Transition from Generative Workspace beta to Firefly

[Tom Nguyen - @tomng]

Thanks for your participation and feedback in the Generative Workspace beta! The beta is now ending, and we’re excited you’ll now be able to enjoy many of its capabilities integrated into the updated Firefly web app.

Drawing from learnings taken from the Generative Workspace beta, Firefly now supports a history of generated content and favorites that sync with Creative Cloud across apps. And now Firefly lets you generate stunning images and create video from your images, all in one place.

Building on your requests for enhanced image quailty during the beta, you can now generate images of people, animals, and architecture with unprecedented accuracy and realism using the new Firefly Image Model 4. You’ll also be able to quickly brainstorm and visualize ideas on a shared multi-player canvas before jumping into production, with the Firefly Boards (beta). And after generating ideas with Firefly, instantly edit your images in Photoshop web with a click, or perfect your vision with the power of Photoshop desktop.

The Generative Workspace beta will conclude with the June release of Photoshop beta. Going forward, you can continue to generate images with Generate Image in Photoshop (Edit menu → Generate Image…) or use Firefly for rapid ideation and highly customizable AI generation of images, videos, audio, and vectors all in one place.

Assets created in the Generative Workspace beta will not be moved to the Firefly history of generated content. You can save and download any assets from the beta until September 4, 2025. Afterward, assets stored in Generative Workspace will be removed so they will no longer take up your Creative Cloud storage. Assets and generative layers you’ve added to your PSD files or saved/downloaded elsewhere will remain, unchanged.

Thanks for your help and feedback in making Photoshop, Firefly, and Creative Cloud even better for you. We’re excited to see the incredible visions you create!

How to download many assets at once from Generative Workspace beta:

• Open Generative Workspace in Photoshop Beta (Edit menu -> "Generative Workspace…").
• Select images you want using the checkboxes that appear when you hover over each image. Or click the checkbox to the left of a row of images to select all images using that prompt.
• Click the “Download” button in the contextual task bar that appears at the bottom of the grid. All selected images will be compressed into a single .zip file that you can download to your computer.
• Tip: You can use search (and/or filter by “Favorited”) to quickly find images you’d like to download before selecting them.

[Betomiranda]

Lamento que hayan dado de baja uno de los espacios mas creativos y artísticos como el Espacio de trabajo generativo de Photoshop... Muy mala desición. Por mi parte no pienso renovar mi licencia  de aqui en mas.

Lamentable.

[marliton]

Hola. Nunca usé el Espacio de trabajo generativo de Photoshop. Según este post, el reemplazo es Firefly Boards. ¿Lo has usado? ¿Tienen alguna similitud que haga pensar que Boards es la evolución de el Espacio de trabajo generativo?

[Bielfor]

Hi Tom Nguyen - @tomng 

Thank you for all the improvements and for the work put into the Generative Workspace beta. I found it especially convenient having everything integrated in one place.

I noticed the shift back to using Firefly on the web, and I was wondering what the reasoning was behind this change. It felt like a step forward to streamline everything within Photoshop, so I’d love to understand the new direction better.

Is there any chance this functionality might return to Photoshop in the future? Personally, switching back and forth between Firefly and Photoshop feels a bit less efficient, so I’d love to see deeper integration again down the line.

Appreciate your time and all the work you're doing!

[rbaezd]

Subject: A Deep Concern Regarding the Discontinuation of Generative Workspace in Photoshop Beta

What a tremendous problem you have created for us, the users of the Generative Workspace in Photoshop Beta. I have been working intensively since November 2024, and I have accumulated over a thousand images — each carefully crafted with prompts, composition references, style guidelines, and more. And now, without warning, you’ve decided to discontinue this essential feature and redirect us to Firefly Web?

To make matters worse, our entire work history is being deleted, and we’re given a deadline to download everything. Sure, we can retrieve the images, but what about the prompts we used? What about the reference images — those small yet meaningful thumbnails that helped us remember which inspirations corresponded to each file?

