Adobe Firefly - Master Generative AI Art Content Creation

Before we dive into the detailed tutorials on Firefly, let’s do a quick run-through of its core features as well as some examples of how it can be used to enhance your work process.

Covered in the video:

• What is Firefly.

• What is included in Firefly's core functionality.

• What Firefly-powered features are available in other Adobe products.

• Overview of some of the most common use cases for Firefly.

First things first: let's make sure you can access Firefly.

Apart from getting your account ready, we'll also talk about terms such as generative credits and why you need to keep track of them to use the Firefly.

Covered in the video:

• What is Adobe Generative Credits system?

• Two options for how you can get access to Firefly.

• Is Firefly-generated content safe for commercial use?

Hey everybody and welcome to the new section of the course!

You know what they say - a picture is worth a thousand words. But in this section you’ll learn how to create a thousand pictures with just a few words which is now possible with the Firefly text-to-image functionality!

We’ll kick off this section with creating your first piece of art.

Let's generate our first picture with Adobe Firefly's Text to Image functionality. As the name suggests, this tool allows you to transform your ideas into visual art simply by describing them in words.

Covered in the video:

• Overview of Text-to-Image Interface.

• Step-by-step guide on creating your first image with Firefly.

Before we start discussing how we can further influence our image generation by applying different style effects, let’s make a quick pause and discuss how to save your image.

This topic is important as, unlike other art generation software, images are not saved automatically in Firefly. You have to take action to save them; otherwise, you’ll lose your work.

Covered in the video:

• Options for how you can save your work in Firefly.

Now that you know the basics of how to generate an image based on a text prompt, let’s get into more details of the prompt-to-image functionality and explore how you can influence the image even further by applying different Style effects.

Covered in the video:

• What are Firefly Style Effects?

• How to apply Style Effects to enhance your image generation.

Welcome back to the second part of the tutorial where we explore how to modify your image by applying style effects.

Covered in the video:

• Further demonstration of how powerful the Style Effects are.

Now that you know how to apply effects to your image generation process, let's talk about another way you can influence your AI art creation - Generative Match.

Covered in the video:

• What is the Generative Match feature?

• How to use Firefly reference image gallery.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to the next lecture related to the Firefly Generative Match functionality.

Apart from selecting a reference style image from the Firefly gallery, which we tested in the previous lecture, you can also create an image in Firefly and use it as a style reference. Let’s see how it works.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorial on how to create and use your own style reference image.

Welcome to the second part of the tutorial where we explore how to use your own style reference image to create amazing art.

Covered in the video:

• More examples of creating and using your own image as a style reference.

In this tutorial, we are going to talk about a brand-new feature of the text-to-image functionality - the structure reference. Structure reference allows you to set an outline or depth for your image.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step guide on using the Structure reference feature.

• How to use Firefly Structure reference image gallery with examples.

Hey everyone, and welcome to the next tutorial where we are talking about the Structure Reference feature.

As you might have noticed from the previous tutorial, Firefly provides quite a limited number of structure reference images, so there might be cases when you won’t be able to find a reference image that works for your project.

But the great news is that you can use your own reference images as well.

Covered in the video:

• How to use your hand-made sketches as Structure reference images.

Welcome to the second part of the tutorial where we talk about more use cases for using your own images as the Structure reference.

Covered in the video:

• Using the Structure reference image for illustrating complex concepts.

• Using the Structure reference image for Logo design.

Update: after the new Firefly release in March 2024, the negative prompts feature has been paused for some improvements. As per the information from Firefly’s team, It will be returning!

Sometimes, to get the perfect final output from the text-to-image model, you have to exclude certain elements, like texts, shapes, or specific colors. The good news is that you can easily create negative prompts by telling Firefly to leave out specific elements while processing your prompt.

Covered in the video:

• How to create negative prompts to exclude certain objects, people, or colors.

As this section of the course is all about generating images from text instructions, we cannot overlook such an important topic as how to create those instructions or prompts. So, in the upcoming video, I’ll share my top seven recommendations on how to craft effective prompts.

Covered in the video:

• Top-7 recommendations for creating effective prompts for Firefly.

Now that we’ve covered the key things about Firefly’s text-to-image functionality and also discussed the best practices for creating effective prompts, I want to share some use cases where Firefly may not perform as expected and needs further improvement.

Covered in the video:

• Examples of Firefly’s edge cases.

• Step-by-step guide for how you can help Firefly to get better (yes, you can!).

Now that you have all the essential knowledge on how to work with Firefly’s text-to-image functionality, it’s time for learning more advanced techniques. In the upcoming videos, we’ll cover how to enhance your work process and come up with even better prompt descriptions using additional tools such as Adobe Stock, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

Hey everyone, welcome to the video! So let’s kick off these advanced tutorials by covering how to enhance your process of creating art with AI by using Adobe Stock.

