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droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 25, 2025

Problems with composition references not being followed since the release of model 4 [merged thread]

  • April 25, 2025
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Several people have reported problems with composition references not being followed since the release of Model 4.  I have merged some of those messages here. There have also been reports in the Firefly Discord.

 

If you are experiencing that problem, please reply to this post and include the reference image you used, your prompt, and whether you were using Model 3 or Model 4.

 

Thanks,

    droopy

40 replies

Participating Frequently
May 2, 2025

Hello Adobe team,

 

I'm reaching out to touch base and see if you have anymore visibility on what may be the issue here and the timeline for getting this resolved.

 

Thank you for your time,

Participating Frequently
April 30, 2025

No problem, happy to contribute.

 

I've had the same issue with all models and tried switching from one to the other multiple times too see if it changes anything.

 

Do you have any information on when this issue will get resolved? I'm unfortunately unable to produce content at the moment which is setting me back on some deadlines. Is there any temporary solution I can use while the issue is resolved?

 

Thank you so much for your time and happy to provide additional information if needed.

Participating Frequently
April 29, 2025

image 1: New ouptut from firefly.

image 2: Reference image for composition

image 3: reference image for style

image 4: the result I would get in previous versions (much better).

 

also, the prompt was very simple and practically the same to generate image 1 and 4 (so for me, this is not the problem).

Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 29, 2025

Thanks for sharing the images. They help. Are you seeing the same issue with Firefly Image3, too? We'll share the case with the product team.


KR

Participating Frequently
April 29, 2025

Hi there, here is an example of the bug with the photos. FYI, I asked firefly to generate the same image before update and the results were much more satisfactory (as seen below).

 

Thank you so much for your help! Do you have any extra visibility on this bug? On measures being taken to fix it? Thanks 

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 29, 2025

Hi @hugo_8624,

 

Unfortunately, images are stripped of when you email back to the forum. You have to post them with the web interface.

 

My best,

    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
April 29, 2025

 

 

 

April 29, 2025

Hey @default28803674kc0gnr 

 

Not sure what your Qs is exactly. Could you elaborate a bit more on what you would like to do?

Cheers

O.Nate

Participant
April 27, 2025

No esta usando la imagen de refencia al generar la imagen 

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 27, 2025

Hello @quirky_experts5C6E,

Thank you for your message. 

Can you please show us some examples of the reference images and prompts you are using?

Thanks,
    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participating Frequently
April 27, 2025

Hello, 

 

The last update of Firefly text to image is unfortunately catastrophic for me.

 

I've found that the generation of images using composition and style reference images has significantly deteriorated.

 

Has this feedback been given recently and are actions being taken to go back to a version that is as good as the old version?

 

Many thanks,

Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 28, 2025

Hi hugo_8624!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Could you please share the reference image, the screenshot of the generated images, and the prompt you used? We'd like to test it on our end.


KR

Participant
April 27, 2025

Tried image 3 and image 4 models and neither could use the uploaded reference image as a composition reference. I played with the strengths as well but no change. Past months I had zero issues. Now I can't get it to work even if I try to force it with my prompt. 

Participant
April 27, 2025

Tried 3 images. It actually worked for two and didn't for one even though they are similar angles

Participant
April 25, 2025

The new Firefly Image Model 4 seems to have problems with composition reference images. In most cases it totally ignores the reference image. See the attached example.

April 25, 2025

Hey @NürnbergKultur 

The image used could be a bit confusing. For us, we get the idea. Consider spacing out the candles/ redrawing the image and/ or making the candles a bit smaller. 

 Not exactly what you are looking for; however, I did find spacing and adding the octagon into the image helped: considerably. 

Cheers

O. Nate