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AlanGilbertson
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June 11, 2025
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Cross-Product Creative Challenge #5: The Future of HR!

  • June 11, 2025
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Imagine a mega-corporation of the future, where all the boring work is done by robots. HR is now RR: “Robotic Resources.” Humans have flipped the script, and now the bots must apply for jobs, like our robot friend here.

Use your imagination. What does the robot hiring process look like? Build out your scene using at least Firefly and Photoshop or Photoshop for Web. 

 

Remember: This is the Cross-Product Challenge. One app is not enough, and one image from a prompt is definitely not enough! You don’t have to be an expert! This is for anyone at any skill level. The main thing is to have fun and let your imagination run free.

 

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July 10, 2025


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Tools: Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Color, Adobe Fonts.

In my narrative, the AI robots are the assistants hired to help the artist. Their job description includes prepping the surfaces, fetching the tools, mixing the paint, offering advice, and of course, cleaning up afterwards! As the artist contemplates his design, the robots look at each other seemingly uncertain about the design and what sentience truly means.

After fleshing out my idea for this comp, I generated "stock images" that I could use to create rough composites in Photoshop. I used Adobe Color to brainstorm ideas for the color palette and Adobe Fonts to figure out the typeface to use in the design.

I went through several iterations of the composite until I settled on one that I thought was strong and aesthetically pleasing. It was constructed in Photoshop. The final tweaks were done with Camera Raw to punch up the colors, brightness and contrast.

 

Thanks for looking!   

AlanGilbertson
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July 11, 2025

Totally brilliant, Daniel! I love everything about it. Massive thanks for sharing the process: that's what this challenge is all about.

christianot40873293
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July 8, 2025

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July 8, 2025

This image shows a robot being interviewed by a human in a futuristic HR office.

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July 7, 2025

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July 7, 2025

A nice conceptual experiment because of the promot. Thank you!

In a human-less future maybe robots will be more like humans?

The process is Firefly, Photoshop and then feed the updated image back to firefly.

The composition reference is love ❤️

AlanGilbertson
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July 7, 2025

Wonderful! I love the concept, and the execution is superb. Just delightful!

Myra Ferguson
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July 2, 2025

I kept getting white robots with the Firefly model, so I switched Firefly to use the GPT Image model to get the base image of the robot janitor.

 

I brought the image into Photoshop. I tried changing his face, but I never got anything that really matched his style. So I kept the GPT Image model face.

 

The scene was more daytime, so I darkened the windows. I wanted to spotlight the janitor and make it seem like he was alone in an empty building, so I used some layer masks, applied some color overlays, and added a Curves adjustment layer.

 

I also added a little vignette to darken up the corners.

AlanGilbertson
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July 3, 2025

There's a definite Denis Villeneuve vibe there, Myra! I love the dramatic lighting, and the cinematic color grading is perfect.

Myra Ferguson
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July 3, 2025

Thanks! 🙂

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June 26, 2025

 My vision of a futuristic HR department.

AlanGilbertson
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June 27, 2025

What was your process? Showing how you went beyond a simple prompt is part of the fun of this challenge.

Monika Gause
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June 26, 2025

On the internet nobody knows you're a dog

 

 

These were two generated images in Firefly. In order to get the same vibe in the vacuum robot part, I had to use the cats as a style reference, but then Firefly added cats to it. I retouched them in Photoshop, added the text and combined the two panels.

 

AlanGilbertson
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June 27, 2025

That's hilarious, Monika. Firefly has clearly picked up the Internet's obsession with cats!

Monika Gause
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June 27, 2025

THank you, Alan! I was anxious that the joke got lost.

tonks_the_auror
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June 24, 2025

I'm not entirely thrilled wth this, but it was the best I could do.

The robot in the forground was generated from Firefly.

Everything else was done in Photoshop.

I really wanted to have a "MegaCorp" sign on the wall, but I just couldn't figure out how to do it.

 

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June 24, 2025

 

AlanGilbertson
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June 24, 2025

Nicely done, nonetheless. I like the moody, dystopian atmosphere. As an aside, where do gender-specific metal robots come from? There's a whole new level of equal opportunity in there somewhere!

MQgraphics
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June 23, 2025

Prompt: In the center of the photo stands a single, cute robot with soulful eyes facing the viewer. Revealed Inside the robot's body is a small human-like metal heart inside the robot's ribcage. The robot's hands are encapsulating the heart and extended toward the viewer. Behind the robot is a flickering sign that says "almost human" and shows a shop full of smaller robots. 

AlanGilbertson
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June 23, 2025

Hi MQ. Welcome to the challenge. What's wanted is that you start from a prompt, but then take the result and use other tools (e.g., Photoshop) to enhance and expand it.