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Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop allows users to expand album cover artworks using AI, creating imaginative and sometimes controversial interpretations.
Résumé
Over the weekend, AI-powered makeovers of famous music album covers went viral on Twitter thanks to Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill. The tool allows users to expand the size of famous works of art, revealing larger imaginary artworks beyond the borders of the original images. This image-expanding feat, often called "outpainting" in AI circles, is made possible by an image synthesis model called Adobe Firefly trained on millions of works of art from Adobe's stock photo catalog. When given an existing image, Firefly synthesizes plausible continuations based on its knowledge of other artworks. By using text prompts that describe specific scenarios, Generative Fill can create wild and fantastic interpretations beyond what is visible in the original artwork. While some expansions are reasonable based on context, others can be more whimsical and unexpected. To create your own expanded artwork, you need to subscribe to Creative Cloud and download the Adobe Photoshop beta within the Creative Cloud app. By expanding the canvas size and using Generative Fill, users can explore various possibilities for their images. The trend extends beyond album covers to include meme images and famous paintings like the Mona Lisa. Despite generating mixed responses due to technical deficiencies and ethical concerns surrounding AI-generated artwork, Generative Fill continues to entertain social media users with its creative outputs.
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An expansion of Michael Jackson's Thriller album rendered the rest of Jackson's body lying on a piano.
An expansion of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream cover art revealed Perry lying on a gigantic fluffy pink cat.
A tweet that expanded several famous meme images garnered almost 10,000 likes on Tuesday.
Citations
"Generative Fill has been a visual toy for social media users that keeps on giving."