Photoshop has AI now and its fucking nuts!
Theres a new beta with this generative fill..
It does three things that were literally impossible before.
Well, two things that were impossible, and a third thing that just is WAY faster than
before and fun to play with.
First, expanding any picture.
Here’s some lovely rocky landscape.
I took this on top of a hill while we were in Jordan a couple years ago..
Its great..
But lets just say I want this to be a super wide format, like 20:9…
I can just set the crop tool, 20:9 - and then crop out, well beyond both edges of this picture.
Select the empty space - Hit this generate button.
and somehow, it matches the feeling of this whole thing..
The rocks make sense - the sky continues almost seamlessly - this looks like it was the picture
I took!
Next here’s a photo I made at Daytona International Speedway during the Champcar 14 hour race…
These guys were pushing this car because they overshot their pit stall..
I would never really frame a shot with extra blank space on the left side like this, but
this shows how well it can detect all the different patterns of the stands, the course,
the road..
It even detects the plane of focus - look how the road is in focus, but then the grand
stands are out of focus, and you literally cant tell this is altered..
This is…
Its too much!
I took this shot of my wife and our friend traveling through Petra - and whoops, I cut
off her feet.
And also lets just say I wanted this to be 16:9 to fit into a video better…
WIth the new beta, I can just re crop outside the edges where her feet WOULD have been in
the shot..
Select the blank space and hit generate..
Blamo..
It matches the out of focus background, the in focus forgtound, it finishes those rocks
in a believable way..
OK, sarah is a shoe lover and she would not love this - but you get three options and
this middle one, while still not nice, if I hadn’t pointed that out - this looks….
real, this looks like a real photo.
On to the second thing this generative beta can do - and thats just make up things that
aren’t there, or change aspects of a picture.
Starting with this self portrait of me at the metropolitan Pavilion in New York City…
First - why dont we just expand this room a bit…
blam!
a: this is not what the rest of that space looks like, but b: look how varied it is..
it doesnt just keep the patterns going and fill to the edge of the frame, it actually
creates stuff it thinks would be in there..
It made more columns, it can tell those columns are in front of the shades over the windows
that it made more of.
It took this fire water line thing and decided to toss another one of those in there, but
gave it a recess in the wall, with perspective..
Its just so bonkers.
And this is the beta!
This is the worst version of this thing..
But, thats not all…
Why dont we zoom into the table, and maybe I wish I had put a planter down next to me
to take this shot..
I can just make a marquee square and type potted plant.
Voila, it generates three options for potted plants..
Why stop there?
a hat like this is unbecoming of an iconic photo of Nicholas Johnson, lets give him a
new hat,…
That ones dumb.
That ones weird..
Ok this one is sufficiently ugly, but when you zoom back out, it looks like it was really
on my head.
Photoshop determined that the light was coming from directly above me, and produces shadows
on the hat and on the planter that reflect that.
Again, THE FUCK?
I messed around and changed a bunch of other things here - put a laptop on the table, had
it give me a soldiers uniform!
thats silly.
That just looks silly.
This next one maybe surprised me the most..
Just because in order for it to extend this photo in a way that looks believable, now
its not just keeping patterns going - its got to produce original art!
But god damnit, it sure did finish that painting.
Its semetrical.
It makes sense.
Kept it going on the other side..
It was able to finish up this table, and make the other half of this painting of a lady,
and even tossed in some original art in a similar style just out of nowhere.
Oh right, I was having it generate things..
So.
I have this other portrait of myself - something Ive started doing in the places I go..
This is at a cabin called Stone Leaf.
It was built in the 1700s - upstate new York.
So after asking photoshop to just extend this picture all over the place - notice how it
nails the couch, give it more cushions..
On the right I typed in edge of kitchen, so it would extend off and have a kitchen be
on that side of the frame.
Dont scrutinize the table legs, and it looks pretty believable.
Matching the off-white colorizing treatment I gave this photo..
And then I decided to make some changes to reality.
Lets generate things that aren’t there.
Starting with a dog laying on the floor.
Just a selection where I want the dog, type in dog laying down.. poof.
dog.
There should be some art on this wall, so draw a selection, art!
I thought this fridge was a little modern for an old timey cabin.
You can literally just messily circle around a thing, like this fridge, I typed Retro Fridge
and my god..
That is a retro fridge that fits in this photo!
It even changed the dresser next to it in order to nestle it in there, but in a way
that you can believe is real.
And then to tie the room together I tossed in a guitar leaning against this table.
Yes you could do this type of thing before - but matching colors was hard.. selecting
around edges was hard..
Sourcing stuff youre allowed to use is hard.
This turns an hour long photoshoppin into a minute and a half long thing to play with
casually.
And this picture is super high resolution.
Here’s my wife at TrollTunga in Norway.
boom, extended.
Boom, legs - those legs are weird..
Those legs look right!
Doesnt have to be photographs either..
Im actually writing a book, a fantasy book about the life of my brother Jeff..
And the opening of the book are two strangers driving a truck to a casino in Minnesota,
so I had MidJourney make this picture in an anime style..
And then brought it into photoshop to make it extra wide because its going to span two
open pages in the book - and its able to match the style of the animation perfectly, it seems
to understand whats going on in the picture- like it added more snow falling - continues
the snow banks on the side of the road..
This is MADNESS as a BETA for this fucking technology.
This is absolutely mind blowing in every way.
I mean, I even just decided, since its minnesota - why dont we just add a deer over here in
the corner..
I just typed deer.
It knows to make this an animated dear, and even tosses some snow in front of the thing.
I cant take it.
The third thing this generative beta can do - that normally takes a LOT of skill..
We’re going over to the Swiss Alps for this one…
Weve got this picture of Sarah standing in front of a vista..
Im going to just select around her - and copy…
Then we go over to this other picture of me at the same place… but lets just say I wanted
a composite where we’re both on a mountain top.
First I want more room to the left, so perform mericle A and just extend this photo to the
left.
Make it up.
love it.
I can just paste sarah in to the picture…
It doesnt fit at all..
Im not even going to try to set it up so it works..
The perspective of the mountain behind her is all wrong..
Whatever..
First I have to merge the layers and then just select around the portions of the picture
that I want to keep..
So Im selecting Sarah and Im selecting me, and I like that little mound and the sky back
there, so Ill keep all that..
Then invert the selection and have photoshop just MAKE UP the rest!
And find some way to join these two photos believably.
I dont know what this is, but luckily you can also just select around something and
hit generate again and it will make it go away..
Look at the mountains!
It used some steep cliffs and clouds to wrap things around and get them down to the height
they are behind me on my side of the photo.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE FUCKING BETA!!!!!