Addendum to IRL Test of Photoshop with Ai
I'm about a week into using Photoshop with Ai for actual work and I finally found one very helpful use: It CAN save time from having to manually clean up sections of skin/surface/whatever to use a sample or source area for traditional retouching tools like the healing brushes, and clone stamp, and patch tools.
Por ejemplo:
I wouldn't be able to use the patch tool on that section of $&!+ because there's no "clean" area big enough to use as a patch. I'd have to use the clone stamp tool to either reduce the area to patch or create a bigger "clean" area to use as a patch. The new generative Ai feature CAN understand the objective and take care of the issue by generating and, in essence, applying an appropriate patch.
It's not perfect, but it's much better and has saved several brush strokes in the process. For the record, that section was retouched by several instances of Generative Ai use, not one. Also, please excuse the changes in the background and hue/saturation. I wasn't being scientific in my activation/deactivation of layers to use in this "demonstration." Hey, IRL test so #authentic.
Why did I type "CAN" in all caps twice - because it doesn't work all the time! Capability vs Capacity, amiga.
Por ejemplo part deux:
I didn't feel like going in there and clearing an area of those micro blemishes, so I thought I'd put Ai to work the same way as the first example.
All 3 iterations given by Photoshop generated an extra stone instead of a patch like it did before.
Okay, fine. Maybe I needed to be more specific with my instructions.
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"please remove dust and spots"
Okay, I didn't say "gouge out some material and create a socket"
Did I ******' stutter?
I already forgot what I did to address this. It may have been one of the following modified prompts:
Most likely I retouched it manually.
No, the word "please" doesn't seem to matter.
I do try to include common courtesy in my prompts because I don’t want to "forget" its use by talking to robots.
I digress. Retouching with Ai definitely has benefits.
Is it helpful? Yes. Is it faster? I don't know. Do I want to keep trying until it generates the results I want, or do I want to get working even if it means doing so manually? In my previous post, I learned that second-guessing and hesitation ended up prolonging the retouching process. Either way, Ai does not do "production-ready work" as Juliana Vail said. It will not replace professionals. In fact, skill becomes more important in implementing Ai to existing workflows. Only seasoned pros would be able to determine how to best implement the technology because they've been doing their jobs long enough to know the best ways to do things AND they can quickly and immediately pick up on tasks that Ai cannot do.