Using AI Imagery for Illustration and Design

Learn how to use Midjourney, Firefly, DALL-E, and other AI image generation tools to create assets for composites created in Photoshop and other tools.

Introduction

• Explore the potential of generative AI tools to create composites
• What you should know
• Working with the exercise files

1. Creating with AI

• Using AI in image production
• Exploring AI tools
• AI in Photoshop

2. It Starts with the Prompts

• Prompt writing basics
• Writing prompts that work
• Photo and lighting prompts
• Art and illustration prompts

3. Inpainting and Outpainting

• Inpainting in Firefly
• Generative Fill in Photoshop for inpainting
• Outpainting with Generative Fill in Photoshop

4. Building AI Images

• Doing a virtual photo shoot in AI
• Creating the subject with prompts
• Isolating a subject from the background
• Create and add background elements
• Inpainting additional details
• Finalizing the image

5. Product Shot: Using Existing Images

• Separating objects from backgrounds
• Generating new background
• Cleaning up background details
• Glass and transparency effects
• Refining details

6. Adjusting and Finalizing AI Images

• Fixing AI faces with neural filters
• Replacing AI faces with inpainting
• Modifying environments in Photoshop
• Adding realism with Focus Effects
• Color correction and final output

Conclusion

• Next steps