Thanks to Photoshop’s new AI feature, image editing has never been easier

Photoshop skills for everyone?! But something! With the new update, everyone can get their hands on the image editing bacon.

A few weeks ago I had this brilliant idea of ​​putting my family’s faces on the dinosaurs from “The Dinosaurs” and I’m desperate about one small thing.

I just wanted to remove the dino baby from the picture because it doesn’t fit directly into our family constellation. The family baby of the Stahnke family would be me, with my tender 27 years – that doesn’t have to be the case.

So: The baby had to get out of the picture and yet I didn’t want to succeed. That wouldn’t have happened if it already had at the time the new photoshop beta would have given.

With the latest Photoshop beta version (try it for free here), even the most recent Photoshop Phillip can become a capable designer. I speak from experience.

The magic word is »Generative Fill« or in German »generative filling«. This is an AI-powered feature that will bring you a lot of fun if you try it. I am sure about that.

Pixel grass in 12 seconds

Just yesterday my dear colleague Maxe came to me and asked me for help with a picture for his article. He wanted to add a few digital blades of grass to a screenshot from the game »Duck Hunt« and used the Clone Stamp tool first.

That would be a bit cumbersome – especially since there is generative filling. With this new tool, it took me exactly 5 clicks and 12 seconds of waiting until I had exactly what Maxe was looking for.

All I had to do was select the area next to the grass and let Photoshop generate three choices. To do this, I clicked on »Generative Fill«, entered a (English) prompt, in this case »pixelated gras«, and then pressed »generate«.

Maxe would have been busy with the copy stamp for a while – and would have had to erase parts of the dog again.

My picture ended up being used here: A man in the USA tried to rob a supermarket with a Nintendo Lightgun.

What makes generative filling so special?

In short This new feature allows you to edit and enhance images faster than ever before. Even professional Photoshop users are absolutely impressed. The YouTube channel »Photoshop Training Channel« and some others refer to the tool as a »game changer«.

Some content creators say this is the biggest Photoshop update since layers were introduced in 2003. Photoshop YouTuber PiXimperfect (4.61 million subscribers) goes even further:

Jan Stahnke only works very sporadically with Photoshop. Apart from a month-long course and a bit of practice with images for GameStar articles, he has little experience with the image editing program. Luckily, working with Photoshop just got a whole lot easier.

More precisely Generative Fill allows you to remove objects from photos in just a few seconds. Depending on the image, this took several minutes to hours before the update and was certainly not feasible for everyone.

Additionally, as the name suggests, generative fill can not only remove things, but also fill them up. From here on, the new tool works like most AIs: you type in what you want to see and the tool does the rest.

Ideally, in just a few seconds you will have an element in your picture that extends the scene in a meaningful way and is adapted to the circumstances (e.g. light or perspective).

The beautiful: Compared to traditional text-to-image AIs, Photoshop refers to the existing image and (often) adapts its results very well to it.

This is how you use generative filling

The new taskbar also allows you to select themes, remove backgrounds, invert the selection and much more.

The new tool is not only powerful, but also very easy to use.

To use the new tool creatively, select an area on your image and press “Generative Fill” in the new taskbar. Now you have two options:

1. Simply leave the following text field empty and click on »generate«. Now the selected area is removed from the image and replaced with something the AI ​​thinks might be behind the removed object.
2. Enter a prompt (i.e. work instructions for an AI) and then press »generate«. The AI ​​will now create parts of the image that match your description. For example.

No worries: Photoshop’s Generative Fill is non-destructive. This means that any content created by the AI ​​is created as a layer mask and can be hidden at any time with one click.

Hopefully, like me, you can quickly find out that this is a really powerful and versatile tool that’s a lot of fun to experiment with.

In the video I show you in more detail how it works and how fast it really is:

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You’ve never been so good in Photoshop! Now each of you can design

This is how you get the Photoshop beta

To get started with the AI ​​fun, you must either be the proud owner of a Photoshop license or, as mentioned above, take advantage of the free (7-day) trial version.

All you have to do now is download the latest beta version of Photoshop, which all users can also download. To do this, proceed as follows:

1. Startet die Adobe Creative Cloud
2. Select »Applications« in the top tab
3. Click on “Beta Applications” in the menu on the left
4. Locate the “Photoshop (Beta)” beta and click “Install”
5. Ready

The Photoshop Beta is installed in just a few clicks.

Will you try out the new Photoshop tool? Have you ever worked with Photoshop? How much experience do you have and how much does the update bring for your respective experience level? We would be very interested in the opinion of both newcomers and professionals. Let us know in the comments below!