Revolutionize Your Image Editing with Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering this Powerful Tool

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GARY DETONNANCOURT

Photography Educator.

What is Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop?

Generative Fill is a feature in Adobe Photoshop that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and deep neural networks to analyze an image and synthesize new pixels. This allows photographers to edit photos with a click and a few words, making it easier to create stunning results with less editing time.

How Does Generative Fill Work?

Generative Fill works by using Adobe Stock images to add appropriate shadows, reflections, lighting, and perspective to the original photo. This helps photographers create more realistic images without spending hours manually editing each one. The AI engine also helps fill in any gaps or missing pieces of the image, giving you a complete picture that looks like it was taken from the real world.

Use Cases for Generative Fill

Generative Fill can be used for a variety of purposes, including removing objects from photos without leaving weird glitches in the result. It can also be used to expand album cover artwork or create unique artwork from your own photos. Photographers can also use this feature to quickly enhance their images with realistic lighting and shadows that would otherwise take hours of manual work.

Step-by-Step Instructions on Using Generative Fill

1. Open your photo in Adobe Photoshop

2. Select “Generate” from the top menu bar

3. Select “Fill” from the dropdown menu

4. Choose which elements you want to add or remove from your photo

5. Adjust any settings as needed

6. Click “OK” when you are satisfied with your edits

To get the best results with Generative Fill, make sure you have selected high-quality stock images as well as adjusted all settings correctly before clicking “OK”. Additionally, try experimenting with different combinations of elements to see what works best for your particular project!

Sources:

• https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/generative-fill.html

• https://www.makeuseof.com/photoshop-generative-fill-ways-to-improve-photos/

• https://beebom

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How to Focus Stack Images in Photoshop

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From Photoshop, click File - Scripts - Load Image into Stack

Click Browse to select the images. Then check Attempt to Align Images.

Click on a layer to select it, then Control or Command Click on the second layer to select it as well.

Click on Edit - Auto Blend Layers

Click on Stack Images and check Seamless Tones and Colors.

How to Add Texture Overlays to your Images in Photoshop

The textures used in this lesson can be downloaded from pexels.com, thanks to Aaron Kitt and Pixabay for these two textures.

Click on File - Place Embedded

Click on the handles around the image to resize it to fit. Then hit enter on the keyboard.

Click on the blend modes and roll over each one to see which one will work best for your image.

Paint on your mask with black set as the foreground color. Use a soft brush and set the opacity to 70%, then paint over your subject until the texture has been sufficiently removed from your subject.

This is my finished image after applying two different texture layers.

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You can show or hide layers, Rotate or flip, resize, or change the transparency. Use the eraser on your overlay layer (or mask and brush) to clean something. You can mix & match additional overlays to achieve a unique result.

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1. Place the smoke layer over your photo and set the layer blend mode to SCREEN (after that black background will be invisible).
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4. Save your photo and finish the work。

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Removing Distractions with the Perfect Eraser or a Clone Brush

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Original Image with distractions such as ropes, a car and porta johns.

I had recently made a video about how to remove distractions from an image using On1's Perfect Eraser tool.  However, the image I worked on had a simple blue sky background and it wasn't very challenging for the software to clone out some branches.  A youtube view asked to see a video of it cloning in a more challenging spot.  Click here to see the first video and look below to see the new video.  

Removing Distractions with the Perfect Eraser Tool:  Part II

As you can see from the video the Perfect Eraser tool works well, but it is a little slow.  It takes quite a bit of time to process each cloned area and I think you could do as well if not better with the clone tool or the patch tool in Photoshop.  Here is the image I ended up with after using the Perfect Eraser tool.  It did ok in some areas but there are many places that need to be cleaned up.

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Results from just using the Perfect Eraser tool.

Next, I tried to clean up the image with a technique I saw from Aaron Nace by using a bokeh brush that he created to clone over objects that really didn't have enough pixels around it to use the clone tool.  I think the trick to using it well is using a low flow rate of around 8-10%.  I'm sure I didn't do as well as Aaron but I think it came out pretty well.

Using a Clone Brush to Remove Distractions:  Part III 

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Final Result

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Gary Detonnancourt

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