you learn how to use generative fill, select the option Try it now Click the button to download the required assets.

Follow the on-screen instructions to quickly learn what the new AI feature can do and how to use it. Alternatively, below are some sections explaining its use in more specific cases.

What does the Generative Fill toolbar do?

The Photoshop Generative Fills toolbar has a number of options that you can use to enhance or enhance your images. The main symbols include the following:

• Select subject: It uses the power of AI to intelligently figure out what the most important element in the scene is – the “theme”. It then automatically selects it for you and helps you remove the background, make copies of your subject, or specifically enhance that object.
• Remove background: This quick tool allows Photoshop to automatically remove the background from an image.
• Transform image: This allows your image to be flipped horizontally or vertically, depending on how it is originally oriented.
• Add an adjustment layer: These are some presets with various filters applied to optimize the look of an image.
• Taskbar appearance: Changes how the generative fill toolbar should be displayed.
• Properties area: This will show or hide the properties panel for the image you are working on, as well as all of its generative layers.

These buttons can do a lot on their own, and it’s worth playing around with them to see what uses you can find for them. However, there are also some more specific ways to use generative fills, often to even greater effect.

Use AI to augment your images

If you want your image to be larger, fit in a wider or taller aspect ratio, or simply contain more, the Generative Fill command comes in very handy. Just take any image, choose where you want the tool to generate new content and click the button. You can even give it a text prompt to explain what you want to see.

Step 1: Open an image that you want to enlarge, then use the crop tool or Picture > canvas Size to increase the physical dimensions of the image and leave a black or white background behind the new space.

Step 2: Use the Selection tool—second from the top on the toolbar—to select the black areas you want to fill, as well as any areas you want Photoshop to use to create the new content.

Step 3: Choose Generative filling.

Step 4: If you want something specific to fill these gaps – and more of them – enter that in the text box. otherwise, leave it blank and select to generate Button.

Step 5: Wait for the process to complete and you should have a newly expanded image that looks very similar to the original.

Add new objects to a scene

Photoshopping people or objects into scenes and getting the lighting, reflections, tones and proportions right can be a real headache and should often be left to professionals. But not anymore. Generative fill lets you incorporate all types of elements into a scene with just a few clicks and taps of your mouse and keyboard.

Step 1: Select a part of the image to which you want to add new elements.

Step 2: Choose Generative fillingand then type whatever you want to display in the field. In this case, we’re using the same Windows XP background, but we want to add a hole in the ground to the rolling hills, so I’ll type “Fall in the Grass.”

Step 3: Once that’s done, you can select the left/right arrows next to “1/3” to try out one of the three versions of your prompt created by the generative fill to find your favorite.

Step 4: For fun we add something else. A “Big Tree on the Hill.”

Step 5: This isn’t perfect, but still looks good. You may need to repeat the fills a few times to get a feel for what you want by adjusting your text prompt.

Remove items quickly and easily

Would you rather remove something problematic from a scene? You can also use generative fill for this.

Step 1: Open an image from which you want to remove an element and use your favorite selection tool to select an area approximately around the object you want to replace. Then select Generative filling followed by To generate. This tells Photoshop to replace the existing background with a generated background that matches the pixels around it. If you want something to go there instead, add it to the text prompt before you click To generate.

Step 2: Your object should then be removed from the image. It can also do complicated things. Check out this picture where the bench has been removed but the floor and picket fence remain, although they have a bit of an odd texture. The light reflection in the water behind it is slightly different, but luckily at first glance it was a photoshopped image.

Which Photoshop version has generative fill?

To use generative fill, you need Adobe Photoshop version 25 or higher. If you need to check which version of Photoshop you are using, you can make a selection from the menu bar Helpthen select System information. This will display information about your software, including which version of Photoshop you are running.

The uses for this tool are potentially endless in the right hands. Play around and see what you come up with. Want to see what else AI can do these days? Have a conversation with ChatGPT. You will be surprised at how realistic it is.

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