Make stunning updates to your images with text prompts using Generative Fill (2023)

Meet Generative Fill— the revolutionary and magicalnew suite of AI-powered capabilities grounded inyour innate creativity, enabling you toadd, extend, orremovecontent fromyour imagesnon-destructively using simple textprompts. You can achieve realistic resultsthat willsurprise, delight, and astoundyou in seconds.

We’re building these capabilities in collaboration with our community so that real-time feedback shapes these new experiences. To share your valuable feedback, visit theAdobe Photoshop beta community.

To explore more about generative AI and find answers to common questions, seeGenerative AI FAQ.

With Generative Fill, you can:

• Generate objects: Select an area in your image, then describe what you’d like to add/replace through a text prompt.
• Generate backgrounds: Select the background behind your subject, then generate a new scene from a text prompt.
• Extend images: Extend the canvas of your image, then make a selection of the empty region. Generating without a prompt will create a harmonious extension of your scene. Generating with a prompt will add content to your image while extending the rest of your scene.
  
• Remove objects: Select the object you want to remove, then generate without a prompt to let the Generative AI technology make it disappear. 
  
• And more… Generative Fill is incredibly versatile. Experiment with off-the-wall ideas, ideate around different concepts, and produce dozens of variations in a snap.
  

How to use Generative Fill in your image

Note:

Before you proceed, ensure you're connected to the internet, as Generation Fill requires cloud processing.

Generate an object

1. Make a selection

   Use any selection tool in Photoshop to make a selection around a desired object or an area in your image.

2. Access Generative Fill

   Select the Generative Fill button in the contextual taskbar that appears.

   

   You can also choose Generative Fill from any of the following options:

   • Select Edit > Generative Fill from the application bar.
   • Ctrl/ Right+click with a selection active and chooseGenerative Fill from the menu.
     

3. Add your text prompt

   A text-entry prompt box appears in the contextual taskbar where you can describe the object or scene you want to generate in your image in English only, or feel free to leave this blank. If you leave this blank, Photoshop will fill in the selection based on the surroundings.
   

   Tip:

   Currently, the prompts used for the description are supported in English only.For best results, use descriptive nouns and adjectives in text prompts instead of instructive prompts like, “fill the area” or “create a scene".

4. Generate variations

   In the contextual taskbar, once your text prompt is complete, click Generate.

   • You can see thumbnail previews of the variations that get generated based on your text prompt in the Properties Panel and in the Generative Fill dialog if used.
   • A new Generative Layer is created in the Layers panel. You can always select this layer to bring up the Propertiespanel to show your text prompt, mask, and variations. This enables you to exhaust a myriad of creative possibilities and to reverse the effects when you want, without impacting your original image.

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5. Generate more variations

   (Optional) To generate more variations, click Generate again in the Properties panel.

   Further, you can modify your text in the prompt box and click Generate to create new variations with the revised text.
   

Generate backgrounds

Extend images

1. Select the Crop tool from the toolbar. Crop borders display on the edges of the photo.
   

2. Drag the corner and edge handles outward to extend your canvas size.
   

3. Press Enter/Return on the keyboard or the commit checkmark in the Crop options bar.By default, the extra canvas will use your background color.

4. Use the rectangular Marquee tool to select the extra canvas by clicking and dragging to make the selection.
   

5. Follow steps 2-5 fromGenerate an objectsection above.
   

   Tip:

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   Leave the text-entry prompt box blank after clicking Generate if you want the selection to be filled based on the surrounding pixels in your image.

Remove objects

Select the object(s) you want to remove, then let the Generative AI technology make it disappear.

Leave the text-entry prompt box blank after clickingGenerateif you want the selection to be filled based on the surrounding in your image.

Tip:

Avoid making a tight selection and always overlap some areas around the selection in your image to generate a better resultant image and enable seamless blending.

Benefits of using Generative Fill

Let’s take a look at how Photoshop’s new AI feature will be able to help you in your day-to-day work:

