Although most of us are familiar with Generative AI tools such as Chatbot GPT, other companies such as Adobe are rapidly implementing this technology as well. Recently Adobe released a new tool named “Generative Fill” which utilizes its own proprietaryFirefly AI model to add new capabilities to its already existing known photoshop program.
This tool allows you to select an area or just to entire picture that you want to photoshop, then a pop-up appears which allows you to enter a description of what you want to add or remove from the selected area. That’s it. The tool is mostly useful for the ones who are new to Adobe photoshop and just want to quickly edit a photo they just made. Before this tool existed, it used to be a relatively large task to remove unwanted objects from a photo requiring quite some skill with Adobe. Whereas right now anyone can select the area and let the generative tool remove or add an object.
The tool also allows the user to expand the image as seen in the examples provided above. The image in the white box was provided as an existing input and everything outside was generated by Adobe’s proprietaryFirefly AI model. However, as the second image shows, there are still some rough edges which leave room for improvement.
Sooo, how good is it?
Again, it will certainly do the job for anyone who downloads Adobe’s photoshop program for the first time. The tool allows anyone to quickly edit their fancy new Instagram photo by removing the weird fellow who photobombed their selfie. However, anyone willing to use it for their profession will likely end up still editing a lot themselves after using the tool. Let’s say we wanted to replace the background of an object, the tool will likely distort and blur the edges of your subject as seen in this example below. In this example the background was changed to a beach (Crisara, M, 2023).
Raw generative AI work:
Further refined image:
In my opinion the added value of this tool will most likely be determined by the case for which you are using it. Any marketing employee of working for Ford cannot take the AI generated background as is for Ford its new marketing campaign of this truck. However, if I were to sell this truck on the second hand market, this image will do just fine on my advertisement.
Crisara, M. (2023, 14 augustus). Adobe’s new ‘Generative Fill’ feature brings AI muscle to Photoshop. Here’s how it works. Popular Mechanics. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a44764303/ai-photo-editor-photoshop-generative-fill/#:~:text=How%20It%20Works-,Adobe%27s%20New%20%27Generative%20Fill%27%20Feature%20Brings%20AI%20Muscle%20to%20Photoshop,it%27s%20still%20far%20from%20perfect.&text=Artificial%20intelligence%20is%20no%20longer%20fringe%20technology.
