Cross-Product Creative Challenge #2: Firefly Gallery Choice

[AlanGilbertson]

You don’t have to be an expert! This is for anyone at any skill level. The main thing is to have a go, and let the joy of creating be its own reward!

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's challenge. This month's is a little different. Instead of using your own prompt, pick a starter image from the Firefly Gallery such as this one.

Generate a new image using the same prompt, then use Firefly, Adobe Express, or Photoshop, to expand the image into a finished product of your choice using at least one other app from Creative Cloud and/or Substance 3D. The point of the challenge is to work across apps, so this is important.

Save an image, screenshot, or video clip of your final artwork, post it as a reply to this post, and (important!) describe your process and which tools you used. Let's see how far your creative ideas can go!

[Nikki Kuhn]

Combined two firefly generated images togehter: "close up of a womens eye with the universe in space" & "Crystal flowers suspended in a glass globe with the sun shining through"

[AlanGilbertson]

That's a very striking composite. Great bit of creative thinking, Nikki! I love it when I see something that makes me wish I'd thought of it myself. 🙂

[@mj]

I agree!

[Jason laChance]

I chose the octopus in the water droplet. Prompt:a cute tiny blue octopus inside a perfectly formed drop of water, 4K, hyper details, I adjusted the prompt by adding on an octopus attached to an anchor Tattoo style, 4K, hyper details to achieve this 

Then I took it into photoshop and removed a few think and changed the colour to black and white but left a little orange around the eye.I will post the final image of it on my arm whn it's complete.

[AlanGilbertson]

Awesome! Looking forward to that!

[@mj]

Sweet!

[Michelle Chocolita]

Thanks for another fun challenge! Here's what I created and how I got there:

I started with this image from the Firefly gallery: 

I took it into Photoshop, tweaked colors, contrast, added gradients and filter effects until I got this image:

I was going for a fine art style analog photo appearance, so I also made a B&W version. With the shallow DoF it does look a bit like it was taken with an old large format camera

 

Then I brought the image into Adobe Express to create a poster (added text):

And used this to create a mockup:

 

[Sk. Arif Hossain]

Nice work, Michelle 🙂

[Michelle Chocolita]

Thank you! 

[@mj]

So very pensive

[AlanGilbertson]

Wonderfully imaginative, superbly executed. What a great response!

[Michelle Chocolita]

Thank you! ☺️ 

[fbeaume]

Awesome work Michelle!
Love the mock-up presentation!

[chrisc99675295]

SCAREDY CAT!

Original starter image & prompt: A black cat peeking out from behind a green wall, in a cartoon style. The cat has big, cute eyes and a cute expression, set against a yellow background. This high-definition wallpaper features a cute cartoon animal illustration in high resolution.

I made a new image using the same prompt, split it up in Photoshop and animated it in After Effects:

This was fun! Thanks for the challenge!

[@mj]

Cool! Did you use the wiggle expression for the eyes?

[chrisc99675295]

Thanks @mj ! That's funny you ask. I just gave an Expressions basics to my students yesterday, so I started there. But I wanted to have the eyes start after the head popped up, so I used the Wiggle Effect instead so I could keyframe it. 

I should have used the expression with a slider control to get more comfortable with that, but I was rushing through.  I ended up having them wiggle the whole time, so I could have used the expression regardless. Ha!

[AlanGilbertson]

That's several layers of awesome, right there. 😸

[chrisc99675295]

Thank you, @AlanGilbertson . I already have an idea to expand on it and will be taking this home to play around a bit more...

[fbeaume]

Love it!
Well done!

[chris_5216]

I added a couple more layers of awesome, @AlanGilbertson , literally!  I put some bunny ears on the kitty so I could share a mindfulness technique on Easter tomorrow:

Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates! And an amazing Sunday to all!

[@mj]

You too!

[AlanGilbertson]

Love it! That is awesome. Thank you for the kind thoughts.

[chrisc99675295]

Thanks, @AlanGilbertson ! I realized this morning that I shared this from home over the weekend and must have been logged in with my teacher account (after I got notices in my school email).  Ha!

I shared it on Instagram yesterday (Easter) with a shout out to the Community challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIqvKObxOoz/

[fbeaume]

Haha! Love it!