I like the concept of Firefly, how it uses images that have been licensed etc and it's looking to give back to the original content creators. I'm sure that if it's slightly behind its competitors right now - it won't be like that for long. Thank you for sharing x
Thanks for this. My first glimpse of this amazing technology. I'd imagine now all artists will be struggling to get as far away from this look as possible.
Thank you so much Colin, very interesting! I have mixed feelings, scared of what will happen to the future of photography and yet happy to see all these abilities that Firefly offers for creating new artistic stuffs! Good luck and thank you again!
Nice review. This Adobe Firefly is very very interesting to me. I have used many other AI image generators like Midjourny, Dall-E-2, Bing, Leonardo. But it surpasses others. Thanks for your great review.
It will also be necessary to learn how to be inventive with language to get a desired creative result or solution to a project. A.I. will make everyone a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Photographer at the press of a button or by typing in a descriptive sentence.
I have just recently been accepted to use Adobe firefly looking I would say mid journey is ahead of the game so far and a firefly needs to catch up with regards to the amazing artwork that can be produced.
Nice review. I think I’m a little more comfortable with the thought of Firefly over the other ones. It sounds a better way to go in respect to the contributors.
I think Adobe's approach to using licensed images, rather than essentially stealing as do the other AI image generators, is the way to go. Ultimately, we will probably see lawsuits against the other engines, as well as against those using their copyright infringed content in their works. As someone who had to go after a magazine for copyright infringement and, got them to settle out of court, you do NOT want to get yourself caught up in such a suit. It is incredibly expensive.
i like to see them try tbh. No way would it stand in court. It does not copy the material, it simply mimics the human brain and draw "inspiration" from those images. Adobe screaming piracy and theft is simply a distraction since they're late to the party.
Really enjoyed this video although Firefly has really improved and is now definitely competing with mid journey. Just a query. When I download my creations from Firefly they are downloaded to my download folder. I would like to move the creation directly into Photoshop. How to did you drag into Photoshop?
I enjoy using these AI generators as a graphic designer. I tried out numerous things. Both paid and unpaid options are available. Yet, I believe that Blue Willow is among the best free picture generators out of all of those. With BW, I can make countless amazing photos
I am looking forward to trying firefly. Right now I find Midjourney a great tool for my digital work. It isn't perfect and cannot always see my vision, but I can use some of the generated elements to add to compositions. Sometimes the images are a bot off like weired facial features and more than one hand or arm but it still intriguing and fun to use.
Tradition is that you use the images of others when creating your own work so how is that any different than using AI? For example, If I'm going to do a castle I go out and find images of castles and then use those as my example in creating my own castle.
Hello again and thank you for another great presentation of information. I think that this AI technology being incorporated into PS could open up so much potential for compositing and such like. Looking forward to this happening. :)
Looks fun. I'm interested. Waiting in the Beta line for Adobe to let me use the beta - and I never mess with Betas. Likely I'll keep doing my own image work - but I'm blown away by the text-font Firefly possibilities.
I'm excited for this, as a full time retoucher, I can see this being useful for when it comes to creating composites. I want to know, can you feed it an image and ask it to generate a new outfit? For example, I remember I had a job where I had a woman in dress that I needed to change to a leather skirt. Warping leather was actually a trickier job than first expected, so I'd love to retry that image by adding the original image and saying "change the skirt to leather" and see what it spits out, because if it can do 90% of the work and be a good enough result that I can polish it off then I can see huge value in this!
It seems like a timesaver to generate or spark ideas. And, I could see elements of my beyond beta Firefly AI content used as select parts of my Ps photo composites. Not an entire Firefly AI image, but the moral equivalent to generating a specific model with a smartphone photo that can be modified in Ps (or have materials added to it or work with displacement maps). For me, as I envision using Firefly, integration into Ps would be key.
