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MonoT
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June 8, 2024

Firefly is crap and eating my credits for crap results

  • June 8, 2024
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Yesterday i tried the first time to use not stock images for my graphic work for clients and instead using the AI for one picture. I wanted to have 4 women in superhero suit flying in the clouds, 2 women blonde, 1 bruinette and one dark brown haired.

I had 25 credits left for Firefly and the result pictures are garbage. Either the are 3 woman all blonde or 4 woman 2 blonde 2 brown haired with deformed faces or 2 woman had 3 legs or one of the four woman had a blurry leg. And it eats all my credits for nothing. I ended up using the best and repair the deformed faces with a photoeditor.

But i had similar luck with playground AI using diffusion or others.

 

But the biggest issue is that Firefly eats the credits and the results are not usable. Is this the new AI rip off of Adobe?

 

 

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    mikesmull
    Participant
    February 5, 2026

    I also agree with this. I use a lot of the features in Photoshop, generative expand, clean up, etc. They work good. I finally decided to try using it to generate a logo I needed and everything was just so bad. Not even close to what I wanted even when starting with an image that really looked similar to what I wanted. I get that there is a learning curve to use prompts to get results, but when everything is just so terrible, it is hard to try using this too much. I ended up working with my ChatGPT account and I was surprised how good the results were.

    I know there are amazing features here but there needs to be something in between us as users going crazy and generating tons of stuff without using it, but it would be nice to get three tries and if you aren’t even getting in the ball park, you could just pull the plug.

    I’m guessing the cost to generate is quite expensive and that’s the reasoning behind this, but throwing credits away and walking away empty handed makes me feel like I’ve been ripped off.

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    Oh.N8Community Expert
    February 6, 2026

    Hey ​@mikesmull 

     

    In terms of logos, I find Adobe Illustrator is the best option for flexibility and to create vectors. As you may know, vectors are the best choice when it comes to logos and icons. 

    There is the option for:  Text to Vector

    Cheers
    Nate

    DAVIDE PEPE
    DAVIDE PEPE
    Known Participant
    October 20, 2025

    I completely agree with you. This simply sucks! You must be charged when you are satisfied by the result. If you call a carpenter and you ask him to open a window on the wall and he simply paint a window he can't pretend to be paid for the job. I'm sorry Adobe but you failed miserably again. BTW you should follow Ableton as example. They introduced a way to rent their software as you did just after 24 months you don't loose the access of the version you paid and you own your perpetual licence of the version you rented for the 24 months period. That was the way to go!

    droopydog500
    Community Manager
    droopydog500Community Manager
    Community Manager
    June 8, 2024

    Hello @MonoT,

    Thank you for your message. I am sorry you are having this problem. 

    Can you please share the prompt you used for these?

    Thanks,
        droopy

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