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AlanGilbertson
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April 10, 2025
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Firefly Cross-Product Creative Challenge #3: Fantasy Illustration

This is the challenge where you get to play with all your favorite tools, and perhaps try out some you’ve never used before.

 

Imagine a forest populated by elves, mages, and magical creatures. Generate a character from your forest using Firefly, Photoshop, Adobe Express, or text-to-vector in Illustrator to begin. Expand the scene, adjust the lighting and colors, and add elements that help create an illustration for the ages. Save an image, screenshot, or video clip of your final artwork, post it as a reply to this post, and describe your process and which tools you used.

 

This example uses multiple generated images composited in Photoshop, adjusted with the Camera Raw filter, and fleshed out with Generative Expand and Generative Fill.

There are no prizes other than the joy of creating and the experience gained in making different tools work together to a final creative product. What can you create?

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@mj
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April 14, 2025

 A hint of FF, with a generous dollop of Express and a light sprinkling of Me.

AlanGilbertson
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April 14, 2025

Good one, Mo! You know you're looking at a real hero when they ignore the stairs! 

 

Now I want to see the famous battle scene from The Legend of Koos (the one starring Jan van der Merwe), where the hero slays the rock spider with nothing but a javelin and his bare hands. 😹

@mj
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April 23, 2025

Thnx @AlanGilbertson.

 

Real heroes don't do stairs esp if they are van der Merwes my bru.

 

Tx for the challenge.

mj

Ashraful_Islam
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April 13, 2025

Created multiple images on Firefly and expanded and finished the final touches in Photoshop.

 

AlanGilbertson
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April 13, 2025

That's a great epic movie look, nicely balanced. The movie director's going to be a little peeved about the con trail, maybe; or is that an alien spacecraft? 😉

Ashraful_Islam
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April 20, 2025

It's a sign coming straight from heaven. 

lambiloon
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April 13, 2025

 

Mystical Dragon warrior with sun glasses

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@mj
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April 23, 2025

I'm sorry for the wierd question but how many nostrils does she have?

Rollan Banez
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April 12, 2025

Creative Community Leader / Educator - Empowering fellow educators with creativity and innovation
derekwatson
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April 23, 2025

The land of coloring in... Started with Firefly castle, got some flying sketchbooks from Firefly and then swapped the towers to pencil points!

Derek Watson
@mj
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April 23, 2025

Reflections are dope

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April 12, 2025


Prompt: A bright, colourful magical fantasy world with glowing skies and rainbow-hued trees. Mythical creatures roam - a winged lion, small dragons. Vibrant, enchanted, and full of wonder. cinematic, illustration

Sk. Arif Hossain
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April 12, 2025

Amazing work, feels the vibe of Narnia 🙂

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Henrik Heigl
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April 11, 2025

Just a little Firefly and Express

regards,Henrik
AlanGilbertson
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April 12, 2025

It looks like a rough time to be in the post-apocalyptic predator business. They both look like they've had a long day of slim pickings.

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April 11, 2025

Photoshop Camera Raw is a slice of bread for me 🍞

AlanGilbertson
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April 12, 2025

Firefly has a tendency to produce underexposed and oversaturated images, so that Camera Raw filter gets a lot of use!

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April 12, 2025

Yes, the raw material from Firefly was very flat

Sk. Arif Hossain
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April 11, 2025

The first one was a portrait generated by Firefly then moved it to Photoshop to do generative expansion and did some retouching to make this last one

Sk. Arif Hossain
AlanGilbertson
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April 12, 2025

There's a somber symmetry in that expansion. Tastefully done.

Sk. Arif Hossain
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April 12, 2025

Yes, Alan, and it rightfully was the idea - to expand the canvas symmetrically so that I can add those in harmony and I am glad it turned out well 🙂

Sk. Arif Hossain
Ricky336
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April 11, 2025

 

A fantasy scene from Middle Earth shows a large eagle flying over a forest scene with hobbits.

 

Created in Firefly, the image was exported to Photoshop - Camera Raw Filter to make small adjustments - masking tool to increase clarity and texture on the eagle, masking the sky to bring a bit more colour and tone, increase the shadows a bit, and finally using the Filter tool - Stylise - Oil Paint.

AlanGilbertson
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April 11, 2025

That really has the look and feel of a storybook illustration. Beautifully done!

JR Boulay
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April 11, 2025

A mix of several images generated by Firefly, who has a lot of trouble with horse (and unicorn) legs.

 

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AlanGilbertson
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April 11, 2025

That's a great look and seamless compositing, JR. Yes, Firefly definitely struggles with hands, arms, feet, and legs.  In general, it seems to do better if the image has only a single character or animal.