The more I use the content generation in Adobe software the more it is blowing my wind. The above image is perfectly normal captured with perhaps a wide or super wide lens. Nothing to see here you might think. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Firstly the image is made from the following images:

I then merged them using the the photomerge in Adobe Lightroom.

This was the first dollop of AI generated content as the two images didn’t exactly line up. But this is not too bad as it all it was doing was saving me a lot of fiddling about trying to get the images to merge by hand – a pain of a job but it can be done and if you were very skilled (I never was that skilled) made to look just about as seamless. The obvious problem is that the image is a very odd shape. Next step – move over to Photoshop an apply some Generate Fill and you have, drum roll please…

This has three Generate Fills applied to it: top, bottom and on the left hand side. I’ve then edited and cropped the image. Now here is the interesting question. Is this a fake image? I’m really not sure I have an answer to this as all I have done is merged two images captured within a 10 seconds of one another. Yes I have added part of the sky and the trees on the left, the generative fill on the bottom was cut out by the crop. The actual action, the male swan chasing off the other swans, did happen and his family following did happen but captured on two images, albeit 10 seconds apart. If you had stood there and just watched this rather capturing the images this is what you would’ve seen. Yet the photograph did not exist before the application of a not insignificant amount of AI generated fill.

I have no answers to this questions other than to say, ‘…fix it in post…‘ has never been so poignant.

One final point my new MacStudio absolutely smashed these processes without even breaking into the slightest sweet (I know computers don’t sweat but you know what I mean). This is even more incredible when you consider the final image is over 16000 pixels wide by 8500 pixels tall which equated to a 1.1 GB file in photoshop. Still it took less than 30 second for each fill to be compiled. We really are through the looking glass when it comes to performance.