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I use it for things that are not so technical so I find I get results I like with very little work. For instance after I made a print I couldn’t unsee this white splotch so I had selected it and used generative fill without a prompt to make it go away

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110607460518784045

when I put the corrected one on the wall together with a lot of prints it was not properly centered vertically (had to center the painting + shadow not just the painting) so I had generative fill draw another row of bricks at the bottom. I’m sure they don’t look exactly like the the corresponding bricks on the real wall but they are good enough for wall art

It adds up to another reason to keep my Creative Cloud subscription instead of looking for an alternative.

> I use it for things that are not so technical so I find I get results I like with very little work

I mostly get nice fill results as well, but they are super aggressive about removing "unsafe results", even when I don't give it a prompt? I'm not filling in nudity or anything, so it's not something I'd pay extra for in this state, I don't need an AI nanny.

One thing that is t clear to most is that generative fill does not consider the contents of the area you are filling so asking it to remove something doesnt do anything - you’d have the same results by leaving the prompt blank

yep, I usually leave the prompt blank and get the result I want, I only write a prompt if I don't like what I get without the prompt.

The thing is if you want to have it add a spaceship or a pretty girl or something like that to the photo it has to make more background to go with whatever you tell it it draw so it automatically draws something consistent with the scene without a prompt.

There is a whole research area about tools that do "editing" so you could tell it to do something specific to an image, say "increase the exposure by 0.2 stops" (not that you need a.i. for that but somebody might rather do that than find the function in the UI) or "add a fourth motorcycle to the three motorcycles that are parked in a row" and that's even being done for 3-d models with NeRFs and point clouds and such but that's not what generative fill does right now.

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