The tool first analyzes an image and generates a layout map, which in the demonstration was a photo of a person, cropped at the knees, standing in front of a grassy field which was automatically broken down into its various components including their clothing, their hair, their face, and a bag they were holding. The photo’s framing was extended in all directions, and by using the layout map, the AI was able to not only intelligently fill in the background, but recreate the subject’s legs and feet, and a section of sidewalk they may or may not have been standing on when the photo was initially taken.
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Liu then goes on to use Project All of Me to automatically remove the subject’s bag, recreating the parts of their body it was blocking, extend the length of the dress they’re wearing, and even change the color and pattern of the dress’ fabric: a task that Photoshop is very much capable of accomplishing, but not with just a single click as demonstrated here.
There’s no word on if or when Project All of Me will make it into future versions of Lightroom or Photoshop, but many of those apps’ most powerful AI-powered tools started life as research demonstrations like this one, and an easy uncropping tool would, without a doubt, be a compelling addition to either app’s feature set.