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Extending Creativity with Adobe Firefly
Extending Creativity with Adobe Firefly

Extending Creativity with Adobe Firefly : Create striking visuals, add text effects, and edit design elements faster with text prompts

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Extending Creativity with Adobe Firefly

Getting Started with Adobe Firefly

Welcome to the world of generative AI imagery! Exciting times are coming ahead as we enable ourselves to generate unique images, use text effects, and edit images faster at speeds that we never experienced before, all while having fun in the creation process.

Let’s appreciate how Adobe Firefly can offer you a design copilot or a second creative brain, which will help you brainstorm lots of content ideas, saving you time and allowing you to focus on being creative.

In this chapter, we will get acquainted with accessing Adobe Firefly in your browser and get an overview of the existing models that it has to offer. We will navigate specific sections of the interface to get more functions that will benefit you along the way, discover how generative credits work, and learn how Content Credentials will help you protect yourself and your outputs along the way.

Here is a brief overview of what we will cover:

  • Getting an in-depth background...

Learning how to use Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is a standalone web application that enables you to ideate, create, and improve your current creative workflow using generative AI. You can use prompts to easily visualize and bring life to your thoughts and translate them into visual elements, such as images and text effects, by generating color variations and replacing specific portions of existing photos to your liking. Some notable affiliations of Firefly can be seen in NVIDIA Picasso, Google Gemini, and Adobe Experience Manager, respectively. We will discuss these in Chapter 8.

It aims to enhance the creative process by augmenting your use of Adobe Photoshop for faster image compositing, creating vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator, full integration with Adobe Express for faster content creation, and searching for that next great photo in Adobe Stock.

It is trained using openly licensed and public domain content, making it safe for commercial use while keeping together a compensation...

Understanding Content Credentials

Content credentials are like a special kind of proof that comes with digital files. They let creators add extra information about themselves and how they made something. This extra information helps creators get more recognition for their work, connect with others online, and be clear with their audience about what they created.

These Content Credentials are part of a group of technologies called the CAI. Adobe and over 1,200 other CAI members are working together to make a standard way for people to share digital content.

This standard keeps important details about who made it and when and how it was created. Adobe also helped start another group, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

This group is creating a global standard for sharing this information, not just in Adobe products but across different platforms and websites. Content credentials are a way of using this standard in action.

Content credentials make...

Summary

In this first chapter, we covered a lot of our fundamentals as we discovered the features and parts of Adobe Firefly. We discovered that specific use cases may be used to augment our creative workflows. We created our Adobe ID, which we can leverage to access more features; we covered how generative credits work and how it can impact you as a user to plan ahead if you are going to use the free or the premium plan; and lastly, we learned how we can we protect ourselves with our creations using Content Credentials.

In the next chapter, we will cover how to use one of the modules called Text to image; it is one of the most feature-rich and exciting features to learn about in Adobe Firefly.

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  • Create stunning visuals without complex editing
  • Enhance your image creation skills with advanced editing techniques
  • Discover practical tips to integrate Firefly with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express
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Creating conceptual art and design assets is a slow and laborious process, especially for those unfamiliar with complex design tools. With Adobe Firefly, you can say goodbye to your design challenges and start creating attractive visuals faster than ever before. Written by an Adobe expert with over two decades of experience, Extending Creativity With Adobe Firefly teaches you how to use Generative AI for art and design with easy-to-follow steps. You’ll learn how to create images, add text effects, edit photos, and explore colors faster with Adobe Firefly. You'll discover Firefly’s capabilities for tasks like generating text-to-image samples, styling text effects, and editing photos quickly. You’ll also find how to integrate Firefly with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps to streamline your workflow. If you're just starting out, this book will acquaint you with the basics of design, enabling you to create images easily. If you are a professional, you’ll learn how to improve collaboration and visual communication, and if you are a teacher, you’ll be able to enhance your teaching methods with visual thinking. By the end, you’ll master every function of Adobe Firefly and create outputs for website and desktop applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, and Adobe Stock.

Who is this book for?

This book is for students, marketers, content creators, aspiring designers, and entrepreneurs who want to craft design elements using Generative AI images and edit visuals without extensive graphic design software know-how. This book empowers you to harness the full potential of Adobe Firefly as a beginner, regardless of your design experience.

What you will learn

  • Compare the functionality of Adobe Firefly with other similar GenAI models
  • Generate images effortlessly using text-to-image prompt engineering
  • Edit photos with Generative Fill, using brushes for object removal and inpainting
  • Create stylish textured words and phrases through text effects and color combinations using Generative Recolor
  • Extend your design workflow by integrating Adobe Firefly with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express
  • Access resources for Generative AI, including example prompts and techniques for immediate use
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Part 1:Meet Adobe Firefly Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Adobe Firefly Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Using the Text to image Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Editing Images Faster using Generative Fill Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Creating Stylistic Text Effects in Adobe Express Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Exploring Color Options with Generative Recolor Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Extending your Creative Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Accessing Adobe Firefly in Photoshop and Illustrator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Accessing Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express and Adobe Stock Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Beyond Firefly Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Dhwanit Jun 24, 2024
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This book is an early gem to familiarize yourself with the power of GenAI in creative workflows using Adobe's powerful creative suite. I have maintained that the moat of visual GenAI lies in how it reimagines creative workflows and this book talks about exactly that. Some of the topics that the book sheds light on which I find useful for me:1. how to use AdobeExpress to accelerate content creation worlflows using Adobe's creative suite,2. prompt cheat sheet and reverse engineering prompts for Adobe Firefly,3. generative Recolor in Adobe Illustrator.Looking forward to the next version of the book which covers even the new features like Object Composites and Custom Models!
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This book will give you insights and knowledge about adobe firefly that will allow you to be proficient. Definitely a book to get started with
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Thank you guys so much for my copy of this book. From the beginning of the book with the introduction about Firefly to the case examples, this book gives me an insight into Adobe Firefly. My knowledge of Firefly has really expanded just from the first 3 chapter and I am quite sure by this next weekend I would have finished the book. It is truly that informative. Thank you so very much for writing this book.
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This book was really fun and easy to read, and the exercises were thorough and highly creative!Rollan covered everything you need to know about Adobe Firefly and went beyond by showing how to use Adobe Firefly and Gen AI in Adobe Express, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Substance! Wow! I didn't expect to learn all that!It’s a fantastic guide to staying updated on Artificial intelligence and can drastically boostyour productivity and creativity! Thanks, Rollan, for a very enjoyable and educational book!
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Great tool for learning Adobe fireflyThis book is a valuable early resource for anyone looking to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) in creative workflows using Adobe's robust creative suite. I’ve always believed that the true strength of visual GenAI lies in its ability to reinvent creative processes, and this book delves into just that. It provides insights into how to utilize Adobe Express to streamline content creation workflows, offers a prompt cheat sheet along with techniques for reverse engineering prompts in Adobe Firefly, and explores the use of Generative Recolor in Adobe Illustrator.
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