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

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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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LIDBKLYN

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this is so well explained and i totally got it. Thank you. so, as a temporary solution, will install a 25 version just to use for firefly 2

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Sandy694

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Maybe the solution is to allow us to choose which version of Firefly we want to use instead of having to reinstall an older version? I don't think one size is going to fit all.

robertw44482386

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My understanding is that despite all the many versions of Photoshop, there are actaully only two working versions of the Gen Fill that Photoshop calls upon.

Photoshop 2024 (25.x.xx) will call upon Firefly 2 which is more reliable for textures and realistic replacements or filling of gaps, provided you keep areas to be filled under 1024x1024 px. I don't beleive this version is subject to any more server side updates. @MeredithStotzner can you confirm this?

Photoshop 2025 and the current beta (26.x.x) will call upon Firefly 3 which is much worse at textures and really any production work, but may be more relaible for specific object generation. It is definitely more hallucinatory. It also has a few extra features (generate more like this) and ability to add a reference from which to start. It continues to be updated on the server side.

LIDBKLYN

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I am wondering, if there is an concensus which prior version produces the best result for gen fill consistently?

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Johnn_P

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@CMass The feature works very poorly. None of the 9 generated variants is eligible for use.

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Johnn_P

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@CMass, @MeredithStotzner

I second this thread. The Generative Fill feature performs terribly. Here's how it “removes” lipstick from an image:

Photoshop v.26.6.0 (Intel based)

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sschoenthaler

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Same. I have been slowly installing prior versions one by one to see which one works better!!! So frustrating!!!

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carlosg62153584

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Confirmed, I thought I was hallucinating but its true Photoshop 2025 gen fill is indeed unusable. I opened up a psd file done in 25.7.0 with the gen layers still there and re-generated with the same prompt in 26.4.1 and what used to look like realistic landscaping looks like roblow now.

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Sandy694

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In what language does REMOVE mean fill with another stupid object????!

Dantertainment

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I have to agree with most folks on here - the AI has gone downhill with each new version lately. Absolute garbage generative fill. Blurry. Terrible results. I tried for 45 mins yesterday to get some decent grass or lawn generated on a landscaping photo. Today's challenge is the same. I started working on the pic - and just look at the crappy blurry results of the gravel in the driveway. Or the trees. I was using version 26.2. So I updated to the newest 26.4.1 - dare I say, worse results? The proof is in the pudding. I will try an older version of the app from a year ago and I hope it works. Right now - I'm paying for the top tier of Adobe software... and I have to question why.