Adobe Photoshop: Creating a Nutrition Label for Digitally Manipulated Graphics and Posteriori Sensing of Artifice
The O.G. of image-editing apps and a product that is enmeshed in culture, is what Photoshop is. Photoshop is also widely used. It has been more than 30 years since the first version of the app was released, so visual artists, photographers, graphic designers, and others can still use the app to edit images they see online, in print, bus stops, posters, and product packaging.
Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool that allows users to quickly extend images and add or remove objects using text prompts. The feature is called Generative Fill, and is one of the first Creative Cloud applications to use Adobe’s AI image generator Firefly, which was released as a web-only beta in March. Adobe says that Generative fill’s full release will be later this year.
The idea of a computer forcing it to create pictures is an old one, but has been released over the past year. What’s novel about Photoshop’s new capabilities is that they allow for the easy merger of reality and digital artifice and they bring it to a large user base. The software allows anyone with a mouse, an imagination and $10 to $20 a month to — without any expertise — subtly alter pictures, sometimes appearing so real that it seems likely to erase most of the remaining barriers between the authentic and the fake.
Adobe, the company that makes Photoshop, has considered the dangers and has been working on a plan to address the dissemination of digitally manipulated pics. The company has created what it describes as a “nutrition label” that can be embedded in image files to document how a picture was altered, including if it has elements generated by artificial intelligence.
How to go after a waterfall and see a glacier in Iceland with Generative Fill? A little excursion to Skógafoss
If you’d like to visit a place where danger from the natural world is omnipresent and where lunch costs $60, I encourage you to visit Iceland. It is a beautiful and brutal landscape whose natural wonders (and terrors) make for incredible photographs. I took a bunch on a recent trip to the country. It is possible for them to be terrifying in entirely new ways.
I decided to use the Generative Fill tool on my vacation photos and had a lot of fun with it. Adobe’s Firefly image generator is used to create Generative Fill. It is new, and not entirely new, but having it in tandem with your standard photo editing sliders is new. You use it when you make a selection, typing in a text, and then throwing in a magic wand. It can remove and add elements to your photo, or extend the image.
After messing around with it for just a few hours, it already looks like an impressive upgrade to the existing Content-Aware Fill tool in Photoshop. Take a look at how each one handled removing people from my photo of Skógafoss. There are a lot of people in front of the falls, so my photo has a lot of people in it.
The GenerativeFill image is better than the Content-Aware image. And all I had to do was make an imprecise selection, type in a few words, and wait a few seconds. That’s honestly kind of scary in itself.
But that’s just the beginning — if you really want to go for it, you can go for it. And oh, the places you will go with Generative Fill. Let’s take a little journey from beautiful-yet-deadly waterfalls to a beautiful-yet-deadly glacier. When I asked Generative Fill to make the valley even more ominous, I got a depiction of what the valley actually looked like.
Generative fill goes hard on the waterfall. It’s kind of phony looking, but plausible, I guess. Is it possible to ask for ponies in the foreground?
Cool is the world’s bleakest lemonade stand. Love it. How about we lighten up with something that couldn’t possibly conjure up horror? What about a rainbow in the sky with unicorns?
Okay, that’s an F for that rainbow and just a big “Nope” to the rest. You okay, Firefly? Take me back to safety and just try to remove the people from this photo at the beautiful-yet-deadly black sand beach.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734821/photoshop-generative-ai-fill-tool-adobe
Iceland: Where are the real gems? How to tell the difference between Icelandic and US – The real beauty and the artificial intelligence, and where to find them
It is okay. I hope so. The area that rocks meet the water looks fake, but the country is too nice to be real. At least the image in the photo was not made by the artificial intelligence. It is out there like that. You never know what to expect in Iceland.
Adobe has been using AI in its products for a long time. At Adobe Max last year the company rolled out some new Photoshop features like higher-quality object selections that are powered by Sensei, another of Adobe’s AI models. Firefly is already being used in Adobe Illustrator to recolor vector-based images, and Adobe also said that it plans to integrate Firefly with Adobe Express, a cloud-based design platform rivaling services like Canva, though there’s still no confirmation on when that will be released.
Generative Fill also supports Content Credentials, a “nutrition label” system that attaches attribution data to images before sharing them online, informing viewers if the content was created or edited using AI. You can check the content credentials of an image by visiting verify.contentauthenticity.org.