Photoshop with AI Generation

[AP90]

Curious how this is going to change things up and how good it will actually be. It should be interesting for sure.

Here's What I Learned Testing Photoshop's New Generative AI Tool

Adobe's Firefly AI feature brings new fun and fakery to photos. It's a profound change for image editing, though far from perfect.

www.cnet.com

 

[gordo]

Curious how this is going to change things up and how good it will actually be. It should be interesting for sure.

Here's What I Learned Testing Photoshop's New Generative AI Tool

Adobe's Firefly AI feature brings new fun and fakery to photos. It's a profound change for image editing, though far from perfect.

www.cnet.com

The camera never lies….but the photographer….

 

[gordo]

I've now had a chance to use it. Stock photography and some commercial photography business will be adversely affected for sure since you can just generate the images that you need - on demand and at no cost. I'm going to try and use it instead of stock and custom photography on a small project I'm working on. So far it's working well.

 

[tngcas]

Welcome to the generation that will KNOW they can generate fake images on the fly BUT will still believe every photo/video they see online is true and real.

 

[smalloffsetpressexperts]

A.I. is the new XerKoDak 2023AI. It is being fed everyday thru Facial Recognition, Traffic Camers, Security Cams and one's we may never know. It also never sleeps and floats in a cloud. But what type of cloud?

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[PricelineNegotiator]

I think it will be great. The less friction there is between a person with an idea to create something for us to print, the more likely it is to actually be created. Technology that makes something easier, especially when done at orders of magnitude, is a blessing.

 

[tngcas]

I think it will be great. The less friction there is between a person with an idea to create something for us to print, the more likely it is to actually be created. Technology that makes something easier, especially when done at orders of magnitude, is a blessing.

I had not thought of this. Canva has been very useful for our business as it lets everyone create something quickly.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

I had not thought of this. Canva has been very useful for our business as it lets everyone create something quickly.

It seems to be true that Canva enables more jobs to be printed than before. Dealing with designers or learning to use InDesign etc yourself is arguably more friction than using a simplified version of InDesign/amped up version of Word. I think the perception of Adobe products is that they are too expensive, and that's probably what is propelling Canva to success more than most things.

 

[tngcas]

It seems to be true that Canva enables more jobs to be printed than before. Dealing with designers or learning to use InDesign etc yourself is arguably more friction than using a simplified version of InDesign/amped up version of Word. I think the perception of Adobe products is that they are too expensive, and that's probably what is propelling Canva to success more than most things.

Adobe Products are too expensive. We're paying $99 ish per license and our shop requires multiple licenses. It's crazy expensive. We pay more "per month" than we used to pay per year. Adobe will kill themselves in the long run as their competitors make off with the margin of room they've left for the competition to enter the space. Especially once my generation fades out of the workforce (since we're the ones who learned Adobe).

Once the other technologies catch up with Adobe's head start (20ish years) then Adobe will fade and Canva will rule the world (mwahahahahaha) for a time anyways. If Canva is smart they'll figure out how to utilize AI to make it even easier for people to create content.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

If Canva is smart they'll figure out how to utilize AI to make it even easier for people to create content.

The relevant players for that move are less Canva and more Adobe and Microsoft, simple due to their cash positions relative to Canva. Compute is not cheap. If demand goes up for compute it would make sense that hardware prices for top end stuff is going to be pushed higher.

But then again I don't know. Maybe a more relevant product will be a program you own that meshes well with a personal AI, that runs on your own hardware, and doesn't necessarily broadcast it's data out to the world without your explicit permission.

 

[wonderings]

I have been playing around a lot with AI in Photoshop. It is pretty amazing at what it can do, especially for landscape images. The attached image has a magenta box in it. Inside that magenta box is the only real image, everything outside is AI generated.

For fixes or needing more image for bleed it is amazing. People and animals are horrific most of the time, not something I would use for any images needing people. I also generated an image "cobblestone alleyway with church tower at the end" and got the picture below. It is crazy and we will never be able to trust photos again.

Lastly a guy at work playing around with AI had this image of the Colonels head only. With AI he made the fuller picture:

AI expanded image

 

[gordo]

There's more coming from Adobe with "Gingerbread":

 

[keith1]

Seems more scary than good.

 

[gordo]

Seems more scary than good.

I think the upcoming US presidential race will be the first to use AI in the marketing of the candidates. So called "fake news" can't compete with AI generated reality.

 

[keith1]

I think the upcoming US presidential race will be the first to use AI in the marketing of the candidates.

It could be argued that politics has always been artificial & fake. And speaking of news; it's been the trend for a number of years that the photos supplied with news stories are not from the current story but from who knows where & when - as often as not from sources such as Getty Images. Many media sources continually blur the line between opinion and fact (fake news).
We've been traveling down this path for some time. Now I wonder if we've crossed a bridge too far. As Wonderlings posted above; "we will never be able to trust photos again." Or . . .just about anything. Behold, the elusive can of worms.

 

[gordo]

Fortunately there are still some glitches in the AI matrix.

I asked PhotoShop's AI to generate a photo of a "drag racer".

I expected something like this:

But PShop's AI had other ideas. It kept getting generating images like this:

 

[keith1]

bad.

 

[gordo]

bad.

You should have seen the versions I didn't post! LOL

 

[smalloffsetpressexperts]

I requested AI to draw a poster picture of a group of Brittish women known as Birds

 

[gordo]

I requested AI to draw a poster picture of a group of Brittish women known as Birds

For heaven's sake. Adobe is an American company. You can't expect them to know a foreign language!