Make the Challenges more challenging (and realistic)Open for Voting
In real life, the number of times a pro is going to take a Firefly-generated image and use it as-is are vanishingly small. You can have happy surprises, something I refer to as "controlled serendipity," but of all the images I've ever generated in Firefly, only two were good enough to stand on their own. (Photography is the same way: You start with an idea, and you get as close as you can at the time of capture, but even in the studio there's almost always some adjustment in post-production, even if it's as simple as cropping or adding a vignette.)
Straight text-to-image is so limited that it's almost never fun. Either it takes fifteen tries before Firefly comes up with something cool, or there's an image that's this close but the exposure is off, or there are some of those weird artifacts we know so well, or the composition sucks. You're at the mercy of whatever mood Firefly is in today (and it does have moods, let's face it).
"Challenge" is a bit of a misnomer. The