Welcome to the Cross-Product Creative Challenge. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Mystery Book Cover challenge. Now we're diving into the ancient past.
The Challenge:
Imagine a Stone Age art exhibition. What would your Neolithic art gallery look like? Would it have docents? A gift shop? A party of bored schoolkids being dragged along by a teacher?
Guidelines:
- A prompt is not enough. Layer your assets and refine your composition. Treat Firefly as a collaborator, not a shortcut. Use prompts to generate ancient-looking art, textures, and environment. Try out Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana), which will be free on Firefly for a short time.
- Think like a curator. What’s the story behind the exhibition? Does it have a theme?
- It’s a Cross-Product Challenge! Don't do it all in Firefly. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Substance, Adobe Express—whatever tools will help you build the scene.
- Share your process. Tell us how you created it. What tools did you use? How did you refine your idea? What choices did you make?
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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
Creaetd the scene in Firefly, brought into Photoshop and added the 'extras' and then the rail and sign
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!
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 🙂
Thanks @AlanGilbertson
Car was supposed to be more futuristic - so could be a James Bond one with all the gadgets or a Back to the Future one. Here are additional variations.
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.
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.
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