AI Photoshop Project

 

To begin, I first found one of the photos I took on a rail trail this past week and as you can see it is very dull and gloomy since spring is not here yet. I decided to take this winter picture of the trail and use Ai to make a yellow brick road! 

I used the 2024 Photoshop AI feature "Select Subject" and I was surprised it ended up selecting the path.

The AI made three different paths and I went with the first one, the yellow color was more of an orange so I made a block of the bright yellow and changed the blending mode to Soft light.

Then I selected each side of the path and had the AI make red poppy flowers, it took 3 times to generate the poppies correctly because at first they weren’t following the path.  

I then had it add a rainbow above the bridge. After that I had it added a bird, because it made the place feel less empty.

At this point I realized that the place will look really bland and gray regardless of what I do, and I started adding things randomly.

Candy, more birds and changing the first bird to be more colorful. 

Finally, I feel like I created a magical world inspired by the Wizard of Oz from the winter trail photo. 

While this was a fun activity, I found the writing in a prompt and having the AI create something to be very boring.  I find it a lot funnier to work on creating, photographing or drawing my own images. 

The advantage of using Ai is definitely speed to get a project done.  

At the same time there is less thought put into the work and so in my own opinion I feel Ai art is visually lacking the emotional spirit of creation that comes from inside someone.  I doubt that I’ll use Ai for my personal self since I enjoy the process of creating art.