Adobe Firefly Essential Training

Course details

In this course, Bart Van de Wiele—expert designer and author—guides you through the innovative Adobe Firefly AI technology and its seamless integration within Adobe Creative Cloud. Discover how to generate images and videos from text prompts, expanding your creative possibilities effortlessly. Master using Firefly to create vector graphics and patterns in Adobe Illustrator, while leveraging advanced features like generative fill and scene-to-image to enhance your designs. Explore enterprise solutions with Firefly Custom Models, Object Composites, and Style Kits to scale your creative production. Learn how to harness the power of AI for your projects with targeted examples and step-by-step guidance. Whether you are a designer, marketer, or creative professional, this course will elevate your workflows and artistic outcomes.

Concepts

Introduction

Adobe Firefly essentials
The age of AI-driven design

Firefly for Creatives

How does Firefly fit in Creative Cloud
How does Firefly differ from other generative AI solutions
Is Firefly free

Turning Descriptions into Images

Introducing Text to Image on the web
Creating your very first text prompt
Understanding the different Firefly models
Understanding third-party models
Text prompt best practices
Using content types and styles
Finding similar images and saving favourites
Reusing prompt settings
Generating vector graphics
Challenge - Pencil drawing
Solution - Pencil drawing

Using Advanced Settings

Setting colors, lighting and composition
Using a Composition reference
Creating your own Composition reference
Using a Style reference
Bringing it all together
Challenge - Creating a Composition reference
Solution - Creating a Composition reference

Image Magic with Generative Fill

Introducing Generative Fill
Inserting objects and subjects
Replacing image backgrounds
Removing subjects from an image
The importance of selections
Introducing Generative Expand
Challenge - Generative Fill
Solution - Generative Fill

Using Firefly in Adobe Photoshop

Using Generative Fill
Generating images
Generating backgrounds
Using Generative Expand
Knowing generative fill's limitation
Using a reference image
Challenge - Adventure
Solution - Adventure

Using Firefly in Adobe Express

Introducing Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express
Using text effects in Adobe Express
Setting additional text options
Creating design templates with Text to Template
Challenge - Milkshakes
Solution - Milkshakes

Using Firefly in Adobe Illustrator

Creating your first vector graphic
Generating patterns
Creating an icon
Controlling styles
Introducing Generative Recolor in Illustrator
Filling shapes
Expanding vector graphics
Challenge - Text to Vectors
Solution - Text to Vectors

Adobe Firefly - beyond images

Generating videos with Adobe Firefly
Using images as video frame references
Introducing scene-to-image
Introducing Firefly Boards

Adobe Firefly for enterprise

Introducing Firefly Custom Models
Introducing Object Composites
Introducing Style Kits
Accelerating asset production with Firefly Production

Ethical Generative AI

AI generated images and ethics
Downloading images and viewing content credentials
Verifying content credentials from external parties

Conclusion

Where to go from here
Goodbye