{"id":59489,"date":"2024-05-16T18:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/?p=59489"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:57:36","slug":"perfect-resolution-in-photoshop-generative-ai-with-new-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/perfect-resolution-in-photoshop-generative-ai-with-new-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance Detail and increase Resolution in Photoshop Generative ai"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to get better resolution out of Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill<\/h2>\n

Generative fill does an amazing job, especially with Version 3 of Firefly<\/a>. The biggest setback is the lack gf resolution. In this tutorial we will look at what the issues are and 2 ways to fix it. The first way is a new tool Adobe has introduced called Enhance Detail and the 2nd is a fix I came up about a year ago<\/a> that works great today. The first feature is currently only in the beta version of Photoshop<\/a>. The second part will work in all versions of Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Start with this wide shot.<\/p>\n

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Choose the crop tool and Generative expand from the toolbar.<\/p>\n

Drag with the crop tool to outcrop; AKA crop larger than the original size.<\/p>\n

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Press Enter to apply and Generate<\/p>\n

From a distance, it looks great.<\/p>\n

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Zoom in cose and you can see the resolution mismatch. See how the bottom is soft and blurry vs the top part of the image is crisp and sharp.<\/p>\n

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Go to the Properties panel<\/p>\n

Roll over the variation you are using.<\/p>\n

Click the button at the top right to apply Enhance Detail<\/p>\n

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Now when you zoom in, it looks great!<\/p>\n

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Here is before and after Enhance Detail<\/p>\n

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What Does Enhance Detail do?<\/h2>\n

Enhance Detail doesn’t download a higher resolution version of the generated variation. What it does, is use Super Resolution.<\/a><\/p>\n

To demonstrate, let’s go to Adobe Bridge. Right click this low resolution photo and choose Open in Camera Raw.<\/p>\n

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Here is our Lowe resolution cat photo.<\/p>\n

Right-click.<\/p>\n

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Click on Enhance.<\/p>\n

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Choose Super Resolution and click Enhance.<\/p>\n

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Now we get a new image, but this one is 2x as large as before.<\/p>\n

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What Super resolution does is make the image physically 4x larger area.<\/p>\n

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It upscales and enhances the image, to appear higher resolution than before.<\/p>\n

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By upscaling the image, it makes it look much better and will work for a lot of cases. Bonus, it doesn’t use Generative Credits.<\/p>\n

Ok, but what if we have a much larger image? Let’s look at another solution.<\/p>\n

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Grab the crop tool and choose Generative Expand from the toolbar.<\/p>\n

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Crop larger.<\/p>\n

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This time, it doesn’t even look good from a distance. This image is 11k wide.<\/p>\n

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Zoom up close and it’s a mess.<\/p>\n

Click Enhance Detail.<\/p>\n

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We just get a sharper version of the mess.<\/p>\n

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What’s happening?<\/h3>\n

Generative Fill only generates and maximum of 1024px x 1024px on the longest edge.<\/p>\n

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If the area to fill is larger, it stretches the pixels to fill the area, but it can result in a softer image.<\/p>\n

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Here is the trick to get full resolution in Generative Fill.<\/h2>\n

I introduced this trick about a year ago, but I’ve updated and made it clearer here.<\/p>\n

Grab the Rectangle Marquee tool.<\/p>\n

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Change to mode to Fixed size for the top toolbar.<\/p>\n

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Set it to 1024 x 1024px in the size.<\/p>\n

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If your image is flattened, click the padlock in the background, in the Layers panel, \u00a0to convert to a layer<\/p>\n

Grab the Crop tool<\/p>\n

Choose Transparent from the options in the top toolbar. (If you don’t see transparent, your background is flattened and isn’t a layer).<\/p>\n

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Drag with the crop tool to enlarge your image.<\/p>\n

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You should see a transparent background. If you don’t, back up a couple of steps and get it right.<\/p>\n

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Now, because we are using a fixed size for the marquee tool, your selection should be 1024 x 1024px which is the maximum for Generative Fill (at the time of this writing).<\/p>\n

Make a selection in the bottom left.<\/p>\n

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Click Generative Fill in the taskbar and click generate. Leave the text prompt blank.<\/p>\n

Now you will se a block at full resolution.<\/p>\n

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Zoom in and its perfect resolution.<\/p>\n

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Make a selection next to it with a small amount of overlap<\/p>\n

Generate<\/p>\n

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Keep going until you have a perfect extension to your image which is sharp enough to print.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for checking this out, I hope it was helpful<\/p>\n

See you at the CAFE<\/p>\n

Colin<\/p>\n

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