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Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 2, 2026
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Creative Challenge: Missed Connections

  • February 2, 2026
  • 14 replies
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Ever have a project you almost finished?
A file you closed… but never forgot?

 

This Valentine’s Day, we’re playing matchmaker with your unfinished ideas.

 

The Challenge: Revisit an old creative project you once abandoned and ask yourself: “What if?”
What if you’d taken it just a little further? What if it had found its perfect ending?
Be playful, nostalgic, curious, or romantic with your story.

 

The prompt I used: Cute Valentine’s Day illustration of two cartoon characters exchanging love letters, cozy café setting, warm lighting, heart decorations everywhere, soft hand-drawn style, playful and cheerful mood.

 

 

What to Submit: 

  • Your results: Generations on "Missed connections"
  • Share the text prompt and the features you used for your creation.
     

Submission Deadline: 

  • Please submit your creations by Feb 15, 2026, 12:00 AM PT (GMT+7). 

 

How to Participate 

1/ Create Your Image: 

  • Launch Adobe Firefly and select the Text to Image feature
  • Create a prompt and generate your image. Need ideas? Visit the community tab for inspiration, or ask here for ideas. 
     

2/ Capture Your Creation: 

  • Once satisfied with your image, download it  

3/ Submit Your Entry: 

  • Come back to this thread, click “Reply,” paste your image, and describe the prompt you used. 
  • Hit “Post” to submit your entry.

 

 💌 Because sometimes… the one that got away just needed Firefly.

 

Thanks, 

Kartika

    14 replies

    droopydog500
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 3, 2026

    I experimented with Imagen 4, which I have not used very much.

     

    young black man with short dreadlocks  and caucasian woman surrounded by little hearts staring at each other standing on lookout at Horseshoe falls at Niagara Falls, small young skinny St. Valentine with bow and arrow surrounded by little hearts looking down hovering directly  over the couple, comic book look

     

    Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
    February 4, 2026

    Hey ​@droopydog500  good to see you join in on the fun.
    Have you been to Niagara falls? 
    Lovely image

    droopydog500
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 4, 2026

    Yes, many times. I used to live in Pennsylvania.

    Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
    Rollan Banez
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 3, 2026

    A poetic, nostalgic scene of reconnection with old sparks in the style of 'Missed Connections' — two silhouetted figures from different times in life reaching toward each other across a softly glowing divide, their fingertips almost touching like Michelangelo's Creation of Adam but infused with warm, electric amber and golden sparks. Between their hands hovers a small, unfinished lightbulb flickering back to life, emitting gentle rays of second-chance light that illuminate floating fragments of old sketches, crumpled love notes, half-written poems, forgotten Polaroids, and tiny embers drifting upward. The background blends vintage newspaper classifieds texture ('Missed Connections' headlines faintly visible) with dreamy, ethereal bokeh lights and subtle starry night sky, evoking unfinished ideas getting a second chance. Cinematic lighting, warm romantic tones of deep indigo, soft gold, and ember orange, emotional and hopeful atmosphere, highly detailed, artistic digital painting style,

     

    Creative Community Leader / Educator - Empowering fellow educators with creativity and innovation
    February 4, 2026

    Wow! that is very impressive. Like the newspaper touch. 

    Rollan Banez
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 3, 2026

     

    Creative Community Leader / Educator - Empowering fellow educators with creativity and innovation
    Sk. Arif Hossain
    Participating Frequently
    February 2, 2026

    I started with taking two separated AI images and joining them via Nano Banana 3 (pro) and after joing them, I select Adobe Firefly 5 with widescreen option and write the following prompt: “Illustrate a scene where two different personalities sat in a cafe to celebrate their love anniversary. The shop name is, "Soulmate Cafe". They are both smiling and feeling happy.”  

     

    Sk. Arif Hossain