More Adobe Photoshop Firefly AI Fun!

Practicing using Adobe Firefly AI so that it does not overrun my creative expression. Image was created by drawing the lady’s head on a layer using a David Belliveau curly hair brush and one of Grut‘s pencil brushes for the skin and details on the face. Duplicated this layer and turned off the original for backup. On this layer the Contextual Taskbar was used to Generate the rest of the image using the prompt “Watercolor background of beach and add female body to woman” showing different poses with a white bathing suit on the body connected to her head. Pretty cool! The chosen variation was turned into a new layer (see my Fun Photoshop Blog called Placing Any Photoshop Generative Fill Variation on a Layer Easily to do this) and the other variations layer was turned off in case other parts would be needed later. Placed a New Layer under the newly created body variation layer (turned off at this point), a different AI background was generated the same way using the prompt: “Beach background in watercolor with pastel colors.” After selecting this new background variation and turning it into a regular layer, the original body AI layer was turned on above. With a layer mask, its background was painted out where not needed.

Painting Details: On separate layers, the face drawing was painted like I do with my Selfie AI images. The highlights and shadows on the body were created using Sam Peterson’s technique. (See my Fun Photoshop A Few Photoshop and Lightroom Tips and Tricks Blog-see #2 for this.) The skirt effect was created by following Carol Tayler’s Silk Texture short video for net brush settings, and the gold Scatter Brush added on top of the skirt was from Jessica Johnson’s video Creating Custom Photoshop Pattern Brushes (and Layer Styles) Inspired by High Couture: Rahul Mishra Muse on Behance. Lots of clean up especially on the body and several Adjustment Layers were added at this point – AI still is not perfect in Photoshop! Though I did enjoy trying out a different way to use it …..Digital Lady Syd