NEW AI Resolution boosted in Photoshop

Solve the lack of resolution in Generative ai in Photoshop. Colin Smith shows the new Enhance image feature as well as explains what it does. See how to get full resolution in any image in Photoshop Generative Fill.
00:00 Generative AI in Photoshop is powerful but struggles with resolution.
00:23 Use the Crop tool and Generative Expand to extend images, but the resolution may drop.
00:52 Zooming in reveals the loss of resolution in generated areas.
01:16 New feature in Photoshop beta enhances image details, improving resolution but not perfectly.
01:43 Demonstration with a cat image shows resolution enhancement using Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw.
02:34 Super Resolution doubles the image size, similar to other upscaling software.
03:29 Generative fill generates up to 1024x1024 pixels, requiring enlargement for larger spaces.
04:22 Convert to a layer and use the rectangular marquee tool for better transparent expansion.
05:18 Generate in pieces to achieve full resolution, suitable for printing.
06:14 Create an action to automate the process for consistent high-resolution results.
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[@photoshopcafe]

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[@steff6816]

Thanks for the updated tutorial, and the free stuff the problem I have is that having downloaded the actions pack I can't see an action for Ai image generation, the 5 I have are :-Frequency Separation, Pencil Sketch, Dodge and Burn, High-pass Sharpening and Slide Sandwich . Am I looking in the right place in the vault?

[@sven1858]

@@steff6816 same for me too :(

[@stuartsmith7285]

same for me, the action for these tiles isn't there 🤫

[@photoshopcafe]

Please send a support ticket at PhtoshopCAFE.com and I can help you

[@laurabrown1775]

Always so informative & useful. Thank you!

[@mpirrocco]

Thanks as always for the great tips and reminders.

[@stevejarvis186]

Thankyou Colin for this great video and showing us how to fix this issue of low resolution with Generative Fill or Expand, and especially a big thank you for giving all of us a free action to be able to get far far bbetter results. Youre the man!

[@kschoudk]

Great - and a super Action!

[@2creativo11]

Crazy. Thanks

[@stephenscheffler6761]

great tip!

[@delpinsky]

Yes, that's the best way (for now) to work with generative fill on bigger areas, keeping the resolution of the original image.

[@Camrographer]

That is really cool!

[@serdarismail7219]

Thank you so much. AMAZING

[@rodshelley1170]

Oh, that is just TOO COOL! I've gotta give that 'generate in pieces' a try! Thanks, Colin! Awesome as always!

[@photoshopcafe]

Go for it!

[@RobertAfrick]

Well done...

[@michaelcohen6177]

Thanks!

[@PaulSpurgeon-bw5et]

Thanks for sharing, good to know.

[@markdemarte6744]

Colin, I love your website. You always are able to keep me abreast of what’s new and happening in the photo market. Thank you. Could you please do me a favor and do a video and using your action that you just put out on generative Phil? I’m a little confused on how to use the different sections of that action and it would really help if I could see you doing it step-by-step. Thanks in advance.

[@Zebrajellyfishphoto]

Thanks. Piximperfect created an action for this same issue months ago and I'm glad you've done the same. Knowledge is PS power!

[@photoshopcafe]

I actually created an action a year ago and he did the same ;)

[@jamesbetteridge211]

Thank you for this one!!! Well done!!

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad you liked it!

[@mainormarroquin4658]

nice i like it thanks bro

[@jmgcg]

Great. If I'm not mistaken you show this almost one year ago, by this I'm referring to the 1024x1024 Px squares. And a Big thank you for the action, I was gonna create one to share with my students

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes, I did. I wanted to update the video to compliment the new Enhance image

[@erik1836]

Thank you for taking the time to show us this technique which I was more or less familiar with from a prior video by PixImperfect and Dave Kelly but this looks like it will be somewhat easier to implement. I expect that eventually Adobe will get to the point where they are offering us the option to generate full resolution images that are generated after we experiment with a lower resolution and decide what we want. I for one would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for such a service once I decided on what I wanted.

