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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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MeredithStotzner
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 21, 2024

Unexpected Objects Fix for Generative Fill in Photoshop Desktop 26.1
Hello,
We have greatly reduced the unexpected/unwanted objects that started popping up in Generative Fill.
The fix is mostly client-side, so you will need to update to the latest build of 26.1 (released 11/17-11/19)
There are also some server-side changes (in the Firefly server) that went live 11/17, but the main fix requires updating Photoshop.
Please retry your examples where the Generative Fill added strange things instead of creating a seamless remove operation.
Thank you for your patience and thank you for alerting us to the issues.
@RedFishBlack HenryFinch and @careaux the examples you showed (flowers in hair, blobs on skin) should be remidied. 
@bellevue scott  - the examples you showed should not produce unexpected animals. However the prompt "increase resolution" will not provide greater resolution. Please check out Enhance Detail  for Generative AI, though.
@robertw44482386 your halluinagenic results should also be addressed.

We appreciate your input!
The Photoshop Team


robertw44482386
Inspiring
November 20, 2024

Definitely seconding this. Something flipped, it more resembles the initial rollout of firefly 3. Just when I was ready to go to the new 26.1 I'm gonna need to roll back to 25.

Participating Frequently
November 20, 2024

This issue was somewhat fixed recently as stated by Adobe in a reply somewhere in this thread. I used the new version and it was fine. However, another change has evidently been made that's broken it again. Textures are back to not blending in. Results are blobby. Textures not accurately replicated. 

Participant
November 20, 2024

Prompted "bald head" and got this...

 

Known Participant
November 18, 2024

I have this problem as well was trying to remove something and usually it will do it with no problems it was a tree and it says against guidelines. So i tried remove tree and that didnt work either its always the really silly issues that have this problem and Im behind on editing now would really love to have a solution to this

robertw44482386
Inspiring
November 18, 2024

I don't know if something has changed recently again or not but using "remove" in 2025 seems to be producing halluinagenic results again. Was good up until this morning. @MeredithStotzner 

 

HenryFinch
Participant
November 14, 2024

all these random subbjects fillign in are the worst. alreayd reported using the app as well.

bellevue scott
Inspiring
November 12, 2024

Thanks. Previously "remove" was adding new objects but now does appear to be working correctly. 

Community Manager
November 11, 2024

@bellevue scott FYI, the fix that we deployed only addresses the degraded quality in generated textures. We are aware of the separate issue of random object insertion, and we are working on an additional fix.

 

In the meantime, here are two suggestions to reduce the occurence of random objects:

  1. Use the prompt "remove"
  2. Make sure your selection fully includes any shadows or anything that could be considered as the edge of an object
Participating Frequently
November 8, 2024

I feel you, @bellevue scott. ❤️