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title: "What Is Generative Fill? | ImageQuarry"
url: https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-generative-fill/
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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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?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-inpainting/) and [What is outpainting?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/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._

Next step: [What is inpainting?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-inpainting/)

## Related questions

- [What is inpainting?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-inpainting/): Regenerating a selected part of an image.
- [What is outpainting?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-outpainting/): Extending an image beyond its edges.
- [What is a mask in AI image editing?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/what-is-a-mask-in-ai-image-editing/): A marked area that tells the model where to edit.
- [What is the difference between an AI image generator and an AI image editor?](https://www.imagequarry.com/faq/ai-image-generator-vs-ai-image-editor/): One creates from text; the other changes an image.

Last reviewed 2026-10-20 by ImageQuarry.

## Describe the change instead of selecting it

In ImageQuarry, say what to change and what to keep, and review the new version.