[@photoshopcafe]

I originally came up with it a year ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2i2da2meqyXebs.

[@robertolazary2807]

I use the Piximperfect composing plugin which do the same - it makes the Action.

[@jmgcg]

Piximperfect only does what most people already did. Yes is channel is very informative,lots of fantastic tutorials but some technics he claim it was him in fact he wasn't the author And before him, Colin was already showed like a year ago,how to do what the pico plugin does

[@photoshopcafe]

@@jmgcg here is my tut from a year ago. Yup, I believe I was the first to use an action on Gen Fill on KZbin :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2i2da2meqyXebssi=DssJUqokKpSPkufr

[@omarino99]

this is all just so cool, incredible that we have this tech on our hands. entire words being created with a click

[@thewebstylist]

Great tips as always bro!

[@photoshopcafe]

Appreciate it!

[@2creates1]

Awesome!!

[@bigbigsquid]

Thank you ❤

[@photonsonpixels]

Nice, Colin. Thanks!

[@photoshopcafe]

Your welcome

[@yomismo1945]

That's so cool, thank you so very much!

[@photoshopcafe]

happy to help

[@chasebros4948]

Have you done a comparison between super resolution and the super zoom neural filter for upscaling images?

[@photoshopcafe]

I haven’t. But that’s a great idea

[@geogoddd]

Great video. 00:00 🖼 Generative AI in Photoshop is powerful but struggles with resolution. 00:23 🔧 Use the Crop tool and Generative Expand to extend images, but the resolution may drop. 00:52 🔍 Zooming in reveals the loss of resolution in generated areas. 01:16 🆕 New feature in Photoshop beta enhances image details, improving resolution but not perfectly. 01:43 🐱 Demonstration with a cat image shows resolution enhancement using Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw. 02:34 📈 Super Resolution doubles the image size, similar to other upscaling software. 03:29 💡 Generative fill generates up to 1024x1024 pixels, requiring enlargement for larger spaces. 04:22 🔲 Convert to a layer and use the rectangular marquee tool for better transparent expansion. 05:18 🧩 Generate in pieces to achieve full resolution, suitable for printing. 06:14 🛠 Create an action to automate the process for consistent high-resolution results.

[@photoshopcafe]

Hey thanks, Can I steal this and use it for chapter markers?

[@geogoddd]

@@photoshopcafe For sure, not a problem. Great video. Enjoy

[@edgorochowski9709]

Brilliant, thank you.

[@photoshopcafe]

any time

[@richardsisk1770]

So very useful. Thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Jamie-666]

Superb

[@fabriziopelliccione6810]

generative fill is amazing. running after kids at parties i get some hands or feet out of framing. with generative expand 95% of the time i get the perfect picture. parents are happy with the pictures. surely now that i have seen this video they will be even better.

[@photoshopcafe]

And now that hands are better in GF they will look better

[@royceahr]

I learned that while what you showed actually works it is something that I would likely never use. This technology needs more time to mature!

[@helloianzakharov]

After that check out the generated part with solar curve and rid off square borders you will see and equalize noise level. Thanks for video

[@darcybrown7369]

can you elaborate - create solar curve and then adjust how thanks

[@erik1836]

I too am not familiar with solar curves etc. If you could elaborate please.

[@SinaFarhat]

Nice! As i understand it based on what creative cloud package you have, Adobe allows you only a certain amount of generating of images before it takes longer to use the feature, is there a place to see how many generatings I have left?

[@JustARandomFio]

Click on your account icon on the top-right of adobe's website while you're logged in and you'll see the remaining monthly credits in the popup that opens right under your name. This on a desktop.

