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November 28, 2024
Question

Firefly is terrible

  • November 28, 2024
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Not really a bug, but I dont know what else to put it under. Firefly ignores most of my prompt and gives me simple low quality images that dont even make sense. I describe what I want with great detail and its frustrating that it ignores what I want and gives me random stuff. I heard great things about Firefly but so far it has beyond disappointing.

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KShinabery212
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 2, 2026

I never run into issues. 
I think each AI platform works differently to be honest. And the way you write prompts for each platform needs to be slightly modified.

Ever see the guy on Instagram that asks AI to generate something then asks it to do the next thing and the next thine and the next thing. So funny.

But prompting will always require tweaking and adjusting. You never get the winning design the first time. I will go through a lot of prompt tweaking before I get close to what I want on any platform.

 

Let's connect on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshinabery/
DavorinBiograd
Participant
February 2, 2026

yeah even the latest model (i was using it from within photoshop as generative fill)

and here is the result with comparison to flux kontext https://youtu.be/cHjpj7cIZGg

more than happy
Participating Frequently
October 28, 2025

Yes. The images are highly inappropriate and the AI has a stupid understanding of the prompts.

Amberg Art
Inspiring
October 16, 2025

Come on, Adobe. Please fix it!

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 16, 2025

The best way to communicate to Adobe specifics about poor quality generations is to thumbs down a generation and provide as specific of information as possible.

This feedback goes to the engineers working on the models. Those engineers do not see all of the feedback in these user forums.

 

Thanks,

    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Amberg Art
Inspiring
October 16, 2025

I always do. And I really hope that there will be a progress in the near future.

Amberg Art
Inspiring
September 24, 2025

When you ask for ....
A homemade, open treasure chest. View of the chest from above. Inside are a Polaroid photo of two parents holding their child, a small teddy bear, a pacifier, a few glass marbles, a dried leaf, and an old photo album. View from above. A child is sitting on the floor next to the box. And puts another bird feather in the box. Style: mixed media, collage, photo.
You'll get that... and other anomalies. 

Participant
October 2, 2025

Firefly is still completely unusable for any serious work. Honestly, Adobe should just take it down and relaunch it only when it’s at least on par with tools like Sora v1 or even the early versions of ChatGPT. Right now, the output is consistently poor and feels ridiculous — and it’s embarrassing for Adobe as a whole to have something this weak under its name.

Participant
September 19, 2025

If you heard great things it's because those people are probably paid members of the marketing team 😄

g2fx
Participant
September 18, 2025

I WANT MY CREDITS BACK! OUT OF 9 ATTEMPTS...ONLY 1 IS BARELY USABLE

Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 19, 2025

I'm really sorry about the trouble. Could you share more info on what's happening with quality? Currently, we aren't able to give a credit refund.  

 

Let us know. 

Thanks, 
^KR

dwaynes77477988
Participant
September 17, 2025

I creayed a 5 second video. The faces were distorted, the movement of a font character was awful compared to other AI's. It dressed a man in a woman's outfit. Neck's were elongated... Just bad. 

Participant
September 19, 2025

Oof. cmon Adobe, get to work!

Participant
September 16, 2025

Iʻm struggling to, which brings me here. Here is just one example of ignoring prompts:

dpick2
Known Participant
October 22, 2025

I used a reference photo of myself, wife, brother, and his wife (all white).   The prompt was, "use this image to create an illustration with dramatic realistic colors using the people in the image. Have the people standing in front of a neon sign in red and green spelling out "Merry Christmas". The people are waving, hello. There are colorful Christmas trees in and around the scene in slightly dimmed lighting. A dusting of snow covers the trees and the sign. Use the actual faces of the people in the reference photo."

 

This is the best of the eight results.  You're almost there, Adobe. (sure)

 This is from Co-Pilot using the exact same prompt/reference image.  This is pretty darn close to what I wanted to see.

 

Participating Frequently
October 23, 2025

Oh my! LOL 

C'mon Adobe get it together!!

Participant
September 12, 2025

bad AI genarative ever, 

Participant
August 28, 2025

I have nothing to contribute except my response as a number to add to those who feel it's garbage. The idea that Adobe wants to charge extra... wow. Another user said they use it for background slop, yep, that's what I use it for too. Cleaning up bits and pieces is fine, trying to generate usable elements though... forget about it.