GENERATING IMAGES FROM SCRATCH

Until recently, it wasn’t possible to generate images from scratch from within Photoshop. There were workarounds to cheat it, but it wasn’t officially supported. Now, if you start with a blank canvas, you have the option to generatively fill the space. A little expectation setting first. The resolution of generated images is still limited to around 1,500 x 1,500 pixels. It can generate images in other aspect ratios, to be clear, but if you’re hoping that you’re going to use Firefly to generate something that you can use at poster scale, think again, unless you’ve got a decent upscaling tool such as Topaz Gigapixel AI. Adobe says improving the resolution of images is high on its to-do list, but that of course comes at a compute cost. As we’ll see, results can…

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