Photoshop Generative Fill AI Can Turn Your Photos Into Paintings

it seems like you can't load a news article or throw a stone without hitting something that has to do with AI these days right like I feel like at the end of 2023 when we do our year in review uh AI is going to be the number one story and when Time Magazine selects the first of the year they're going to select AI it's just the way it is AI is the hot thing right now and here's the thing I I honestly feel that you are doing yourself a disservice by saying you know what I don't care about AI I want nothing to do with it that's almost like saying you know what I want nothing to do with digital photography I just I have nothing I have no reason to know anything about it I think that that's you're you're making a mistake there you should at least know what it can do because in some cases it can do some very cool things to help you with your photography now when I think about AI I think there are two primary schools of thought or two primary categories when it comes to the visual medium the first is generating something out of nothing using a prompt so you go to something like mid-journey you type something in and it creates an image for you out of nothing based on its interpretation of what you typed and the models that it was trained upon then there's what we have in Photoshop beta which is generative fill and so that while you can with with generator Phil create something out of nothing what a lot of photographers are using it for is to either it expand a canvas you know take a vertical canvas and make it wider or add something to it but the photo the original photo is there and that's the the point of this video here where I'm going to take photos that that I took I went to the location I pressed the button and I'm going to use AI to change them and in this case I'm going to change them to a different artistic medium so like oil painting watercolor and color pencil drawings like I think to me that's I know a lot of photographers who are into that kind of thing there are there are apps out there that photographers use to add that painterly look to their photo nothing wrong with in my opinion like if if that's what you want to turn your photo into cool so I just want to show you how you can use a generative fill in Photoshop beta to do that because it's actually pretty cool now let's jump over here but before we do I just want to quickly introduce myself my name is Brian and I help photographers like you get better looking photos and in this case maybe art pieces using apps like ligerman Photoshop and other third-party apps so with that let's get going all right so before we jump into Photoshop when I released my last video covering generative fill in Photoshop beta a few people had asked me if there's a way to do that uh by sending your photo to Lightroom because in that video I had my images already opened in Photoshop and in this video it's the same case but let me show you really quickly how to do that want to send your photo from Lightroom to photoshop beta there's one quick thing you have to do first you'll go to Lightroom and then go to preferences and this is the same on Mac and windows then you'll go to the external editing Tab and you'll just want to make sure that Adobe Photoshop beta is selected and not 2023 which is the production version now if you don't see Adobe Photoshop beta that's possible because you don't have Photoshop 8 installed you can do that by going to the Creative Cloud app and then going here to the beta apps and making sure that you install Photoshop beta obviously you'll need a valid Creative Cloud subscription to do that so once you do that you should be able to select the Photoshop beta now a few quick words about beta it's beta so don't expect that all of your panels if you use some sort of third-party panel or plug-in don't expect them to work in beta in all likelihood they probably won't I don't recommend you reach out to the creators of those panels and plug in and ask them why it's not working they're under um no obligation to make their their stuff work in betas it's a different story when it becomes production but that's just something to keep in mind and then the last thing is just remember to change this back in Lightroom if you want to work in the production environment for whatever reason but again I've got the images already loaded in Photoshop over here so let's get started so this whole process is actually pretty straightforward and all it requires you to do is create a kind of a partial opacity selection on your image I'll show you how to do they're different ways to do that there are other people who have created similar video tutorials on this specific process but this is the way that I found that is easiest it's most straightforward and it just requires very little effort so the first thing you'll want to do is select your background layer now you'll notice that we don't have the generative fill prompt over here which we normally should that's because we don't have any sort of selection made yet so here's what happens if you just make a selection by going to by clicking command or control a so here first you see the generative fill boxes here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to type in oil painting and for the purpose of this video I'm just going to cut out the processing time altogether so that we don't waste the time so I'll click generate and you can see that it generated oil paintings I mean just like random oil smears on the canvas and that's because we didn't make the the proper selection for this to work and so to to make the proper selection I'm going to delete this layer here again you'll open your image up you'll select the background layer and then the first thing I'm going to do is go to the quick mask mode that's this icon right here it's right below the co the foreground