Firefly Beta is truly amazing. I’m a Photoshop dabbler, but took a photo of son and his wife in Ireland, knocked out background; superimposed on landscape of Gap of Dunloe; then the fun began. Added sheep. Adult male here, two together over there. Kept swapping in generative AI until shadows going in correct orientation. Added “baby lambs”. Extended the foreground: firstly just entered “grass” and got residential lawn. Then entered “scrub growth, Irish Bog”. Bam. Perfect. Blended all the edges remarkably well, color, saturation, content density. All amazing. It even snatched a piece of a white shoe and jeans over ankle to blend at her foot that was previously cropped poorly (on close inspection, it was a boot in snow, but hey it visually receded in the grass). Super impressive. Elapsed time 5 minutes to pick from images offered.
I’m so conflicted! As a 25+ years photographer, and also an AI photo manipulation artist, I don’t what to think. At the end of the day though, it freaks me out and I’m not a fan. Great video as always!
@@photoshopcafe I’ll go search out your video, I haven’t seen that one yet. I think it really depends on the type of photography you are doing. I was just discussing it this morning with someone. If you own a business with many clients then you’d want to take advantage of speeding up the workflow, if you don’t, someone else will and they win the job instead of you. In this case you almost HAVE to use it! Myself, as an artist, the workflow is what I enjoy, that’s the art. I don’t want AI to do it!
This is insane. I took a break from Photoshop for a few years I think the last version I was using was CS. Its crazy how much its developed since then. Im just getting back into it again and having to relearn some things. Content aware fill, scale, the new remove tool that just released, masking is a lot easier and quicker and now this its crazy. I also wanted to say hi Colin we used to chat back in the day on your Photoshop Cafe forum :)
It's clear: photography... and life will never be the same from now on !! It's frightening and funnily amazing what AI can add to already impressing programs like Photoshop and the like. On one side it looks like real people will be put aside by those new superpowers, but on the other side creative photographers will see their daily lives and jobs pushed up to a highest level while saving efforts and time... and a lot of trial and error task. Just don't have to be afraid of those new wonderful tools that will make our lives way easier. Just remember how "dumb" Photoshop was in the very early days when it began its way to the perfection... and the top. Let's celebrate and enjoy... forever! Nice and simple video! And thanks a lot for doing explanations about complex things so simple and practical! Good job, as usual !!!
If your life is dependent on AI, you may have a shortened life indeed. The AI program is to dehumanise you. The rest of us will be in the real world beside the trees and the water and the sky. Taking real photographs.
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I think the art of photography is going to be lost on basic images that are refined with AI. I feel photos manipulated like this should be tagged in the meta data as AI altered. Nothing is going to be real
There is no such thing as real photography since the dawn of raw photos and software like Lightroom and Photoshop. People are always adjusting crop, color temperature, sharpening, darkening, brightening, hue and saturation, etc. Etc. And it's not like we have a template to copy. We edit from memory. When I edit a model's skin tone it's all from memory or preference. I don't have a model there while editing photos.
Most photography used in adverts & commercial work is retouched to some degree , often massively making & changing backgrounds , objects , elements, clothing , cars / colours . Nothing has been ‘real’ for 15 years now, this will give us more scope quicker . Hopefully it will be able to be used well on very hi-res images.
been experimenting and results have definitely been hit and miss. Very impressed by playing with extending scenic images. Even chose an area and added a snake and it looked alright. But some things I've tried have definitely been extremely fake and unrealistic looking. I asked for butterflies and got some shoddy looking bird things lol had better luck with a singular butterfly but still stuck way out from the image. Dogs look weird if I try to add one in, have had better luck with cats lol but yeah very mixed results.
Like so many people I'm amazed and slightly troubled by this phenomenal advance in Photoshop technology. As ever I'm so thankful to you for your excellent tutorial on this new feature. I've been using Photoshop (and Lightroom) for many years to "tidy up" my images and inevitably the degree by which "tidying up" is defined has grown with the advent of the new technology, especially the AI element . Entering contests and competitions with an image that has been "improved" by for example using Camera Raw filter sliders is one thing but are competitions going to start adding limits in the terms and conditions of entry to weed out entries that have elements of AI generated additions and composites ? I'm sure we've all carefully "cloned out" (or more recently used the remove tool) to lose the odd distracting item (like an overflowing ugly waste bin in a street scene ), but replacing the bin with an artificially created item (like a dog or a car) changes the meaning and feel of the image. Is it "intelligent" to be "artificial" ?
Yeah, I'm also having very conflicting feelings about all of this. Part of the problem is that there is no real "work" involved any more, which is kinda essential for human beings in claiming something our own and being proud of the result, because it involved using your own learnt skills to actually do something. Now there is no doing really but more like asking and instantly receiving. Of course less work to achieve something is good, but only when it happens gradually and doesn't rob us a certain level of control that we have worked so hard to get. Eventually i think it devalues many creative skills and with that human creativity as such, which is not only about coming up with clever prompts or concepts but often emerges out of a creative flow of being in the zone and actually doing stuff.
If I’m going to be brutally honest, I see this as a very bad day for photography. This blurs the line even further between what is an original photograph and what has been severely manipulated. I have no real issue with AI as a separate entity, but when you start to integrate it with traditional photography to this extent then, in my opinion, it’s going to do a lot more harm than good. It’s going to be very difficult for the viewer to trust anything that’s been created, and the age old question “Has this been Photoshopped?” will soon be replaced with “How much of this image is AI?” 🙁
It's an absolute win for designers that use photography in their work. I've had to reject so many otherwise excellent images over the years because photographers often crop their images too tightly. With this if I want to extend an image into the bleed area, or if I want to make a banner from the image to overlay text onto, I don't have to spend hours searching or resort to easily spotted trickery. If photographers shot with design in mind we wouldn't need to resort to AI to make your image usable.
Speaking both as a former VFX artist and an amateur photographer, I don't see how AI changes anything for "photography". From editing perspective, all of these were doable 12+ years ago with Photoshop CS3, it would just take longer. And not THAT long to deter a competent user; finding a suitable picture of a dog from stock images, masking and adjusting colors will take 10 minutes instead of 1-2 minutes of masking and playing with AI prompts. Given the total time spend on actually photographing the street, transferring them to PC, choosing a photo from maybe 100 other alternatives, fiddling with raw filter maybe on multiple layers, additional 10 minutes is really nothing. If I think I really need that dog, I would do it with or without AI. From the "art of photography" perspective, it always boils down to the dignity and honesty of the photographer. I'd never do crap like that not because was difficult to do, but because a very stupid thing to do on so many levels. If I took a photo of a friend, remove all skin "defects" like wrinkles, scars, tattoos or cellulite, transform her body figure into a porn star, it will no longer be the photo of my friend anymore, simple as that.
Utterly amazing! I'm so looking forward to using my camera less and less to create photos! I've been a pro photographer 22 years and I love faster easier creative things that are being used in place of what we typically use. I'm a purist as well believe it or not but this is totally fun stuff!
@@pathologicaldoubt Because the world is simply depressing for those who want it, you can't go to the moon, you defecate, you feed yourself in reality, wake up.
Great and will get greater as we all learn best use for it. Wary that price for this m may put it out of reach of non-professionals in the longer term though.
Same for me on Beta 24.6.0, nothing relative to generative options, either for crop and lasso tool, despite the fact that the splash creen of update stated about it
The rouble I see is that people have been trained to fast and shortterm satisfaction. There are so many flaws in the AI mages that people dont see right away. Same like Ai bokeh, I see them used online and then there are parts behind hair or so that were not blurred and the images look just wrong. MAybe it will just take awhile and good AI art will be clearly differentiated from bad AI art. Like it happened after awhile when HDR was introduced and milked with no mercy that it evenyually swung back (see intirior design photos for example. Quality will always stand out, however, people have been trained on quick satisfaction cycles ... that's more the problem than the software, I think.
HDR is a style though. Creating real images out of nothing, is an entirely different matter. All that's happening is humans and the art of creation and capture is being removed and replaced with AI....built on everything humans have invested in. it's like a person building up a skill over decades and decades and someone else walking in and slapping their name on it and taking it and calling it their own with no risidual for the person that allowed it to happen. Though the question ultimately is whether it's stealing or influenced.
To play devil's advocate: There is no such thing as an unedited image: As soon as one lifts a camera and points it in a specific direction, that person has made a conscious decision to include and exclude certain elements; this is an editing function. Artists that have been creating photo-composites will appreciate the AI toolbox, as it will amplify their creative vision; they already possess proficiency with cutting, pasting, extracting, replacing elements; the AI expedites many of those tasks. Photojournalists know they cannot manipulate their photos beyond some exposure and cropping corrections, and the general public should have confidence they will maintain the narrative integrity of disseminating current events and not employ AI tools. Photography is an evolving art form; all one has to do is study its history to see that making images based on collecting light is not defined by how that light information will be manipulated.
True, but it is defined by actually capturing light. Which therefore begs the question - How much actual light needs to be photographically captured for it to still technically be a photograph and not an Ai creation? Because this is the way we are heading. If I photograph a tennis ball in a studio and then build the whole of Wimbledon around it in Ai - pitch, players, umpire, audience - is that still a photograph? The way this is going divisions will need to be made, because you certainly can’t place Ai on its own under ‘photography’.
Thank you for knowing what this does, so many thinks it just takes a eye from here and leg from there. Stiches them together. Which is not true at all, It learns like a human at super speed. Then is able to generate from what it has learned.
As someone who has spent alot of time working on developing my composite technique, I feel like a carpenter who spent his life building a house with his hands only to have a crane drop a prefabricated house next to it twice its size. It hurts my soul.
At first it seems that way, but its not. Everyone is showing what it can do, not what it can't do, and there is a lot of that, skilled artisans are still needed.
@@photoshopcafe For now. AI won't replace many humans on short notice, but people who master AI in their original craft, will replace people who don't very soon. Not just content creators. Industrial revolution replaced a lot of blue collared jobs. Eventually, AI will replace a lot of white collar jobs. Programmers, lawyers, etc. Those who only look back will be caught up with. Those who adapt along will stay relevant, but in another form. Just like with automation, the internet, webshops, etc. The fact that you are broadcasting yourself, from your studio, with ultra HD content on a vast amount of topics, invalidates a lot of jobs that were previously needed to do so. You profit from that and so do we all. Now people will profit from easier content creation at the expense of your honed skills. How will you adapt?
This is like doing composite images and image extensions to new sizes but a whole lot faster. I already downloaded the Beta and testing out. Could be very useful! Good to know AI altered is included in the meta data, as some sites don't approve it on photo member sites. But for commercial work or fantasy work this would be great. I am doing Amazon product work and headshot work and this would be very helpful, for clients, to manipulate the image and the scene.
