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karls74109419
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April 4, 2026
Question

Can I use Firefly generated photographic images as a reference when illustrating a brand icon?

  • April 4, 2026
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Hi,

I’ve been asked by my client to create a brand icon for them to use on a product.

Can I use Firefly to generate a photographic reference - that I create a derivative artwork from (ie taking it from a photo to an illustration I will draw) - that can then be used as a brand trademark icon?

EG, client wants an icon of an elephant. I use Firefly to generate references of elephants (photographic) that I then draw by hand, before scanning the sketch and further refining it as a vector - with the end product being used as a trademark.

Hope that’s clear.

Many thanks!

    1 reply

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 6, 2026

    @karls74109419 as this is a public user-to-user forum, no one here can give legal advice. But if the final outcome is your own illustration, and not an AI generated piece of art I don’t see how it matters where you source your references from.