[@bobkillen8396]

excellent and very useful

[@flytetime7637]

A great tip! 👍🏼

[@photoshopcafe]

Happy to help

[@warrenphotographyx]

really good

[@Alessandro1948]

Your tutorials always very interesting. I did insert my mail to download the Free Action, but never arrived the link to download. Any idea ?

[@photoshopcafe]

Please send me a support message at PhotoshopCAFE.com and Ill take care of you.

[@SergeKrasnov]

Magic!

[@ReidVV]

Nice tools, but good to know it still takes human ingenuity to make it useable. Obviously would like to have the photo be of what's needed, but depending on the final use/usability, the possibility to generate pseudo reality is still nice to have.

[@Eagerrr08]

Thanks a lot

[@photoshopcafe]

anytime

[@FotomakerAcademy]

Will your action work in the commercial rel., Colin?

[@photoshopcafe]

“Commercial rel”?

[@jezzadenton8854]

@@photoshopcafe I assume he means non beta

[@FotomakerAcademy]

@@photoshopcafe The production vers. of Ps, vs the beta...

[@photoshopcafe]

@@FotomakerAcademy Oh sorry, lol. Yes it works in Commercial release

[@davidclement5927]

Thanks for the Video Colin, really appreciate it. However for some reason I didn't receive the e-mail to get the Action. I've checked spam and junk folders etc. but can't find it anywhere.

[@photoshopcafe]

If you are on our newsletter, there is a direct link in the newsletter. If not, please contact me at support at PhotoshopCAFE.com

[@waynefose2159]

Nice Colin.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks 👍

[@abhimanyu0787]

Super

[@petecost9612]

I must be slow, couldn't figure out where this action is and how to download it, although I'm a registered member. Please can we have a more specific link? Thanks so much, I really enjoy your tutorials!

[@photoshopcafe]

If you’re on the list. Click the link in any newsletter. It’s included in the actions

[@l.e.phillips]

It’s in the video description. If you click “…more” under the video title it should pop up.

[@petecost9612]

@@photoshopcafe Thanks so much! I switched to Edge to download - Vivaldi didn't let me do that :)

[@petecost9612]

Thank you! It was Vivaldi's fault, sometimes this browser refuses to open and download certain links.

[@photoshopcafe]

@@petecost9612 Glad it works now

[@octobersix]

I've loaded the GenFill atn in both Photoshop aand Beta. Both don't run have a red checkmark to the left. Any suggestions?

[@octobersix]

Sorry - M3 iMac

[@dalia3107]

i did not get email confrmation not in the spam iter..

[@johndougherty1232]

Nice❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@apeel2008]

I downloaded the action and installed them (results in GEN FILL and RESUP HORIZONTAL GENFILL), but have not been able to figure out how to use it. I also checked the older video "Photoshop Generative Fill high resolution hack", but it did not explain how to use it either. Is there a short video that you can link to that explains how to use this action?

[@photoshopcafe]

Double click to install it. Go to the actions panel, find the action and click the play button. There is also a PDF with the actions that explain how to use the actions.

[@apeel2008]

@@photoshopcafe ok. Thanks. Thought the pdf was for how to install. Did not realize it also covered how to use it. Will check it out next time I am at the computer. Thanks!

[@apeel2008]

@@photoshopcafe OK. I read the instructions for how to use the actions, and they are written up as general instructions for actions in general (I am already familiar with how to run actions, in general). There does not seem to be ny specific instructions on how to start using the GEN FILL or the RESUP HORIZONTAL GENFILL actions that were installed. I have tried performing the Crop expand first, tried selecting a square marque, and no matter what I do, it says it cannot the action. Has anyone else been able top figure out how this action is supposed to be started? I appreciate any help on this.

[@runebinder]

There's a Photoshop Plugin that does this feature automatically on the free version, you tell it how much you want to expand the image and in which directions and it fills it in with 1024x1024 blocks. I'll leave off the name for now as it's from another YT Photoshop channel and don't want to step on your toes, but if you're happy with it I can share the name of the plugin as it's a great time saver.

