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April 24, 2025

P: Firefly Model 4 quality concerns

  • April 24, 2025
  • 27 replies
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Why should we pay for a tool that's getting worse and worse?
I use Firefly mainly to generate effects on images I upload (for composition) and by using reference images (also uploaded by me) for the style. Until yesterday, everything was fine, but now suddenly Firefly 3 no longer follows the lines of the reference image for the composition. Let alone Firefly 4, which just does its own thing entirely, ignoring the reference images altogether. I'm speechless.

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Known Participant
November 20, 2025

We are on firefly 5 and its still awfull why are we going back to older modles to get stuff done i just dont get it, have you any idea just how competitve the market is right now? i have other paid AI softwear that does it better i only started using it recently because its free credits until december eveytimne I did i got better results withmy other paid AI apps.

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 8, 2025

Hello @andres_adan_5227,

 

If you are using text to image, you can select Model 3:

 

My best,

    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
September 6, 2025

Please, bring back Model 3, the new model is a disaster, it does not follow the reference image at all. It was such a good tool, now is completely missing the point. 

Bring back model 3. 

 

Participant
August 25, 2025

the top row is firefly 4 ultra, the bottom is firefly 3... as you can see the firefly 3 is following the reference image perfectly, although the quality is not there. About 2 weeks ago firefly 4 ultra was following the reference images to perfection, and had the extra quality and detail that 3 doesn't have. I pray to get back to this... 

Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 28, 2025

Sorry about the trouble. Are you still getting an issue? We're aware of the similar issue where reference image is not being followed in Image 4. 

 

Let us know.

Thanks,

^KR

Mark DeMent
Participant
July 13, 2025

I have no words for how poor the results are in Firefly 4. They never have anything to do with your prompt. They are a total waste of time and credits. I was never excited with Firefly 3 results, but now it looks like a winner compared to 4. I and posting the latest worthless results with the prompt. If any knows why I always get these rooms and garden elements with really poorly rendered people please let me know. Here is the prompt "Magnificent ancient willow, hugging the bank of a small meandering river weaving it’s way across a tall grass meadow in summer. Late afternoon sky, light filtering through the tree, soaring thunderheads in the sky." Attached are the results.

Participant
June 9, 2025

Oh my gosh. I'd love for your team to actually try some prompts and see your own results. There is no way you could use the current firefly and then be flummoxed concerning someone's frustrated, poor feedback. Adobe needs to be better because there are ALOT of alternatives that are dramatically better currently.

Participant
May 29, 2025

A nova versão do Adobe Firefly está MUITO inferior a anterior, agora com as opções de Firefly image 3, 4 e 4 Ultra, o programa não consegue reproduzir com clareza as solicitações, sem falar que agora as imagens geradas trazem um aspecto muito mais inferior a antes e com aspecto falso. Logo, minha sugestão é retornar a versão anterior, ou aplicar uma melhoria nessa, porque agora estamos pagando muito mais pelo recurso e ele não entrega nem metade do que estava entregando a 2 meses atrás. Quando coloco uma imagem com intuito de gerar algo extremamente parecido, porém com qualidade melhor, ele gera coisas completamente diferentes, mesmo deixando as opções de referencia e composição no maximo e deixando claro na descrição que quero algo igual.

Participating Frequently
May 25, 2025

Quiero compartir esta inquietud con la comunidad. Tengo la subscripción de Creative, que me agrada, todo funciona muy bien excepto la generación de imágenes en Firefly, el cual vengo utilizando casi desde su lanzamiento y veía como mejoraba cada vez más, sin embargo, en los últimos meses, el resultado es deplorable, y realizo la comparación con otras plataformas, incluso gratuitas, y hay una diferencia abismal, utilizando los mismos prompts. Si alguien más lo ha notado, solo espero que Adobe verifique estas inquietudes ya que, echo de menos los increíbles resultados que arrojaba Firefly.

 

Gracias. Saludos 

Participating Frequently
May 16, 2025

I'm unfortunately going to unsubscribe to this tool. I'm sure you can understand that there is no point of paying for this if the tool isnt functioning.

 

However, it would be greatly appreciated if you could tag me when the problem is rectified. Until then, with a heavy heart, I'm gonna look at other options (I'm open to suggestions).

Inspiring
May 16, 2025

Yes, even this 4th version of FF still has shortcomings, such as it's high sensitivity to prompts unrelated to anything innaproporiate or that could be grounds for censorship, which has been an issue over the past. Also we are seeing identical images being generated after pressing the 'generate' button. Further, distorted faces and hands, extra limbs are still frequent occurences, so there's a degree of this noise which is cutting into one's allowed monthly generative credits.
The one issue that has been given attention and has improved is the regional bias when generating images from a particular region of the world.