Covered in the video:

• Overview of the Adobe Stock interface.

• Example of using Adobe Stock image tags for creating effective Firefly prompts.

• Other cases for using Adobe Stock library for prompting.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to the video! In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to combine several images from Adobe Stock into one prompt to create stunning, unexpected AI images.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step guide for using several Adobe images and their tags for creating descriptive prompts.

Please let me know what you think about this technique in the Q&A section for the video, and of course, share the links to your projects.

Let's continue talking about some advanced techniques of how you can enhance your process of creating AI art. In this video, we'll talk about using such a tool as ChatGPT.

Covered in the video:

• Technique overview.

• Practical example of using ChatGPT for designing prompts for Firefly.

In this video, we are going to discover how to use yet another tool - Microsoft Copilot. Copilot is a chat assistant from Microsoft powered by the latest and most capable OpenAI models, GPT-4.

Covered in the video:

• Technique overview.

• Practical example of using MS Copilot for designing prompts for Firefly.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the new section of the course! Imagine stepping back in time and telling Leonardo da Vinci that one day, machines could create art. And now we're very close to making it a reality. So let's dive into how AI is not just learning from us but also creating with us, challenging our understanding of creativity and innovation

In this lecture, we will go through an overview of the AI landscape as of today.

Covered in the video:

• What is AI?

• What are machine learning foundational learning methodologies?

• Overview of AI application areas.

• What is Generative AI?

Hey everyone, and welcome back to the series of lectures where we cover AI fundamentals. In this lecture we’ll find out how AI art generation technology has evolved over time.

Covered in the video:

• When Generative AI research has started.

• Overview of the first breakthrough in the field of image generation - GANs models.

• Overview of the next breakthrough - transformer models.

• Overview of yet another breakthrough - diffusion models.

In this lecture, let’s explore how AI art generation actually works. What happens after you enter a text prompt and hit Generate? And if and how can you influence the art generation process?

Covered in the video:

• A four-step process for how AI generates art.

Let's check your knowledge of AI concepts

Hello everyone, and welcome to the new section of the course! Here, we’ll cover another functionality available within Adobe Firefly's web interface - Generative Fill. Unlike the text-to-image functionality that helps you generate brand new images from textual descriptions, Generative Fill works with existing images.

Hey everyone, and welcome to the first video of the section where we learn about Firefly's Generative Fill functionality. We'll begin by learning how to add new objects to your existing image.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorial on using Generative Fill for adding new objects to an image.

In this video, we'll learn how to remove undesired elements from your images.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorial on using Generative Fill for removing undesired objects from your images.

Let's continue our exploration of the Generative Fill function. Apart from generating new objects and removing undesired things from your image, you can also remove the image background and change the background.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorial on using Generative Fill for background removal.

Another cool thing that you can do is to stylize your existing image into a digital illustration, allowing a significant amount of the original image or background to show through.

So if you wonder what your portrait would look like as a 3D cartoon character, or as a digital watercolor illustration or minimalist digital line art, you can use Generative Fill to achieve just that.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorial on using Generative Fill for adding modern digital effects to your image.

Welcome to the second part of the video where we explore how to stylize your existing image into a digital illustration.

Covered in the video:

• Running through experiments of changing Guidance strength and Preserve content settings as well as Opacity level.

Let's explore another use-case for Generative Fill. You might have an old photo that you want to retouch, and you can use Generative Fill for this purpose.

If you are using Photoshop, you have other tools at your disposal, such as their photo restoration neural filter that has recently been added to the product. So, in that case, you can stick to the workflow you have and skip this tutorial.

Covered in the video:

• Three examples of how to retouch your old photos with the Generative Fill function.

Welcome to the new section of the course! Here we explore what Firefly-powered GenAI capabilities are available in another Adobe product - Express.

For those of you who are not familiar with Adobe Express (formerly known as Adobe Spark) - it is a tool from Adobe designed to create graphics, web pages, video stories, and other assets effortlessly.

Express is created for users without professional design or video editing skills; it has an intuitive interface with a wide range of templates and design options that help easily create high-quality visual content.

In this tutorial, we are going to explore the Express interface and the main paths to how you can start working with the product. Feel free to skip the video if you are already familiar with Express.

Covered in the video:

• How to start creating a social media post from scratch.

• How to start creating a video from a template.

• Overview of Firefly-powered AI features.

Hey everyone, welcome to the second tutorial where we explore and use Firefly-powered features available in Adobe Express. In this video, you will learn how to generate editable templates for social media as well as digital posters, flyers, invitations, and more.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorials for creating editable templates from simple prompts.

Hello everybody, and welcome to the detailed tutorial on how to create unique texts with the Firefly-powered Text effects feature in Express.

Covered in the video:

• Step-by-step tutorials for using the Text effects features with examples.