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The magic of Generative Fill

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The magic of Generative Fill

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Let's take a look and see how we can use Generative Fill to remove distracting areas in an image. Now, I'm not a photojournalist, so I simply want to remove these distracting elements so that we pay more attention to the frog. Before I start removing elements, I'm actually going to select the frog. We could do this in a variety of ways. I think the easiest is going to be to use the Object Selection tool. I've got this mode set to Rectangle, and I'll just drag a rectangle around the frog. Then in order to place the frog on its own layer, I'll choose Layer, New, and then Layer via Copy. Then I'll hide that layer of the frog and we'll come back to it in a few minutes. Then I'll choose the background layer in the Layers panel and then switch to the regular lasso tool. I wanna select this area right over here. And then, because I have hidden my contextual taskbar, I'll select that from the window menu. Then we can choose Generative Fill, and I'm not going to enter a prompt, but instead…

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