Nowadays, it is extremely common to hear about AI (artificial intelligence) and it is not surprising since this technology gives a lot to talk about, due to its great technological advances and its great help in a lot of jobs.
Every day that passes, a new technology appears that implements AI in its products or even new platforms that specialize in a task or activity in order to enhance this AI and specialize it.
Adobe has realized this and is not far behind, since it also decided to implement it in one of its products in order to improve the experience of its users through one of its most famous applications: Photoshop. In this article, you will learn everything about Photoshop and its decision to implement artificial intelligence in its product.
About Adobe PhotoshopAdobe Photoshop AI Features
Using natural language and concepts, Generative Fill can produce digital material in seconds, allowing artists greater freedom of expression and greater efficiency. These are other features of Adobe Photoshop AI:
Powered by Firefly – Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock's hundreds of millions of high-resolution, licensed, professional-grade photos, ensuring you won't create material based on other people's or companies' intellectual property (IP).
From idea to image: Modify photos in amazing ways by adding, removing or expanding their content.
Edit non-destructively: Generative layers allow you to create a new material without affecting the original, allowing you to quickly experiment with different looks and styles.
Create at a transformative pace: Try out “crazy” thoughts, come up with new ideas, and produce as many unique pieces of high-quality writing as you can.
Available as a web tool: Firefly beta now has a new module where users can test Generative Fill's online capabilities before they are released to the public.
How to access this new AI Tool?
Photoshop is the program most used by image creators and editors. It was created in 1986 by the brothers Thomas Knoll and John Knoll, since then it has become a benchmark and the most famous program of the renowned Adobe company.
Its main use is image editing, either to retouch details in photographs or create designs for different types of uses, regardless of their size or scalability.
Where does the need to introduce AI in Photoshop come from?
In recent years, AI has grown exponentially in almost all areas of work. Adobe, upon seeing that other software was beginning to experiment with AI, made its way to this trend to improve the usability of said program. It created a tool that could optimize processing times. execution when considering tasks such as cutting, generating, adjusting, replacing elements among many other functions.
And why is this good? Basically, what could previously take you hours to recreate, now with a few simple prompts (generation codes) can be done in seconds.
Next, I will give you the most used functions within this tool to get the most out of Adobe and its AI.
Adobe says Firefly Generative Fill will be a default option in Photoshop by the end of the year. However, at the moment, this functionality is only available in the beta version of Photoshop.
Beta features are easy to access. To get started, you'll need a paid membership to Adobe's Creative Cloud, which includes Photoshop and the other individual apps, as well as the photography suite that includes Lightroom. Here's what you need to do after signing up for a subscription:
Open the Creative Cloud desktop app.
In the left column, click 'Beta Apps'.
Find the Photoshop (Beta) app and click the 'Install' button.
After installation, you will find the beta version of Photoshop in the “Installed Beta Apps” list.
Click the 'Open' button to launch the beta version of Photoshop.
To verify that you are running the beta version, go to Help > About Photoshop in the Windows menu bar. On a Mac, you'll see Photoshop (Beta) in the menu bar, which replaces the usual 'Photoshop' label.
Follow these instructions to access the beta version of Photoshop and explore experimental features like Firefly Generative Fill before they become generally available later this year.
Open the Creative Cloud desktop app.
In the left column, click 'Beta Apps'.
Find the Photoshop (Beta) app and click the 'Install' button.
After installation, you will find the beta version of Photoshop in the “Installed Beta Apps” list.
Click the 'Open' button to launch the beta version of Photoshop.
To verify that you are running the beta version, go to Help > About Photoshop in the Windows menu bar. On a Mac, you'll see Photoshop (Beta) in the menu bar, which replaces the usual 'Photoshop' label.
Follow these instructions to access the beta version of Photoshop and explore experimental features like Firefly Generative Fill before they become generally available later this year.
How to use Photoshop AI
Now that you have downloaded Photoshop Beta with the AI feature, follow these steps:
Open the Photoshop beta application.
Select the area of the image you want to modify.
Click “Generative Fill.” Image segmentation algorithms can separate different elements within a photo, allowing for precise editing of specific areas.
Enter a description of what you want to see generated in the selected area. For example, you could write “a beach scene” or “a cityscape.” The texts for the moment will always be written in English since it is a tool that is still in “Beta” and its final version is missing, which will be released at the end of the year.
Photoshop will generate several different options for you to choose from.
Photoshop will automatically modify the image each time you make a selection. You can preview your edits in real time before committing to them. The settings of the Generative Fill tool can also be customized to ensure optimal performance.
Ideas to optimize your time with AI
The functions that took you the most time to execute, such as being able to synchronize a background with your main elements, will now be a matter of seconds, in addition to the challenge that caused you to enlarge the background image without losing the structure, it is already a problem of the past.
With this new implementation, photographic retouching became a task that you will be able to finish in a very short time. And without leaving aside the ability to replace any element of your composition, it is something that really blew our minds.
When I shouldn't use it
I would really tell you to use it whenever you need it, but although they are images generated by artificial intelligence without copyright, many of the times the composition is not as realistic as we expect.
There, simply work with elements that are more in line with the structure with which the client suggested you. However, the new functions are still something extraordinary.
Tips for using Adobe Photoshop AI
This new function of generating fill is designed for compositions where elements can be easily replaced without thinking so much about realism.
So every time you need to expand a background by filling it with empty spaces, this function will come in handy (as long as the background is not the protagonist in your composition), even if your composition has a very pop, animated style that adopts a structure very modern youth, this function will be very useful to you since it will take elements very consistent with the composition, without touching this lack of realism!
In this image elements were added from scratch. Both the car and the puddle were added directly from the Generative Fill tool, the cloud was added later with another command.
Simply writing “Add an old vehicle reflecting in a puddle” and “add a cloud in the shape of the vehicle.” We would have this type of composition.
Here we have a good example of how AI recreates when extending a background. By simply expanding the canvas and selecting the blank spaces and clicking “Generate”, we can extend the image format.
Advantages of Photoshop AI
The main advantage is the time savings in being able to generate content for our composition.
Change our elements quickly and according to the composition.
Being able to restore photographs and give color to many of them that are in sepia or black and white.
In summary, Adobe Photoshop + AI is a tool that will set a before and after precedent due to everything mentioned in this article.
As soon as the tool officially comes out in its final version, it will become the most used in Adobe's product portfolio, without a doubt.
This tool will become indispensable in all activities that are aimed at photographic retouching and creating images from scratch.
I hope this article has been very useful to you and that you will soon start implementing Photoshop AI like a professional, in all the activities you do from now on. I invite you to review the articles on our Blog and continue improving your digital strategies.
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