How to use AI tools to make photo fixes and creative adjustments
REQUIRES Adobe Photoshop 2024, macOS 10.14 or later
YOU WILL LEARN How to try out AI photo editing with various software
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) is changing the way we edit photos. For example, Adobe Photoshop 2024 uses its Adobe Sensei AI tool to perform common photo fixes —such as removing unwanted background objects from a photo or making a pouting model smile. And Apple is developing an AI tool called MGIE. This is a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that turns written prompts into edits. For example, you can type “change hair color from blonde to pink”, and the code will apply that command to a photo. However, while hair color may be changed, the code tends to replace subjects’ faces with less than flattering eyes and teeth.
While Apple’s AI tool is still in development, Adobe has been evolving its Adobe Sensei AI tool for years, and we’ll put Photoshop’s AI features through their pixel–pushing paces. But we’ll kick off by experimenting with a browser–based demo that lets you use text prompts to get Apple’s MGIE AI code to edit your photos.
HOW TO Experiment with Apple’s AI tool
Head to https://bit.ly/3WOWWLi. Click on the input image panel and browse to a photo that you want MGIE to fix. In our example, we want to remove the distracting umbrella from the scene, so let’s give it a shot.
In the Instruction panel, type a command such as “Remove umbrella”. Click the Submit button. MGIE will then analyze the image and attempt to carry out your command by editing the appropriate pixels in the picture.
It has done a reasonable job of replacing the umbrella with appropriate background details. However, it has distorted the woman’s face. It has also missed the umbrella’s handle and cropped the edges of the image.
HOW TO Work with Adobe’s Generative Fill command
We could use Photoshop’s Clone Stamp tool to manually replace the unsightly LED light (and the subject’s hand) with background pixels, but this would take a long time due to the complex architecture behind her.
Use the Lasso tool to draw a rough outline around the unwanted objects. The Generative Fill panel appears. Click on Generative Fill. Leave the text field blank. Click Generate. AI will analyze the background pixels.
