P: Generated images violate user guidelines

You can also just press the space bar once to add a blank space in the prompt. That sometimes helps with the error message, too. 🙂

Also, you should make your selection roughly in the shape of what you want created. This gives the bot a better idea of what it has to work with.

One thing I discovered, quite by accident, is that if you make a very small selection anywhere else in the image far removed from your main selection, this will sometimes help avoid the violation message.

All I wanted to do was have generative fill complete the elbow, and it gave me the dreaded "violated user guideline." It works excellently with landscapes, but the generative fill is very cautious about body parts.

I put up an example. Admittably far from a perfect one, but with some photoshopping finess, it could probably pass as real. In any case, my original comparison post was to show what generative fill CAN do, not what it can't, and to falsify the notion that skin has something to do with the false flag warnings. That simply isn't the case. 

OK. Now take the baby picture on the right with no tube and have Gen Fill create a tube and put it in place. Yes, you can use prompts.

I once worked for one software company. Another company, who was always first to market, tried to recruite me. I commented of them being out first so often. The person said they release a product even though it is not ready, but it makes them look cutting edge. PS was so far behind Mid Journey, plus AI is "big", so they had to get something out. Will they be able to take a baby picture, like above, without a tube and use gen fill to put a tube in place, starting with no tube? Don't see how that could happen.

Generative Fill DOES work, despite its present drawbacks. The mother of the child in this image I've attached gave me permission to post this. After her baby was born, he required the use of a feeding tube. While she shared photos of her new baby with relatives, she told them to NOT share online any of the baby's photos that included the feeding tube, which in fact it must wear 24/7 for the time being. She asked if I could help, since she knew I was a photo retoucher. To be honest, I'm a pretty good one, but removing the tube using Photoshop would have required a good deal of time, espeically since she wanted a number of images to be retouched. Fortunately, Generative Fill had just been announced and I downloaded the beta to give it a try.

Attached is one example of how incredible this new technology is. I simply selected the bandage on his cheek, along with the orange tubing, and selected Generative Fill, without a text prompt. It worked flawlessly on all four images the mother provided me with and she was finally able to give the go-ahead to relatives and inlaws to post images of her newborn.

Generative Fill works. Not always, but it works. Just don't try to over-extend its capabilities. And don't blame skin as being cause of the issue. It simply isn't true. 

After many, many experiments with this beta gen fill and the constant weird fills, I personally choose to believe that I get this message because gen fill tried to created a fill and failed. It does not see the object I am trying to fill, just pixels. Since it does not actually see my object with eyes, it does not understand the scale or connection point, etc. Using a prompt gets an image related to the prompt message but not related to my object. Frankly unless gen fill grows eyes and a human brand, don't know how PS can fix this, except to build in some type of user discussion interface tool which interfaces with logic software, like Chat GPT, to create the perfect prompt. The first step in this beta would be for PS to build a discussion interface and let us know what prompt it created so we can modify it.

Do you, as I do, get the impression that people POST to this board and never really READ the comments and responses? Do people even understand what a beata is about? For starters, this is an editing tool, not a means to create new images. Yeah, youtubers are showing all these crazy instances about removing entire groups of people or replacing a person holding one thing and then holding something completely different, but trust me: they pick and choose in advance what works and what dosen't. Everyone needs to calm down. This technology didn't exist a couple of weeks ago and now you want absolute perfection on a freaking beta. If you don't like it, stop using it. Cancel your Photoshop membership. Go back to doing it manually, if you even adept enough to do so.