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Using Generative Fill - Firefly Tutorial

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Using Generative Fill

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- [Instructor] By now, I am convinced that you have a good understanding of how to use the web version of Adobe Firefly's Gena Fill Technology, which means that it's now time to see how you can use that same feature here directly within Adobe Photoshop. To help illustrate this, I have opened up this document, elephant-start.psd, which we'll be using in just a few seconds. But before we get started, I briefly wanted to point out that I'm currently running the beta version of Adobe's Photoshop, which comes with a brand new Adobe Firefly feature set, and these features will be used throughout this entire chapter. Now, you can download the beta version directly from the Creative Cloud desktop app by simply clicking the Creative Cloud icon here on the Mac, and then just going into the beta apps category and then just clicking to download and install this beta version of Adobe Photoshop. Now, there's also a small chance that, by the time you're taking this course, that these features have already moved into the official version of Photoshop. Now, this might all sound a little bit complicated, so I would suggest that you simply go through the videos in this chapter, after which you will know exactly which Photoshop version to use because you will notice immediately whether or not you are missing specific features or buttons. Now, let's get back to our current exercise. I'm going to go back to Photoshop here, and let's get started with this image. Now, here in Photoshop, I have this image of Paris open, and I would like to generate an elephant here in the streets of Paris. Now, to get started, you simply go ahead here and you choose the rectangular marquee tool and you simply click and drag a selection. I'm going to move the selection a little bit like so, and it's important to realize that the size of your selection is going to help define the size of the elephant, so keep in mind how big an elephant you really want to generate. Now, with this active selection, the only thing I have to do is simply click the Gena Fill button, after which the command prompt will automatically appear. Simply type in your prompt, in this case, elephant, and then hit enter or return to confirm. Now, after a few seconds, you will see that I'm going to get not one, but three different variations of the same prompt, and I'm only using one credit for all three together, and it's going to be up to me to decide which version I like best. Now, this is the first version of my elephant. I'll click the right pointing arrow to go to the second version, and now this is the third version of the elephant. Now, these look pretty good, but I might actually want to generate a few more different renditions. Now, you can do so by simply clicking the generate option again, or alternatively, you can take a look here at the properties panel, which will show you the properties of the currently selected generative layer. So, here I can basically see the entire prompt and I can also go through my different variations. Now, I'll just go ahead and click the generate option again to create three more variations of the same prompt. And again, you can create as many as you like. So, let's give this a few more seconds and see what Firefly is able to come up with. Now, while we're waiting, I also wanted to point out that I absolutely love the fact that the lighting is coming from the exact same source here on the left hand side, and you can see that the fur on the elephant's head and the back is also lighting up simply because it's taking to account where the light is coming from and where the shadows should be cast. Now, I kind of like this version, I got to say, this looks pretty cool. And again, you just go ahead and pick a different version any time you like. Now, I'm going to go ahead and save this document by choosing file, save, I want to just quickly point out one little detail. Now, when you start to generate additional versions of this specific generative layer, you will be adding a lot of data to your Photoshop file. Now, in this instance, I have six different versions of an elephant, but I'm really only interested in using just this one. However, if I take a look here at this document, you can see that this document, elephant-start, is 37 megabytes. If I were to go back here and then just delete any of these other variations by simply clicking the trashcan icon, let's get rid of this one, let's delete this one, delete this one, and those ones, and you simply re-save the file and you go back to the finder, you will see that now I only have 29 megabytes. Now, this is a very small generation, I got to say, this is only a very small canvas. It's a very light document. However, if you are creating large generations and large images with many different versions, you can easily add a few dozen or even a few hundred megabytes to your file, and it's just data sitting there. You're not even using that. So, when you've made up your mind, just go ahead and delete the versions that you don't really want. But be careful because you cannot undo that specific command, which means once deleted, it is gone forever, so be careful what you do. But for now, we just get to sit back and enjoy this really cool image of an elephant walking through the streets of Paris.

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