AI AI, Oh!

Whenever I’m asked to do a photoshoot with any sort of complexity, I like to produce a visual to give the client some idea of where my head is going. Sometimes I sketch the visuals with markers onto paper, other times I will draw and paint electronically on my computer. And at other times I’ll do a combination of photos and digital drawing to create the visuals.

A couple of days ago, Adobe put up a Beta version of ©Photoshop that has an AI engine at the heart of the release. So I signed up and downloaded it today and played around with it for a while. It’s still in Beta but really amazing and the potential is undeniable. In its current beta release it doesn’t handle large high resolution images but for day to day visuals and for some social media need or smaller hi-res images it is usable.

To give you an idea of what the AI part of the software can currently deliver, I’ve included this image that I made in less than ten minutes. To create this, I started with a blank workspace on my computer. I used no photography, no drawing, no retouching etc., just text prompts that I typed into the software.

Here is the list of prompts I used, and the order I used them in, to create the image.

• mountains and sunny sky
• sandy expanse
• ocean
• green turtle
• jumping dolphin
• 12 Grazing cows
• satelite dish
• Cabana
• flying saucer
• woman sunbather
• seated sunbather combing her hair
• classical greek statue of a man

And before you know it, the ability to use ©Photoshop to create high resolution images of imaginary scenes  with just a few clicks, will be just another routine activity for mainstream users.