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August 9, 2024
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How to get Firefly to put object beside another object (instead of inside it)

  • August 9, 2024
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I want to create an image of a large empty terrarium tank and a stack of old books, all on top of a wooden bookcase in an old library.

 

The prompt I'm using is:

"large rectangular wood-framed glass tank with wooden base beside stack of old books, on long wide wooden bookcase in old-fashioned library"

 

Firefly keeps on generating images where the books are inside the tank, not alongside it.

 

I've tried saying "alongside" instead of "beside" but it makes no difference.

 

Is there a way to force Firefly to put the books where I want them?

 

I've considered dropping the books completely from the prompt and adding them later with Photoshop's generative fill feature, but I can't make the bookcase wide enough that there's space to add the books.

 

Note that I'm a novice with Firefly and with generative AI prompting in general, so please don't throw a lot of specialist terminology at me!

 

Regards,

Bruce

 

P.S. Firefly is also ignoring the prompt to give the tank a wooden frame, but that's less important to me.

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Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

This is a good example of where Compositon Reference would help.

Adding a sketch of the books positioned next to the tank will solve the alignment.

The below results were using your exact prompt and the sketch.

 

 

 

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
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Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 9, 2024

This is a good example of where Compositon Reference would help.

Adding a sketch of the books positioned next to the tank will solve the alignment.

The below results were using your exact prompt and the sketch.

 

 

 

bwofficerAuthor
Participant
August 9, 2024

Brilliant. Thanks!

 

I'd heard of the composition reference feature but I'd not realised you could give it a rough and ready sketch like this. I'm impressed that Firefly understood that a simple rectangle represented the tank and the U shapes with the scribbled infill represented books.

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2024

@bwofficer be sure to mark the answer as correct to help other users! Have a good weekend.