I hate to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but... While I see Generative Fill as a potentially useful tool for photographers, I'm concerned that the "fill" information draws on a database of existing photos that are modified to fit in with the photo. It doesn't come from the program's "imagination". Will the photographer whose photo is used in the fill be credited or compensated for the use of their photo? At the moment I believe the answer is no. Before this feature comes out of Beta, I hope Adobe will address this issue appropriately . May I suggest that this be offered as a premium feature at a higher fee, with the proceeds going to the original photographers when their images are used? Not possible you say? Well, if the program can find the image, they can and should trace its ownership. Otherwise, it's AI-driven plagiarism, enabled by Adobe.
Spoiler alert: they won't. Og creatives always get the short end of the stick, and the industries that utilise them have no trouble discarding them if they can. We've seen this over and over in music or other forms of art. Money trumps all, and not paying people properly is all too convenient.
Adobe's announcement says: Today, Adobe introduced Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI models, first focused on the generation of images and text effects. Adobe Firefly will be part of a series of new Adobe Sensei generative AI services across Adobe’s clouds.
@@AndreyNikiforovPhoto Are you referring to the new floating contextual menu? If you don’t see it, check under the Window menu. You should be able to turn it on there.
These new Ps tools are making it easier than ever to get into photo manipulation and digital art and get some crazy results fast... How did I not know about your channel before today? 🤔 Absolutely awesome content! 🔥🔥
These AI based expansion may on the first look fantastic but it changes the very definition of image capture...a picture can say thousand words but sadly the real picture transform into very realistic but sadly fake transform and thus lost our charm and memory with the original one... Absolutely personal view
My day job is a technologist and software developer, I apply AI to business problems, lots of large data and scientific applications, I am also a musician and photography is a hobby, AI is going to change so many aspects in work and leisure, in music, its nuts now what is happening and how fast things are moving, in the past if I was wanting graphic design for a website, I would need to hire a graphic designer to come up with ideas and physically draw art collateral, now I dont need to. In music, if I wanted backing tracks, I would need to either create them myself or buy others tracks, now it is as simple as using one of the many tools, to separate the individual instruments and vocals out of a song. I can use AI tools to help generate program code, the way things are going, we wont need many coders either, as AI can do the basic work, sorry to all the guys who thought they might learn to code, you missed the boat, photography, it's a hobby, but with the many tools being released, I dont think there will be many photographers either, example, need a picture from a Sports Event, AI will be able to source images from the myriad of images people have taken, video sources etc, and create a perfect image, foreign places, same kind of things, why pay to send a photographer, when AI can source images and modify and generate etc... The point is the genie is out of the bottle, the singularity with all this AI tech means the pace of development and application is increasing exponentially, use it, but unless you dont want replaced by it, understand and get ahead of it.
I'm enjoying playing with this! Do you know what issues, if any, there could be with copyright? For example if I own an image but change the background to something new... do I still own this new image or is there a rights factor now if I don't subscribe to Adobe Stock..? Or am I completely misunderstanding how this works lol
AI, at this point , is a concern of mine as it removes the creativity of the individual and replaces it with the programmers of AI. You might as well use a phone app. At this point, I have used to fine-tune a composition and expand an edge or 2.
As a professional photographer & retoucher this is mind blowing , amazing . It should save retouching time and enable me to be more creative and responsive to ideas and briefs . Also though It could remove some of my creative control and income if clients ‘ Ad agencies use this this themselves and just want more basic work shot that they will build and finish off themselves ( to varying degrees of success & quality ) One thing for sure all photographers have to get into this immediately to stay on top.
More creative? LOL If anything it's gonna kill any creativity as it already happens all that AI generated shit is starting to look the same. And no, you dont have to get into this to stay on top, if anything one should avoid it to stand out and stay on top.
Wow that's really cool, I can take a photo of a cow in a field, change the background to the sea, the foreground to the beach and the cow to a beautiful model and save myself a fortune, I could even sell my camera and lenses and just download any pic from the internet and change it into something else. I wouldn't even have to leave the house, how great is technology.
From what you showed, I would say stable diffusion depending on the model is much better at in painting or generating new parts of the scene, however the win here is you can use the photoshop interface with layers etc. Wonder if someone has a plugin to use photoshop with stable diffusion out there.
Mid journey is the best at generation rn. But Adobe wins in implementation. Give it a few months and sensi will catch up to MJ and sd. But they will still have implementation and legal. All training is from Adobe stock
@@photoshopcafe never really used adobe stock is it the typical corporate looking shots you usually get? Might bias their model toward that if that is their only reference.
This is really great and timely because I just did a photoshoot that I will use Generative Fill to quickly delete people and objects that I do not want. What I will be interested in the future to add things from our own photos using this tool, will this be possible? Excellent presentation.
when you change clothes on the model, it would be more useful if you could upload your clothing photo and apply it to the model as I work in fashion, instead of the AI determining the fashion. Is this possible? How is Levis doing it?
Besides extending images for perfect rules of third cropping of anything. I see this as having very limited usage. Maybe it could also be useful for stitching images together. An improved version of the Content aware fill tool.
works if you want to fill in the dog. but how about the other way round? Let's say you have a layer with one dog (2/3rd of the frame) in it and you want to change the surroundings. And let's say you've masked the dog sloppy and just lassoed around him. You realize that after you got your perfect background. There's no way to re-generate the same background after you fixed the mask, right? Then you have to try&error around like in old days to repair the missing parts with the healing brush. Or how about you need the same generated background on different shots? Is it even possible to get the same generated part twice with another selection?
