I gave Photoshop’s take on Generative AI via their Generative Fill tool a shot as a casual prosumer photographer and I found it very useful in solving a specific category of problems. Specifically for removing unwanted subjects and objects. While still in Beta, it is a powerful tool that will help Photoshop-vary people like me save a ton of time. I intend to use it fairly regularly going forward.

Here is my first use of it and I am pretty happy with it. I used generative fill to roundtrip from Lightroom to Photoshop Beta and in about 5 minutes removed 6 of the 7 groups of people - using almost no Photoshop skill! This is an image of the Palace of Hollyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Here is an another view - a close of the particularly tricky cleanup that I otherwise would have struggled a lot but thanks to Generative fill, I was able to do it very easily. As you can see below - the edits weren’t very high quality (the shape of the hedge changed and the edge of the regenerated window looks a bit weird) but good enough specially in full size as shown above!

Something like this would be really helpful for photographers like me who aren’t all that dedicated and often end up taking shots of buildings, monuments, and landscape sites with people in front. Going forward, it would be relatively trivial to get rid of them. While not yet great for “fixing” issues with people shots - which is what I mostly end up shooting - but these are early days.

That is a big plus!