How Photoshop's Generative AI Can Help You Edit Portraits

Photoshop's new Generative Fill tool has generated a lot of buzz for its ability to transform images and manufacture ideas with just the click of a button. One genre it has a lot of potential in is portrait photography, and this great video tutorial will show you some of those applications. 

Coming to you from Ace Noguera, this excellent video tutorial will show you some of the uses of Photoshop's new Generative Fill AI tool for editing portrait photos. While Generative Fill has generated a ton of discussion for its potential to fundamentally alter or entirely fabricate images, it also has some very practical applications that can save photographers a lot of time and effort. For example, I recently shot a set of portraits with off-center subjects, and one of them asked for their shot to be centered after the shoot. Due to their woven sweater, it took me about 20 minutes of careful cloning work to get a believable result. Generative Fill was released literally the next day, so with that image still on my mind, I decided to give AI a crack at the edit, and it generated a near-perfect result that only required a slight curves adjustment to be exactly what I needed. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Noguera. 

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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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I don‘t understand this bad hype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHTLsJqTrs

- here you find some facts.

I am impressed. I am only just barely scratching the surface of this new tool, but I am wowed and looking forward to getting more deeply into it. Ace's examples are good and telling, making me want to try more and newer things. So far, I have been using generative fill almost exclusively to remove and replace distractions. It does it so well it's a little scary. The deepfake probabilities are endless. I have strong ethics and disclose when I've done things to an image. Bad guys have no ethics at all. There will need to be some kind of controls, but I am just havin' fun.

I did the attached pair, only wanting to keep the literal focus on the mantid sculptures. I made the rough selections and let the beta do its thing.