I signed up for that last month, actually 13 days ago the day I saw this video about it, and still haven't heard from them. I can go to the Firefly page all I get is the "Request Access", which I've already done, no email or anything telling when they are going to give me access to it, or whether they aren't going to give me access to it. Do you have any idea of why? I'd like to try it out but I can't get to it!
Thanks Colin. This is very competitive with our latest version of Canva. We are already using it in our agency and it's a time saver. I'll be happy when Adobe releases Firefly. As you noted in your previous video about the future of AI we're finding it to be a time saver and allowing us to be a lot more creative because we can get creative tasks out of the way in a much more efficient time frame. Can't wait to get this going
I like the way you show the speed of processing lol of course it's going to be faster than MidJourney as Firefly has only been released to a select few and has not got millions of users generating images all at once, Adobe is the way to go though if not to just divert away from the pending court cases if your producing works for commercial use.
everything is cool everything is interesting and nice and so on, but where’s the commercial interest, where’s the merger with the money making photo business ?
Really scary for fully qualified full time graphic artists who are paid for designing and coming up with concepts for clients and companies...very scary For the future for photographers also 😢😢
In the beta, honestly... no where near what i was expecting. The generated humans especially are so far behind other ai generated services its crazy. The text thing is kinda fun but is a massive gimmick, most of it I would never us in a graphics project and would just do it manually my own way. I am looking forward to seeing how this progresses though... can't wait for this to be inside PS.
Absolutely agreed. The humans are just hilarious. Some aspects are interesting, but just the editing part, not the generation. Even free generators are far ahead.
It is kind of impressive in an illusionary way. Unfortunately all the images look the same. In branding we always suggest companies to use a photographer rather than stock. I think this will be a similar issue, the ones who use photographers for their brand are the ones you feel are more genuine, I guess it is a natural raw response to how humans are hard wired. Friend or foe?
The golden age of big company, The darkest age of digital creators. All assets on Adobe stock were used for training AI,and contributors have no way to opt out for training, As the leader of software development for digital creators, Adobe should not launch such projects that infringe on the rights of digital creators.
Scary but this is the future, It will change the panorama for creatives from photographers to illustraters in a way that we have not seen it decades......It is really impressive
I am NOT an artist, but with this I could be!!!!! Do I see all the problems it could generate, absolutely! I'm on the fence about using it right now, but some of the images are so interesting I could quickly switch over to being a user - especially in the winter when I can't get outside and shoot photos!!!!! LOL!!! Remember this... there were a gigantic number of complaints from musicians when synthesizers were introduced, effects pedals for guitars, etc.. Look at the industry now and how all those enhanced the music rather than destroyed it!!!! (Okay, enhanced it SOME and RUINED it in others, depending on your tastes!!!!!!! :)
Big companies destroyed music. Where are the musicians bringing awareness to global and political issues. They have been removed or brainwashed into social media, forced to beg to be heard. Without struggle the rewards are empty and meaningless. These images will be used and will look great in some places but terrible in 99% of uses. The human brain will quickly work out which companies care about them or don’t give a damn by the effort they put in. It will be a struggle, I hope the right side wins.
So was the piano. But the difference between the introduction of the piano and synthesizers with something like this is that the piano and synthesizers still need the human being to create the music. AI couldn't care less who, or what, feeds it the inputs. ChatGPT could input to it and get the same results as any human.
@@j.criquette3334 LOL!!!! If you think the synthesizer needs a human to make music, you have not delved into computers very much. On top of that, you need to look up a program started in 1988 called Band In A Box. This bit is from Wiki: "The user enters four basic keyboard inputs consisting of: chords; a key; a tempo; a musical style.[2]" Now if you don't believe that a separate, non-human controlled computer couldn't enter those features on a random basis, again you know little about computers. Even a crude mechanical device could be made to do the same thing with cogs, gears, pullyies and whatnot. So a randomly programed computer - with no human touching it - could make the choices necessary that are required in the FIREFLY program to create images - some good, some not so good - but no human.... Have you actually LOOKED at the number of selections that Firefly allows/requires someone/something to make to create an image? My original point that you seemed to have missed is that new devices do not necessarily eliminate human interaction. Synthesizers did not kill off all of the human string and other instrument players. I worked at Paramount and saw numerous recording sessions with humans playing all types of live band equipment and have several professional studio musician friends -string and horn players - getting paid handsomely for their work. FIREFLY will not kill off all natural artists, don't worry!!!!
