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April 29, 2025
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Generative Fill In PS25 unusable results

  • April 29, 2025
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I am experiencing unusable results with Generative Fill in the latest version of Photoshop (25). Are there any fixes, workarounds or different methods to get better results? When these edits were made in PS24 the Generative Fill results were perfect on the first try and took maybe 3 minutes. I'm now more than an hour into trying to get the same results.

 

I've looked for a link or contact to report this directly to Adobe but give up after not finding one.

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Participating Frequently
May 14, 2025

Same here. I get many people who give me their artwork needing printed, but they often leave graphic ellements, SO close to the edge, that when I cut the paper, it chops off their images, so I try to expand the image by about 4mm. In the early days of generative fill, selecting an area bigger than the page size, gave a beautiful fill, based on the current image. NOW, there is absolutely NO fill attempted, just a white space all the way round. I have tried all the usual tricks, of drawing a marquee round one edge at a time, also selecting larger amounts of the original - NOTHING works. Another anoying thing with AI expanding, is it distorts existing text into something incoherant  - sometimes ending up with a word or phrase which is NO language in the world, just random shapes that partially looks like a word. Why is this happening, surely it should recognise something as simple as typed text?

Community Manager
April 29, 2025

Hi @gerald5C9C! Sorry to hear the results of your generative fill weren't up to expectations.

 

Here are some tips to improve the generation:

- Try selecting a larger area; the shape and size of the selection matter.
- If you're using prompts, try making them less detailed or even leave them blank—sometimes less is more.
- You can also try using the Content-Aware Fill tool, which works great for removing elements from a photo while matching textures.


Hope this helps! 

Alek

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