Outpainting is the technique of extending an existing image beyond its original borders, turning a small square into a full landscape or a portrait shot into a wide panorama. OpenAI introduced the feature with DALL-E 2 in late 2022 to wide notice, and Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly followed with their own versions. Conceptually it's the outward continuation of Inpainting rather than its opposite. It's now common in product photography, social-media formatting, and wide banner composition workflows.
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Glossary · Beginner · 2022
Outpainting
An editing technique that extends an image beyond its original borders by generating new content.
- EN — English term
- Outpainting
- TR — Turkish term
- Dışarı Boyama (Outpainting)