Introduction

Generative Fill is a revolutionary AI-powered feature integrated into Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Leveraging Adobe Firefly’s advanced generative AI models, it empowers users to seamlessly add, extend, or remove content from images using simple text prompts. This groundbreaking tool has redefined image editing workflows, allowing both professionals and hobbyists to achieve complex manipulations and create entirely new visual narratives with unprecedented ease and speed.

Key Features

• Content Addition: Generate new objects, characters, backgrounds, or intricate elements into an image based on descriptive text prompts, creating entirely new scenes or augmenting existing ones.
• Image Extension (Generative Expand): Effortlessly expand the canvas of an image beyond its original boundaries. The AI intelligently fills the newly created space with contextually relevant content, making seamless panoramic views or extending cropped images.
• Object Removal: Intelligently identify and remove unwanted objects, distractions, or even people from an image, with the AI seamlessly filling the vacated area using surrounding visual data.
• Contextual Understanding: The AI demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the surrounding image content, ensuring that generated additions or modifications are coherent, stylistically consistent, and naturally integrated.
• Non-Destructive Editing: All generated content is created on a separate layer, preserving the original image data and allowing for non-destructive experimentation and easy revisions.
• Multiple Variations: For each generation, Generative Fill offers several creative options, giving users the flexibility to choose the output that best fits their vision or further refine it.

Pros

• Drastically Reduces Editing Time: Automates tasks that would traditionally require hours of meticulous manual work, significantly speeding up the editing process.
• Democratizes Advanced Editing: Lowers the skill barrier for complex image manipulations, enabling users without extensive Photoshop expertise to achieve professional-grade results.
• Unleashes Creative Freedom: Opens up new avenues for ideation and creative exploration, allowing users to experiment with ideas that were previously too time-consuming or difficult to execute.
• Highly Realistic and Contextual Results: Often produces remarkably convincing and contextually appropriate generations that blend seamlessly with the original image.
• Non-Destructive Workflow: Encourages fearless experimentation, as all changes are made on new layers, safeguarding the original image.

Cons

• Generative Credits System: Usage is often governed by a generative credit system, which can be a limitation for heavy users, potentially incurring additional costs.
• Occasional Inaccuracies/Artifacts: While powerful, the AI can sometimes produce subtle (or not-so-subtle) anatomical errors, illogical details, or artifacts that require manual correction.
• Internet Dependency: Requires an active and stable internet connection to function, as the AI processing is performed in the cloud.
• Prompt Engineering Learning Curve: Achieving optimal results often requires practice in crafting precise and effective text prompts, which can take some getting used to.
• Potential Ethical Concerns: The ease of generating realistic, yet fabricated, imagery raises concerns about misinformation and ethical use.
• Quality Variability: The quality of generated output can sometimes vary depending on the complexity of the prompt and the source image.

Pricing

Generative Fill is not a standalone product but is integrated into Adobe Photoshop and other select Creative Cloud applications. Access to Generative Fill is included as part of an active Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, such as the Photoshop Single App plan or the Creative Cloud All Apps plan.

Usage of Generative Fill consumes “Generative Credits,” which are typically allocated monthly as part of your Creative Cloud subscription. These credits reset each month. If a user exhausts their monthly allocation, additional generative credits can usually be purchased as an add-on to continue using the feature without interruption. The exact number of credits and their cost can vary based on the specific Adobe plan and region.