How You Can Use AI to Create Portrait Backgrounds

There has been a lot of frustration and uncertainty in the photography world regarding artificial intelligence, but it also has a lot of potential as a legitimate tool for photographers to expand their creative capabilities and make their workflows more efficient. This awesome video tutorial will show you how one photographer is using AI to generate impressive backgrounds for his portraiture work, including how to customize and seamlessly blend them for convincing final images. 

Coming to you from James Quantz Jr, this informative video tutorial will show you how to use AI-generated backgrounds for portraiture work. As you will see, it is about a lot more than simply putting a few keywords into an AI image generator and heading to work. It still takes a good range of Photoshop skills in order to create a compelling and believable result. You will need to upscale the outputs, use the Harmonization filter in order to match the composite, adjust things like color and contrast, leverage Generative Fill to remove any unwanted objected in the generated background and to extend it if necessary, and more. Nonetheless, it is a powerful creative tool that is worth a look. Check out the video above for the full rundown.

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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