From Memes to AI Magic: Adobe's New AI Feature

Adobe Photoshop has introduced a groundbreaking feature, "Generative Fill", bearing similarities to the out/in-painting feature in Dalle2. In this newsletter, let's delve into its capabilities.

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Adobe's Generative Fill: The Next Frontier in Image Manipulation

In a world where creativity meets technology, Adobe is leading the charge with its bet on AI tooling for creatives. The industry has responded in kind, unveiling a plethora of unimaginable use cases.

Take a moment to watch the 1-minute introductory video from Adobe below to get acquainted with this exciting new feature:

What can we do with Generative Fill? Well, here are some popular memes on the internet, cleverly expanded using Adobe Generative Fill. Everything within the white border is the original meme, while all content outside the white box is the product of Generative Fill.

While this is certainly a fun way to get creative with memes, the potential value of Generative Fill spans far beyond the realm of laughs and giggles.

6 Famous Memes Expanded

Unlocking the Power of Generative Fill

Generative fill goes way beyond the fun we can have expanding memes. For example, it can be used to remove eyeglasses glare from any photo with just a few clicks. You can use generative fill to turn Luke Skywalker into a baseball card. Image manipulation is 100x faster as we can see here.

I curated a whole list of incredible uses-cases on Twitter

The Future of Generative Fill across Adobe Products

I anticipate that Adobe will incorporate this innovative technology across all its tools, making it accessible and easy to use whether you're working in Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, or AfterEffects. While this is purely speculative, I believe it's the direction we're heading.

📹 source: https://twitter.com/Mr_AllenT/status/1664606692590452736

The impact on the creative industries

New tools like this will be popping up more and more frequently. The creatives that choses to embrace these new tools will potentially go above and beyond their peers. We are still in the early days of creative AI super powers. I can see this clearly disrupt a lot of existing products, but more importantly I can see this super charge the next generation of designers, and enrich the current professional workforce.

How do you foresee the implementation of Generative Fill impacting your workflow? What are you most interested in doing with it? Let me know in the comments below and reply to this email with your thoughts.

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