I have been using Photoshop since its very first version. Never before have I witnessed such a disheartening and disruptive decision. I have fiercely defended Photoshop and Adobe over the years, even when colleagues suggested I switch to other technologies. Now, I’m left questioning everything.

I honestly don’t know what I’ll do next, but I am seriously reconsidering my trust in Adobe. 

[Peter34271226wiqq]

I have been using Photoshop since 1992 and I use it daily. Since November I have been using Generative workspace in the PS Bdeta version. I have been creating artistic images and really loved doing so. It has sparked my imagination and I now search through 150,000 of my own images and photos from the past 50 years to use with creative workspace. I am dissapointed that the beta part is ending and switching to Firefly. I will migrate over but perhaps just make it a feature in PS which has been the flagship image editing program for more than 30 years.

[rbaezd]

Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I was beginning to feel as if I were alone—or even a bit of an outsider—for not seeing more comments or complaints about this. I believe Adobe should reconsider what, in my view, is a misguided strategy. It seems they’re prioritizing the mobile and tablet environment over the desktop experience.


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[Pelegrinus]

A feature suggestion: the ability to download multiple images from workspace is great. It would be fantastic if the same capability became available for library items. I would like to download batches of my many library images but cannot do so now.

[Tom Nguyen - @tomng]

Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to share your questions and feedback.

@Bielfor Great question. Concluding the Generative Workspace beta and applying its learnings to Firefly web app will let us focus and bring its capabilities – and many more – to full release faster. You'll be able to rapidly generate all the assets you need from one place, use your Firefly generation history across Creative Cloud, and get access to the latest AI innovations even sooner.

For example, already you can now enjoy unprecedented higher image quality (one of the biggest requests we heard during the beta) with Firefly Image Model 4, generate video clips directly from your ideas or images, and bulk edit thousands of images at once. And Firefly Boards lets you generate and explore many ideas quickly AND collaborate with others live, with tools that make it the ideal place to brainstorm ideas before bringing them to production in Photoshop.

@Bielfor  @Peter34271226wiqq We hear you about the importance of more streamlined workflows, and we’re planning deeper integration between Firefly and Photoshop in the future. And if you’d like to help shape these workflows further, you can also join the Firefly Discord.

@Peter34271226wiqq @Betomiranda @rbaezd We understand this may be disappointing given how invested you’ve been. You’ve helped shape our roadmap, and we hope you’ll be excited to see all the new generation capabilities you’ll have using Firefly web app together with Photoshop.

While not every generation setting and relationship can be exported, to export your reference images in Generative Workspace:

• Click the funnel icon to the right of “Search all images” at the top
• Check the “Reference” checkbox to show all of your reference images.
• Select the references images you’d like to save (or click the checkbox to the left of the “Reference images” row heading to select all)
• Select the “Download” icon from the contextual task bar to download the images into a .zip file.

To save prompts for specific images:

• Select the image(s) you’d like by clicking the checkboxes that appear when you hover over the image.
• Click the “Add to…” button that in the contextual task bar that appears at the bottom of the grid to add them to a new PSD.
• Make sure “New Document” and “Separate layers” are selected in the “Add Images” dialog, then click “Add”.

• Your images will be added to a new PSD, with every image in its own generative layer.
• Select a layer from the Layers panel to see and copy its full prompt in the Properties panel.
• Save the PSD to keep these generated images with their prompts for future use.

We're deeply grateful for your feedback and enthusiasm for Generative Workspace during its beta. The insights this community shared are woven into what's coming to Photoshop, Firefly, and Creative Cloud in the future, and we’re excited for the amazing things you create.

[rbaezd]

Thank you for your help. This indeed makes it possible to save the prompts with the respective images.
But there is still a problem, you may save also the Style reference but not the composition.
Do you know a way around this?

Regards

Ricardo