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AlanGilbertson
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April 10, 2025
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Firefly Cross-Product Creative Challenge #3: Fantasy Illustration

  • April 10, 2025
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This is the challenge where you get to play with all your favorite tools, and perhaps try out some you’ve never used before.

 

Imagine a forest populated by elves, mages, and magical creatures. Generate a character from your forest using Firefly, Photoshop, Adobe Express, or text-to-vector in Illustrator to begin. Expand the scene, adjust the lighting and colors, and add elements that help create an illustration for the ages. Save an image, screenshot, or video clip of your final artwork, post it as a reply to this post, and describe your process and which tools you used.

 

This example uses multiple generated images composited in Photoshop, adjusted with the Camera Raw filter, and fleshed out with Generative Expand and Generative Fill.

There are no prizes other than the joy of creating and the experience gained in making different tools work together to a final creative product. What can you create?

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Anna Natter
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April 11, 2025

I particularly enjoyed this challenge because I could combine Firefly with the Parametric filters in Photoshop Beta. People don't even know they exist when they are actually the coolest thing ever. Here goes the Oil Paint filter.

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AlanGilbertson
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April 11, 2025

Awesome, Anna! That's a great use of parametric filters, and you're right, the theme totally lends itself to a painterly look.

italosan
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April 11, 2025



Prompt: A solitary herbalist living in a floating greenhouse above a forest of bioluminescent trees. The sky is twilight purple, and magical creatures fly between the branches. The herbalist tends glowing plants, surrounded by arcane tools and ancient books.

Tools used: Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Adobe Express

Description: I imagined this scene as part of a larger story—a wandering herbalist who records magical flora in a floating laboratory above the enchanted woods. This image is a glimpse into their world: suspended between botany and mysticism, solitude and cosmic harmony.

AlanGilbertson
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April 11, 2025

Fantastical indeed! The avian character suggests a whole new meaning for the phrase "a quick peck on the cheek."

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April 11, 2025

Created multiple images in Firefly and built up the scene using multiple layers in Photoshop, using generative background erase, expland and fill -- final adjustment done in camera raw filter. 

AlanGilbertson
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April 11, 2025

Nicely done. I wonder where that mysterious path leads to?