In the latest Beta version, Photoshop incorporates Firely's intelligent AI creative filling function. Just simply frame the picture to generate objects, generate backgrounds, expand images, remove objects, and more creative functions. It supports natural language input instructions and lets AI complete creative filling for you.
foreword
As early as March 2023, Adobe launched Firely (also known as firefly, AI painting tool). At that time, there was already a lot of discussion in the field of AI painting, but at this time, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney were in full swing, and the appearance of Firely did not attract much attention from me.
However, in the update of Photoshop (beta) in May, Photoshop introduced Firely into it, and Photoshop also instantly transformed into a photo editing software with super AI capabilities.
Prepare before use
Mac users
- M1/M2 chip Mac (partly supported by Intel chips, use with caution)
- MacOS 12+
- US Adobe Account
win user
- This article has not been tested, users need to test it by themselves
web version
- The web version is a relatively simple Photoshop function that supports content-aware fill, but does not support custom commands. It is relatively simple to use (free trial for a period of time), and users who need it can log in to the US official website to experience it.
Note: The actual measurement environment in this article is MacBook Pro M1, MacOS 13.
Hands-on experience of creative filling function
In the introduction on the official website, creative filling is mainly used in four major scenarios, including generating objects, generating backgrounds, expanding images, and removing objects. In this article, we experience and test the four scenarios one by one.
generate object
Select an area in the image, and a text prompt describes what you want to add/replace.
Comments:
- Each time will give 3 generated results, the quality is random, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
- A more detailed description is needed to generate more satisfactory results. At the beginning, only writing a football will generate footballs of various colors. After adding black and white, the randomness will be small.
- The generated image is not only the football itself, the redundant frame selection content will automatically generate the corresponding background
Generally speaking, if you want to generate a satisfactory result, you need multiple attempts + detailed description + certain post-editing
generate background
Select the background behind the subject, then follow the text prompts to generate a new scene.
Here try two different ways to generate the background, the first one, the direct background, and then generate the background
Good guy, the forest in the desert is directly generated, and the characters and background are well integrated. Unless there are special needs, let's look at the second way to generate the background.
Second, remove the background and regenerate the background
The overall background generated by this method is not bad, and the white edges of some generated images are slightly obvious, and only those with better screening results can be generated multiple times.
extended image
Expand the image's canvas, and select a blank area. A harmonious extension of the scene will be generated without prompting. Spawning through hints adds content to the image while extending the rest of the scene.
Comments:
- The quality of the overall extended picture is not bad, and at first glance it can achieve a fake effect
- If you look closely, there are still some splicing marks at the joints of the pictures, which are relatively shallow
Generally speaking, the effect is quite good. If you have higher requirements for image quality, you may need to adjust the stitching or try more, and sometimes the effect will be very good.
remove object
Select the object to remove, then spawn without prompting, use a creative Al fill to make it disappear.
remove text
The effect of removing text mainly depends on the difference in contrast between the text and the background, the greater the contrast, the better the removal effect. Generally speaking, the removal effect is good in most cases.
remove image/person
The removal effect here is still very good. The removal of Photoshop is not a simple removal, but it intelligently generates the removed background according to the content of the picture. For ordinary people, this kind of retouching is still quite difficult, because it is difficult to draw out the missing content little by little, but now it can be generated by AI with one click, which is quite convenient.
Summarize
Overall experience, the AI function of Photoshop (Beta) is quite amazing. In addition to the traditional AI painting track, Photoshop first entered the track of AI fusion retouching software, and its role is self-evident. For ordinary people, there are a lot of knowledge and skills that need to be mastered to complete a picture retouching, even if it is just to simply remove text, characters, etc., or add some elements to the picture, and the arrival of AI greatly simplifies this process.
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