Awesome! Thank you, Colin for all your tips, tricks and how to videos! I was just watching this video and thinking about being on the wait list for Adobe's Firefly app. But then it hit me...If it's already in Photoshop Beta app, and we can generate our own AI images when using a blank canvas in Photoshop, we then actually have access to Firefly! :) I see a lot of sleepless and late nights in my future, experimenting and learning this new tech!
Ps only to erase some stuff...lr always...if u really love photography and being creative and use the right moments;)...but for sure can save in some cases 😊
I am a Fashion designer , I tried most of the Ai tool but non of them gave me the freedom of filling my pattern in the garment , I want to add my print pattern in any of the garment , so could you please suggest me any how I can do this that would be great , thanks
A decade ago, at one of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's lectures, when asked about UFOs, he joked that currently Photoshop probably has a built-in "UFO button" ;) Now we really have it.
I can't seem to change the color of anything. I selected around a t shirt and put in color t shirt red or red t shirt and a variety of prompts but it ends up putting a backback on the person and not one that remotely resembles the color that I picked for the tshirt. I also put in the exact same thing you did for the paid shirt and all it did was put a backpack on the person. I can't get it to change color or change the pattern of anything and I do have the latest Beta version of Photoshop Beta
@@photoshopcafe hmmm! You ignored the fact that they are other people's images! Amazed that you appear to condone such plagiarism, and blatant dishonesty as passing off images such created as your own.
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As someone who is still learning Photoshop, this is insane, might as well embrace the ease👍
Firefly Beta is truly amazing. I’m a Photoshop dabbler, but took a photo of son and his wife in Ireland, knocked out background; superimposed on landscape of Gap of Dunloe; then the fun began. Added sheep. Adult male here, two together over there. Kept swapping in generative AI until shadows going in correct orientation. Added “baby lambs”. Extended the foreground: firstly just entered “grass” and got residential lawn. Then entered “scrub growth, Irish Bog”. Bam. Perfect. Blended all the edges remarkably well, color, saturation, content density. All amazing. It even snatched a piece of a white shoe and jeans over ankle to blend at her foot that was previously cropped poorly (on close inspection, it was a boot in snow, but hey it visually receded in the grass). Super impressive. Elapsed time 5 minutes to pick from images offered.
I’m so conflicted! As a 25+ years photographer, and also an AI photo manipulation artist, I don’t what to think. At the end of the day though, it freaks me out and I’m not a fan. Great video as always!
There is definitely a conflict of feelings. I talked about that on a previous video about ai and artists. I still hold to those viewpoints
@@photoshopcafe I’ll go search out your video, I haven’t seen that one yet. I think it really depends on the type of photography you are doing. I was just discussing it this morning with someone. If you own a business with many clients then you’d want to take advantage of speeding up the workflow, if you don’t, someone else will and they win the job instead of you. In this case you almost HAVE to use it! Myself, as an artist, the workflow is what I enjoy, that’s the art. I don’t want AI to do it!
@@thomas.salwoski There is so much that ai won't or can't do. It just seems like a floodgate right now.
I personally think it looks really fake....has a long way to go yet...
@@gregwoolliscroft6255 haven't seen the good stuff 😏
This is insane. I took a break from Photoshop for a few years I think the last version I was using was CS. Its crazy how much its developed since then. Im just getting back into it again and having to relearn some things. Content aware fill, scale, the new remove tool that just released, masking is a lot easier and quicker and now this its crazy. I also wanted to say hi Colin we used to chat back in the day on your Photoshop Cafe forum :)
Me too, I stopped at version CS4 but am considering going the subscription method one day. As Colin said, this really is a game changer!
It's clear: photography... and life will never be the same from now on !! It's frightening and funnily amazing what AI can add to already impressing programs like Photoshop and the like. On one side it looks like real people will be put aside by those new superpowers, but on the other side creative photographers will see their daily lives and jobs pushed up to a highest level while saving efforts and time... and a lot of trial and error task. Just don't have to be afraid of those new wonderful tools that will make our lives way easier. Just remember how "dumb" Photoshop was in the very early days when it began its way to the perfection... and the top. Let's celebrate and enjoy... forever! Nice and simple video! And thanks a lot for doing explanations about complex things so simple and practical! Good job, as usual !!!
If your life is dependent on AI, you may have a shortened life indeed. The AI program is to dehumanise you. The rest of us will be in the real world beside the trees and the water and the sky. Taking real photographs.
for me is better, I don't need to buy tons of props, I can just generate them
Wow, that blew my mind. Thanks for the quick intro Colin, definitely looking forward to seeing more indepth videos in the future
They are coming
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I think the art of photography is going to be lost on basic images that are refined with AI. I feel photos manipulated like this should be tagged in the meta data as AI altered. Nothing is going to be real
They are tagged in the meta data
You could argue that modern photography isn’t real, it’s an interpretation of what your camera sensor saw
There is no such thing as real photography since the dawn of raw photos and software like Lightroom and Photoshop. People are always adjusting crop, color temperature, sharpening, darkening, brightening, hue and saturation, etc. Etc. And it's not like we have a template to copy. We edit from memory. When I edit a model's skin tone it's all from memory or preference. I don't have a model there while editing photos.
