How to get the best AI art from Adobe Firefly in Photoshop

The Adobe bashathon started when LrC went subscription 7 years ago. That subsided a few years ago when the advanced masking was introduced with LrC 11. Some just get a perpetual hate on for any company which never goes away and will just post the same thing they did years ago without investigating to see what has transpired. Money is rolling in at adobe while no substantial improvements are made and the software is full of bugs.

For some of the examples above, we had to make repeated attempts to get an image we were happy with. You’ll be given three options to choose from once the image has been generated, and if you don’t like any of the options you can regenerate three more images, or tweak the prompt to see if you can get better results. This new AI tool creates pixels in the form of real photos derived from its Adobe Stock image library; you don’t have to worry about image copyrights whatsoever. Generative fill uses the power of generative AI to fill in content within a section of an image or generate content extending beyond the image’s borders. Best known for its popular writing AI, Writsonic also offers an AI image generator that’s just as powerful. BlueWillow offers a generous free trial so you can get a feel for the tool before committing to a monthly or yearly plan.

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Next, we entered our keyword, dog, then clicked the settings button. This lets Firefly know that you want the inpainting to fill the area we erased but not conform to it. This tells Firefly not to use the original image to generate the new one; rather, follow our text prompt. Then we set the guidance strength to prompt rather than the original image.

One thing that sets this generative AI model apart is that it generates multiple results for each prompt and gives you tools to refine your preferred result. The tool is designed to be intuitive and accessible, with a drag-and-drop interface and customizable options to help users achieve their desired results. With descriptive text prompts, Adobe Firefly will generate images with striking details.

Adobe’s Firefly AI is now commercially available on Photoshop, Illustrator and Express

Just type your concept — as descriptively as you can — into a box and generate the image in seconds. Compared to other text-to-image generators like Midjourney, Firefly may have slightly lesser quality output. Even beginners can start using this tool without any prior experience. Adobe has joined hands with Yakov Livshits 14 other companies, committing to the White House’s initiative to develop technology that identifies AI-generated images. This collaboration aims to promote the responsible use of generative AI, ensuring transparency and authenticity. Moreover, businesses can now customise Firefly models with their assets.

Starting today, anyone, whether they are in Adobe’s beta program or not, can head to Firefly.Adobe.com and begin creating content using Firefly. With simple text prompts in one of over 100 supported languages, Firefly will generate four images with customizable art styles, colors, and visual themes. Another consequence of how Firefly has been designed, implemented, and released is that the platform is commercially viable. This means that companies can use Adobe Firefly to create content without concerns over content ownership, a situation that is much murkier with some competing generative AI models. The issue of copyright as it relates to AI-generated content is an ongoing one, with governments and legislators around the world still debating.

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Adobe’s blog post on the ethics of generative AI mentions Do Not Train credentials that will prevent web crawlers from harvesting artists’ images for use in datasets to train new AI models. As of July 2023, the tools are starting to become available inside Adobe applications, albeit in separate beta builds of the software rather than the current stable releases. The toolset, which is browser-based, but which is designed to be embeddable into Adobe Creative Cloud tools like Photoshop and After Effects, currently includes a text-to-image generator and AI text effects.

The best part of this text to image generating engine is that unlike other engines, Adobe Firefly’s Text to Image generating model give you option to set lighting, content type, styles, colors and tone, composition. To date, access to Firefly has been mostly limited to a small number of beta testers who requested access to the AI. Earlier this year, Firefly was also integrated into Google Bard requests, where users could further customize graphics within Adobe Express. Adobe launched a new Firefly web portal for AI experimentation, integrated Firefly capabilities …

The tools are not licensed for commercial use during the beta period. The 3D tools seem to be geared towards generating material and style variants for 3D models, rather than full text-to-3D capabilities of the type recently announced by Shutterstock. AI art tools for video editors and 3D artists in development
Further off, Adobe is working on AI-based video editing and 3D tools. In future, Adobe aims to add text-based video editing and 3D capabilities.

Adobe is simply getting away with this level of greed because “we” bend over and let them. Capitalism/consumerism is always a two-way street, however slanted and unfair as it may be. If they had raised the price of the photo program for this AI junk, it would be as big a scam as NFTs. For the full list of pricing changes, see this Adobe support article. Costin explained that the team had looked at a token-based system, but the feedback from early testers was that this was too hard to explain to customers.

The San Jose, Calif.-based company said Firefly is now natively integrated into Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Illustrator. You can continue brushing over the object until all of it is covered by these white and grey squares. On some occasions, you may need to brush over a larger area to remove the object’s shadow. If you brushed over an area beyond what’s required, Yakov Livshits you can click on the Subtract tile from the bottom toolbar and brush over the part that you don’t want to select from the image. Similar to adding and replacing objects in an image, you can use the Generative fill tool to completely remove an object from an image. Once you’ve uploaded the image you want to remove objects from, click on the Remove option on the left.

For example, it is possible to take an image of a beach and tell the AI to add a floating castle to the sky with or add pirate ships to the ocean. Illustrator has Generative Recolor and Text to Image and Text Effects is present in Adobe Express. Users can still use Adobe Firefly features if they deplete their allotted credits, however the processing time is slower, the number of generative AI tasks might be limited or the outputted image resolution is reduced. See this Adobe support article for the full rundown of how generative credits work.

• That subsided a few years ago when the advanced masking was introduced with LrC 11.
• Creative Cloud Photography plan has not and will not have its price increased.
• While many other features of Adobe Firefly are currently bein developed which they call “Under Exploration”.
• For some of the examples above, we had to make repeated attempts to get an image we were happy with.
• Leonardo is a comprehensive AI art generator, offering pre-trained models, various prompt types, post-processing, and custom AI model training, and its own version of generative fill.