CREATIVE GENERATIVE AI
Adobe Firefly vs. Midjourney: How Firefly can help speed up creative workflows.
Learn how the latest in generative AI will help you visualize any idea with AI creations.
What makes Adobe Firefly different?
- Anyone can create stunning art with a simple interface — with the ability to bring your creations into Adobe apps to edit or continue to work on them.
- Adobe Firefly uses generative AI models that follow the Adobe AI ethics principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency.
- Firefly is designed to minimize exposure to harmful and offensive content, embrace diversity, and respect the creative community.
Commercially safe creative AI.
Feel confident creating with Firefly knowing it’s safe for commercial use. Adobe does not train Firefly on customer content or content mined from the web. We train our models only on content where we have permission or rights to prevent it from creating content that infringes copyright or intellectual property rights.
How is Adobe Firefly different from Midjourney?
Adobe Firefly is a family of creative generative AI models for Adobe products. Initially focused on both image and text effect generation, Adobe Firefly taps into a library of open-licensed images and copyright-expired public domain content to turn text descriptions into AI creations. For example, the art generator can create a bath bomb big bang from a few descriptive phrases, or it can add an image to text and make your brand’s name into a beautiful grassy design.
While most generative AI tools focus on a single functionality, Adobe Firefly will eventually provide a variety of tools. Firefly users will be able to remove distractions from photos, change the mood of a video, add new elements to illustrations, test out design options, add texture to 3D objects, and even create digital experiences. Current plans for Firefly include integrations into Adobe workflows that will allow you to move your AI-generated content into Creative Cloud tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
This additional functionality with seamless end-to-end editing separates itself from other platforms like Midjourney, DALL·E, and Stable Diffusion.
How Firefly is putting the Adobe creative community first.
It was essential for us to build generative AI models that reflect Adobe’s creator-first commitment.
To do so, the first model of Firefly trained on Adobe Stock imagery in accordance with the Stock Contributor License agreement, openly licensed content, and public domain content with an expired copyright. The goal of training Firefly like this is to avoid creating anything that infringes on the copyright of artists, photographers, and hard-working creators. In short, everything created in Firefly is designed to be commercially safe for individuals and enterprise creative teams.
You can read about our compensation model for Adobe Stock contributors whose content is used in the dataset to train Firefly models. The Firefly model does not train on Adobe Creative Cloud customers’ personal content.
By working on compensation models for creators and advocating for open standards, Adobe is creating Firefly with and for a community of makers so it improves and empowers creative work for professionals and hobbyists alike.
Uses for Adobe Firefly.
Here are a few exciting ways you can use Adobe Firefly:
- Concepting the look of a science fiction or fantasy world
- Bringing characters to life for illustrated books or animation with the AI character generator
- Exploring different styles and textures on a business wordmark
- Creating calming ambient landscapes
- Seeing how unique styles can transform photorealistic images created in Firefly, from portraits to nature photography
- Creating proofs of concept for website graphics
- Transforming photos into art with a 3D art generator
- Testing new ways to stand out with product shots, food photography, and much more