Photography has always been subjective. Lens choice, film, camera settings, light modifiers, camera position, darkroom procedures…
Most photography used in adverts & commercial work is retouched to some degree , often massively making & changing backgrounds , objects , elements, clothing , cars / colours . Nothing has been ‘real’ for 15 years now, this will give us more scope quicker . Hopefully it will be able to be used well on very hi-res images.
been experimenting and results have definitely been hit and miss. Very impressed by playing with extending scenic images. Even chose an area and added a snake and it looked alright. But some things I've tried have definitely been extremely fake and unrealistic looking. I asked for butterflies and got some shoddy looking bird things lol had better luck with a singular butterfly but still stuck way out from the image. Dogs look weird if I try to add one in, have had better luck with cats lol but yeah very mixed results.
defiantly, it's still struggling with faces, and dragons, but that will change quickly.
Like so many people I'm amazed and slightly troubled by this phenomenal advance in Photoshop technology. As ever I'm so thankful to you for your excellent tutorial on this new feature. I've been using Photoshop (and Lightroom) for many years to "tidy up" my images and inevitably the degree by which "tidying up" is defined has grown with the advent of the new technology, especially the AI element . Entering contests and competitions with an image that has been "improved" by for example using Camera Raw filter sliders is one thing but are competitions going to start adding limits in the terms and conditions of entry to weed out entries that have elements of AI generated additions and composites ? I'm sure we've all carefully "cloned out" (or more recently used the remove tool) to lose the odd distracting item (like an overflowing ugly waste bin in a street scene ), but replacing the bin with an artificially created item (like a dog or a car) changes the meaning and feel of the image. Is it "intelligent" to be "artificial" ?
People who can't accept that this is going to absolutely devastate so many people's livelihoods are morons
Cool! Looking forward to deeper Videos. Cheers Colin.
Great tutorial, thank you from Greece.
Bonkers. Absolutely brilliant. As a commercial shooter and artist and someone who SUCKS at photoshop this is life changing.
Yeah, I'm also having very conflicting feelings about all of this. Part of the problem is that there is no real "work" involved any more, which is kinda essential for human beings in claiming something our own and being proud of the result, because it involved using your own learnt skills to actually do something. Now there is no doing really but more like asking and instantly receiving. Of course less work to achieve something is good, but only when it happens gradually and doesn't rob us a certain level of control that we have worked so hard to get. Eventually i think it devalues many creative skills and with that human creativity as such, which is not only about coming up with clever prompts or concepts but often emerges out of a creative flow of being in the zone and actually doing stuff.
It’s just a tool and when you use it, you will realize there is plenty of room for human creativity.
Wow Colin, this is just mind boggling! Thanks for your fantastic demo of how this works.
You're welcome, more to come!
Love the new tool! It’s cut my project time in half, and it also helps me to get inspiration for the work I’ve already done.
If I’m going to be brutally honest, I see this as a very bad day for photography. This blurs the line even further between what is an original photograph and what has been severely manipulated. I have no real issue with AI as a separate entity, but when you start to integrate it with traditional photography to this extent then, in my opinion, it’s going to do a lot more harm than good. It’s going to be very difficult for the viewer to trust anything that’s been created, and the age old question “Has this been Photoshopped?” will soon be replaced with “How much of this image is AI?” 🙁
Only time will tell if ai is good or bad for humanity. I like to be optimistic. But in the end ai is here no matter how I feel about it.
Fully agree. This sucks!
I understand your sentiments. Shoot film and keep the negatives. Aside from that, all bets are off for authentication.
It's an absolute win for designers that use photography in their work. I've had to reject so many otherwise excellent images over the years because photographers often crop their images too tightly. With this if I want to extend an image into the bleed area, or if I want to make a banner from the image to overlay text onto, I don't have to spend hours searching or resort to easily spotted trickery. If photographers shot with design in mind we wouldn't need to resort to AI to make your image usable.
Speaking both as a former VFX artist and an amateur photographer, I don't see how AI changes anything for "photography". From editing perspective, all of these were doable 12+ years ago with Photoshop CS3, it would just take longer. And not THAT long to deter a competent user; finding a suitable picture of a dog from stock images, masking and adjusting colors will take 10 minutes instead of 1-2 minutes of masking and playing with AI prompts. Given the total time spend on actually photographing the street, transferring them to PC, choosing a photo from maybe 100 other alternatives, fiddling with raw filter maybe on multiple layers, additional 10 minutes is really nothing. If I think I really need that dog, I would do it with or without AI.
From the "art of photography" perspective, it always boils down to the dignity and honesty of the photographer. I'd never do crap like that not because was difficult to do, but because a very stupid thing to do on so many levels. If I took a photo of a friend, remove all skin "defects" like wrinkles, scars, tattoos or cellulite, transform her body figure into a porn star, it will no longer be the photo of my friend anymore, simple as that.
My mind is blown, these are gonna be a game changing few years for creators
if IA decides/does almost everything, honstly i wonder what is the photographer creating... really
Welcome to basic stable diffusion features 😂
@@polacofederos The content that was used to train the “AI”’s model.
So much fun.. thank you!. I love working with this new tool!
Utterly amazing! I'm so looking forward to using my camera less and less to create photos! I've been a pro photographer 22 years and I love faster easier creative things that are being used in place of what we typically use. I'm a purist as well believe it or not but this is totally fun stuff!
