Removing Things from Images

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There are a few different tools that allow you to remove objects, items people etc from images. They each have different uses and do or don’t use generative AI. Removing Objects from Images

Photoshop Tutorials from Adobe

screenshot of Adobe's Learn Photoshop section.

Adobe has a number of tutorials to help you you learn how to use Photoshop (and other Adobe products). Generally speaking there are three types of tutorials: Below are links to tutorials grouped by the kind of action you want to perform and notation if they are Hands-on, Video or Web Page tutorials. Overall Learn… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials from Adobe

Collage and Composite Images

Photos in image by: Melvin Vito: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-woman-wearing-denim-jumpers-3890183/ MART PRODUCTION https://www.pexels.com/photo/deliveryman-riding-a-bicycle-7706444/ Ezra Komo : https://www.pexels.com/photo/stylish-man-in-teal-attire-posing-confidently-34191725/ Megan (Markham) Bucknall: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-with-dog-at-the-middle-of-the-street-2449533/ Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cityscape-photography-near-water-290595/ Reynaldo Brigantty: https://www.pexels.com/photo/city-lights-under-night-sky-771881/ Quang Nguyen Vinh: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-standing-near-body-of-water-2164631/

Your image project will be to create three versions of a collage or composite image. This post and our class disucssion are designed to help you understand these types of images so that you can choose your subject matter for your project. Collage Image This video is about a show “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American… Continue reading Collage and Composite Images

AI-Assisted Tools in Photoshop

screenshot of Photoshop interface. Photo in screenshot by Antoni Shkraba Studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-man-with-smiling-face-7484856/

In this post, you’ll learn about Photoshop’s AI-assisted tools. These features that don’t generate entire images from text, but help you do parts of an editing workflow more efficiently. These tools help you perform complex editing tasks such as selecting subjects, removing unwanted objects, or intelligently filling backgrounds quicker and accurately. As you use them,… Continue reading AI-Assisted Tools in Photoshop

AI Generative Image Overview

"X-Y plot of algorithmically-generated AI art of European-style castle in Japan demonstrating DDIM diffusion steps" by Benlisquare is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

From Text to Pixels: How Generative AI Creates Images When you use generative AI to make an image, you’re working with a system that has been trained to recognize and rebuild visual patterns — not just to draw, but to recreate structure from noise. In text generation, the AI predicts the next word in a… Continue reading AI Generative Image Overview

Image Prompting Guide

3 prompts (forest background, cabin, flying saucer). Generated by AI in Photoshop with Firefly Fill and Expand model on 2026.03.08

This guide will help you craft strong text prompts for creating and editing images with Adobe Firefly and Photoshop’s Generative Fill. Both use the same underlying idea — a diffusion model trained to create or modify images based on text descriptions — but the way you interact with them differs. Note that the instructions and… Continue reading Image Prompting Guide

Generative AI Image Tools

AI generated image by FLUX.1-DEV on HuggingFace Spaces

This post lists the tools you can use to create images through prompting generative AI models.

Where to find free images

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When you use an image on a web site, you must obey copyright law and only use images you have an explicit right to use. So, searching Google Images is NOT the way to find them (unless you take additional steps shown below). What You Can Use The general rule of thumb is: Only use images where… Continue reading Where to find free images