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Pro-Tips: Exploring New Generative Features in Photoshop

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Adobe Live

Date

October 18, 2023

Series Name

Creative Cloud

Join Alex Lazaris as he dives into everything you need to know about Generative Fill and Generative Expand! Get the inside scoop on how these tools can level up your workflow with these pro-tips.

Timestamps

0:00:00 Intro 0:02:30 Remove Content 0:05:00 Generative Fill 0:08:30 Canvas Expansion 0:10:30 Generative Fill 0:13:00 Big Foot 0:18:00 UFO 0:20:08 Dessert

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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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hello hello everyone good morning good
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evening good afternoon wherever you're
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tuning in from my name is Alex Lazaris
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and I am going to be teaching y'all some generative fill features in Photoshop today so if you aren't familiar this is
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Pro Tips with Adobe live we're going to
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be having lots of lots of fun I see a
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lot of my good friends in chat see Carol
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Pearl longtime viewer longtime listener
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longtime subscriber welcome clot kobby
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CJ, Anika oh my goodness George what's up
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everybody I see so many of my friends in
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here Alandra oliv G Kenobi it's a party
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if you aren't familiar with this chat if
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you aren familiar with with this
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community make sure you come over to be
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behance and hang out with us at be.net/Adobelive
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if you're tuning in on YouTube
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that's where we're going to reading chat
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today so we're be hanging out feel free
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to ask any questions I will provide
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answers chat will provide answers it's a
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good community so make sure you come
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hang out with us here. my name is Alex Lazaris. I run a design studio called Lazaris. You can check out our work at wearelazaris.com
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uh I think that's pretty much
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all that you need to know for the intro
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so we're just going to get into it today
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we're doing gener fill uh generative AI
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stuff um yeah we're have some fun with
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it we're going to get weird I love
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having chat in these conversations add
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things to it so it's going be highly
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participatory so come hang out with me
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and
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answer weird things that we want to do
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in so we're going to progressively get a
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little bit weirder as the day goes on uh
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through the stream so we're goingon to
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have some fun with it all right boom wh
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wrong
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one that's the correct screen all right
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this is one we want Robert says hello hi
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again from clot stream yeah if you
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haven't seen cla's stream pretty much
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type in Adobe live clot you'll get a lot
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of great content Claudia is such a good
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streamer her content's always on point
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love her uh so yeah definitely go check
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out her streams and her stuff we're
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going to do some really simple stuff to
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start off inside Photoshop I've got this
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beautiful landscape this beach you know
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hanging out here ah what a good
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landscape photo but maybe we didn't like
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this person being in our photo maybe
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this is just a photo you took you don't
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know this person you're like man I just
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want this landscape all to myself well
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have no fear friends this is what
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photoshop's here for I'm just going to
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unlock this layer really quick and I'm
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going to go object selection tool I can
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just click it this way I'm going to show
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you a couple different ways to remove
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this person um you can always go in and
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just do that with the object selection
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tool grab this lady um you can also go
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in and what I typically like to do is
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grab uh
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uh modify and I'm going to go expand and
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I'll expand that by like you know 40
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pixels no 20 let's do
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20 and then you can go in there and you
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can just either you know patch selection
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tool out that's not going to give you
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the results you want um you can also do
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my favorite way of doing it is content
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aware fill
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tool and what you're doing here is
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you're seeing she's getting removed
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obviously we didn't touch her Shadow so
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the shadow is still going to be in there
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don't worry
