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Nov 14, 2026 10:03 PM UTC
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QoL improvements to generative remove/expand

A couple things here:

Firstly, generative expand already behaves in a more user-friendly way. If none of the current results feel quite right, you can generate a new set of results without overriding the existing set. This way, you can still go back to one of the older suggestions if the new ones are even worse and you decide that one of the other ones was good enough.

Meanwhile with generative remove, you're stuck generating 3 options, being not quite satisfied with them, and then having to decide whether any of them are good enough or if it's worth the gamble of rerolling your choices and permanently losing access to one that might be good enough for a chance to get something better. Quite frankly, this workflow feels ridiculous in a professional photo editing software. Photo editing shouldn't feel like some mobile gacha game. Yes, you could work around this with versions, but that is even more time-consuming and again, the feature just shouldn't have been designed like this in the first place.

In addition to this, for both generative expand and remove, an option to generate a significantly larger batch of options would be extremely helpful. Sometimes the area you're trying to remove or expand has just the right context which causes the AI to generate some of the least accurate/useful options 99% of the time. I've been stuck several times just generating batch after batch of options for half an hour hoping to get something useable because I saw one result which was close but had some other issue with it, so I know the AI can give me what I want, but now I just have to keep generating past all the complete misses and hoping the next time I get a hit, it doesn't include the weird artifact that happened the previous time.

The first suggestion would obviously make this a bit more manageable for generative remove, allowing me to go back to one of the good enough options if after a significant amount of attempts, I still haven't gotten one better, but even better would be an option to, with one click, generate maybe 20-50 (or really any other number significantly larger than 3) that I can quickly skim through. Of course this uses more resources, so I'd be completely fine with this feature costing a fair number of generative AI credits.