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Known Participant
October 21, 2024

P: The generative fill in Photoshop 26.0.0 is definitely worse than in previous versions.

  • October 21, 2024
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The quality has dropped to an unusable level. Textures that were rendered beautifully in previous versions now sometimes appear smudged or as if painted in with a brush. There are far more nonsensical fills—like birds randomly appearing in hair or clothes, and extra hands in bizarre places when the image already has two! It’s like AI gone wrong. What happened to quality control? How does the AI actually get worse? This is beyond frustrating.

To make things worse, the newest update deleted my older versions, even though the "delete older versions" checkbox was unchecked. It's incredibly frustrating to lose those versions without consent.

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Known Participant
October 25, 2024

GenFill is totally broken in Photoshop 2025, not usable anymore

Participant
October 25, 2024

I have updated to v26.0.0. After the update I am getting just black when using the generate tool.... anyone else ?

Known Participant
October 25, 2024

Unbelievable...

Thanks for nothing, Adobe! 🙎

I'm using Photoshop 2024 now, because Photoshop 2025 is unusable!!!

 

Inspiring
October 23, 2024

10000x this.

 

The quality is pure garbage and not coherent at all, compared to the v1.

Known Participant
October 22, 2024

It's surprising that no one noticed the poor AI quality before it was released. I only found one person in the forums who pointed out the decline in quality during the beta version.

Participant
October 22, 2024

I agree. My edits are going to take considerably longer (back in the olden days timing)!  Grass generative expand looks like garbage! Before - it blended so well! I'm with you - how did AI get worse! Hope they have a quick fix!

Known Participant
October 21, 2024

The textures that generative fill produces  are  low in quality in the newest version of photoshop.

Both Versions are tested on an intel mac using Ventura and an M1 Mac using OSX Sequoia.

Known Participant
October 21, 2024

 

Same here. Ps 26.0.0 produces smudges textures with generative fill. The previous version works perfectly

Known Participant
October 21, 2024

Photoshop 25 above and photoshop 26.0.0 below:

I've noticed a definite decline in the quality of the Generative Fill feature in the latest version of Photoshop (26.0.0).I used the prompt "hair" on a selection, and the result was a lot of flowers instead of realistic hair and the quality is pixelated.. However, when I tried the same selection and prompt in a previous version, it produced as I am used to almost perfect hair texture. This change has impacted the quality of the output significantly.