Changes to Generative Fill

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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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ArtificialSweetenerAuthor

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Here I've selected a piece of hair near this ear. Notice how I've pain-stakingly selected around the ear so that it does not get included:

I click generate with no prompt. Even though no part of the ear was selected, the ear has now been changed:

Let's try to contract our selection. We'll contract it by 5 pixels, like so:

It's more subtle, but even with a 5 pixel "buffer zone", the tip of the ear has been altered by Generative Fill:

It's not possible for me to give an exmaple of the previous behavior since this is a change on adobe's end, but previously even with very close selctions, details outside of the selection weren't changed like this.

You can try for yourself:

J E L

Community Expert

Hi @ArtificialSweetener, I just ran three tests and can't reproduce the issue. In fact, Generative Fill doesn't fill out the entire selection at all, it's always smaller than what I selected (Windows 10; Photoshop 26.1.0 Release). We can try a test with your photo and prompt to see if we get the same result.

ETA: Maybe it does extend beyond the selection area? Hard to tell with this image.

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