Getting Started
- Firefly Overview
- Documentation
- Product & Feature Guides
- Feature Additions & Updates
- Firefly Use Cases & Value
- Firefly In The Media
Firefly Surfaces
🔥 Adobe MAX / October Release Updates! Select the surface/tool below to get all of the details.
What's Firefly?
Firefly is the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products, focusing initially on image and text effect generation.
Firefly will offer new ways to ideate, create, and communicate while significantly improving creative workflows. Firefly is the natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years, driven by the belief that people should be empowered to bring their ideas into the world precisely as they imagine them.
Documentation & Enablement Resources
Documentation
- Adobe's AI ethics
- Firefly Legal FAQs (Enterprise) 📄
- Developing & deploying Firefly responsibly
- What was the training data for Firefly?
- What are Content Credentials?
- Content Credentials in Adobe Firefly
- Accessibility within Firefly
- Known limitations
- Firefly Custom Model Security FAQs
Guides
- Mini Firefly Prompting Guide – Breaking down the formula for the best output within Firefly
- A guide to effective prompts when using Firefly
- Tips & Tricks – Writing effective prompts (HelpX)
Webinars, Labs, & Workshops
- Prompt your imagination with Firefly* (Webinar)
- The Ultimate Generative AI Prompt Guide (Lab)
- Jump-start Creative Ideation with Adobe Firefly* (Lab)
- 3 Ways to Master Generative AI Features in Photoshop* (Webinar)
- Boost Content Production Part 1: Photoshop* (Lab)
- Boost Content Production Part 2: Style Kits, Libraries, & Express* (Lab)
* Must register to access the recording
Use Cases w/ Success Metrics
Barbie and Adobe Firefly Generative AI: Bringing magic to Mattel’s packaging – Adobe Blog (Jun 2024)
Havas unlocks unlimited creativity with Adobe Firefly and Adobe Stock – Adobe Blog (Jun 2024)
IBM reimagines content creation and digital marketing with Adobe Firefly Generative AI – Adobe Blog (Mar 2024)
Adobe Generative AI: Redefining Productivity in Creative Imaging – Pfeiffer Report (Aug 2023)
Firefly in the media
CAI & Adobe’s AI Transparency Commitment – Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI
TIME recognizes Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill, Generative Expand as Best Inventions of 2023
Make amazing transformations in seconds
Website Features
- Text to Video (Beta) - Transform text prompts and still images into a professional quality, cinematic video that aligns with your vision.
- Fast Mode - generates lower quality (512 x 512) images VERY fast
- Upscale - you can upscale Fast Mode images to make them 2k
- Session Prompt history - shows prompts you've used in that same browser session
- Object Composites - Blend product shots and objects into generated scenes
- Composition Reference - Generate image variations matching the composition of a reference image.
- Style Match - Generate images to match the style from an existing image
- Text to Image
- Generative Fill (Inpainting)
- Generative Expand (Outpainting)
- Save your Firefly-generated images to Creative Cloud Libraries
- Share your Firefly-generated images w/ your settings and reference asset/s
Custom Models & Services
- Firefly Custom Model Overview
- Firefly Custom Model Security FAQs
- Firefly Services (API, Automations, etc)
Community
🎨 Creative Cloud – Pro Tools
Photoshop
From concepting creative ideas to making complex edits and refinements, generative AI features like Generative Fill and Generative Expand can help you quickly realize your vision while giving you complete control over every creation.
Recent Additions & Updates
🔥 All Photoshop updates (October Release)
- Distraction Removal – Remove distractions from images, including people who are not the main subject in an image or cables and wires
- Updated Generative Fill & Expand – Create more photorealistic images using text prompts with the most advanced Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and Generate Background
- Generate Similar – Quickly create multiple variations of an existing image created
- Generate Image – Generate dozens of ideas in a matter of minutes and jumpstart asset creation
- Reference Image – Upload a reference image to help Photoshop generate more relevant and customized variations
- Generate a new background – Replace the background of your image with generated content
- Edit images with Generative Fill – Use simple text prompts to add or remove content non-destructively
- Generative Expand – Expand the dimensions of your image and generate content with simple text prompts
- Enhance Detail – improves the sharpness of variations generated by Generative Fill
- New additions to Contextual Task Bar to help with masking and generative AI workflows
- Common Questions: Generative AI in Photoshop
- Share for review with Frame.io for Creative Cloud Enterprise users
Photoshop Beta on Desktop
All Photoshop Beta updates (October Release)
- Generate variations with a reference image – Add more control over your generated outputs by uploading a reference image to influence the style or content of variations
- Generative Workspace – Create dozens of assets simultaneously and explore multiple concepts at once.
- Work with 3D assets in Photoshop – Use the Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (beta) app plug-in to view and edit 3D content as editable smart objects in your creative projects
Photoshop API Resources
🎨 Creative Cloud – Pro Tools
Illustrator
Explore every color palette and theme you can imagine in Adobe Illustrator with simple text prompts powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI.
All Illustrator Updates (October Release)
- Objects on Path – Attach and align objects to a curved or straight-line path, and then rearrange and move them easily without losing alignment.
