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Cross-Product Creative Challenge #6: Galactic Wildlife!

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July 16, 2025
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This is the Cross-Product Challenge. An image from a prompt is definitely not enough! This is for anyone at any skill level, but the whole idea is to use different tools to build your Firefly image into a complete work.

Pick a style for this project: graphic novel, movie, 1950s TV show, manga, documentary. The choice is yours.

Generate an extraterrestrial Sci-Fi creature using text-to-image in Firefly, Photoshop, or Illustrator in your chosen style, then complete the picture. What kind of world does it live in? What other critters or plants or alien natives are there? Using any tools you like, build an environment for your critter to show it in its natural habitat.

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Mariam Hovhannesyan

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Created with firefly and edited with photoshop.

AlanGilbertson

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Very atmospheric, Mariam. I like the leading line to the arch under the giant tree.

Peru Bob

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Kenneth Kawamoto

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I wanted to create this entirely in iPad so Firefly Web (no iPad version available 🙁) → Adobe Express iPad

AlanGilbertson

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I dunno. That looks pretty fishy to me...

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Kenneth Kawamoto

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You got the idea, Alan 😆

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Christelle RD

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I wanted to create a Galactic Wildlife in the style of Maleficent's Kingdom or Pandora. Fantasy in harmony, poetry and a touch of magic.

Here is the process -
1- Firefly
I generated several images. Below are the two backgrounds (one main background and another one where I used the pink flowers at the bottom and part of the sky) that I used to create the scene's environment.
I generated several characters. Firefly did a great job with the (poor) drawings of the ant-headed character with luminescent antennae and the jellyfish with a plant-like body. One prompt was enough to generate the others, but I find that they look very similar.
2- Photoshop
I started with the background, keeping what interested me most in each of them, and used generative development / removed in certain places with Camera Raw. I transformed the entire background into a Smart Object and used the Camera Raw filter to improve the colorimetry.
Then I removed background of the characters, improved the colorimetry (with Camera Raw or Hue/Saturation or/and painting) and placed their shadows.
Finally, I used the Kodac 2383 Color Look-up at 50% and the Cinematic split tone Preset at 30%.

AlanGilbertson

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That's just brilliant! I love the cinematic depth and color grading, and these little guys are adorable. Everything you do is so beautifully finished, I'm in awe.

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Christelle RD

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Thank you Alan 😊

Jumpenjax

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Sea creatures with flying jellyspaceship stinger, looking up to the galaxy.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

EuanWilliamson

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A galaxy of the Guardians

Multiple firefly and composition

Best regards, Euan.

AlanGilbertson

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Oh, that's fun, Euan. Love the play on words!

Rollan Banez

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AlanGilbertson

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Hi Rollan. What was your process after you got the initial image?

Sk. Arif Hossain

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Beneath twin moons and glowing trees, the galaxy’s last herd gathered in silence as the ethereal guardian of the forest descended from the stars. Her presence wasn’t feared as she is their one and only savior.

Gen from Firefly, Applying Edits in Photoshop - like color balancing, compositing.

Sk. Arif Hossain

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Oh.N8

very nice Arif.

Sk. Arif Hossain

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Thanks, Nate

Sk. Arif Hossain

AlanGilbertson

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Here's a scene from a different part of the same alien forest, built in Photoshop while I was prepping this challenge, from elements created mostly in Firefly. (I now have an entire folder called "Alien Wildlife" with images of, well, alien wildlife.)

fbeaume

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Turned out great Alan!

AlanGilbertson

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Thanks! The humanoids are Photoshop composites, grown from what were originally just tightly cropped "head shots." (Aliens are aspiring actors, I guess. Who knew?) I used a combination of GenExpand and GenFill to build the rest of the head and the entire body, the same way I built out the background scenery.

The Photoshop file of this image is 150MB, and has content from Firefly (mostly generated inside Photoshop), Gemini (the dude up in the background tree), and Envato (the "bug" sitting on the head of the foreground critter). The posting image PSD is 470MB. One thing I discovered in the process of making this is that Firefly has no concept of what a "herbivore" is. They all have sharp, round, carnivore teeth!

Anna Natter

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This was fun! Although it was pretty challenging to put all these different elements together and I removed quite a lot of bits as I went but I think at the end it came together. My creatures are celebrating the plants they found on a new planet. 🙂 Firefly + Photoshop