Adobe Firefly Essential Training (2024)

Course details

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, and Adobe has offered their own answer to the artificial intelligence revolution—Adobe Firefly. This family of generative AI models equips you with the potential to revolutionize your design skills and elevate your creative projects to unprecedented heights. In this course, join lifelong designer Bart Van de Wiele as he teaches you how to use Adobe Firefly to upgrade how you work as a designer, marketer, photographer, brand manager, or video producer.

Gain an understanding of how Firefly fits into the greater Creative Cloud ecosystem. Learn how to write effective Firefly text prompts for generating high-quality images and vector art; create and recolor your artwork using Firefly and Illustrator; use Generative Fill in Photoshop to replace portions of an image with just a few mouse clicks and a text prompt; and work with text effects and templates with Firefly and Adobe Express. Bart also explains why content credentials matter in a world of AI-generated images.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Adobe Firefly essentials
02 - The age of AI-driven design

1. Firefly for Creatives

03 - How does Firefly fit in Creative Cloud
04 - How does Firefly differ from other generative art solutions
05 - Is Firefly free

2. Turning Descriptions into Images

06 - Introducing Text to Image on the web
07 - Creating your very first text prompt
08 - Understanding the difference between Firefly models
09 - Text prompt best practices
10 - Using content types and styles
11 - Finding similar images and saving favorites
12 - Sharing prompts with others
13 - Challenge - Pencil drawing
14 - Solution - Pencil drawing

3. Using Advanced Settings

15 - Setting colors, lighting, and composition
16 - Using a Structure reference
17 - Creating your own Structure reference
18 - Using a Style reference
19 - Bringing it all together
20 - Challenge - Creating a Structure reference
21 - Solution - Creating a Structure reference

4. Image Magic with Generative Fill

22 - Introducing Generative Fill
23 - Inserting objects and subjects
24 - Replacing image backgrounds
25 - Removing subjects from an image
26 - The importance of selections
27 - Introducing Generative Expand
28 - Challenge
29 - Solution

5. Using Firefly in Adobe Photoshop

30 - Using Generative Fill
31 - Generating images
32 - Generating backgrounds
33 - Using Generative Expand
34 - Knowing Generative Fill's limitation
35 - Using a reference image
36 - Challenge - Adventure
37 - Solution - Adventure

6. Using Firefly in Adobe Express

38 - Introducing Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express
39 - Using text effects in Adobe Express
40 - Setting additional text options
41 - Creating design templates with Text to Template
42 - Challenge - Milkshakes
43 - Solution - Milkshakes

7. Using Firefly in Adobe Illustrator

44 - Introducing Text to Vector Graphic
45 - Creating your first vector graphic
46 - Controlling styles
47 - Introducing Generative Recolor in Illustrator
48 - Challenge - Text to vectors
49 - Solution - Text to vectors

8. Ethical Generative AI

50 - AI-generated images and ethics
51 - Downloading images and viewing content credentials
52 - Verifying content credentials from external parties

Conclusion

53 - Where to go from here
54 - Goodbye