Adjusting your generated image to your liking with photoshop can be DAUNTING... but also rewarding and fun!
By Max Headman
Some times you prompt something out and it's almost perfect but there is just one or more details that ruins the whole composition. That's when you can use external image editors to tweak and "repair" an image to get what you want. The original image here is a great image, but there are many flaws and mistakes both on the AI's part and mine! Going off of Budgetpixel's initial challenge description, I used the phrase "fight for survival" that resulted in the Mars colonists carrying rifles which wasn't my intention. Though in my final product I ended up leaving the rifles in being indecisive over which variation to use. There are other notable mistakes in this image most notably the man in the bottom right corner sitting awkwardly on two tires! To remedy this, I cropped the section containing the man and the tires and took that portion to task with Grok. You can use a limited number of free generations from Grok if you have an x.com account. Here you can see the selected portion of image containing the man which I then asked free Grok via x.com to "remove the person and the two tires from the image while keeping all other details the same." You'll notice after pasting the new replacement section of the image that the colors are slightly off, you can faintly see the outline of the new image because regenerating that portion with Grok also very marginally changed the colors! There is a fix for this using photoshop's eraser tool! Use these settings: What you want is to reduce the opacity to around 35%, decrease the hardness to 12-20%, this makes your circle shaped brush have a faded effect to it! This fade partially erases the new image in a way that it blends the two images together, making the change in tones more gradual and less noticeable. Look at how the two images are blended together! And now for a more fuller progress shot! I'm going to have to do something about that partial watermark in the bottom left, that will come in another blog! Enjoy the tutorial fellow "udgetPixel" users!!!
Tags: photo edit, photoshop, perfection