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This chapter is from the book
Refining a generative layer
It’s common for the first results of a prompt to be too far from the image you actually want. Photoshop offers ways to make the results closer to what you want.
In the Variations section of the Properties panel, hover over the first variation and click the ellipsis (…) menu. You don’t have to click any of the options, but note what they are:
Generate Similar creates another set of variations for the same prompt.
Remove Background attempts to isolate the subject and erase the background. However, manually selecting and removing the background might work better.
Good, Poor, and Report don’t change the current variation but are a way of providing feedback to Adobe about the quality of the results of generative AI.
Another way to change the results is to change the prompt.
In the Properties panel, click in the Prompt box, enter a variation on “healthy breakfast” by adding descriptive words, click Generate, and select the variation you like the most. We entered healthy breakfast with pancakes and blueberries.
So far the variations are photorealistic. Next you’ll choose a more illustrative style that you can customize.
Click the second icon below the Prompt box to open style options, select Art, and select a specific look from the Effects category. We clicked All, and then selected Art Deco.
Click Generate and select the variation that works best with the design.
Click the first icon below the Prompt box to open Reference Image options. Select one of the images (we selected the first one), click Generate, and select the variation you like the most. These results were influenced by the style of the reference image you selected.
How is Reference Image different than the Effects? Selecting a reference image is a way for you to influence variations using any image. The images in the Gallery are simply examples, but a great use of Reference Image is for generating art based on your personal style. To do this, open Reference Image options, click the Replace Image button, and select an image that represents your style. Of course, you can also use Reference Image to generate art based on a style you want to emulate, such as a client’s style.
Take a look at the icons for Reference Image and Style Effects and remember them, because they appear in other places in Photoshop where you can use generative AI. For example, those options are also available on the Contextual Task Bar for generative fill and in the Generative Workspace dialog box (see the sidebar “Save time with Generative Workspace” on page 399).
Feel free to continue to explore Firefly generative AI.
For 15_End.psd, we went with one of the photographic variations. Don’t expect to match our results exactly because the Firefly model and training may change over time. Just create and select a variation that you think works the best for the promotional image.
When you’re done, save and close the document.
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The document is now ready to save or export copies for various media using workflows you’ve learned in earlier lessons, such as exporting for the web, printing on your own printer, or exporting for a print service provider.
