Welcome to this week’s edition of Architecture Insights. A weekly newsletter on artificial intelligence for architects, landscape architects, and designers.

Adobe Creative Suite has released a few prominent AI features to their tools recently including Photoshop’s ‘generative fill’.

This Week In AI

Google Gemini

Google releases Gemini, a remake of their Chatbot and AI assistant, Bard.

Google's previous GPT, Bard, has been renamed Gemini. Currently, Gemini is the largest competitor of ChatGPT. Both a free and paid version of Gemini is available.

DALL-E 3 watermarks

DALL-E 3 will start adding watermarks to their generated images. Starting on the 12th, images will have a visible watermark in the top left corner. This is a significant move towards developing transparency and authenticity in digital content generated by AI.

EvolveLAB AI

EvolveLAB introduces Glyph Copilot, an AI GPT assistant for the Revit plug-in.

This upgrade to the software will use GPT-4 to automate tasks like drawing dimensions, tagging, and view creation. Below is an example of generating dimensions in seconds with the use of a personalized AI project chatbot.

Generative Fill Photoshop

We want to showcase three prominent features of generative fill that are useful for editing and upgrading site images and perspectives.

Ensure your Photoshop is updated to the latest version or at least version 24.6 to use generative fill.

You may also need to navigate to the 'Beta apps' in your creative cloud apps manager and install 'Photoshop (Beta)', this is required if you have not done so already.

You can also access a limited version of Photoshop with AI features on the web at Adobe Photoshop.

Photoshop AI (expand image in photoshop)

Use the marquee tool → then select the image outline → followed by the select inverse feature → then hit generate (with or without a prompt). Photoshop will do the rest to expand your image.

Below we took the first image and extended it to show more of the surrounding area.

Original Image:

Expanding Image:

Image variations

Here we can change and explore variations of our main subject, in this case, the building.

Select the area you want to change and in the prompt box type your desired outcome. In our case, we highlighted the central building and in our prompt box wrote: “bright lights and parametric design.”

The result:

Now we want to add a phone booth to the image. Use the lasso or rectangular marquee tool to outline your area and describe the object you want to add in the prompt box.

Result with a phone booth:

Photoshop generates three variations you can easily switch between using the toolbar or properties manager. Additionally, it automatically creates a layer for any new objects, allowing you to manipulate them manually.

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A.I.