What’s wrong with this picture?

Even when working in AI with super sophisticated software like Midjourney, less than perfect images can happen that otherwise would be flawless. In this shot, the hands were cut off, and that’s just not acceptable.

You can see on the next page I addressed that issue. In last month’s issue I wrote about the new Generative Fill feature in the latest beta version of Photoshop, and one of its incredible abilities is to expand a subject, or parts of the subject, either horizontally or vertically to fill in what’s missing. The technology is truly astounding. So, I increased the resolution of this image from the original (and disappointing) 3.45 megabytes that represents the largest Midjourney size at the moment. I ended up with a 124 megabyte file after it was processed through

Topaz Gigapixel AI with a 6x magnification. I then used Topaz Sharpen AI and then brought the image into the beta version of Photoshop. Next, I expanded the canvas with Image > canvas size. With the rectangular marquee tool I selected the newly created areas plus a small amount of the original image.

In the new mini-tool bar that is part of Photoshop beta and that shows up as soon as there is a selection, I chose ‘Generative fill’, and then I clicked ‘generate’. In about 10 seconds, the top portion of the image as well as the sides were expanded and filled in with the appropriate detail. Even the hands were perfectly built out of AI’s assumption of what should be there.

We’ve never had such powerful image-making technology before, and it’s a lot of fun experimenting with it. §