With photoshop you are not creating photos, you are creating images ;)
@@feliperojas-doomride I am?
WTF?
@@richards6065 hmm
Whit this mindset, you never where a Pro Photographer.
Thanks for the insight. 💕 👍 God bless you always.
Great video, thank you. Subscribed an liked! I like you explanations better than other channels I have checked out.
Thanks so much
In the midst of so much artificial things, the real will become more and more valued
Right!
When you could be on the moon, why would you decide to be in a depressing real world
@@pathologicaldoubt Because the world is simply depressing for those who want it, you can't go to the moon, you defecate, you feed yourself in reality, wake up.
In the realm of Photoshop when was it ever an issue with what is real? 😂
What is real?
Great and will get greater as we all learn best use for it. Wary that price for this m may put it out of reach of non-professionals in the longer term though.
I can’t see the generate tool in my version. 24.6.0 I have a totally different option panel when i select something
Because he's using the Beta version
Same for me on Beta 24.6.0, nothing relative to generative options, either for crop and lasso tool, despite the fact that the splash creen of update stated about it
My Beta install reported it was version 24.6.0 - turned out not to be the latest version 24.6.0! Just installed the latest Beta and all is good.
@@mikewalsh8041 Indeed, same for me ! After a new forced "check for update", a new 24.6.0 is available with generative functions ! Thanks
The rouble I see is that people have been trained to fast and shortterm satisfaction. There are so many flaws in the AI mages that people dont see right away. Same like Ai bokeh, I see them used online and then there are parts behind hair or so that were not blurred and the images look just wrong. MAybe it will just take awhile and good AI art will be clearly differentiated from bad AI art. Like it happened after awhile when HDR was introduced and milked with no mercy that it evenyually swung back (see intirior design photos for example. Quality will always stand out, however, people have been trained on quick satisfaction cycles ... that's more the problem than the software, I think.
HDR is a style though. Creating real images out of nothing, is an entirely different matter. All that's happening is humans and the art of creation and capture is being removed and replaced with AI....built on everything humans have invested in.
it's like a person building up a skill over decades and decades and someone else walking in and slapping their name on it and taking it and calling it their own with no risidual for the person that allowed it to happen.
Though the question ultimately is whether it's stealing or influenced.
Great show !!
To play devil's advocate: There is no such thing as an unedited image: As soon as one lifts a camera and points it in a specific direction, that person has made a conscious decision to include and exclude certain elements; this is an editing function. Artists that have been creating photo-composites will appreciate the AI toolbox, as it will amplify their creative vision; they already possess proficiency with cutting, pasting, extracting, replacing elements; the AI expedites many of those tasks. Photojournalists know they cannot manipulate their photos beyond some exposure and cropping corrections, and the general public should have confidence they will maintain the narrative integrity of disseminating current events and not employ AI tools. Photography is an evolving art form; all one has to do is study its history to see that making images based on collecting light is not defined by how that light information will be manipulated.
True, but it is defined by actually capturing light. Which therefore begs the question - How much actual light needs to be photographically captured for it to still technically be a photograph and not an Ai creation? Because this is the way we are heading. If I photograph a tennis ball in a studio and then build the whole of Wimbledon around it in Ai - pitch, players, umpire, audience - is that still a photograph? The way this is going divisions will need to be made, because you certainly can’t place Ai on its own under ‘photography’.
Holy Cow! This is insane. It's pretty cool.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Unreal - literally!!
Thank you for knowing what this does, so many thinks it just takes a eye from here and leg from there. Stiches them together. Which is not true at all, It learns like a human at super speed. Then is able to generate from what it has learned.
Bingo
As someone who has spent alot of time working on developing my composite technique, I feel like a carpenter who spent his life building a house with his hands only to have a crane drop a prefabricated house next to it twice its size. It hurts my soul.
At first it seems that way, but its not. Everyone is showing what it can do, not what it can't do, and there is a lot of that, skilled artisans are still needed.
@@photoshopcafe For now. AI won't replace many humans on short notice, but people who master AI in their original craft, will replace people who don't very soon. Not just content creators. Industrial revolution replaced a lot of blue collared jobs. Eventually, AI will replace a lot of white collar jobs. Programmers, lawyers, etc. Those who only look back will be caught up with. Those who adapt along will stay relevant, but in another form. Just like with automation, the internet, webshops, etc. The fact that you are broadcasting yourself, from your studio, with ultra HD content on a vast amount of topics, invalidates a lot of jobs that were previously needed to do so. You profit from that and so do we all. Now people will profit from easier content creation at the expense of your honed skills. How will you adapt?
This is like doing composite images and image extensions to new sizes but a whole lot faster. I already downloaded the Beta and testing out. Could be very useful! Good to know AI altered is included in the meta data, as some sites don't approve it on photo member sites. But for commercial work or fantasy work this would be great. I am doing Amazon product work and headshot work and this would be very helpful, for clients, to manipulate the image and the scene.
My point above.
Metadata is easily changed by a human. It's the algorithms that detect AI-generated patterns in images that flush out most of the fakes.
already do this with stand alone in-painting stable diffusion, which has way more granular control... specially using controlnet.
I hate to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but...
