Adobe Photoshop Just Got Generative AI Fills
Adobe rolls out Firefly functionality in Photoshop for generative fills. Its really easy, powerful—and not perfect.
6 min readMay 25, 2023
Adobe’s new Photoshop (Beta) available on Creative Cloud has a new feature—Generative Fill. Harvested from Adobe Firefly’s capabilities, this single feature puts a lot of what Photoshop designers want, where they want it.
What Works Well
- Speed. Generative Fill is a powerful, and blazingly fast feature. For most of my images, it was at least 4 times faster than Midjourney.
- Fine grain control. I really like how I can isolate the area within my existing image that it will manipulate, which makes it much more useful for modifying specific images or using real people in images I want to alter.
- Easy to use. Prompting seems to be more intuitive, with more natural language capabilities and less weight on the order of terms. I suspect Adobe is rightly setting a gold standard for training its models. As long as your selection is right, it was very easy to nail the image I wanted each time.
- Non-destructive. I also love that this is a non-destructive way to edit the image. You can revert in history, and generate fills in layers.