The move is to make Soviet censors green with envy, who spent hours removing Stalin’s rivals from official regime photos. With Firefly, Adobe’s new tool integrated into Photoshop, it only takes a few clicks to make an object or character disappear from an image. And especially to fill in the gaps.
Arriving in the last few days after an announcement in March, Firefly is particularly impressive for pulling off minor visual miracles. Starting with the generative fill, which therefore makes it possible to erase part of a photo, it is then up to the artificial intelligence to reconstruct the erased area.
In the same way, it is possible to enlarge an image by creating a scene unknown to it, for example by asking Firefly to add a lake at the foot of a mountain. This principle of outpainting already exists with image generators like Dall-E that allow you to imagine decoration around famous paintings.
With Firefly, an Internet user, for example, has fun imagining (or rather letting the AI imagine for him) what appears around the covers of famous albums. So Nirvana’s baby is actually swimming with sharks, while The Beatles cruise across Abbey Road in space.
With Firefly, it is also possible to add elements to an image, simply by giving the software a hint. An incredible time saver for graphic designers and advertisers, but also a boon for counterfeiters because the tool is disconcertingly easy to use.
Source: BFM TV