• Magically leap from idea to image with a simple text prompt:Generative Fill is a magical new suite of AI-powered capabilities that enable you to add, extend, or remove content from your images non-destructively, using simple text prompts to achieve realistic results that will surprise, delight, and astound you—in seconds. Generative Fill automatically matches your image's perspective, lighting, and style to make previously tedious tasks fun and deliver truly mind-blowing results.
• Create at a transformative rate:Generative Fill empowers you to create as quickly as you can type— experiment with off-the-wall ideas, ideate around different concepts, and produce dozens of variations in a snap. Quickly generate multiple image suggestions until you land on a variation you like. High-quality results, which previously took hours to create, are now produced in seconds, enabling you to spend more time honing your creativity.
• Unlimited creativity, coupled with the precise control of Photoshop:Generative Fill is natively integrated into Photoshop (beta), so you can explore freely while still maintaining complete control over your creative process and outputs, all inside the Photoshop app. The newly generated content is created in a generative layer, enabling you to exhaust a myriad of creative possibilities and to reverse the effects when you want without impacting your original image. Then, use the power and precision of Photoshop to take your image to the next level, surpassing even your expectations.
• Built on Adobe’s best —powered by Adobe Firefly: Create confidently, knowing that Generative Fill is powered by Adobe Firefly, the new family of creative, generative AI models designed to be commercially safe— ensuring you can push the bounds of your creativity confidently. Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock’s hundreds of millions of professional-grade, licensed, high-resolution images that are among the highest quality in the market. This helps ensure Firefly won’t generate content based on other people’s work, brands, or intellectual property.
• Together, let's shape the future of Photoshop:Join the broader Photoshop community in shaping the tools Adobe is building to help supercharge your creativity. Download the Photoshop (beta) app or sign-up for the Firefly beta today, and let us know what you think.

We're excited to continue to build on Generative Fill in the coming months and plan to bring it to most Photoshop customers by the end of the year.

Tips and tricks while using Generative Fill

• Write an effective text prompt to get amazing results:Stick to simple and direct language and use 3-8 words that include a subject and descriptors. Don’t worry about adding commands like “add” or “remove”, instead just write what you want to see. For example, you can write a prompt that says “A house in the woods.” and if you want, add descriptive keywords ie; “ a red house in the woods”. Then click Generateto see multiple options.
• Use layers to edit your images non-destructively:When you click Generate, visuals based on your text prompt get generated on a new Generative Layer. You can then use layers in Photoshop to move and play with different images or objects until you make a composition you like. Combine several generated images to get an unexpected output easily.
• Make a selection that has enough pixels to extend your image:If you want to extend an image, select part of the image that will be referenced by the AI model to extend your image. Make sure you select enough of your image so the model can effectively extend your imagery with a result generated to blend in and make sense with the rest of your original image while increasing the dimensions of your image.
• Take your image even further using Photoshop:Once you generate a new image, bring it even closer to what you envision, by using all comprehensive tools in Photoshop to transform, edit, remix, or composite your image. Create anything you can imagine, all in the Photoshop (beta) app.
• Get inspired and inspire others: Take inspiration from the rich community of people who are also using Adobe Firefly and Generative Fillto complement their creations. Get new ideas for different styles you want to try or even ideas about how to write different prompts—Adobe Firefly Gallery,then share your creations to inspire others and take it forward!

Questions? We have answers

Note:

To find answers to Generative AI common questions, see Generative AI FAQ.

The Photoshop (beta)app enables you to test apps, try new features and functionality, and share your feedback directly with Adobe. Learn more about the Photoshop (beta) app here.

To install the beta app on your desktop, visit theBeta appstab of yourCreative Cloud app and selectInstallnext toPhotoshop (Beta).

Generative Fill in the Photoshop (beta) app is only available to users of at least 18 years of age with a Creative Cloud Individual license along with CC Teams,CC Enterprise, and our Educational customers.

For users under 18, Generative Fill is visible but disabled. Also, fornon-RGB 8/16 bits documents, the feature is visible but disabled. Hovering over the Generate button will show a tooltip explaining why the feature is unavailable.

Generative Fill is not available in China at this time.

Why is the Generative Fill button greyed out if I'm over 18?

If you find that Generative Fill is greyed out for you and you're over the age of 18, it is possible that you may not have a validDate of Birth associated with your Adobe ID account. To update your Date of Birth, you can do either of the following:

• Sign out and sign back into the Creative Cloud Desktop and Photoshop (beta) apps.
• Log intoBehancewith your Adobe ID and enter your Date of Birth.
• If you sign in using social sign-in (Apple, Google, and Facebook), ensure that your date of birth in that account is set to public instead of private.

Once your Date of Birth is up to date, relaunch the Photoshop (beta) app to enableGenerative Fill.

• High-quality assets: Generative Fill is powered by Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative, generative AI models that enables you to instantly use simple text inputs to generate extraordinary results.
• Community-involvement: It’s in the Photoshop (beta) app because we welcome our community to shape the tools Adobe is building with this transformational new technology.
• Designed to be commercially safe: You can create confidently, as Adobe Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock’s hundreds of millions of professional-grade licensed, high-resolution images, which helps ensure Adobe Firefly won’t generate content based on other people’s work, brands, or intellectual property.
• Setting the standard for responsibility: Through efforts like the Content Authenticity Initiative and Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, Adobe stands up for accountability, responsibility, and transparency in generative AI. We’re working toward a universal “Do Not Train” Content Credentials tag that will remain associated with a piece of content wherever it’s used, published, or stored.

• Adobe Generative AI Beta user guidelines
• Adobe Firefly FAQ
• Stock and Firefly FAQ
• Make selections in your composites
• Retouch and repair images