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June 3, 2023
Question

Generative fill is terrible

  • June 3, 2023
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Im sorry, but im trying to change the gender on a person in a picture, and I specifically use words like "woman" and "female" and it gives me 90% men.  Was this tested before being released?

18 replies

Participant
July 13, 2025

Still the same, this is two years after your post, and I paid for Photoshop only to use that generative feature, and it just didn't work! I say rock, it gives me FEET!!!!

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 13, 2025
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..., and I paid for Photoshop only to use that generative feature ...


By @hamedc96527035

Results I get with generative fill are varying from good to bad. I agree, it's not perfect. But Photoshop is much more than generative fill. Most of the time I'm using content aware fill. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Sterphy
Known Participant
July 15, 2025

Not really the point. They introduced a feature and seemingly didn't bother to make it good. 

Participant
March 1, 2025

I feel like generative fill has gotten worse. When I first started using it, it was actually producing usable things. But now I can't even get it to fill a basic color. I don't know what they started doing. I have nothing but bad things to say about Adobe products

locusofeden
Known Participant
February 10, 2025

I only ever use generative fill to remove things. But I must agree, even for that simple and basic purpose, it is generally awful. Occasionally it works perfectly, but I'm astounded that, for example, if I remove something from a tile floor, the tile floor it replaces it with is often a darker color, or sometimes it will add some random alien object onto the floor, or the tile paterns are way off or entirely missing. You would think something as simple as that would be easy for it to do. Same thing with carpet. When removing an object from carpet, the carpet it replaces it with, again, is often a different shade of color, and almost always, the carpet looks extremely degraded and very low resolution. When I "enhance detail" it almost invariably looks even worse. Can it not be trained to sample the actual surface it's trying to reproduce and make a perfect replica - color, texture, patterns?

Graham24508943nobd
Known Participant
February 10, 2025
Agreed, I've had a lawn overgrown with weeds, replaced with litter. Dreadful
jonatalima
Participant
February 4, 2025

it is still too much bas. deformed and blured shapes

Graham24508943nobd
Known Participant
February 4, 2025

Totally agree, tried 10 generations this afternoon, 1/2 were against guidelines and the other half were rubbish, extra limbs, missing limbs, horrible distorted faces and worse

Participating Frequently
December 10, 2024

1.5 years later its still totally useless.
Adobe stopped being an design company years ago. It's a stock vehicle now.
Corporate sell outs training their AI on you and charging you for the privilege.

Graham24508943nobd
Known Participant
August 20, 2024

I must agree, it's good for landscapes, but nothing much else. The human & animal generations are gruesome. A lot of the extended generations leave much to be desired. But, the worst by far are human faces and limbs. Utterly vile. One evening I did over 60 generations and not a single face was like a human. Even zombies would run away from them. I thought this would be fabulous 18 months ago, but in reality, it gets worse every update. 

Participant
November 21, 2024

I strongly agree, it´s simply awfull, not a good thing can be said about it, never gets the context of the image nor the lights or the scale, also the faces oh my god

 

Graham24508943nobd
Known Participant
November 21, 2024
I tried 50 generations of a woman last month and they were all disgusting
Sterphy
Known Participant
April 11, 2024

It's actually shocking that they are charging extra for this feature in the form of credits.  It's absolutely ridiculous.  Does Adobe even have a business plan or is everyone in the company improvising every day? 

t-delgado
Participant
March 30, 2024

Yeah it's embarrasingly bad. Feels like they're ripping us off (again and again)

Known Participant
March 18, 2024

Generative fill is utter garbage. a waste of time to even try to use, beyond, " make a colorful background" and even then it's hit and miss. Unbelievable a company of this size could release something so useless.

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2024
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Generative fill is utter garbage. a waste of time to even try to use, beyond, " make a colorful background" and even then it's hit and miss. Unbelievable a company of this size could release something so useless.


By @Ant Fau


Be happy that it's not replacing the designer right away. Generative fill is work in progress. sometimes it works fine, sometimes it's results are glibberish. But as you are here on beta, don't expect all to be perfect. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Frank_B
Inspiring
March 21, 2024

@AbamboThey don't expect it to be perfect. They expect generative fill results to be manageable or 'good enough' or even mediocre. But what they get is 'utterly useless', 'rubbish', etc.
The results are not something the designers can work with, tweak, adjust.


Participant
February 9, 2024

Indeed, now that the generative fill feature is accessible to the public, there hasn't been notable enhancement. I'd suggest considering alternative AI image generation tools and employing photo manipulation methods as alternatives. It seems Photoshop hasn't quite lived up to expectations in the AI domain. Let's hope for better developments in the future.

Graham24508943nobd
Known Participant
February 9, 2024

I barely use it now, it's dreadful about 1/2 the generations I try these days go against their guidelines. There's other software that is much better than this nonsense. If you try and change the clothes on a person for example, 75 % of the time the results are unuseable, due to disfigurements, garbage in the background, poor blending and much more.  This should NEVER have been released to the public yet as Malaki said