ADD TO THE EDGES OF A PICTURE USING GENERATIVE FILL IN PHOTOSHOP, POWERED BY ADOBE FIREFLY

This makes use of artificial intelligence to edit or add objects to images. Additionally, it may enlarge a photo and create additional information to fill the extra space. This is a great approach to resize an image without losing any of its pixels. To correct a specific size or aspect ratio, for instance, you might need to make a picture bigger or taller. When compositing, it’s great for extending backgrounds. When creating panoramas, filling in the edges is yet another fantastic application for this.

Let’s examine how this functions. This is a post in a series in which I’m dissecting the Generative Fill. greater tutorial focus.

EXTENDING AN IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP WITH A GENERATIVE FILL
Here is a picture that is wide. In actuality, I took this panoramic in Kaui.

Let’s make it taller so that we can compose.

Decide on the crop tool. (C key)

Expand the canvas by dragging the crop up and down. Another name for this is outcropping.

Entering will apply the crop.

The difficulty with this is that we have a blank canvas where we had the image enlarged. In the past, we would use cloning and Content Aware fill while pasting content from other photos.

Let use Generative Fill (There are a couple of caveats and I’ll address those in this tutorial).

Grab the Rectangular marquee tool

Drag inside the original image, go slightly inside to create a slight overlap for Photoshop to work with.

Inverse the selection so you are selecting the blank areas. Cmd+Shift+I Inverses a selection. (Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows).

Click the Generative Fill button in the Task Bar. If you don’t see it, Window>Contextual Task bar.

Don’t enter any text into the prompt box. When you click Generate without text, Photoshop will blend the image into the existing pixels.

Click Generate

And you will see that pixels are generated by the ai. These pixels have never existed before, they are generated by machine learning in Adobe Sensei.

There are three alternatives to select from if you look at the Properties panel. For a closer look at each thumbnail, click it.

There are two warnings in this. Let’s talk about them.

1 NOT AT THIS LOCATION, ACTUALLY.

This is not how the scene actually appears, so if accuracy is what you seek, look elsewhere. Where the foreground is located, there is a road. (This is only one instance where using a genuine photo and conventional Photoshop techniques are necessary. Some claim that photography is no longer alive. Not at all. Viva la Fotografia!”

The resolution is low, #2.
The resolution for generative fill is 1k as of this writing. 1024 x 1024 pixels.There are various causes behind this, but the main one is the enormous amount of computer power needed, which is still in development. Scaling is a later process.

But I have a simple solution for this.

Instead of extending in a single pass and using the 1k on the whole image, try sections at a time.

Make smaller selections of the fill area.

Generate each separately and you can match the resolution of your image with a little extra work.

INCLUDING SKIES AND OTHER PARTS
The fill can be guided, which is another option.

Choose the image’s top portion.

Let’s add a text prompt rather than just filling in the top portion. Enter “dark moody sky” in the text box.

We’re now introducing some drama. You can see me add a lake to this picture if you watch the little movie at the top.

I hope you found this tutorial useful.