AI and Photoshop: A New Plugin Integrates Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 into Adobe's Editor

Generative AI algorithms have revolutionized the way we create images from text, but this technology is slowly making its way into professional tools. One notable example is Flying Dog, a plugin compatible with Adobe Photoshop that in its latest version integrates Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2. If you're thinking about adding AI to your workflow, you should take a closer look…

I've been generating images with AI for a couple of months, and while my results aren't bad, the most striking images on the web are the ones that receive extra attention from a digital artist. Subtle corrections, modifications, light and intensity adjustments… when an expert intervenes, the results are superior.

The debates about ethics and copyright continue, but one thing is certain: there are many digital artists out there interested in adding generative algorithms to their toolkits. If we talk about Adobe Photoshop, this is already possible with the help of Flying Dog, a plugin that puts DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion on the table.

Flying Dog: Photoshop + DALL-E 2 + Stable Diffusion

The official Adobe Cloud tour gives us a solid idea of what we can do with Flying Dog. Of course, Text to Image and Img2Img are a couple of clicks away, but the Inpainting (insert new objects or regenerate the background after deleting one) and Outpainting (extend the size of an image with additional generations) modes are especially powerful. Also, the preview is a fundamental resource that can help us get an advance look at the images with a reduced number of steps, and check if the prompt is pointing in the right direction.

Flying Dog supports several execution modes. The developer's recommended way is by applying their own GRPCserver solution, which installs Stable Diffusion locally almost automatically and enables all secondary functions. Some things are still pending, like face restoration (via GFPGAN or CodeFormer) and tiling support, but I imagine we won't have to wait too long. The alternative (remember that local SD modes require Nvidia hardware and as much VRAM as possible) is to use DreamStudio, but it carries an extra cost.

Finally, the Flying Dog plugin costs $89 in the Adobe store. If that sounds too steep, the developer offers a free version for Krita, with a less polished interface, and it requires a local installation of Stable Diffusion (also using GRPCserver). In any case, the Photoshop plugin is only at version 2.0. This is just the beginning…

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