[@photoshopcafe]

That’s not the real focus of this video, that was a bonus tip. And it’s already been said in the comments. And it’s already been said, I actually came up with the idea first ;)

[@yannmaenden7236]

Very informative and quite clever. I would say however that in certain circumstances your eye would expect certain areas to be blurry. If you make the entire image pin sharp then it can draw the eye away from the primary subject. For example in the image of the cyclist I actually preferred the blurry foreground. When you say Adobe generates a maximum 1024x1024px do you get better results if you go for a smaller size e.g. 600x600px ? I have a busy month ahead, so can't try it myself, but it would be interesting to know; and if it's in an action it's not going to be that much extra work. Finally giving you my email address so I can access something that is supposed to be 'free' seems a bit contradictory. I'm quite good at writing scripts so I'll make my own. I've never actually written one involving the AI functions so it'll be a challenge. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks for the video.

[@photoshopcafe]

Gen Fill respects Depth of Field, so it will generate bokeh if a shallow DOF is used in the photo

[@furzcouchoffiziell]

So just because Adobe is stingy when it comes to resolution AND processor power of their AI tasks we have to spend more credits to enhance a generated image, yet even that is so bad that we rather spend 10 times the amount of credits to expand an image in little steps... Great.

[@photoshopcafe]

Enhance does NOT cost any generative credits

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

Enhance isn’t another generative creation, so it’s free. It’s basically upscaling and texture adding only.

[@Kranos_CG]

The step trick you showed it uses credits though

[@chuckmorton8823]

Or you can just wait until Generative Fill is out of beta and Adobe has incorporated the high-resolution fix

[@photoshopcafe]

Sure

[@JoeCosentino]

Adds clairty to the AI crap

[@polystormstudio]

For photoshop beta only, this is old news.

[@photoshopcafe]

This is a tutorial channel, not a news channel ;) I did make a video the minute it came out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHPOY5SXj5WFo7ssi=hobRgfHg-dEM0_8Z Now I'm making more in depth vids on each feature, like I always do.

[@SFzip]

👍

[@spacekitt.n]

99 percent of my genfills are 'too small' to upscale with this sadly, even though the blur from it is still painfully obvious. we need this clarity on small parts too. or just give us clarity the first time lmao

[@iqueque]

Unmesh covered this a few weeks ago. He also provided an action.

[@photoshopcafe]

Nice. I did that about a year ago with the action and extend. I was actually the first. ;) but the enhance image was only released a few days ago

[@jmgcg]

He does a nice job on is channel but,most of the things he shows are already made. One example, seamless background with shadow was made before him with an action sold on internet.

[@stompfolks]

this tip was already known

[@photoshopcafe]

I know, I originally came up with it a year ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2i2da2meqyXebs. This new vid is about the new Enhance Image feature.

[@aberhalllllo]

Sorry, aber der DL funktioniert nicht! 😞

[@photoshopcafe]

Click on the text rather than the orange button and it will work. If thats not the issue, please open a support ticket at PhotoshopCAFE.com and Ill get you taken care of

[@vakilyfard]

ok

[@Neldot]

Thank you, but even with this fix, Adobe generative fills is still very bad, at least for photographers or creative artists that works with people photos. Probably it's even worse than before, because of its heavy and bigoted censoring. Cannot work with people because cannot use a lot of common terms, like "lips", "belly", "bikini", "fingers" and so on, and even using "safe" terms, two thirds of the times the program says that something went wrong with results and don't display them. It seems that Photoshop would like to control its AI engine results, but it really can't, so it ends up censoring everything...

[@EDDIEGARAGE]

No1

[@EugeneMaynard]

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[@non-pupolarnewsreel7607]

It runs on the cloud [someone else's computer] therefore totally useless. Software as a service is a big no-no. I own my digital data and am not about to transmit it to someone else's computer.

[@waynemacleod5648]

Thanks!