@@BURTBROWN Oh puhleeze get off your high horse. While the synthesizer is hardly directly comparable to a "regular" musical instrument and it IS programmable it is still both played directly and any programs are developed by a human being. Wendy Carlos did not just tell the synthesizer to "play Bach". She had to "play" it albeit in a different sense than the piano. My point remains the piano AND the synthesizer are not artificially intelligent music making devices. If you want, then you have to hook up an AI computer TO the synthesizer or even a piano and tell it to create something while you sit back and smoke a joint.
You will be able to train with your own images in the future. Are you implying It's better that Adobe sit back and let Mid Journey and Dall-E eat their lunch?
@@lunahd7200 "Feel sorry for you"? Nah you don't. "This is future." = "I don't care about or wish to acknowledge your worries, stop being such a luddite."
This is total fake. Please stop these robot mishap! The big problem isn’t copyright, the big problem is no longer being able to distinguish human art from robot fake.
Ai has instantly transformed Graphic Designers to Art Directors literately overnight…. I want a pay rise 😆 Unfortunately the look and style are always the same - this will grow tiresome in 2 months time. Nothing is unique about these images - No emotion whatsoever. The time it takes to generate an image on this system that you visualise - you measure create it yourself using better image resource for a substantially better outcome. Great for quick mock-ups and for novices but for professional use - just doesn’t hit the mark; very substandard in my opinion.
How to get Firefly access: photoshopcafe.com/adobe-made-an-ai-art-generator-adobe-firefly-ai/
I like the concept of Firefly, how it uses images that have been licensed etc and it's looking to give back to the original content creators. I'm sure that if it's slightly behind its competitors right now - it won't be like that for long. Thank you for sharing x
Thanks for this. My first glimpse of this amazing technology. I'd imagine now all artists will be struggling to get as far away from this look as possible.
Thank you so much Colin, very interesting! I have mixed feelings, scared of what will happen to the future of photography and yet happy to see all these abilities that Firefly offers for creating new artistic stuffs! Good luck and thank you again!
Nice review. This Adobe Firefly is very very interesting to me. I have used many other AI image generators like Midjourny, Dall-E-2, Bing, Leonardo. But it surpasses others. Thanks for your great review.
It will also be necessary to learn how to be inventive with language to get a desired creative result or solution to a project. A.I. will make everyone a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Photographer at the press of a button or by typing in a descriptive sentence.
A broad vocabulary could prove useful in this situation :)
I have just recently been accepted to use Adobe firefly looking I would say mid journey is ahead of the game so far and a firefly needs to catch up with regards to the amazing artwork that can be produced.
Nice review. I think I’m a little more comfortable with the thought of Firefly over the other ones. It sounds a better way to go in respect to the contributors.
I think Adobe's approach to using licensed images, rather than essentially stealing as do the other AI image generators, is the way to go.
Ultimately, we will probably see lawsuits against the other engines, as well as against those using their copyright infringed content in their works.
As someone who had to go after a magazine for copyright infringement and, got them to settle out of court, you do NOT want to get yourself caught up in such a suit.
It is incredibly expensive.
i like to see them try tbh. No way would it stand in court. It does not copy the material, it simply mimics the human brain and draw "inspiration" from those images. Adobe screaming piracy and theft is simply a distraction since they're late to the party.
Really enjoyed this video although Firefly has really improved and is now definitely competing with mid journey. Just a query. When I download my creations from Firefly they are downloaded to my download folder. I would like to move the creation directly into Photoshop. How to did you drag into Photoshop?
Nice vid ^^ We are not yet in a hyperrealistic ; photographic ; rendering, it "looks" still too digital. A way to fix it?
