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Changes to Generative Fill

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 25, 2024
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Adobe Photoshop version 21.6.0
Windows 11 24H2, 26120.2222

Steps to produce problem: Make a selection, type a prompt into the generative fill box, click "generate". Changes happen far outside of the user selection, impacting many pixels out.
Expected behavior: Generative fill previously only effected pixels within the selection, or maybe 1 or 2 pixels out from the selection at most.

It's unclear if the recent changes to generative fill were intentional, but they are definitely bad. The tool is worse than it was.

Previously, generative fill worked based strictly on your selection. Now, generative fill has a huge buffer zone outside of your selection that it can also alter, it really seems like between 10 and 20 pixels out from the selection can be impacted by the change.

This takes away the previously "surgical" nature of Generative Fill which myself and others greatly appreciated. So far as I can tell, these changes were rolled out without any way to customize back to the original behavior. The change takes precision and control away from the artist.

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dariusben

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Why is this still an issue @1713136??

Tell us please, how we can use it like that!

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PaulCWilliams

Participating Frequently

When i ask Generative AI to replace the background around a person, the resulting fill goes outside the selection area and winds up overlapping the original image, distorting the faces in the original image.

I tried to set up a simple example below using 3 images:

• The first image shows a person. I've highlighted the blue background with the magic wand. I hit generative fill with no instructions.

• The second image shows the image with the completed fill.

• The third image i've turned off the original image layter to show how the fill is outside the original selection area.

Generative AI going this far outside of the selectuon area destroys facial features not in the original selection area.

I hope this made sense.

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PaulCWilliams

Participating Frequently

I misspoke in my original post. My instruction to the Generative AI was "busy city street".

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aostang

Participant

How is this still an issue after this long? The fix could have been as simple as reverting the change made in 26.1. Inside of a selection should NOT be modified by GenFill!! Between this and the issue where just about any form of skin makes the tool yell at you and refuse to work, GenFill has become completely useless!! I'm going to move on to freely available tools and cancel my subscription and I suggest others also vote with their money because this company has gone down the toilet.

WillD81

Participating Frequently

Here is an example of my previous post. You can clearly see how far I went away from my main subject to make my main selection. After tapping generate, you can see what it did to my selection and how it affected my main subject. How are we suppose to work like this??? I tried the removal tool in LrC as well and the results were poor so decided to let photoshop have a go at it. Very frustrating!

WillD81

Participating Frequently

You can clearly see how far I went away from my main subject to make my ~~main~~ selection.

WillD81

Participating Frequently

Here we are in April of 2025 and the problem STILL exists! I have to remove someone from a photo that is literally up against the person next to them that has to remain in the photo.

I have even tried to make my selection MANY pixels away from the main subject but then the results try making another human. The closer I go it starts to alter the main subject. Ear goes all out elf or no ear at all, cheek gets bloated, arm gets bloated, adds extra fingers... The mask doesn't even help because the results are adding to the main subject, therefore, if you trying erasing in mask to get the original back the parts of the unwanted person come back as well!

This is EXTREMELY ANNOYING!!! AND VERY TIME CONSUMING!!! My selection is larger than the recommended selection size but it's filling in a background that has a lot of depth so I'm not too concerned.

Adobe, as long as you've had this technology around, you are only getting worse while others are far exceeding you! I stick with you because I pay for the full suite and use it quite extensively. Having to pay additional for another program to do what adobe can't is insane.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

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McRumpel

Participant

I can also confim that there was a major decline in how well genfil and remove tool works. I just tried rolling back to v 26 and it fixed it.

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Kindhearted_Gleam9686

Participating Frequently

See my post about the same issue for additional info. Please consider an upvote there as well. I did some experimenting to discern what's happening and posted the results.

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Kindhearted_Gleam9686

Participating Frequently

The 26.2 update does not fix the issue. When can we expect a fix?

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TheWanderer77

Participant

When is this going to be fixed? It has been months already. How is it that a paid subscription product like Photoshop can't address obvious bugs in its generative AI promptly, especially when AI tech is advancing rapidly - even the free products. And yet, here's Adobe spinning their wheels and lagging two months behind. This is unacceptable. Please fix it ASAP!

MalcolmAH

Participant

Having the same issue and it is really bad. It is impossible to make small corrections with gen AI now as the area is expanded and to much of the original picture is destroyed. Adobe: please fix this or give us the option to choose.

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Davidshutt19725978

Participant

How can you make something worse when updating it, how is this a beneficial change when it just f*cks things up that we haven't selected

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Dance Model Club

Participant

I have the same problem. Generative fill is no longer constraining to make changes in the selection area. Is it just the beginning of the Terminator "Doomsday" takeover? I need the changes that Generative Fill to work only within the parameters I set with a selection box. PLEASE FIX ASAP.

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Kindhearted_Gleam9686

Participating Frequently

Note that downgrading to 26.0 or before "fixes" the issue. Just make sure to disable auto updates for Photoshop or it will just re-install 26.1.

If you haven't already, consider an upvote on this post to help prioritize it.

Also see my post about the same issue for additional info. Please consider an upvote there as well. I did some experimenting to discern what's happening and posted the results.

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