- Image Trace – Create crisp, editable traces with close-fitting curves and fewer anchor points. Preserve transparent backgrounds and linear gradients, auto-group paths, and convert basic shapes into live shapes as you trace.
- Text to Pattern (Beta Update) – Set the density level for patterns and clear settings easily
- Generative Shape Fill (Beta) – Make vector shape fills quickly and edit them in your own style.
- Text to Vector (Beta) – Explore and refine scenes, subjects, and icons swiftly with powerful creative controls.
- Generative Recolor – Transform the hues in your artwork with text prompts
- Retype – Convert text within images and outlined text into live text for editing (Beta)
- Smooth slider – Smoothen paths with more control
- Intertwine – Overlap objects in dynamic new ways
- Complete list of what's new
🎨 Creative Cloud – Pro Tools
InDesign
Generative AI comes to InDesign.
All InDesign Updates (October Release)
- Generative Expand – Fill in the missing areas based on the surrounding pixels while resizing an image and adding background elements, to achieve the desired composite.
- Text to Image (Beta) – Provide a brief description of the Photo or Art you want to generate, and InDesign will swiftly provide multiple variations for you to explore. Try out the variants and select the one that suits your layout.
- Generative Expand (Beta) – Effortlessly extend existing images with the Generative Expand feature.
- Common questions (FAQs) about generative features in InDesign
🎨 Creative Cloud – Pro Tools
Premiere Pro
Adobe Firefly Video Model Coming Soon
Edit videos faster with artificial intelligence in Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Refreshed UI – A fresh, new design that’s modern and more consistent. With two dark modes, a light mode, and a high-contrast accessibility mode.
- Properties Panel – The new context-aware Properties Panel intelligently surfaces the most frequently needed tools just when you need them.
- Project Creation Dialog – Project creation is much easier with features like naming, storage selection, template choice, project settings, and a 'skip import mode.'
- Text-based Editing
- Speech to Text
- Color Correction/Matching
Premiere Pro Beta on Desktop
All Premiere Pro Beta Updates (October Release)
- Generative Extend – Premiere Pro uses generative AI to seamlessly add frames to the beginning or end of a clip.
After Effects
Your next move in motion design.
All AfterEffects Updates (October Release)
- Refreshed UI – A fresh, new design that’s modern and more consistent. You get cleaner fonts and typography for better legibility and consistency with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
- Per-character Text and Paragraph styling in Expressions – Use extended text and paragraph styling capabilities in Expressions, including per-character control for efficient text-based animations.
- Decluttered 3D Model Import – Import 3D models while keeping the Project panel organized and clutter-free without introducing dependent files or extra folders.
- Content-Aware Fill
- Roto Brush
News & Updates
🎨 Creative Cloud – Pro Tools
Substance
Both Sampler and Stager are getting brand new beta features that streamline workflows and empower artists to explore possibilities for material creation and product visualization faster than ever before.
Enablement Resources
Sampler
- Text to Texture (Beta): Firefly lets designers visualize new textures with only a text prompt, right within the Sampler app
Stager
- Generative Background (Beta): Powered by Adobe Firefly, a new feature in Stager lets professionals visualize products in any imaginable environment with nothing more than a simple description.
🖼 Visual Communicator / Marketer
Adobe Express
Feature Highlights
A collection of new feature updates from the past month in Adobe Express that you don't want to miss.
Make amazing work that stands out with generative AI features powered by Adobe Firefly.
- Text to Image
- Insert Object (Generative Fill)
- Remove Object (Generative Fill)
- Text Effects
- Text to Template
No need to start from scratch... Seamlessly access and add linked Photoshop and Illustrator assets that always stay in sync.
🧑💻 Developer/Automation Services
Firefly Services
Accelerate content production with the power of AI
- Firefly Services operation overview
- Firefly Services Overview (Developer)
- Firefly Services Documentation
Express SDK
Build add-ons for Adobe Express or embed Adobe Express features into your application.
🗂️ Collaboration
Frame.io
Collaborate where you create. Centralize media, project files, and feedback, making it easier to work with remote editors, artists, and clients.
- Share for review with Frame.io for Creative Cloud Enterprise users
👥 Collaboration
Creative Cloud Libraries
In addition to Firefly, there are a lot of new and future updates within Creative Cloud to include increased collaboration opportunities in-app & with stakeholders.
Creative Cloud Libraries
Coediting within our flagship products:
Request/review feedback with anyone (no Adobe license required)
Adobe Stock
Experience a new level of creative freedom where you can generate images and source from the expansive Adobe Stock collection.
Your suggestions & feedback are essential to shaping the direction of the product
Sharing feedback about any Firefly generated content:
Hover over any image to see the reporting features
Use the 👍/👎 buttons to provide feedback on the quality and accuracy of each image.
Prompts may also unintentionally generate problematic or offensive images; in such cases, you can use the Report tool 🚩 to let us know.
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This is an aggregated list of all things Firefly, specific to Creative Enterprise. All shared information & resources within this page are publicly available across the various Adobe channels.
Page managed by Zach Perkins from Adobe's Strategic Development, Pro Design team in the PNW
Please reach out with any questions, to share any comments, and/or feedback.
Credits:
Zach Perkins Adobe Strategic Development, Pro Tools zperkins@adobe.com