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adamk93229702
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July 28, 2026
Question

Adding cars onto the left side of a road using Generative Fill

  • July 28, 2026
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I need to retouch a drone image of an empty road to add cars. Generative Fill does a believable job, but only if I do one at a time – I can’t select a section of road and ask to add multiple cars at once. That’s okay, I’m happy to do them one-by-one, however a major problem is PS will ALWAYS point the cars in the wrong direction for Australian driving conditions, with RHDrive cars that drive on the left side of the road. In this case, it’s not simply a case of doing a horizontal flip to mirror the image. I’ve tried a number of ways to specify the prompt, e.g. ‘white car driving towards the left edge of the image’, or ‘white car driving on left hand side of road’ or ‘white car driving on road in Australia with tail lights visible’. PS refuses to do it. When I use ‘… headlights visible’ or ‘… tail lights visible’ … it will put headlights or tail lights on the front and the back of the car.

Any help here most appreciated – I have many photos to update in the same manner and it will be a very tedious process doing them one-by-one and then need to retouch the car’s lights or create the car on the ‘wrong’ side of the road then move to ‘right’ side of the road and adjust the lighting to blend it into the road.

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    adamk93229702
    Known Participant
    July 29, 2026
    example image

     

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 29, 2026

    Hmmm… I see what you mean.  It’s even created a head-on collision up in the top right.  It must have thought that was normal for Australia. ;-)

    Place a row of various cars on the road coming from the bottom left of the screen. The front car will be stopped at the junction. facing the traffic light.  The traffic lights will show the red as bright, and the green and amber much darker. This is a left-hand drive country. Vehicles drive on the left side of the road.  A second line of vehicles is approaching from the top right corner. They are also stopped at the traffic lights.

     

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 29, 2026

    It’s determined to get it wrong!

    Fill the roads with an assortment of vehicles.  They vehicles will be on the same side of the road as the white arrows, and pointing in the same direction as the arrows.  Remove the arrows.

     

    adamk93229702
    Known Participant
    July 29, 2026

    Thank you for trying and now you know my pain. So frustrating.

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 29, 2026

    Can you share the image?  At least 1000 pixels on the long side.

    adamk93229702
    Known Participant
    July 29, 2026

    It’s confidential ​@Trevor.Dennis, so I can’t share here.

    adamk93229702
    Known Participant
    July 29, 2026

    This isn’t the actual image ​@Trevor.Dennis, but it’s similar to this – you can see why it’s not just a case of doing a flip horizontal The roads are empty and I need ot populate them with cars. Tedious when AI points the car (I’m doing one at a time) the wrong way every time.