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Firefly Cross-Product Creative Challenge #3: Fantasy Illustration

Community Expert ,
Apr 09, 2025 Apr 09, 2025

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.

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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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Community Expert ,
Apr 20, 2025 Apr 20, 2025

Obligatory- prime 135 cinematic 😉

 

Best regards, Euan.
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Explorer ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

This king was magically turned into a birdFantasy-Peacock-and-Queen.png

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Community Expert ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

Indeed. Off with his head!

 

With this change, I think you might want to brighten the human figure. She is now the side and apex of a very strong triangular composition, and her face is on a Rule of Thirds node. On both counts, she should dominate the image, yet the peacock competes for focus because it's so bright. Try that out, and see if it doesn't look better to you.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

Guardian of the forest

 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

Blimey! Wouldn't want to meet her on a dark night. Wonderfully sinister! Carilliantine has such a rich set of unusual ligatures. This is a nice use of them.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 22, 2025 Apr 22, 2025

Thank you Alan! Yes, I thought it was a good font for this artwork.
And don't worry, as for the forest guardian, I'm sure she'd let you enter the forest and go through the Torii gates without a problem 🙂

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

I dunno, Cristelle. The little white ghost dude looks like he's trying to be as inconspicuous as possible!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

The little white ghost is a Kodama. When the forest is healthy, the Kodamas show up. They are forest spirits who symbolise hope and purity without any hint of malice. They are not designed to protect the forest, they reflect its health. Someone else must defend the forest (like Princess Mononoke or this guardian) and entries into other worlds (accessible via the Torii). The little ghost is behind the gardian curious to see if there's any danger or not.
For this challenge, I created a video, with wolves howling as music and a special sound when "BEWARE" appears ... then I realised I could only post one image ...

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Great poster Christelle!
This font looks interresting and adds a nice touch!

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Community Expert ,
May 05, 2025 May 05, 2025

Thanks Carillantine!
Thanks Franck 😊

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Community Expert ,
Apr 22, 2025 Apr 22, 2025

A mystical forest at twilight, where giant glowing mushrooms cast a soft luminescent light. A woman silver and green armor stands beside a crystal-clear waterfall, fireflies swirl in the air, and in the background, a towering tree with golden leaves rises above the forest canopy
This is what firefly came up with.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

Hi Mariam! Okay, so that's what Firefly gave you. What will you do with it?

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May 22, 2025 May 22, 2025
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Another version of Alice in Wonderland. 🙂

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

I wanted to depict an epic battle between two demonic creatures in an enchanted forest.

I first created this image using Firefly.

Start.png

Then I brought the image into Photoshop. 
I first extended out the sides in order to create a more landscape feel, by using the Generative Fill feature.

Then, to add some texture, I applied the Craquelure Filter.

And this is the final scene.

Finish.png

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

Wow. I've not used Craquelure in a long time! That was creative thinking drawn from decades of experience!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Sweet

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Well done Ron!

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Community Expert ,
May 05, 2025 May 05, 2025

This looks EPIC!!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

CrossPlatform.jpg
Workflow: Firefly to Photoshop to expand Poseidon pose, back to Firefly with reference made in Photoshop then Finishing in Photoshop. Hope it's cross platform enough...
Poseidon_Poster_V2_Anim.gif

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

Thanks for sharing your process!
I love the final result with its mix of styles and techniques.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Thanks Christelle! Much appreciated!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2025 Apr 23, 2025

Great stuff! The essence of the challenge is not to stop at whatever the first prompt hands you, but to turn it into a real creative product, and you've done that in spades! You've created a distinct style, which I could see being replicated across a series of posters, game cards, or similar. If you ever do a Greek Gods board game, you've already nailed the motif!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Thanks for your comments Alan! Make a series is a great idea!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

Those abs

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Community Expert ,
Apr 24, 2025 Apr 24, 2025

He's a god after all @mj !
😉

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