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we're going to do that really really
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quick as well boom click
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apply and then deselect that and then I
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can just grab this patch tool here
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because it's sand and it's pretty easy
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to do we'll just move it
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oops I'm going merge those two layers
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and then I'm going to do that boom done
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all gone boom magic that's not even
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generative fill you know you can go in
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here if you want to get your little
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Marquee tool here I don't know what
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we're going to do uh let's do some
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like starfish click
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starfish see what generative fill does
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for us
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here'll let it generate do a little bit
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of
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thinking um I like to do a couple small
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little iterations and changes when I'm
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working within the generator fill um
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little little sizes like this good a
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it's so cute all right that one's
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probably the best because it's looking
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to match our color in our environment
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the other ones are a little bit brighter
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as you see but if you're not getting the
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results you want you can always click
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generate um what we're going to be doing
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today is we're going to be peace mealing
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and editing some of the layers within
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these pieces to make sure that the
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composition feels a little bit better um
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so that starfish is good there it's cute
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uh let's do like um let's throw in a
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beach ball for some fun what up Peter
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Dex or Peter beex sorry well reading is
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hard this morning welome welcome
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back uh let's do beach
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ball I think my perspective my size
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might be off a little bit so a reminder
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when you are working with generative
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fill whatever that size of your Marquee
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or your selection tool is um that will
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be kind of the guide that the generative
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fill is going to fill up so if you have
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you know let's do this big beach ball
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just type in beach ball again as you see
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the that Marquee selection that I made
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is much much bigger this time so it's
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going to fill up that it's going to try
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to fill up that space as much as
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possible so it's going to look crazy in
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this little environment so like I said
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you can get really weird and wild with
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it it's kind of fun though I always say
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this and I go oh it's too it's too weird
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and wild and then I'm like okay kind of
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sick
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though um we can also move this little
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anchor over here the Shadows are great
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um fire the Gen AI is trying to like
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match it constantly to the light
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sources uh and you can see it's like
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changing up the background as well it's
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trying to seamlessly integrate any of
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the prompts that you put into it into
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that that Mary fill so there you go
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we've got two beach balls there let's
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see what this beach ball options are
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here they're like a family little beach
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ball
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family cool those are kind of fun so we
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removed the lady and now we have a land
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where just beach balls live forever all
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right CJ says that's one monster beach
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ball you're right it is all right so
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that's the beach I'll just showed you
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really quickly how you can pull out
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stuff we're going to go into this
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landscape mode now so I'm going to go in
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here this is a really pretty environment
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right kind of reminds you of those old
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Windows desktop like landscape Rolling
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Hills all right what I'm going to do
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here just plop on I don't know maybe I
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want uh
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feel like this could be a nice little
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spot for a house just a little
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cottage I'm going just pop that there
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click generative fill
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Cottage generate let's see what happens
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here what I'm trying to do in this space
