Everything you wanted to know about Favourites in Adobe Firefly

There are several ways you can save your generations from Adobe Firefly. They include downloading to your local disk, saving in your creative cloud library, and the subject of this post: Favouriting. Favouriting an image is a way to save both the image and the prompt, styles, and reference images used to generate it.

You can favourite a generated image by clicking on the outline star (☆→★) icon in the lower right of a generated image turning it into a solid star. Note: originally the icon used for favourites was a heart (♥).

After you favourite the image, it will show up under Favourites on the Files tab on the Firefly homepage along with all of the other images you have favourited.

When you go to your favourites page, you will see the images you have previously favourited.

Alternatively, you can just browse to: https://firefly.adobe.com/files?tab=favorites.

The favourites page by default shows favourites stored in the creative cloud. Favourites from before mid-April 2025 were stored in the local browser cache. To see those favourites, using the browser on the computer where the generations were favourited, go to the favourites page. You will see on the right a button , "View favourites saved in browser". Clicking that will show the browser saved favourites.

When you hover your mouse over one of the images, the image fades and you see the prompt at the bottom of the image and two controls at the top right:

The elipsis on the upper right leads to a menu which allows you to open the image in other apps, download, or remove/delete the item. 

Why Favourite?

Favouriting an image is the only method of saving Firefly generations where the image, prompts, styles, and references (style and structure references) are all saved. Other methods only save images (download, copy image). They are saved on one web page you can refer to and scroll through the images.

Limitations

While the image stored in favourites is the original generation you favourited, going to the generation page and generating again might not generate exactly the same image. Some of the reasons why it might not be the same include:

• if the model used to generate images is no longer available (such as model 1 favourited images), you cannot generate the same image.
• Models change over time and might not generate the same results.
• If it was favourited before December 1, 2023. Images favourited before that date lost their styles and can no longer be generated as they were originally. 

You can only favourite generations from text to image and text to video, not generative fill or text to vector.

You cannot access favourites from other Adobe apps. This means you cannot directly send favourites to or directly access favourites from Adobe Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, or even Firefly Generative Fill.

You cannot share images with other people directly from favourites. 

Favourites which were favourited before mid-April 2025 are stored in the browser cache. This means that when you favourite an image, you can only access that favourite in that same browser on that same computer or mobile device.  If you use another browser or computer, you will not see the favourites (or if you use multiple computers/browsers, you confusingly might have different favourites available on each of those computers and browsers).

Favourites which were favourited after mid-April 2025 are stored in your creative cloud account and are available across browsers and computers.

Frequently asked questions

Q: How can I delete favourites?

A: You can delete them on the Favourited page by hovering over the favourite and clicking the star at the top right.

There is no way to select multiple favourites to unfavourite at the same time. You have to go through the process above for every image you want to unfavourite.

Q: I cannot find my favourites! What happened to them?

A: For favourites stored in the local browser (favourited before mid-April 2025), are you using the same browser on the same computer where you favourited them? Because they are stored in the browser cache, you can only access a favourite in the same browser on the computer or mobile device it was favourited on.

Q: I am using the same browser and all my favourites disappeared. It is the same browser on the same computer. Can I get them back?

A: For favourites stored in the local browser (favourited before mid-April 2025), unfortunately, if you are using the same browser on the same computer and they are no longer there, they are most likely gone forever. This could happen if, for example, you cleared your cache in the browser, used a utility program that claims to clean up space on your computer (which frequently includes deleting the browser cache), or ran out of disk space (causing the browser to delete them).

I said "most" likely, because there are steps you can take to rewind your cache if you had already been backing it up, but most people do not do that. My primary platform is Mac and I back my browser cache up with Time Machine on the Mac, so I can go backwards in time and restore my cache from a point in time. This has saved me a few times when something was deleted from my cache and I was able to roll the cache and settings back a day. If Windows was my primary platform, I could do something similar on it.

Q: Does viewing a favourite use a generative credit?

A: If you download a favourite to your local disk or just go to the generation page, a generative credit is not used. If you go to the generation page and generate, a credit is used.

Q: Can I group my favourites into albums or folders?

A: No. There is no way to organise them at this time. There is a submitted idea for this, so if you are interested in this feature, upvote this idea: Organise favourites by enabling creation of folders.

Q: Can I download all favourite images locally at the same time?

A: You can select multiple favourites by clicking on the selection box in the upper right of the image, and then download them using the blue bar at the bottom of the browser window.

Q: Can I do a text search of favourites for a specific prompt?

A: No.

Q: What is the difference between the gallery and favourites?

A: The gallery is a collection of images Firefly users have submitted to be viewed by other people in the Community Gallery (https://firefly.adobe.com/community). Favourites are your own saved images and they are not visible by other people.

[Last updated: 2025-02-17, changes for new Firefly Interface;

2025-03-30, updated URL for favourites page

2025-05-16 updated for recent changes]