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Expand the dimensions of your image and generate content with simple text prompts using Generative Expand in Photoshop on the desktop.



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Now available in the public Photoshop desktop app
- Do you have photos that need to be transformed within seconds so that they tell a larger story?
- Are you trying to add elements to your photos in just a few steps by changing their aspect ratio?
- Or, do you have photos that appear tilted and need to be fixed?
If your answer is "Yes!", then Generative Expand is the perfect feature for you - designed for these and many more uses.
Generative Expand is another revolutionary offering from the suite of Firefly-powered, generative AI features in Photoshop that allows you to expand images with generative content as part of the Crop tool workflow.
It allows you to expand the canvas and resize any image brought into Photoshop as part of the Crop workflow and can save you time on tedious tasks by reducing the number of steps required to achieve your desired outcome.
After you expand the canvas and select Generate in the Contextual Task Bar, Generative Expand fills the empty space with newly generated content that naturally blends with the existing image.
Generative content can be added with or without a text prompt in more than 100 languages. Without a prompt, you'll have content that seamlessly blends with the existing image and expands the canvas.
When generating content with a prompt, the image will be expanded and will include the prompted content.
Use Generative Expand to save time while producing re-sized high-quality results, which previously took hours to create, enabling you to spend more time honing your creativity.
Generative Expand in Photoshop is powered by Adobe Firefly which is now available for commercial use.
Create confidently, knowing that Generative Expand is powered by Adobe Firefly, the family of creative generative AI models designed to be safe for commercial use—ensuring you can push the bounds of your creativity, confidently. Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock’s hundreds of millions professional-grade, licensed, high-resolution images that are among the highest quality in the market.
We’re building these capabilities in collaboration with our community so that real-time feedback shapes these new experiences. To share your valuable feedback, visit the Adobe Photoshop community.
To explore more about generative AI in Photoshop and find answers to common questions, see Generative AI in Photoshop and Adobe Firefly FAQ.
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With Generative Expand, you can now seamlessly expand your canvas using the Crop tool and get your image to look like anything you can imagine.
Follow these steps to start using Generative Expand:
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In the options bar, select Generative Expand from the Fill dropdown, which is initially set to default.
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Extend the canvas size to your desired dimension by dragging the corner and edge handles outward.
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Select the Generative Expand button in the Contextual Task Bar that appears.
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Type a text prompt in the on-canvas Contextual Task Bar and hit the Generate button. You can view your Generative Layer in the Layers panel.
For text prompts, use simple language to describe the object or scene you want to create.
Tip:Leave the text-entry prompt box blank before clicking Generate if you want the selection to be filled based on the surrounding pixels in your image.
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Select from the variations that pop up in the Properties panel, and there it is—you've expanded the boundaries of what can be created using generative AI.
Also introduced in Photoshop 25.0 (September 2023 release)
With this release of Photoshop, you'll have access to a generative AI model that is ethically sourced via Adobe Stock.
Through efforts like the Content Authenticity Initiative and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, Adobe is standing up for accountability, responsibility, and transparency in generative AI and Firefly.
What this means is Photoshop will automatically append Content Credentials to images generated using Generative Fill and Generative Expand and exported as PNG, JPG, or "Save as", to let you and others know an image was created or edited in Photoshop using Firefly's generative AI technology.
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