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I'm going to show you all next after
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this is how we can expand that canvas
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and how we can make the artboards bigger
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so if you wanted like a panorama we'll
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do that really quickly as
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well but I'm plop in a little just a
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little cottage
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see how it's like matching the lighting
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and the
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environment I
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think think that house seems a little
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too pristine but I'll take it I think
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it's kind of cute and it looks like it
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fits that perspective pretty well maybe
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these will be a little bit bigger if
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that's the wall over there and this is a
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little bit more foreground let maybe
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just make that a little bit bigger
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and I'm going to click generate
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again that should fix that
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size
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see takes a little bit of thinking
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because it's going through the servers
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and doing its
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stuff cool that
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feels these are cool I want to live in
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these Cottages that'd be sick all right
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I like this one now we'll keep that
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there cool so we got that gener uh we
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got that little cottage there now what
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we're going to do is we're going to
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expand the artboard I'm just going to
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pull out the the canvas what we can do
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is try to treat it like a
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panoramic just do
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that and what I'm going to do here is
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just select a little bit of the
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inside and then I'm going to invert my
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selection and then I'm going to click
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generative fill I'm not going to put in
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any prompts this time I don't want to
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put any words to taint it it's just
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going to start doing its magic on its
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own um we should have a nice little
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panoramic it's not really a panoramic
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it's just a very Ultra wide shot now you
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can expand it all the way if you do need
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to to do a panoramic I know people have
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been using this to create uh full 360
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environments you can create it like if
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you were trying to do like a virtual
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reality environment doing a really long
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long seamless like 360 image you can use
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this to kind of merge that that seam
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that would happen on the left and right
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of those images so this is sick though
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like this is awesome um maybe we need
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like I don't know I haven't tried this
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yet so we'll see how this goes
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but I'm going to
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say we want in this
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space
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a hiking
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trail
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so I haven't tested this though so we'll
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see what this results going to be but
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it'll be a lot of
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fun Robert says I don't like the the
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results from the the image from the gy
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fill don't have a transparent background
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yeah but it's trying to figure out how
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to place it in the background so I get
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it um like I have struggled with it too
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but you can always mask out that that
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that image but you kind of need some of
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the like it kind of rebuild some of the
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background elements for you uh I'm not
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seeing hiking trail it's just it's just
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grass just different grasses all right
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that's not giv to me what I wanted um
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but anyways this looks great like this
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is a really good image very Serene very
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cozy I like it all right so what we're
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going to do now is we can start playing
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with it um we'll do like I don't know
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feel like in this space here we
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need
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maybe I was going to put a bush but then
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the bush feels super oh stone walls
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that's a good idea let's do that let's
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do
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like some foreground element
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here thank you Peter uh stone
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walls let's see what what it comes up
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with for us big foot Bigfoot in this
