Expand images beyond their original boundaries with Generative Expand

Create without boundaries and unleash your potential. Generative Expand enables you to transform your canvas dimensions from portrait to landscape, or vice versa. You can: 

• Enlarge a portrait to fit a larger frame.
• Straighten an image and fill in the corners. 
• Expand your images to create new marketing materials, such as branding advertisements, social media graphics, flyers, and more.

Generative Expand—a revolutionary Firefly-powered generative AI capability—is now available in Photoshop on the iPad. It's similar to Generative Expand on desktop and the web and brings the power and precision of Photoshop to your fingertips without being tethered to a desk.

Simply expand the canvas dimensions with or without text prompts (in more than 100 languages) to fill the canvas with content that naturally blends with the existing image. 

View the newly created content in a Generative Layer, and choose from three creative variations per generation.

From conceptualizing creative ideas to making complex edits and refinements, Generative Expand can help you quickly realize your vision in a few steps.

How to use Generative Expand

Follow these steps to use Generative Expand in Photoshop on the iPad:

Create confidently, knowing that Generative Expand is powered by Adobe Firefly, the family of creative generative AI models that are designed to be safe for commercial use—ensuring you can push the bounds of your creativity. Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock’s hundreds of millions of professional-grade, licensed, high-resolution images that are among the highest quality in the market.

We’re building these capabilities in collaboration with our community so that real-time feedback shapes these new experiences. To share your valuable feedback, visit the Adobe Photoshop community. 

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