I enjoy using these AI generators as a graphic designer. I tried out numerous things. Both paid and unpaid options are available. Yet, I believe that Blue Willow is among the best free picture generators out of all of those. With BW, I can make countless amazing photos
তুমি কত দিন ধরে graphic designing করছো?
@@militarymatterss 5 years
I am looking forward to trying firefly. Right now I find Midjourney a great tool for my digital work. It isn't perfect and cannot always see my vision, but I can use some of the generated elements to add to compositions. Sometimes the images are a bot off like weired facial features and more than one hand or arm but it still intriguing and fun to use.
As a 70 yewar old ..............it's a brave NEW WORLD......................good luck you all
Thanks!
Thanks for the super :)
As soon as you like it they will pull it out and make it a new subscription like they did with 3d software
Probably
Tradition is that you use the images of others when creating your own work so how is that any different than using AI? For example, If I'm going to do a castle I go out and find images of castles and then use those as my example in creating my own castle.
You're using a machine to learn FOR YOU. Don't mistake spoon feeding for inspiration.
@@mdblorenzana The "machine" is simply doing what it is told. Machines have ZERO creativity
Hello again and thank you for another great presentation of information. I think that this AI technology being incorporated into PS could open up so much potential for compositing and such like. Looking forward to this happening. :)
Looks fun. I'm interested. Waiting in the Beta line for Adobe to let me use the beta - and I never mess with Betas. Likely I'll keep doing my own image work - but I'm blown away by the text-font Firefly possibilities.
I'm excited for this, as a full time retoucher, I can see this being useful for when it comes to creating composites. I want to know, can you feed it an image and ask it to generate a new outfit? For example, I remember I had a job where I had a woman in dress that I needed to change to a leather skirt.
Warping leather was actually a trickier job than first expected, so I'd love to retry that image by adding the original image and saying "change the skirt to leather" and see what it spits out, because if it can do 90% of the work and be a good enough result that I can polish it off then I can see huge value in this!
If you come back next Tuesday, will you get the same image from the same prompt set ?
No, they are all unique
It says not for commercial use...my concern is who owns the copyright of the image, and if you put in work, will Adobe own your work?
It seems like a timesaver to generate or spark ideas. And, I could see elements of my beyond beta Firefly AI content used as select parts of my Ps photo composites. Not an entire Firefly AI image, but the moral equivalent to generating a specific model with a smartphone photo that can be modified in Ps (or have materials added to it or work with displacement maps). For me, as I envision using Firefly, integration into Ps would be key.
I signed up for that last month, actually 13 days ago the day I saw this video about it, and still haven't heard from them. I can go to the Firefly page all I get is the "Request Access", which I've already done, no email or anything telling when they are going to give me access to it, or whether they aren't going to give me access to it. Do you have any idea of why? I'd like to try it out but I can't get to it!
It will happen eventually
@@photoshopcafe I hope so, I was hoping to use it in time for Easter but it didn't happen. Maybe soon.
So pumped for this and the mad potential!!
Is this on the creative cloud?
no, separate sign up
Can’t help wondering if Adobe will allow this to be ‘purchased’ or will it be a money making subscription like Photoshop?
Its unknown, but my guess it is will be a subscription like Mid Journey or Chat GPT
Hi please I have tried to gain access to enable me generate images but can’t gain access who can help me out please?🙏🏻
You have to join the waiting last and they will contact you when it's your turn
Thanks Colin. This is very competitive with our latest version of Canva. We are already using it in our agency and it's a time saver. I'll be happy when Adobe releases Firefly. As you noted in your previous video about the future of AI we're finding it to be a time saver and allowing us to be a lot more creative because we can get creative tasks out of the way in a much more efficient time frame. Can't wait to get this going
How do i get firefly i am a subscriber.
I'm new to the AI art. Can you import your own photo and have the program re-imagine it?
They say that's coming, but not available yet, you can on Mid Journey though
@@photoshopcafe Thank you!