background color swatches when you click on it you'll know you're activated because the icon will change to a solid uh kind of like a quick mask icon the next thing you're going to do is fill this image with 30 gray and to do that we're going to go to edit and then fill you can also press shift delete or shift backspace on Windows and then in the fill dialog box drop down select color and then for the blue channel here type in 30 or you can use the hex code 4D for d4d and when you click OK and then click OK again you'll see that a partial mask has been made this is this is all you need to do or at least this is what you need to do with the selection with the mask selection so now what you will want to do is deselect or disable quick mask mode and but we're still good that's still there you know it's there because that generative fill box is here and now I can go ahead and type in oil painting and then click generate and now you can see because we used that quick mask mode it actually applied the oil painting prompt to the image it's not just a random oil painting and you can see that we have these different options here and some of these are actually pretty cool like this middle one here is pretty cool although it doesn't really look like an oil painting this one does though I think that's cool and of course if you're not happy with any of these you can go ahead and click generate and it'll create another set of three options for you and that's actually a point I want to make this is not necessarily A one-click you know perfect thing I actually spent a lot of time generating and generating uh different options until I found one that I was happy with so just remember this still has a way to go this technology this there's still a lot of improvements that could be made so don't expect that when you click generate the first time it's going to give you this work of art so to speak you might have to try a lot so one of the things you can do though to help Adobe if there's a one that you really like when you hover over the thumbnail you'll see the little three dots over here and if you click on it you can say good result that will tell Adobe that oh okay for oil painting this particular is always good of course you can go ahead and give it a bad result which I've done plenty of times I think that's as helpful and then you can also delete and if there's something really weird in the image you can report that so just something to keep in mind and to prove that you know I didn't want to spend a lot of time on this I'm going to hide this layer I actually already have a generated result that I saved here so um I wasn't sure when I recorded the video how long it would take me to get a good result so I found one that I liked and I saved it in its own group but you can see here um I actually like the one I saved better as far as like an oil painting so I'm going to delete this layer here and here this is the the generated layer that adobe created earlier when I was playing around with this so that's all you have to do to get the result is you highlight the background layer enable the quick mask mode apply a 30 gray by going to edit fill and then selecting 30 for the blue Channel disable the quick mask mode and then hit type in your prompt uh what kind of medium you want and hit generate and then roll the dice now there's actually another thing we can do here we can take it a step further so here we have our oil painting and you can see if you zoom in oil paintings typically have a little bit of texture to them uh so what we can do is if I go ahead and create a new stamp layer by pressing command option shift e or Control Alt shift e on Windows now we have a new layer here I can go to filter and then go to filter gallery and we can add a little bit of texture and to do that I'm going to go to the texture folder here drop it down I'll go to texturizer you'll want to make sure that canvas is selected over here I find that scaling it um at 100 is fine relief you want that to be low somewhere between two and four because watch if we bring it out you see how it becomes like overly canvassed so usually like two or three or four looks good but check that out that's actually pretty cool like it looks like a canvas and so you won't see it so much when you are um in this kind of full screen view that's why I wanted to zoom in so you can see the texture uh that looks awesome to me like that's so cool uh the light you can change the direction it depends on you know how you want to simulate the light on the uh the canvas when you're done just click OK and now you have the uh the textured image and again if you zoom in you can see the texture there oh God it's so cool I don't know I'm I'm just to me that's just so much fun and again uh you can see that if we hide these layers here there's the original photo again I was in Japan in Hokkaido I took this photo um and you know just to create something a little bit different I think it's I think it's so much fun and it's already included if you have a valid Creative Cloud subscription you can get Photoshop beta and and just play around with this and so it's because it's not something I ever would have done myself I I I'm not a painter I'm not into oil painting or watercolor but here I can kind of simulate it with my own photos and you know I have family members who I know would love this like that's just I know for a fact they would they would enjoy the photo but they would love it as kind of in this kind of a rendition so let's move on I'm going to show you another example here and again I'm just going to walk you through this pretty quickly this case I'm going to use watercolor so uh background layer again notice that we don't have the generative fill text prompt here because we don't have a selection so we're going to go and enable quick mask mode shift delete or shift backspace color make sure that