Firefly is terrible

[OhJakie]

Not really a bug, but I dont know what else to put it under. Firefly ignores most of my prompt and gives me simple low quality images that dont even make sense. I describe what I want with great detail and its frustrating that it ignores what I want and gives me random stuff. I heard great things about Firefly but so far it has beyond disappointing.

[droopydog500]

Hello @OhJakie,

Thank you for your message. I am sorry you are having this problem. 

Can you please share some of your prompts? Sometimes tweaking prompts can dramatically improve the results.

Thanks,
    droopy

[Mr. Spaceman]

I've used Firefly on a daily basis in tandem with Midjourney for over a year now. Up until Photoshop update v26.1 you were better off not putting a prompt in at all and having Firefly intuitively fill in or correct whatever it is your trying generate and it would only do so within the bounds of the pixels you had selected. Now what Firefly does if you don't put a prompt is it will generate well outside of the bounds that you select, usually altering something you didn't want changed, and then if you tell it something very specific that you want it to ie (fix jawline, remove ring from finger,) it spits out either unusable low resolution images or it'll put something in there that you didn't ask for but also makes zero sense in the context of image at large. This new update has broken the generative model and in many ways made it far less usable. I'll type in a prompt that says "give the man a bald head" or "remove the man's hair" and I'll get images of big white blobs or full heads of hair. For how dominant Adobe is in the graphic design and photo manipulation space it's baffling how inconsistent and bad Firefly can be. That being said it's also on many occassions given me amazing generated snippets that solve whatever I'm trying to correct. I haven't had a chance to try Beta v 26.3 yet but I'm hoping these issues were addressed in that.

[Mr. Spaceman]

Oh and I forgot to mention how frequently Firefly blocks the thing I'm trying to correct and gives me the orange warning message about the guidelines and not violating the user agreement. I'm assuming it's thinking that I'm trying to get it to create nudity or something along those lines, which I've never done because I need Firefly for my workflow and don't want to risk having my access revoked. I'll type a prompt that says "remove the dark spot on her cheek" or "blend the skin on her finger" or "fix the knuckle on her pinky finger" and I'll get these orange warning messages. I'll then try to get Firefly to intuitively do it without a prompt and get the same sort of error messages. Doesn't seem to matter how much feedback I provide when they incorrectly block the things I'm trying to do but with the most recent Photoshop update it's become particularly egregious with even the most basic things.

[Lionfishing]

Firefly is terrible. Lifelong Adobe user and art director. If Adobe plans to charge "credits" for the images they generate, they are going to have to make some major changes to their AI model so it actually provides usable images and has a responsive interface. So far I use it primarily for generating background slop for product mockups, which is about all it can handle. Trying to generate artwork with it is infuriating. I'd really like to keep AI generation in the Adobe suite to keep things easy for my company, but at this point the software just doesn't have the usability to make that realistic. Not sure where Adobe went wrong, but I want to chime in and agree 100% with what the OPs are saying here. It's a mess.

[Nite-Stian]

these prompts wont work as firefly currently does not understand negative prompting or commands.

avoid using nouns such as remove, give, add, etc. instead just type what you want (e.g.) bald head.

generally I find descriptive and specific prompts to work better.