So earlier this week, Adobe released the beta version
of their artificial intelligence driven, Generative Fill.
and there's already a ton of videos that have been posted showing
how to get it and how to use it, and I've added a link
to one in the description by my friend Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect.
Now, as expected, there are folks who love it and there are folks
who not so much, but I, for one, totally embrace it.
So in this video, as a photographer, I thought I'd show you
how I've been using it, both practically and creatively on my own images;
some old ones and one very recent and one belonging to a friend
that was completely ruined but I was able to fix.
Right.
Let's dive in.
Okay, so this first image is a portrait I took of a farmer in South Wales, and
I recently shared this on my social media where it got lots of love and comments.
But I did this as a bit of a test because you see,
this isn't the original portrait that I took.
And what was really interesting to me was that nobody mentioned about Adobe's A.I.
when I posted it.
Well, one person did jokingly ask if I'd added the dog
But no, that was really there.
Now this is the original portrait, so practically two thirds more has been added
using Generative Fill in Photoshop, and this completely blows me away.
Just incredible.
And this is how easy it was to do.
Obviously I'd finished editing the original portrait, which is here,
but to add more all I did was grab the crop tool and extend the side to about here.
Then with
the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection of the new area,
making sure to overlap just a little into the original.
Then in the contextual menu bar clicked on Generative Fill
and without adding any text prompts at all, just clicked on generate.
Now this is real time, so you can see how long it takes for the A.I.
to look at the contents of the portrait and start to pull together and build
the new area on the side that matches not just with the content,
but the color, the shadows, the lighting, the whole thing, and this takes roughly
15 seconds, if that.
Now it's finished we have three results to choose from,
but I think I'm going to go with the second one.
Yeah, I think that looks best.
I could, of course, click on generate again to get three
more variations and keep doing that until I'm completely happy.
Now though, let's do the other side.
So I grab the crop tool and extend it outwards,
then make a selection with the rectangular marquee tool, making sure to overlap
a little on the original and then press generative fill and generate.
Again the artificial intelligence looks at the image
and then starts to think about what it needs to make to build this area
and match the contents, the lighting, the color and the shadows.
And after a short while later, here is the result; one
I would have no issues displaying in my portfolio whatsoever
because I posed, lit and captured the portrait of the farmer.
The rest is editing.
This next picture is a portrait I took of my friend Nathan Black,
which was taken in an old sports club and was composed like this
because the flooring did not look good and I only had a background
that was big enough to go behind him, not on the floor as well.
But check this out.
In Photoshop, I use the crop tool to extend the lower portion of the photo.
Then with the
rectangular marquee tool, make a selection of that new area
overlapping just a little bit on the original picture
and then click on Generative fill and generate.
Now this I find even more mind blowing
because generative fill kind of knows
this is a stool, so it continues the legs, so they're a bit longer,
but then also adds in the bottom too.
And there you go.
I mean come on, look at that.
Incredible.
It's continued the legs of the stool, added the floor,
but look at the lighting ...
it's actually matched the shadows on the legs to the lighting on Nathan
coming in from the left.
That is insane.
Now, there are other variations this where the stool legs are even longer,
and then there's this one
where it has even added an extra cross-section on the stool.
But my favorite out of the first three is the first one.
I absolutely love this.
But what
generative fill was able to do in this next picture was just the best.
A friend of mine gave me a photograph that was incredibly special to him.
A picture of him, his wife and his children.
He asked if there was any way I could fix it as it had stuck to the glass of the original frame it was in
and when they’d taken it out it had pulled off a chunk of the picture.
Now I've blurred their faces out
just for this video, but this here is the photograph he gave me.
Now, I desperately wanted to do this, my friend, but
restoring photographs isn't something that I generally do
until just a few days ago, when Generative Fill was announced.
So having scanned it, opened it in Photoshop, I then made a loose selection
of the area to repair and just clicked on generative fill and generate.
And this is what it did.
Now, I have also cleaned the image up really quickly using the new remove tool,
which is incredible, and also adjusted the colors by diving into camera raw.
I then enlarged the photo using Topaz gigapixel, which I love
and then printed it.
Now, I know obviously
there are people who specialize in restoring old or damaged photographs,
but I'm not really one of them, it's not something that I generally do.
I could have maybe spent hours
searching stock photographs, looking for parts that I could blend in.
But generative fill has meant that I could do this for my friend a lot quicker.
And those prints are now in this box ready to send.
But now let's take a look at this one.
So recently I organized a photoshoot with some friends where I was taking
a portrait inspired by the Netflix poster for 7 Kings Must Die.
The shoot was done at my friend Ian Munro’s studio and I'd hired
the clothing and we’d also arranged
for a professional special effects and makeup artist to be joining us.
She was fantastic creating bruises and cuts on our friend Steve,
who was modeling for the day.
So when it comes to the editing side of things, here's a look
at the main parts where I used the Generative Fill A.I.
First of all, changing the mouth.
For that I just typed in “angry” and it threw back a load of mouths.
I chose one and blended it, including the cut
that the special effects artist had originally created.
Next, I wanted more of the cuts and the blood.
Now typing that in the text prompts threw back a warning about the user guidelines.
Those guidelines set limitations to what all of this can be used for,
and you can read more about them simply by clicking on the warning.
So after quite a few attempts with different words, I found that
just typing “scar” worked pretty good.
The hair though, this blew me away.
I typed in “shaved head mohican hair pulled back ponytail”
and this is what I got.
You can see here all the variations too.
Incidentally, if you save the file as a psd, you get to keep it
along with all of the variations as well, but it does increase the file size.
I then added in another scar, and now Steve looked exactly how I wanted,
and this is something the special effects artist wouldn't
and couldn't have been able to do at the time.
Now, very soon going to do a video, going through all of the photoshoot
and all of the editing, but for now, let me just show you the layers that I did manually.
After using the Generative Fill A.I,
it was then all about doing dodging and burning, adding details,
lighting effects, color grading, and adding the sparks.
So that is the Generative Fill A.I.
in the Photoshop beta, which I think is amazing.
Oh, actually, one more thing, I did remove this guitar from this picture.
Now I was asked recently by a friend about my feelings about all of this A.I.
stuff, and this is part of my reply ...
“The creative side of what we do and what makes us individuals,
is in our minds; our hands and the tools we have at our disposal
are how we get that creativity from our heads
into something that others can see.” But what do you think?
Right, that's all for this video, so as always, I'd really appreciate
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But for now, that's me, I'm done, I'll see you in the next video.