The photo is a composite of the following:
- Road under cloudy sky by Pixabay
- Person standing near body of water by Quang Nguyen Vinh
- Young Kids Playing Football in on the field by Kampus Production
- Man in Green Suit Playing Trumpet by MART PRODUCTION
- Adobe Photoshop Logo
What We’ll Learn
How we see light and how cameras make images
We will learn the science behind how humans see light and how digital cameras use a similar process to create images.
Creating and editing images
We will learn to create images in different ways using Photoshop and generative AI.
Generative AI and Digital Imaging
We will take some time to talk about generative AI and images including benefits and perils of generative AI, and looking at different ways we can, or not, use it with Photoshop.
Tools
You will need a computer that can run Adobe software. You will also need a device to take pictures. For most people you can just use your phone. If you want to use a camera, that’s great; just make sure you know how to save a file and get that file onto your computer.
Adobe software is provided for free by CUNY. Use your CUNY Login to sign in to Creative Cloud.
Please let Prof Stein know if your computer can’t run Photoshop or you don’t have a way to take pictures.
Module Resources
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Removing Things from Images
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
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Photoshop Tutorials from Adobe
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
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Collage and Composite Images
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
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AI-Assisted Tools in Photoshop
In this post, you’ll learn about Photoshop’s AI-assisted tools — 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—more quickly and accurately. As you use them, keep
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AI Generative Image Overview
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
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Image Prompting Guide
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
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Generative AI Image Tools
This post lists the tools you can use to create images through prompting generative AI models.
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Where to find free images
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
