With the ever-increasing prominence of AI in design workflows, it can be easy to feel your creative role is diminishing. By being open to and leveraging the right tools for your workflow however, you can improve your deliverables and unlock more time for living life.
While doing selects for a family portrait session in Adobe Lightroom, I came across a perfect moment that I had captured imperfectly. A candid moment between mother and child. I had miss-framed the capture, resulting in cropped hair on the child’s head and a crowded upper frame.
Having the ability to push pixels in Photoshop, I could elect to “hand paint” background extension vertically and finesse the cropped hair of the child to save the image.
But this would be an hour or two of work and would put me beyond the limited budget of the photoshoot.
That’s when I thought about trying out Photoshop’s much vaunted AI based image extension feature, to see if I could quickly rescue the photograph.
Here is the process and result below:
I liked the third option best for this image as it included some nice sunset sky tones behind the trees.
And there it is! Photoshop’s generative AI helped me to preserve a great candid moment while expending very little time. A win-win for efficiency and creativity!