Blending images

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how you can blend images together using Adobe Firefly. And this is something where you can kind of stitch images together for building panoramas or just making more complex compositions all together. And it's all based on GenAI technology, which means it can just generate more and new content on the transition lines. It's a little bit similar to what we've done before where we have the image of the girl in the coffee shop taking a selfie and we had to blend in the hair a lot better. Now let's take a look at this example. This is blending_start.psd, and I have one image here on the left-hand side, and I have one image here on the right hand side. Now the grassy fields look a little bit similar. The perspective seems to match up. The transition between the left and the right image could use a little bit of work. And this is where Firefly comes in. So what we're going to be doing here is we are going to just position these both images next to one another, and then we just use selection tools to start blending everything in. So I'm going to choose something like the lasso tool, and I'm just going to go ahead and just make a selection like so, and make sure you have a lot of overlap between the images, which means you're giving Firefly a lot of room to work with and to come up with some sort of a transition between the left image and the right image. Simply click Generative Fill and then click Generate again to start this process. Now this is now an image one next to the other. It could be above or below or in the middle of it. So now I'm just blunting the edges of layers that seem to touch one another while what we had before with the hair was a scenario where the hair was on top of another layer. While I was talking, it actually finished already. So I got this as a first result, second result, third result. I think I like the first one better. This looks pretty good. And so this is how easy it is just to start blending in images. So I can add as many images as I want. It's going to continue to blend everything in, which is really, really cool. So I can even come in and now just use the crop tool. I'll hit the Clear option, and I can just go ahead and just use Generative Expand even just to add more image, more sky. Let's do that and let's hit Enter or Return. I'm not going to type in anything just to give it a little bit more room near the top of this edge. And so again, whatever you select as an overlap will be used as room for transition to start to blend from one image to the other. So let's pick this one for example. This looks great. And then if you want, you can always continue with this composition by, for example, flattening everything and then replacing the sky. So let me just quickly do that. I'll create a new layer. I'm going to press the shortcut, which is quite complex. It's Shift + Command + Option + E, or Shift + Control + Alt + E on Windows, which is going to merge everything in the current layer. And then based on that, you can always optionally choose Edit, and you can choose Sky Replacement. And from there you can just go ahead and choose a different sky. Again, this is not Firefly, but it is using AI in the background just to create those masks for you. And again, you can just experiment and just create these beautiful scenes. Oh, this is not too bad. Just select the one you want. Click and drag it, and then choose OK. And we have now created a pretty complex composition transition, which traditionally would have probably taken you hours to do using a lot of stock footage and a lot of elbow grease. And this is what we've done in just barely two, three minutes.