It's a Stunning Game Changer in Creativity with Graphics.
I'm anxious to try this and have requested access to BETA but haven't heard anything. How do I get access to this?
Hopefully your turn will come soon.
@@photoshopcafe I keep trying... even added it on Discord and it won't let me post anything there. :(
Hi how exactly do you download the app? I've "asked" adobe and do not have access.....
It’s web based, nothing to download
So this is now only available to a select few beta testers?
Join the waitlist and your turn will come
When you finish creating an image in either program, what size is the file? Can they be printed really large?
They aren’t very large at the moment
Nice images but Scary though.
Just signed up for the beta
Excellent! Thank you 😃 I'm gonna watch your Midjourney video next. 🙏
I like the way you show the speed of processing lol of course it's going to be faster than MidJourney as Firefly has only been released to a select few and has not got millions of users generating images all at once, Adobe is the way to go though if not to just divert away from the pending court cases if your producing works for commercial use.
When I was on the beta of MJ before it was a public release it was slow too, but it doesn’t really matter :)
You can be guaranteed Firefly's AI brain will be constantly calculating how to extract money from you on a monthly basis.
At the end of this video you are pointing at the sky :) as there is no link to any other video?
It popped up for me, but was a second or two after he pointed
UA-cam won’t let me start the end Screen sooner, but it pops up eventually
@@lgrillo The plot thickens...
everything is cool everything is interesting and nice and so on, but where’s the commercial interest, where’s the merger with the money making photo business ?
Really scary for fully qualified full time graphic artists who are paid for designing and coming up with concepts for clients and companies...very scary
For the future for photographers also 😢😢
Can you use one of your own photographs as a reference point to create artwork from?
It's mentioned in the video.
It seems like MiB erased his memories and implanted new ones again
In the beta, honestly... no where near what i was expecting. The generated humans especially are so far behind other ai generated services its crazy. The text thing is kinda fun but is a massive gimmick, most of it I would never us in a graphics project and would just do it manually my own way. I am looking forward to seeing how this progresses though... can't wait for this to be inside PS.
Yes, definitely needs to improve. But it’s early days. I expect it to progress quickly
Absolutely agreed. The humans are just hilarious. Some aspects are interesting, but just the editing part, not the generation. Even free generators are far ahead.
It is kind of impressive in an illusionary way. Unfortunately all the images look the same. In branding we always suggest companies to use a photographer rather than stock. I think this will be a similar issue, the ones who use photographers for their brand are the ones you feel are more genuine, I guess it is a natural raw response to how humans are hard wired. Friend or foe?
There will always be a place for specific photo shoots, this is another tool.
The golden age of big company,
The darkest age of digital creators.
All assets on Adobe stock were used for training AI,and contributors have no way to opt out for training,
As the leader of software development for digital creators,
Adobe should not launch such projects that infringe on the rights of digital creators.
They have said they are going to share revenue with contributors
Is it all about clicking buttons like chimps without creativity?
Scary but this is the future, It will change the panorama for creatives from photographers to illustraters in a way that we have not seen it decades......It is really impressive
I am NOT an artist, but with this I could be!!!!! Do I see all the problems it could generate, absolutely! I'm on the fence about using it right now, but some of the images are so interesting I could quickly switch over to being a user - especially in the winter when I can't get outside and shoot photos!!!!! LOL!!! Remember this... there were a gigantic number of complaints from musicians when synthesizers were introduced, effects pedals for guitars, etc.. Look at the industry now and how all those enhanced the music rather than destroyed it!!!! (Okay, enhanced it SOME and RUINED it in others, depending on your tastes!!!!!!! :)
Big companies destroyed music. Where are the musicians bringing awareness to global and political issues. They have been removed or brainwashed into social media, forced to beg to be heard. Without struggle the rewards are empty and meaningless. These images will be used and will look great in some places but terrible in 99% of uses. The human brain will quickly work out which companies care about them or don’t give a damn by the effort they put in. It will be a struggle, I hope the right side wins.