we have 30 percent here listed and then click OK there's our selection now when we disable quick mask mode and so now we can type in something like watercolor painting and you can even go a step further like in the style of Vincent Van Go so you can you can kind of use an artist or a particular style you can say with with you could write with with greater detail or more precise brush Strokes I've experimented with all these things and then when you're done you can click generate to get your options and so here are the three options depending on what you're going for you might like it you know it might not work for you again you can always go ahead and click generate to create a new set but just like before I've got another option that I created here um and you can see this is the this is the the option I found earlier that I kind of liked this one's not bad but but I do like this one here um but here's what I'm going to do I'm actually going to bring this and move this layer out over the the group here and so here are two options now uh let's hide this layer let's go back here and I'm going to create a new merged layer just like before um with command option shift e what I want to do is I want to simulate as if we painted this on watercolor paper and to do that just like before we're going to go to filter and then we'll go to filter gallery now we're going to drop down from texturizer I'm going to go to water paper now let's zoom out so you can see the whole thing and this definitely reflects what painting on a watercolor paper would look like it's you definitely get a richer more contrasty look because the paper tends to soak the paint more and when you're done just click OK that'll return back and you can see we have it on its own layer here and it looks like a watercolor painting which I think is super cool all right let's move on to the final example here this is a photo that I actually edited in a video a couple weeks ago and so I thought it'd be fun to use this again so for this one we're going to use a color pencil to simulate it so I'll walk through this really quickly again background layer selected quick mask mode Let's go to fill make sure that we are at 30 gray and then disable and there we go now we can type in here colored pencil and then click generate now you know it's kind of questionable whether this is actually colored pencil or not you can see how they're pretty they're pretty funky but fortunately I've got one here already that I like um that I saved and it kind of has a little bit of a color pencil look but there's some things that we can do so first I'm just going to go ahead and delete that other layer I don't need it I've got this one here and you can see when you when you select a generative fill layer one of the cool things is that you'll see the prompt that you use so I use color pencil drawing and you'll see all the different you see how I generated all these different options so you can always go back to it as long as you've got that layer there which I think is pretty cool now here's one of the things that you can do which I think is kind of fun you can see that the door just looks weird I want to add a little bit of the original photo back in and it's actually convenient because when Photoshop creates a generative fill layer it also has a layer mask that it adds so what I can do is take my brush by pressing B and I can drop the opacity you know somewhere around 70 or so percent and I can start bringing in some of the original detail to the to the actually not a photo it's kind of an art piece now which I think is kind of cool when you look at this now um it kind of it has this weird vibe to it like it's clearly art because you can see for example in the sky um the way it looks like it was almost uh drawn with pencil with colored pencil but then you've got this photorealistic um look here and and what I'll do is actually I'll kind of I pressed X to change from black to white and I'm going to bring back some of that original pencil drawing almost like a vignette around the door uh and I just I think there's something very cool especially because the way the door is kind of like a portal so the other thing you could do if you want you can you can drop the opacity of the overall layer if you want to bring back some of the original photo the other thing we can do is if we create a new layer here a stamped visible layer just like before and I bring it down so what I'll do is I will take the the two layers here and I will simulate an Orton look so I'm going to go here to filter blur gaussian blur and then your the the radius of the blur is up to you the the higher the the pixel uh radius generally the the stronger the look is in my opinion so I'm going to click OK and then I'm going to go ahead and change the blending mode uh to probably let's see soft light and then I'm going to bring the opacity of that down and so you kind of get now that soft glow as well in addition to the colored pencil look and so there you go those are three different artistic mediums that I used Photoshop generative fill to take a photo that I already took and simulate it in whether it was oil painting or watercolor or colored pencil I just think it's so cool and I think it can make a completely unique way to to present your photo in a different way like I have no painting skills whatsoever I know that but if I can kind of simulate it based off of one of my photos I think that's pretty cool so I hope it inspires you as well if you want to learn more about generative fill I have this video here showing you a few more practical examples for photographers and if you enjoy this video please click the Thumbs Up Button of course hit subscribe if you're not already subscribed and the bell icon to get notified of new videos thanks a lot everyone

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Published: Wed Jun 21 2023