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What is generative fill?

Generative Fill is an Adobe Photoshop feature that adds, removes or changes content inside a selection, using Adobe Firefly models and an optional text prompt. You select an area, describe what should appear, and choose from the variations Photoshop returns on a new layer.

Leaving the prompt empty fills the selection from the surrounding image, which is how Generative Fill removes objects. A related feature, Generative Expand, extends an image beyond its edges through the Crop tool.

The general techniques have other names: filling a selected region is often called inpainting, and extending the canvas is called outpainting. See What is inpainting? and What is outpainting?.

Generative Fill works by selection. ImageQuarry works by description: you say what to change, and what to keep, in plain words, and each change becomes a new version.

Sources: Adobe Help (Generative Fill); Adobe Blog (Generative Expand, July 28, 2023); ImageQuarry homepage. Checked October 20, 2026.

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Last reviewed October 20, 2026 by ImageQuarry

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