How to use generative AI fill in Adobe Express

Summary

Adobe Express offers AI features, like generative AI fill, animations, and designs, which make photo editing efficient.
Adobe Express is user-friendly with a wide range of templates and assets, ideal for content creators, small businesses, and social media projects.
It lets you have real-time collaboration, social media post scheduling, and generative AI features for advanced editing capabilities.

Photography has changed so much in recent memory. Not only are cameras getting stronger and lenses are able to shoot at better resolution and from further distances, but the software used to edit the pictures you take is also taking steps forward.

Adobe Photoshop has been one of the top options for years, offering easy-to-learn tools and a platform that is simple to navigate. On a more approachable level, Adobe Express is either a standalone app or it’s included with one of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions. It serves as a bit of an entry level program for all of Adobe’s suite. But for content creators and amateur photographers alike, Adobe Express is one of the ideal options to master.

The AI features can take center stage with Express and I find myself using one more often than I thought. Here’s the AI feature I use the most in Adobe Express.

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Adobe Express

Adobe Express is a content creation tool offered in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of programs. It is an ideal program for content creators, small business owners, photographers, and more. It offers great toosl and templates to learn photo and video editing and delivers social media suggestions.

What can Adobe Express do?

There are a lot of tools under its belt

Adobe Express is made for content creators. If you are trying to create a flyer, a sign for an event, a logo for your business, a post to announce something on social media, or just edit a photo, Adobe Express can do all of those things. There are dozens of templates you can follow for all kinds of projects or the program can help you create your own. Not only are there templates to easy use, but there’s also media that you can insert from the library of assets.

There is no separate licensing agreement needed to use the Adobe stock library.

Express is also usable for teams, so you can save your work and someone else can see it in real-time — or even work on it themselves. If someone else makes any changes to it, you’ll get a notification from Express letting you know that that original piece of content was changed — which you can either accept or reject on your end as the owner.

Not only are there templates to use, but there is also media that you can insert from the library of assets.

Creating social media posts is simple with multiple preset sizes that help you create your content with the exact measurements for either an Instagram post, TikTok, or Facebook video. Express includes a social media scheduler that works with multiple platforms, such as Instagram, TikTok, and X.

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What AI features should you take advantage of in Express?

One offers a ton of options

There are a lot of generative AI features used in Express. It takes advantage of Adobe Firefly, the company’s generative AI engine, but the model is only trained on Adobe stock images. So, it’ll only pull information from Adobe-owned images, so there won’t be any copyright issues. Firefly helps with generative AI fill, animation, audio, movement, and designs. If you want to ask a large language model to create an image for you, Express can do that, too.

There are a myriad of options to play with, but the feature I’ve used the most has to do with generative AI fill. This allows you to change an image and either get rid of the background that is there and replace it with something else, remove an object or person from it completely, or replace something in a photo with an AI-generated object.

To start, you need to:

Upload a photo (Adobe takes all kinds of files).
Once the photo is uploaded, you can choose what you want to do with it. You can choose from Remove background, Remove object, Erase, or Insert object.
If you click Remove background, it will remove the background. If you click any of the others, the next option is the brush tool, which allows you to select what part of the image you want to change.
Highlight the area or object that you want to erase, remove or change with another inserted object. If you want to insert an object, Express will ask what you want to add (I added a wall charger to a photo of a gaming controller, replacing the wrist strap in the photos above).
Once you’ve highlighted it with the brush tool, Express does it work and then offers you multiple options to choose from, allowing you to select the one that best suits your editing needs.

From there, you can use Express to change the image more, adding text, animations, images, and more. You can save it to your computer, share it with another Adobe program, or share it on social media. You can also turn that image into a batch project by uploading a CSV file with different text that you want to put over that image, and it will create however many versions of it you need.