While I see Generative Fill as a potentially useful tool for photographers, I'm concerned that the "fill" information draws on a database of existing photos that are modified to fit in with the photo. It doesn't come from the program's "imagination". Will the photographer whose photo is used in the fill be credited or compensated for the use of their photo? At the moment I believe the answer is no. Before this feature comes out of Beta, I hope Adobe will address this issue appropriately . May I suggest that this be offered as a premium feature at a higher fee, with the proceeds going to the original photographers when their images are used? Not possible you say? Well, if the program can find the image, they can and should trace its ownership.
Otherwise, it's AI-driven plagiarism, enabled by Adobe.
Spoiler alert: they won't. Og creatives always get the short end of the stick, and the industries that utilise them have no trouble discarding them if they can. We've seen this over and over in music or other forms of art. Money trumps all, and not paying people properly is all too convenient.
The speed at which improvements are coming is insane. I now have to use this to fix what I couldn’t do with AI Generative art.
LOVED YOUR VIDEO
That’s pretty awesome. What is the difference between Adobe sensei and firefly though? Did one evolve into the other?
Adobe's announcement says: Today, Adobe introduced Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI models, first focused on the generation of images and text effects. Adobe Firefly will be part of a series of new Adobe Sensei generative AI services across Adobe’s clouds.
@@owaing ah cool, thanks. So Firefly is part of a broader project called Sensei, gotcha!
Love it! Thanks for sharing, Colin!
Hmmm...I'm all up-to-date with Photoshop Beta and not seeing the generative fill option
try again, there was another update
@@photoshopcafe it was the version you mentioned, but uninstalling/re-installing worked
I have beta 24.6.0 and dont see this menu anywhere
Same here. None of these updates are in my 24.6.0 version
@@rickpicioli1289 it’s interesting, it doesn’t show up on iMac m1, but works on MacBook Pro 14”
@@AndreyNikiforovPhoto Works on my M1. Are you sure you’re in the beta and not the regular update?
@@longislandstu yes, it is latest beta
@@AndreyNikiforovPhoto Are you referring to the new floating contextual menu? If you don’t see it, check under the Window menu. You should be able to turn it on there.
These new Ps tools are making it easier than ever to get into photo manipulation and digital art and get some crazy results fast... How did I not know about your channel before today? 🤔 Absolutely awesome content! 🔥🔥
at least you call it digital art. i appreciate that! to many people still calling it photography lol.
These AI based expansion may on the first look fantastic but it changes the very definition of image capture...a picture can say thousand words but sadly the real picture transform into very realistic but sadly fake transform and thus lost our charm and memory with the original one... Absolutely personal view
Totally amazing, blew me away. Many thanks.
This is amazing!! 😯 Thank you Colin.
Thanks
Mind. Blown.
Wow, this is crazy!
I always learning lot of tricks from your tutorials. Grateful to you.
Thanks
My day job is a technologist and software developer, I apply AI to business problems, lots of large data and scientific applications, I am also a musician and photography is a hobby, AI is going to change so many aspects in work and leisure, in music, its nuts now what is happening and how fast things are moving, in the past if I was wanting graphic design for a website, I would need to hire a graphic designer to come up with ideas and physically draw art collateral, now I dont need to. In music, if I wanted backing tracks, I would need to either create them myself or buy others tracks, now it is as simple as using one of the many tools, to separate the individual instruments and vocals out of a song. I can use AI tools to help generate program code, the way things are going, we wont need many coders either, as AI can do the basic work, sorry to all the guys who thought they might learn to code, you missed the boat, photography, it's a hobby, but with the many tools being released, I dont think there will be many photographers either, example, need a picture from a Sports Event, AI will be able to source images from the myriad of images people have taken, video sources etc, and create a perfect image, foreign places, same kind of things, why pay to send a photographer, when AI can source images and modify and generate etc... The point is the genie is out of the bottle, the singularity with all this AI tech means the pace of development and application is increasing exponentially, use it, but unless you dont want replaced by it, understand and get ahead of it.
Thank you, superb video tutorial.
Good work Adobe!
Mind Blown!!
🤯🤯🤯
Truly amazing/intriguing and ……..scary!!
This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in photoshop. My mind is blown I don’t even know what to think.
really its amazing
I tried it. It's MAGICAL!!!
Excellent video, very instructive and very impressive potential, I hope Gimp will also feature this AI function in the future.
I was not finding where this tool bar was but I finally found when I searched on help and typed in: contextual task bar
ive been in a lul the past couple weeks on my photography journey and love editing. I am going ot have so much fun with this
My last photoshop was CS and now there is so much new function
I'm enjoying playing with this! Do you know what issues, if any, there could be with copyright? For example if I own an image but change the background to something new... do I still own this new image or is there a rights factor now if I don't subscribe to Adobe Stock..? Or am I completely misunderstanding how this works lol
AI, at this point , is a concern of mine as it removes the creativity of the individual and replaces it with the programmers of AI.
You might as well use a phone app.
At this point, I have used to fine-tune a composition and expand an edge or 2.
You can use it how you like, or not at all, it's up to you. To me, the joy is in the creation process.
Amazing, it will take a while for my mind to catch up, but an interesting tool
Scary how this develops 😮
Mind blowing. Thanks.
thank you very much for the update .
any time
Interesting, I can see a lot of uses for it
As a professional photographer & retoucher this is mind blowing , amazing . It should save retouching time and enable me to be more creative and responsive to ideas and briefs . Also though It could remove some of my creative control and income if clients ‘ Ad agencies use this this themselves and just want more basic work shot that they will build and finish off themselves ( to varying degrees of success & quality )
One thing for sure all photographers have to get into this immediately to stay on top.