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environment are you kidding
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me stream in the foreground
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throw my face in the the
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corner should we just put in a bunch of
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forest
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oh I like the second one here it's kind
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of nice um me words uh let me do Mossy
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ston
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walls see if that gives us I love the
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the shape of that second image right
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here this looks really cool but the
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stones look
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too oh sheep or two yes good idea z I'll
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throw in some sheep let's see if the
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Moss can fix this as well white says
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Bigfoot in this economy yeah exactly uh
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we can't afford
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Bigfoot okay this
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is oh
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we'll take that we'll keep that there
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all right it's not too bad all right
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where we okay let's get Bigfoot in there
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how big should Bigfoot be if a Bigfoot
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could beig
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Bigfoot uh let's see
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here he's a probably
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about yay high right that's big Bigfoot
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let's see here big
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foot I don't know if I think it's going
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to give me an actual foot we'll see if
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we'll see if uh Adobe can render big for
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for
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us let's see oh I'm so
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surprised what are you doing there guy
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hey
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Bigfoot welcome back from your Game of
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Thrones session man it's good to see you
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back the white king or whatever his name
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is is back with us yo Bigfoot's living
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the dream
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look at that hey guy
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ah this is so good I'm so happy this is
13:38
all right I shouldn't be this happy but
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I am um he's he's so
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cute this is my favorite stream I've
13:47
ever done I think I'm gonna cry oh
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Bigfoot all right I'm okay sorry just so
13:55
beautiful all right Bigfoot let's give
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him some sheepies give them some
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sheepies in the
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[Music]
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foreground sheeps aren't
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Square this is going be my quote from
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the stream sheeps aren't
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Square all right
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sheeps
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generate still Mara says it's the little
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things in lives it is it is or the
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Bigfoot things in life
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let's see see if the Sheep does gives me
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what I
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need I just love how cute he is with his
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little Hut oh the Sheep are too small
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now
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though that's too AI looking I like this
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sheep all right let's
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see
14:54
me command J to duplicate it I wonder if
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this will War occupy
14:59
just move my little sheepies over
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here and does this generate can I
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generate
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again whoa this is a big sheep
15:29
no why are you doing that to
15:32
me now we've got Bigfoot being tiny in
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the background and giant sheep in the
15:37
middle ground and Tiny sheep in the
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foreground why'd you do that to me uh
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I'm going to change this uh I think it's
15:46
probably where I put that so let me let
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me no
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sheep all right let me render it
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again uh
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generate Bigfoot needs a big
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sheep yeah I feel like Bigfoot has a
16:06
proportionally sized house and also a
16:08
proportionally sized
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self um he's not he's not luing oh what
16:15
what is this not got too many
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sheeps H I wonder if I take off this
16:25
stone walls here does that no
16:29
foreground sheepies are still big
16:31
they're big sheepies um I really like
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these sheeps I wish I could just
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like they're so cute see watch how oh
16:40
what are you doing here guy why are you
16:42
a green
16:43
sheepy all right we're going to uh just
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mask out green sheepy nobody saw
16:53
it there we go I'm going to remove green
16:56
sheepy hello green sheepy goodbye green
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sheep
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just on my layer mask I'm just going to
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mask it out nice perfect boom they're
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just hanging out as sheep do those are
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really cute uh what else do we
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need
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uh the one sheep exploded into 100
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little sheep that's true it's uh it's
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like one of those like uh logic puzzles
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it's like would you rather have one 100
