What the heck? Why are my results on Generative
AI and Adobe so much worse than everybody else's? Well, there's actually two big reasons, and
the first one is really going to surprise you, not using the selection tool properly. One of
the most important tools in generating this AI is making the right shape with the selection tool.
The problem is you're using it as a selection tool trying to get perfect selections. It's not how it
works. Use it to sketch the outline of what you want to create. Let me demonstrate and then we'll
get to reason number two. And by the way, you need to be inside Adobe Photoshop Beta to be running
this. You'll go to Creative Cloud and on the left hand side, you'll see Beta apps. My other video
shows you exactly how to set that up. All right, so let's make a selection. Let's just grab the
Marquee tool and I'm going to make a selection around her head here. I want a hat, right? So
I'm going to hit Generate or Fill. In order to prove how important this is, I'm not going to
use any other descriptors, just the word hat. I'm going to type in hat right now. Before I hit
generate, because of this shape, I bet you we're going to get something like a berry or something
like that. We're going to let it generate and boom, look at that. So how did
I know we were going to get a berry? Because of the shape of the selection that
I made. If you look at this selection, and by the way, it creates a mask. I'm just
going to just select that mask quickly. Notice I went very high up in the head, which means
it can't go down low like you would get with a beanie. And also it's not up very high, so
we can't get something like a top hat. In fact, why don't we dump this selection altogether? I'm
going to make a brand new selection, and I'm going to bet that we're going to get a top hat or a
party hat. And I'm saying that before I even make this selection. And we're going to start from
here and I'm going to go up high. So I'm going to give this lots of room at the top. So it's
going to take all this area to generate the hat. Let's hit Generate and fill. Hat, hit Generate.
What did I say? It's going to be something like a party hat, like a top hat, or maybe one of
those New Year hats. It's going to be tall. And look at that. Did I call it or what? And
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You won't miss any of my videos. All right, are you starting to get the picture? Okay, so
what we want to do now, in order to generate what you really want, number one, the shape is
really important. Number two is descriptors. So what you want to avoid is things like remove this
object or select where you're telling it to do something because it doesn't work that way. What
you want to do is name the object and then give properties of that object, such as the color, the
material it's made out of, whether it's old, new, etc. I want to create a Pompom hat. I don't know
what they call them here, but in New Zealand, it's a Pompom hat. You get the woolen hat
with the little Pompom or the ball on the top. I think they call it that in the UK as well.
Even though I've been in the US a long time, I am from another country, so maybe they call it
something different here. Let me know. So watch this. I doubt it's going to get what we want, but
let's try it. We're going to type in Pompom hat and then we're going to hit generate. Okay,
so this violated some of the user guidelines, so maybe a Pompom hat means something different
than what I thought it did. All right, so I'm just going to ditch that. We're going
to create a new selection. So let's create a selection that goes lower. We even go down where
we're going to allow it to go as low as the eyes. Then what we want to do is give it lots of space
on the top, but I'm going to make it more rounded. Now, we're going to hit Generate a fill
and we're just going to type in Woollan hat. There we go. Look at that. We've got a
Pompom hat. I've got three different ones. What if we wanted to change the color of it to
blue? Blue woolen hat, and now we get a blue hat. What you can see here is the object was following
the shape of the outline that it was creating. Let's try another example. All all right, who
doesn't love a guitar amp? Let's put a cat on top. What we're going to do first of all is we're
going to grab our crop tool and we're just going to extend this up a little bit, give ourselves
some space so we can fit this cat in there. That's looking pretty good. Then we're just going
to grab the Marquee tool, make a quick selection here, and we're just going to fill this just
by hitting Generate or Fill and just leave it blank and just hit Generate and it will create
a background for us. Perfect. Now, if we want to create a cat and I want a cat that's standing up,
watch this. I'm going to go down a little bit here into the top of the speaker and then we're going
to go here. It's going to be a pretty big cat. I'm going to bet we've got a cat
that's either standing or sitting. We're just type in cat. We're not going
to put anything else there, just cat. There we go. We got a cat sitting.
Let's have a look at the other options. That one's a little strange, but... All right, now
watch what happens if I change the shape of this. Now, I'm going to go wide with this, and maybe
I'll even go down more here. And we're going to go very wide. Now, I bet you we're going to get a
cat that's lying down now. Notice, it's the shape. Now, I could type cat lying, but I'm just going
to just click cat, and there we go. We've got a cat lying down. We've got three options.
There's a second one, there's a third one. So I hope you noticed there that the shape of
the selection was even more important than the descriptive words. Now, I can use other words and
generally speaking, I would, but I wanted to just really minimize the words to show you the power of
the shape of that selection. I hope you found this tip useful. Let me know in the comments underneath
if you did. By the way, check out my full video on Generative Fill in Photoshop. It's right
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