The Enhance Feature in Fooocus AI will KILL Photoshop – Full Tutorial
In this video we will be learning what the Enhance feature in Fooocus AI does, how it works with advanced masks like SAM masks and ISNet Masks and how it can be used to do inpainting in an automated way. When it works well, this feature can quickly do what usually takes a lot of time in another software like Adobe Photoshop. Here’s the video:
Video Summary
The video demonstrates the powerful “Enhance” feature in Fooocus AI, a free Stable Diffusion-based tool that automates complex photo editing tasks usually requiring manual work in Photoshop.
Key Features and Tools
- Automated Masking: Instead of manual drawing, the tool uses models like isnet for general subject/background segmentation [04:09] and Sam (Segment Anything Model) to detect specific objects via text prompts [05:06, 14:55].
- Consolidated Enhancements: Users can perform up to three different enhancements—such as changing clothes, modifying backgrounds, and retouching skin—in a single generation process [18:04, 21:49].
Practical Applications
- Backdrop & Clothing: It can remove wrinkles from backgrounds [10:55] or completely swap outfits (e.g., a sweater for a formal blazer) while preserving the subject’s lighting and shadows [18:20].
- Skin Retouching: For high-end portraits, selecting the “Improve Details” method [25:47] and lowering Denoising Strength to roughly 0.25–0.30 allows for professional skin smoothing without distorting facial features [29:19, 31:37].
- Object & Landscape Modification: Specific details like lip color [26:38] or environment elements like changing a paved road to a dirt road [32:40] can be targeted with precision.
Technical Tips
- Edge Quality: Increasing the “Mask erode or dilate” setting helps avoid artifacts around the edges of new objects or clothing [16:37].
- Upscaling: The tool offers 1.5x–2x upscaling, but it’s recommended to set the order to “after last enhancement” to prevent the AI from altering details before the edits are complete [24:27, 30:57].
Important Links
Link to the video which shows you how to set up Fooocus AI on your computer using Google Colab:
Link to download the images shown in the video:
