Photoshop's Generative Fill arrived with significant fanfare and has settled into something more nuanced: a genuinely useful tool in specific workflows, and a genuinely limited one in others. The distinction is worth mapping. What it gets right: background extension and scene completion in images where the generated content does not need to be scrutinized at high resolution. … [Read more...] about What Photoshop’s Generative Fill Gets Right and Wrong
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How ControlNet Changed AI Image Generation
Before ControlNet, AI image generation was fundamentally a prompt-to-image process with limited spatial control. ControlNet changed the axis of what was possible, and the change is significant enough that it is worth understanding structurally rather than just operationally. ControlNet is a neural network architecture that conditions image generation on additional spatial … [Read more...] about How ControlNet Changed AI Image Generation
Why Your AI-Generated Images Look Like AI-Generated Images
Most people can identify AI-generated images on sight. The models keep improving, and yet the tell persists. Understanding what is being detected is useful both for evaluating AI output and for prompting more effectively. The most common identifier is a kind of hyper-coherence — every element of the image rendered with equal sharpness, equal detail, equal attention. Real … [Read more...] about Why Your AI-Generated Images Look Like AI-Generated Images
Midjourney vs Flux vs Stable Diffusion: What They’re Actually Good For
Comparing AI image generators as if they are interchangeable products competing on the same axis misses the more useful question: what is each one actually optimized for, and does that match what you are trying to do? Midjourney remains the tool with the strongest aesthetic sensibility out of the box. Its default output tends toward the cinematic and compositionally polished — … [Read more...] about Midjourney vs Flux vs Stable Diffusion: What They’re Actually Good For
The Problem with AI Image Generation and Photorealism
AI image generation has become extraordinarily capable at producing images that look real. That is not the same thing as producing images that are photographically real, and the gap between those two things is worth understanding precisely. Photorealism in the traditional sense is about the physics of light: how it wraps around surfaces, reflects, scatters, falls off with … [Read more...] about The Problem with AI Image Generation and Photorealism