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If you’ve been paying attention to photography news outlets, you cannot have failed to notice the furore over AI-image generation. Generators such as Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Midjourney make it possible to create artwork from nothing more than a sentence. This has caused excitement and apprehension among photographers, and the way these tools gather and reassemble the substance of existing photographs raises genuine concerns about intellectual property.
Whether you see AI as ground-breaking technology or a threat to traditional creatives, there’s no denying that we’re entering a new era of image-making.
Users looking to experiment with text-to-image generation will find an intriguing tool within Photoshop CC's Beta software (at the time of writing). The Backdrop Creator Neural filter lets you create a whole new backdrop from just a few words. Of course, anything in beta isn’t the finished article, but it’s worth experimenting with the latest Adobe tools. Backdrop Creator is designed to work with your images, and, as such, it may offer a glimpse of how photography and AI can work together in the future.
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