Over the weekend, AI-powered remakes of famous album covers go viral on Twitter thanks to Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill, an image processing tool that debuted in the beta version of the image editor last week. Using Originality, people are increasing the size of popular works of art, showing works of art that are larger than the boundaries of the original images.
This image enhancement function, often called “outpainting“In AI circles (and done with OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 last year), it is possible because of the image synthesis model called Adobe Firefly, which has been learned on millions of artworks from Adobe stock photo archive. When given an existing image. To work with, Firefly uses what it knows about other artworks to combine possible improvements of the original artwork. And when if we are guided with text clues that describe a specific scenario, the results we have gathered can go to wild places.
For example, an expansion of Michael Jackson’s fame Thriller album renders the remains of Jackson’s body lying on a piano. That seems reasonable, given the context of the conversation. But depending on the user’s direction, Generative Fill can also create more fantastic interpretations: Expansion of Katy Perry’s Young Dream The cover image (probably guided by a text suggestion from the user) shows Perry lying on a gigantic fluffy pink cat.
If you want to do more extensive artwork, you’ll need to subscribe to Creative Cloud and download Adobe Photoshop beta within the Creative Cloud app. Next, open an image and expand the size of the canvas. Select the entire original image, then invert the selection so that we select the outer part of the canvas. If you want, type in a description, then click “Generative Fill.” Photoshop will create an image to fill the space around the original image, and you can change it between several settings.
Album covers aren’t the only images that have recently increased to an audience-pleasing influence on social media. Apart from clear expansions of famous paintings like those Mona Lisaextended tweet various famous meme images almost 10,000 likes on Tuesday.

You can view the extended album artwork in the threads by Dobrokotov we had Lorenzo the Green on Twitter.
For various intellectual reasons, including incomplete knowledge in the results, the purity of the image resistancewe had moral issues related to the use of artificial AI technology, not everyone is enthusiastic or impressed by the results. Going through the tweets, it’s fair to say that the reaction to the image expansion trend has been mixed between joy and disgust. Regardless, Generative Fill has been a visual toy for social media users that keeps on giving.