Cross-Product Creative Challenge #8: The Paleolithic Gallery

I found this interesting piece during my last visit to the museum... Right in the middle of the “Age of Fire” section...
More seriously: I used Firefly to generate the cavity in the stone wall, Adobe stock to grab some nice dead branches images and the match, Adobe fonts for the glass typo... Then I brought everything inside photoshop to create the composite and finish with a color grading...
I'm a bit off topic but I wanted to think outside the (match)box and tackle this cross challenge from a less conventional angle... Nothing to win, so nothing to loose either 😉
Thanks Alan for this challenge!

 Created various images in Firefly and composited parts in Photoshop, deleted certain areas, darkened the overall image and increased the warmth.

Tnx as always @AlanGilbertson.

Some FF, a pinch of Ps, and a healthy side serving of Express.

For this challenge, I used Adobe Firefly "Runway Gen-4 Image" to generate an image of the inital cave scene with alien artifacts. I then generated another image of the Caveman holding an ancient alien artifact.

From there, I brought both images into Photoshop (Beta) and used "Generative Fill" to change some of the elements in the intial scene. I then placed the other image of the Caveman into the same file, used "Select Subject" and then created a clipping mask, and scaled the caveman into the scene where I wanted him. From there I used the new "Harmonize" tool in Photoshop Beta to help adjust the lighting so the images feel more aligned.

I used 2 different images that I liked from Firefly using the prompt "Stone Age mammoths and cavemen"

Then, in Photoshop, I cleaned the caveman up I took from one firefly image into the one with the Mammoths.

Then, from a stock photo, I add the food with a drop shadow.

Then I used the feature Auto-Blend Layers to have them all look like they came from the same image.

Finally, I created the sign in Photoshop and added that like a cherry on top. 

My starter image below made in Firefly:

prompt: dreamlike Stone Age gallery unfolds in flickering torchlight—walls alive with ochre silhouettes, spiraling signs, and carved stone guardians. Shadows drift across the rough-hewn surfaces, where ancient hands once spoke in images.

Brought into Photoshop, extended and added elements. Initially tried to add a tour group of people with fire torches but that didn't work out well. Then tried adding a time machine. Here's a result that is nopt quite what I was after but looks interesting 🙂

stone age era in galaxy with cave man looking for animals

It all started with a simple prompt for the Stone Age, which gave me four sample images using the remix feature on the Firefly board (the ones I shared above). From there, it felt easier to build a kind of canvas in Photoshop, where I could drop in these images—or even some “similar finds” I came across through Nano Banana.

I played around a lot with Adjustments and Effects (on PsonWeb) to make it look like the stones were pushing up from the floor. The idea was to grab kids’ attention and keep them curious about the space. The people in the scene aren’t perfect—I had to lean on Gen Fill to patch up empty spots—but I tried to pull the eye toward the top right corner. That’s where I worked in a neon-style glow of “primitive artwork/symbols,” also made with Gen Fill. I hoped to make it feel like they’re painted on a scroll floating over that dark blue section.

On the left side, there’s some info about animals from the Stone Age. On the right, a little background on the exhibition’s theme—“Palimpsests of Memory”—which is really aimed at making the visit less boring for schoolkids. And just for fun, I also threw in a poster-style piece, inspired by Nano Banana, as an experiment.

Anyway, thanks for taking a peek behind the scenes—and have a great day, everyone!

Creaetd the scene in Firefly, brought into Photoshop and added the 'extras' and then the rail and sign

Never mind the art, the exhibitions are always a let down, never delivering what they promise!

Some firefly elements sized and composited, color corrected and the inevitable issue with text generation spelling

all sorted / layered in PS