Generative fill and generative expand not working

[Andreas31401871u210]

Hi,

I've up until a few days ago used the generative fill and expand option, to fill out shoulders and silhouttes from pictures that are cropped, in the beta version of Photoshop. It has worked like a charm up until a few days ago, but now, whenever I try to use the function, both with and without a prompt, it starts up (the "Generating" popup starts and the progressbar goes about halfway, until it stops and nothing happens to the picture. This happens both when trying to use the crop tool with generative expand, and also marking an area and using generative fill. 

I have also installed the new Photoshop 25, but the same issue occurs here. I've also tried uninstalling both the beta and the new Photoshop, but no change. 

Anyone who knows how to fix this? The function is saving me so much time, and I have quite a few deadlines coming up where I could really use this..

Photoshop version: 25.0.0

Photoshop Beta version: 25.1.0

macOS Ventura 13.5.1

[chatenp]

Having the same issue too!

Any ideas anyone?

[chatenp]

I have found that the exapansion area might be an issue. To get it to work you might have to:

1. Expand the crop area both horizontally and vertically - Doing only one won't work.
2. Not exapnd the crop area too much depending on the image. If you expand to muc it does not work. If you reduce the expand area, it then works.

[nikkis5401374]

This keeps happening to me also, usually when i restart my machine it resets and works again. Frustrating glitch.

[richardk60905247]

Hi folks. This is now happening to me as well on Photoshop. The Generative Expand, now does not show up seamless. Its very noticeable... Anyone else experiencing this?

[karphotography]

I've just started having issue lately as well, just in the last week or so generative expand creates a hard line and a fine checkerboard pattern that I can't seem to get rid of, it doesn't seem to matter what image I'm using.  I am on the latest update, not really sure what happened, I'm only trying to slightly add to the edges of images so just filling background.

[Greg23253652jcfh]

Same here. Was working... now not.

[allana35259235lo1o]

I'm having the same issue, never had it before until today.

Tried to generate anything and the outline isnt blending. I can see a clear line where i select?

Ive also tried extending a background and the same happens. 

[Mohamad354742864idy]

Same here. Generative expand wont work anymore.. Any idea for solutions?

[nikkis5401374]

restart your machine and it fixes it. frustratinging, but until they come up with a proper fix, this seems to work.

[riccardo simbolotti]

Don't know if it's the same issue, but suddenly the generative filling, which was doing fine, stopped working.  The progress bar reach the end, the three option windows show the wheels running continuously and nothing happens.  I guess it could be a problem on the server, since my Internet connection is working normally,  I disabled the firewall so I don't know what else to do. 

[VisionaryMind]

As far as I can tell, Adobe has silently rolled back all generative capabilities across all of the non-Beta versions of their products. I am a Creative Cloud subscriber (full stack) and haven't been able to use these features in quite some time---going on a month now. I have confirmed with 10 other people on my global team that they experience the same, so it's a top-down feature roll-back.

The generative features are still present in the UI, but are grayed out. They've clearly been disabled. Neural Filters still work, however. It simply appears that Adobe has turned off AI-enhanced generation in the non-Beta versions. Quite disappointing, really, but they are likely getting regulatory heat and didn't have time to perform due diligence (and warn the customers).  

All in all, a bad move. Open source now has its foot in the door---and this is helping me make that "decision".

[CybrHwk · Accepted solution]

I spoke with Adobe support about this a few minutes ago. I'm using Latest 25.7 and they suggested I disabled the Windows Defender Firewall... and just like that Generative Expand is working again for me. 

I now just need to workout what Microsoft has changed, as it was working perfectly fine a week or so ago. My guess a Windows Defender update has closed a port or preventing a particular type of request getting to Adobe's cloud servers

[DelCarlo1]

Thank you, that worked for me

[XT EAGLE_Hamza1064]

Adobe express generative fill not working having this issue from past 10 days and its still not fixed i also have credits but its still not working 

[Ged_Traynor]

@XT EAGLE_Hamza1064 you'd be better off reporting the issue on the Adobe Express forum

[SteveLowreyPhotography]

When this happened to me I updated EVERYTHING and it started working

[imaginaryworks]

I'm having a problem with the Adobe generative fill feature.
I tell it to remove text from an area in the selected image.
It starts the process but does not make any changes when the process is finished.
I tried this many times and on different images, but I still got negative results.
This feature was working yesterday, but it is not working today.
Could there be a problem with Adobe servers?
I also installed Photoshop beta and the result is the same.
It shows that it has been processing for a long time,
but it does not make any changes in the result.

Defender and firewall are turned off but there is no change, the problem persists.

[B-Rock_003]

Same problem as @imaginaryworks  —my generative fill worked yesterday and today it doesn't. For me it just thinks about it for 2 mins, then does nothing.

[ptward13]

@imaginaryworks @B-Rock_003 I was in the same situation as you. Generative fill worked fine last week, but wouldn't work at all this week. After trying a number of things that didn't work, here's what did - I installed ALL of the updated in the Adobe Creative Cloud app (not just Photoshop), restarted my computer, and it finally worked.

[Blake Martin37283434smun]

mine is doing something strange, yesterday i was able to expand my ai generation box to be a rectangle or a little square now its only letting my make a tiny square and i cant expand or extened it im really confused

[Julian315683138kub]

This happened to me last month as well, and again now.

Is really absurd that you pay for something that you don't have.

Last time I spend 8h with remote control of the costumer support, so if you have this issue don't bother to waste your time with them. They tried everything, disabling firewall, changed firewall rules, updated windows, tried a lot of other photoshop versions, deleted all adobe files, created a new windows user account, etc.

What piss me off the most is that I lose a day of work, for something that from the start I said that the problem was with their servers. Two days later started to work again, the same way that gone it come back.

So I don't know how much time will took this time, but I'm really tired with this s**t. I will find a better product that delivers what I paid for!

[MICHAEL37737076ayww]

I'm a MacBook Pro user and yes, the other day the generator AI feature that was there in the beginning start working properly. I was able to drop an image in there and generate the back and it blended it great but now it doesn't do that at all. I'm a seasoned Photoshop user so understanding Photoshop and all the tools are are easy for me. I just don't know what happened.  

[dicklloyd]

I have the same problem. When using the crop tool in Photoshop, the generative fill option is greyed out. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm using the very latest update of Photoshop (25.9.0). It worked fine in previous versions before the last update.

[artdavid]

I too have just found that the generative fill option in both PS and PS Beta plus the neural filters are greyed out. June 30, 2024.  On line it has been suggested to sign in again.  Did that, didn't help.