So was the piano. But the difference between the introduction of the piano and synthesizers with something like this is that the piano and synthesizers still need the human being to create the music. AI couldn't care less who, or what, feeds it the inputs. ChatGPT could input to it and get the same results as any human.
@@j.criquette3334 LOL!!!! If you think the synthesizer needs a human to make music, you have not delved into computers very much. On top of that, you need to look up a program started in 1988 called Band In A Box. This bit is from Wiki: "The user enters four basic keyboard inputs consisting of: chords; a key; a tempo; a musical style.[2]" Now if you don't believe that a separate, non-human controlled computer couldn't enter those features on a random basis, again you know little about computers. Even a crude mechanical device could be made to do the same thing with cogs, gears, pullyies and whatnot. So a randomly programed computer - with no human touching it - could make the choices necessary that are required in the FIREFLY program to create images - some good, some not so good - but no human.... Have you actually LOOKED at the number of selections that Firefly allows/requires someone/something to make to create an image? My original point that you seemed to have missed is that new devices do not necessarily eliminate human interaction. Synthesizers did not kill off all of the human string and other instrument players. I worked at Paramount and saw numerous recording sessions with humans playing all types of live band equipment and have several professional studio musician friends -string and horn players - getting paid handsomely for their work. FIREFLY will not kill off all natural artists, don't worry!!!!
@@BURTBROWN Oh puhleeze get off your high horse. While the synthesizer is hardly directly comparable to a "regular" musical instrument and it IS programmable it is still both played directly and any programs are developed by a human being. Wendy Carlos did not just tell the synthesizer to "play Bach". She had to "play" it albeit in a different sense than the piano.
My point remains the piano AND the synthesizer are not artificially intelligent music making devices. If you want, then you have to hook up an AI computer TO the synthesizer or even a piano and tell it to create something while you sit back and smoke a joint.
Looking forward to the release...not sure where the waitlist signup is, but if this is it..please add me.
firefly.adobe.com add your adobe username
And "changing everything" is good because............?
I didn't say it was good or bad, its just changing.Cause, progress.
@@photoshopcafe Now you're actually making a value judgement, when before you only inferred it.
Adobe is so money grubbing. How much will they charge? And I want to use my own model
You will be able to train with your own images in the future. Are you implying It's better that Adobe sit back and let Mid Journey and Dall-E eat their lunch?
@@photoshopcafe No I didnt mean that. Just as an artist I am paying soooo much money on Adobe subscription.
@@ang2733 We will have to wait and see what Adobe decides to do. Right now, I have no knowledge of how they will monetize it.
I see they are "inviting people" sad to see that it's not a go for everyone, back to mid journey for me.
Mid journey started the same way, pretty much everyone launches this way. Join the waitlist and wait your turn
I don't like this ai things.
Feel sorry for you. This is future.
Embrace it and make better use of it in your work flow / career while keep improving and updated. 👍🏻
@@lunahd7200 its my opinion. Not every future is good.
@@wasil3k 😂😂
@@lunahd7200 "Feel sorry for you"? Nah you don't.
"This is future." = "I don't care about or wish to acknowledge your worries, stop being such a luddite."
This is total fake. Please stop these robot mishap! The big problem isn’t copyright, the big problem is no longer being able to distinguish human art from robot fake.
im already bored. we are so spoiled with great ai art generators to make firefly look like crap. where's the vector ai generator, didn't you try it?
You show the options but not the options in use. Firefly is garbage so far.
Ai has instantly transformed Graphic Designers to Art Directors literately overnight…. I want a pay rise 😆
Unfortunately the look and style are always the same - this will grow tiresome in 2 months time. Nothing is unique about these images - No emotion whatsoever. The time it takes to generate an image on this system that you visualise - you measure create it yourself using better image resource for a substantially better outcome. Great for quick mock-ups and for novices but for professional use - just doesn’t hit the mark; very substandard in my opinion.