This is what we have been waiting for. A true generative AI tool integrated within Photoshop. And it’s only just begun! The latest Photoshop Public Beta (available for download on Creative Cloud) not only brings incredible removal tools, but Firefly Generative Fill, Object, and Heal to a whole new level of creative results.
Accessible through Creative Cloud apps, download the latest Photoshop (Beta) and start the fun exploring new features in your own images with Adobe Firefly Generative Fill.
See demo video for more information: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/generative-fill.html
One of the first things I changed in the preferences was to get the best quality results (at a faster speed). AI is still pretty lax on overall quality, so we want the best possible results. It’s still pretty fast!
Hands-on test results
Shortly after downloading the latest beta, I grabbed the images that were already on my local drive at work and started creating backgrounds. This thermal cycler is one of many manufactured by the company I work for and used in bioscience labs. I photographed the product against a transparent background (no shadows) of my choice and commissioned Firefly Generative Fill to create a ‘bioscience lab’. You are done. Three different variations of the lab background were generated, including shadows, reflections, and lighting.
It’s by no means perfect, but I can see where this is headed. I was really impressed with the integration into the setting of the machine with its incredible shadows and reflective surfaces. A little extra work in Photoshop and regenerating some objects might pass.
Moving on to other images from the farm, our dog Halona (Shepard-Chow mix) was subject to other tests. As in real life, I always seem to pick and test images that are far from ideal. So all the usual demos of smooth beach scenes that cleanly add/remove people and objects are really 2022.
This first image was created by me making a rough selection around the dog on the hill behind the farm, but it’s a challenging angle. I had no idea what the results would be, but I was impressed with how close the results were. It’s not very photorealistic, but we’ve been blown away by the technology so far and I’m sure the future developments will be great. I decided to replace her with Mountain Her Lion, Wolf and Black Bear.
Click the image to see the results in detail.
The next test image was to replace the environment from another image of her standing in light snow. I wanted to see how well it handled ambiguous images of a fluffy dog and put her in different environments. I started with the object selection tool (which worked better than I expected), then inverted the selection and filled in various backgrounds, including snowy mountainsides, hillsides, and city sidewalks.
Redrawing edges doesn’t always work, but with a little more Photoshop you can get even closer.
My final test was to combine several options to complete the scene, such as enlarging the sides of the portrait photo, removing some items, spawning some more objects, etc.
Here’s a shot of Halona walking down the driveway in the rain this spring. I wanted to see what would happen if I scaled this up. The results look decent at first glance (as do the AI-generated images), but again, we threw a curveball by starting with a relatively complex environment for the AI to understand.
I used the lasso tool to roughly select the trash and you did a great job. Then I generated the extended part by extending the sides and selecting the negative space around the original image (note: you don’t need to type anything here, just press generate and the space will be generated by default automatically filled in).
The right side looked like a fallen tree, but there is actually a horse fence on that side of the driveway, so I asked them to generate a farm fence. As a result, the edge of the green farm gate ended up in a humanoid shape that had to be removed to get the bottom end result.
Even without further work in Photoshop, I was very impressed with the results.
For more help with Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop (Beta), see this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/generative-fill.html
New delete tool in Photoshop
I am really excited about this new brush tool that is part of the healing brushes palette.
It’s very simple. Apply this the same way you apply the Spot Healing Brush tool over the object you want to remove.
See this city scene with cars and people removed in less than a minute. Pretty amazing!
Adobe Firefly (Beta) Online
Also, don’t forget to try the online version of Adobe Firefly Beta (Public Beta is now live and accessible to everyone) https://firefly.adobe.com/
Watch a video online about Generative Fill Inpaint with Adobe Firefly Beta: https://firefly.adobe.com/upload/inpaint
We’ll go into more detail in our upcoming in-depth AI Tools Part 3 article.