True
More creative? LOL If anything it's gonna kill any creativity as it already happens all that AI generated shit is starting to look the same. And no, you dont have to get into this to stay on top, if anything one should avoid it to stand out and stay on top.
It`s amazing how fast you and your camera will be obsolete. Keep cheering on.
Love it wow
Works with PC Version of Beta with Update as of today (did not work yesterday)
Wow that's really cool, I can take a photo of a cow in a field, change the background to the sea, the foreground to the beach and the cow to a beautiful model and save myself a fortune, I could even sell my camera and lenses and just download any pic from the internet and change it into something else. I wouldn't even have to leave the house, how great is technology.
Fantastic !!!!
there are AI web sites that have been doing this for a while. FYI for people using older PS or other programs
this is blowing my mind. Definitely amazing, and also kinda worrying at the same time
I hear you. I made a video recently about us being replaced. I suggest watching it. I tried to be encouraging and also realistic
“What if we want to get rid of our woman?” LOL.
From what you showed, I would say stable diffusion depending on the model is much better at in painting or generating new parts of the scene, however the win here is you can use the photoshop interface with layers etc. Wonder if someone has a plugin to use photoshop with stable diffusion out there.
Mid journey is the best at generation rn. But Adobe wins in implementation. Give it a few months and sensi will catch up to MJ and sd. But they will still have implementation and legal. All training is from Adobe stock
@@photoshopcafe never really used adobe stock is it the typical corporate looking shots you usually get? Might bias their model toward that if that is their only reference.
This is really great and timely because I just did a photoshoot that I will use Generative Fill to quickly delete people and objects that I do not want. What I will be interested in the future to add things from our own photos using this tool, will this be possible? Excellent presentation.
I would expect those kinds of things in the future.
when you change clothes on the model, it would be more useful if you could upload your clothing photo and apply it to the model as I work in fashion, instead of the AI determining the fashion. Is this possible? How is Levis doing it?
WOW!!!!!! Game changer!
boom
The generated content, where is it coming from I wonder and is it copyright free?
Besides extending images for perfect rules of third cropping of anything. I see this as having very limited usage. Maybe it could also be useful for stitching images together. An improved version of the Content aware fill tool.
It has a lot of uses. But in the end, it’s another tool. Nothing more, nothing less
It's a tool. Its usage is up to your imagination.
How do you make two different selections without the first one being deselected? :)
works if you want to fill in the dog. but how about the other way round? Let's say you have a layer with one dog (2/3rd of the frame) in it and you want to change the surroundings. And let's say you've masked the dog sloppy and just lassoed around him. You realize that after you got your perfect background. There's no way to re-generate the same background after you fixed the mask, right? Then you have to try&error around like in old days to repair the missing parts with the healing brush.
Or how about you need the same generated background on different shots? Is it even possible to get the same generated part twice with another selection?
Does it also generate the textures in high quality? Like fur and textile?
My Creative Cloud used to have Photoshop (Beta) for my desktop. Now it seems to only have it for online. Am I missing something?
I'm having trouble locating the generative fill option.
Me too. Nowhere to be found. I've got the edit bar below but there is no Generate Fill option. Any advice/remedy Colin?
Definitely interesting, need to play around with it. I wonder if it’s possible to create a completely new image from a blank file.
Yes, it is possible
Awesome! Thank you, Colin for all your tips, tricks and how to videos! I was just watching this video and thinking about being on the wait list for Adobe's Firefly app. But then it hit me...If it's already in Photoshop Beta app, and we can generate our own AI images when using a blank canvas in Photoshop, we then actually have access to Firefly! :) I see a lot of sleepless and late nights in my future, experimenting and learning this new tech!
I believe the wait list is now over and its open to everyone too
Ps only to erase some stuff...lr always...if u really love photography and being creative and use the right moments;)...but for sure can save in some cases 😊
I am a Fashion designer , I tried most of the Ai tool but non of them gave me the freedom of filling my pattern in the garment , I want to add my print pattern in any of the garment , so could you please suggest me any how I can do this that would be great , thanks
Fantastic 👍🏽
Damn!!! You just blew my mind!!!
It is mind blowing
Hello. Why not just one version of ps? Thanks
Totally using this to see what clothes look good on me 😆
A decade ago, at one of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's lectures, when asked about UFOs, he joked that currently Photoshop probably has a built-in "UFO button" ;) Now we really have it.
Impressive! Incredible at which speed AI is evolving and how results are getting better day by day.
I can't seem to change the color of anything. I selected around a t shirt and put in color t shirt red or red t shirt and a variety of prompts but it ends up putting a backback on the person and not one that remotely resembles the color that I picked for the tshirt. I also put in the exact same thing you did for the paid shirt and all it did was put a backpack on the person. I can't get it to change color or change the pattern of anything and I do have the latest Beta version of Photoshop Beta
wow nice
You didn`t mention that the resolution of this AI tool is very low. You can see that when you zoom in
That's because the images are "pinched" from images on the net, IE other people's images that are at low resolution.
@@derthephoto2882 No, PS stretches the pixels
It’s limited to 1k resolution at the moment. It will take massive computing resources to handle larger resolutions.
@@photoshopcafe hmmm! You ignored the fact that they are other people's images! Amazed that you appear to condone such plagiarism, and blatant dishonesty as passing off images such created as your own.
@@photoshopcafe I agree, that will be difficult. But I think it's important that people know that