CREATIVE GENERATIVE AI
Explore AI art prompts and learn how to write effective ones. Get inspired with prompt ideas, examples, and tips to create stunning artwork in Adobe Firefly.
Creating AI art requires two things: a technology called generative artificial intelligence (AI) and a person who tells the technology what image to make. The most common way for people to instruct AI art generators is with written descriptions known as text prompts.
While prompts can be short — leaving most of the choices to the AI — it’s more fun to fine-tune and describe what you want in detail. Adobe Firefly has a AI image generator that lets you write prompts using nothing more than everyday language.
Let’s say you tell Firefly to make an image of a “full moon” and you get something like this.
Prompt: full moon
Begin to create a scenario with the text prompt “full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon.” To evoke a particular medium, just tell the AI, for example, “full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon, cartoon art” or “full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon, in the style of a Golden Age Dutch Master oil painting.”
Prompt: full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon
Prompt: full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon, cartoon art
Prompt: full moon in the sky with a rocket headed toward the moon, in the style of a Golden Age Dutch Master oil painting
Whether you’re going for a straightforward scene, abstract art, character design or something else, kick your AI art prompts into hyperdrive with descriptors like the following:
If you use Firefly to generate AI art, you’ll find many descriptors already listed in the interface, which makes it even easier to try new AI art prompt ideas. You can also specify the image’s aspect ratio in the Firefly interface. Options include square (1:1), landscape (4:3), portrait (3:4) and wide-screen (16:9).
Prompt: origami, vibrant nature and technology fusion, in the style of Magritte
Prompt: flamingo cartoon character in a surreal dreamscape, neon colours, photographed from above
Prompt: abstract geometric patterns, vintage surfers, hot colours
Prompt: happy portraits in monochrome, made out of yarn, graphic, bioluminescent
No matter how skilled you are at writing text prompts, you’ll inevitably generate an image that’s perfect — if only you could change just one thing without affecting anything else. That’s when it’s time for Generative Fill, which allows you to add or remove content from your images using simple text prompts.
In Firefly, you use a few simple controls to select part of the image and then describe with a new text prompt what the AI should do inside the selection. You can also use Generative Fill on images that aren’t AI art, either in Firefly or in the Adobe Photoshop desktop and web apps.
AI art generation is still in its infancy and the ways we interact with the technology will likely evolve far beyond text prompts. In the meantime, here are a few tricks that help in some situations.
By pushing text prompts beyond the basics, you can generate AI art as unique as your imaginings. Start simply and then layer on styles, moods and other evocative descriptors. Try Generative Fill to finesse areas within your AI art. And don’t be afraid to get weird with your text prompts — unexpected destinations are sometimes the most memorable. When it comes to AI art prompt ideas, the sky’s the limit. Get started by following our step-by-step guide on how to make AI-generated art.
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