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foot sheep or would you rather have 101
17:29
foot
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sheep uh that's that's what we're
17:32
getting right now they don't look like
17:35
sheep what are you talking about they
17:36
look like sheepies they look like well
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this one kind of looks like a bear but
17:41
if you look far away look boom we're
17:43
zooming out look at that that's the
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sheepies
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anyways spent a lot of time with the
17:51
sheepies already let's get a little
17:52
plane in here I feel like a little plane
17:54
a little like oh should we get a blimp
17:58
blimp blimps are cool all right let's
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get a little
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blimp
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blimp we're going to put a little blimp
18:10
there I like how we built this gigantic
18:13
canvas now to work on and we're just
18:15
still doing small little details and
18:17
stuff but you can create such cool
18:18
sceneries with it it's kind
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of just makes you want to play I love
18:24
working with the geni it's so cool uh
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that's not a blimp that's a parag GL
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Pell all right let's do
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uh uh
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UFO
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generate show me Adobe what state
18:39
Secrets we're
18:41
hiding bring me the
18:44
AI Area 51
18:47
knowledge a big old dinosaur that's a
18:50
sick
18:51
idea okay that kind of cool uh that
18:55
one's sick all right but because it's
18:58
like
19:01
like I'm just going to place it a little
19:03
bit over thing and then I'm going to
19:05
lower the opacity just a tiny bit just
19:07
to make it feel a little
19:12
atmospheric and then what I'm going to
19:13
do here is actually uh filter and add
19:16
some blur to it oh I could actually add
19:19
motion blur to
19:23
it where are
19:27
you
19:30
yeah let's do some motion blur let's do
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just straight
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zero
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uh
19:41
cool throwing a little bit of motion
19:43
blur on this UFO just so you
19:46
know look at that boom since needs
19:50
coffee let's see here uh me just mask
19:55
out a little bit of
19:56
the EXT extra stuff because I know uh I
20:00
think Robert was talking about
20:03
how the background kind of comes
20:06
in just very lightly boom boom boom done
20:10
there cool so we got a little UFO we got
20:12
sheepies we got uh big foot it's really
20:15
fun let's go on to our third and final
20:18
thing we've got uh like five minutes
20:20
left so let's see what gen AI can do
20:22
really quickly I'm going to throw in a
20:25
sculpture into these like salt flats I
20:28
did this
20:31
earlier and it turned out really cool so
20:33
let's see if we can recreate some really
20:35
cool stuff really quickly but you never
20:36
know with Gen you're just constantly
20:38
generating new things so you won't
20:40
necessarily get the same thing
20:44
twice yeah CJ says UFO can never be
20:47
perfectly visible always must be enough
20:48
room to debate the visibility of
20:50
signings you're absolutely
20:52
right
20:54
oh oh yes bring it on okay I like this
20:58
sculpture um I'm going to paint out this
21:01
back bit of it though it's kind of weird
21:03
looking little artifact
21:07
there okay you're looking good my dude
21:12
all right we're going to grab this I'm
21:13
going to just lasso in and be like
21:18
uh let's see with some weird shape uh
21:21
and then I'm going to do gener fill and
21:23
then do uh
21:26
reflecting pool
21:28
and then click that in
21:30
there oh a giant
21:33
sandworm I wonder if it can do it oh my
21:35
gosh are we doing Salt Flat Dune we're
21:38
make Salt Flat Dune thing that'd be
21:44
sick let's see here what are we getting
21:48
got
21:49
oh no that's not that's not the pool I
21:53
wanted I want like a real pool I want to
21:56
all right got that refle reflecting pool
21:58
I wanted to get that reflection in there
22:00
let's see
22:03
here
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[Music]
22:06
boom and then I'm going in here and then
22:09
just masking out that a little
22:11
bit very fun very cool all right we got
22:14
that pool water there you said a giant
22:17
sand warm I don't know if we're going to
22:19
get a sand worm I I think that'd be too
22:21
much let's see if we can get like a uh
22:26
dinosaurs
22:30
uh
22:33
statue in my head that this would come
22:35
out like the Fallout New Vegas
22:38
dinosaur structure but I don't think
22:40
that's going to happen in my head that's
22:42
what I'm thinking but let's see if AI
22:44
can do
22:48
it oh kind
22:54
of I don't like it I don't like it sorry
22:58
sorry chat I don't like it all right
23:00
we're GNA throw in a planet here
23:02
though
23:04
uh just
23:08
Planet a super large one on the horizon
23:11
getting it very uh like outer worldly
23:17
feeling see what we can
23:23
get oh why I going to the edge
23:26
there
23:29
come on you can do better than
23:32
that give me a
23:37
circle needs a dragon Robert says Needs
23:41
a dragon let's see if we can get a
23:44
dragon all right this
23:46
is not giving me the results I want but
23:48
it's okay we're going to do this boom
23:51
just very much in the Horizon nobody can
23:53
see that it's
23:54
wonky uh and then we'll throw in a
23:56
dragon for
23:58
where do you need the dragon you want it
24:01
here do a dragon real quick
24:07
Dragon let's see what we get these are
24:10
the wonkiest planets ever to be
24:12
fair when I did this earlier the planets
24:15
were perfect uh I think it's just
24:18
needing coffee so Birds man oh I didn't
24:23
mean to click it again that looks better
24:26
uh I'm going to also I can do a color
24:27
pass on this color overlay and then grab
24:31
whatever
24:33
Sky boom and then like do like a
24:36
[Music]
24:38
normal and then what I'll do here
24:44
is a tiny bit of uh blur to it as well
24:48
since it's in the
24:50
background C blur just a little just a
24:54
little
24:55
boom just so you're you're thinking
24:58
about it you know oh birds are dragons
24:59
according to
25:02
Firefly true I thought for a second that
25:04
you were referencing like the show
25:06
Firefly I don't know why I thought that
25:09
but that's where my head was going I
25:11
think it's all the Sci-Fi stuff we're
25:12
talking about anyways as you can see
25:15
within 30 minutes you can have a lot of
25:17
fun working within geni you can remove
25:20
people really easily you can leverage
25:23
all the old Photoshop tools as well you
25:25
can put in new things you can have you
25:27
know a beach ball family taking over the
25:29
beach which is super fun as well and you
25:32
can start building out your little
25:34
Bigfoot like Airbnb which honestly like
25:38
there's something so therapeutic about
25:40
this image that I really really love um
25:43
yeah UFOs Bigfoot sheeps very very cute
25:47
all look really good especially from
25:48
afar um and then you've got you know
25:51
some surrealist Firefly thingies so yeah
25:55
this is sick I enjoyed it thank you chat
25:57
for helping me out uh come back next
25:59
week next Wednesday I'll be doing
26:00
another Pro tips and we will be doing a
26:02
Halloween gen AI making invites so come
26:05
on over for that it' be a lot of fun 10
26:09
a.m. Pacific Wednesday the 25th so
26:12
coming out stick around though we've got
26:14
plenty more streams for you coming up so
26:16
thank you everyone for hanging out
26:17
appreciate yall see yall soon bye-bye
26:20
now
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byebye

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