This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
How does Photoshop use generative AI?
Adobe Firefly generative AI is so useful that it appears in different forms throughout Photoshop so that it can help solve a range of challenges. You’ll find generative AI in places including:
Contextual Task Bar. After you create a selection marquee using any tool or method, the Contextual Task Bar offers a button such as Generative Fill or Generate Image; you learned this in Lesson 2. When the Contextual Task Bar is hidden or when the document context (such as the layer type selected in the Layers panel) doesn’t display generative AI options, generative AI features are still available in other ways.
Edit menu. On the Edit menu, you’ll find the Generative Fill, Generate Image, and (in some versions) Generative Workspace commands. You’ll learn about all three of those later in this lesson.
Options bar. Some tools contain generative AI options. The Remove tool you tried in Lesson 2 has a Mode menu that includes generative AI options that can improve the results. In Lesson 5, you learned that the Crop tool has a Generative Expand option for filling empty areas created by cropping and straightening.
Many of these features didn’t exist a few years ago, and people are finding new uses for generative AI all the time. Don’t be surprised if there are even more generative AI features in Photoshop by the time you read this.
In earlier lessons, you used generative AI to repair or extend images. That use of generative AI is as a production tool to improve images you created or already have. Now it’s time to try using generative AI the other way: to create whole new images!
