Extending Creativity with Adobe Firefly : Create Striking Visuals, Add Text Effects, and Edit Design Elements Faster with Text Prompts / Rollan Bañez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bañez, Rollan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Photoshop.

Artificial intelligence--Computer programs.

Artificial intelligence.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Digital images--Computer programs.

Digital images.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, [2024]

Biography/History:

Banez Rollan: Rollan Banez is an Adobe expert with over two decades of experience as an IT professional, educator, and creative designer. He's the only Adobe Community Expert, Express Ambassador, Certified Professional, Partner by Design, and Education Leader rolled into one in the Asia Pacific region. Rollan onboarded 35, 000+ Filipinos to Adobe Education Exchange, certified 10, 000+ Adobe Creative Educators, and has 26, 000 YouTube subscribers. His unwavering commitment to fostering innovation in education reached out to 1 million viewers (2005-2022) of his lectures from almost every university, local and international. He's also an active community moderator for creative groups in the Philippines.

Summary:

Creating conceptual art and design assets is a slow and laborious process, especially for those unfamiliar with complex design tools. With Adobe Firefly, you can say goodbye to your design challenges and start creating attractive visuals faster than ever before. Written by an Adobe expert with over two decades of experience, Extending Creativity With Adobe Firefly teaches you how to use Generative AI for art and design with easy-to-follow steps. You’ll learn how to create images, add text effects, edit photos, and explore colors faster with Adobe Firefly. You'll discover Firefly’s capabilities for tasks like generating text-to-image samples, styling text effects, and editing photos quickly. You’ll also find how to integrate Firefly with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps to streamline your workflow. If you're just starting out, this book will acquaint you with the basics of design, enabling you to create images easily. If you are a professional, you’ll learn how to improve collaboration and visual communication, and if you are a teacher, you’ll be able to enhance your teaching methods with visual thinking. By the end, you’ll master every function of Adobe Firefly and create outputs for website and desktop applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, and Adobe Stock.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Contributors

Table of Contents

Part 1: Meet Adobe Firefly

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Adobe Firefly

Learning how to use Adobe Firefly

Why use Adobe Firefly?

Choosing between free and premium plans

Accessing Adobe Firefly in the browser

How to log in using an Adobe ID in Firefly

Exploring modules and menu options in Adobe Firefly

Using Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model

Use cases of using Adobe Firefly

Understanding Content Credentials

How to use Content Credentials

Use case for Content Credentials

Summary

Chapter 2: Using the Text to image Module

Writing effective prompts for image generation

Generating images using the Text to image module

Exploring features in Text to image via Adobe Firefly website

Adjusting Photo settings

Working with the advanced settings of Adobe Firefly

Using color and tone effects

Changing lighting effects

Adjusting composition

Advanced editing options within an image

Extending your work into Adobe Express

Using the Share Options

Sharing your generated images via a link

Saving your prompts as favorites

Contributing to making Adobe Firefly better

Chapter 3: Editing Images Faster using Generative Fill

Using Generative Fill

Benefits of using Generative Fill

What can you do with Generative Fill?

Accessing the Generative Fill module

Adding and removing objects with Generative Fill

Changing the Generate Settings

Changing brush settings

Making better selections

Removeing objects seamlessly

Modifying the image background

Changing the background

Selecting the subject using the Invert option

Downloading and sharing your image

Sending your image to Adobe Express

Sharing options within Generative Fill

Summary.

Chapter 4: Creating Stylistic Text Effects in Adobe Express

Using text effects

Recommendations for using text effects

Creating text effects in Adobe Express

Adding another text effect

Customizing your text effects

Changing the text effect's input and prompt

Changing the font

Changing the Match shape option

Using text styles

Using the sample effects

Exporting text effects

Chapter 5: Exploring Color Options with Generative Recolor

Technical requirements

Why use Generative Recolor?

Accessing Generative Recolor in Adobe Illustrator

Changing colors using the sample prompts

Using color harmony

Driving color variations using color swatches

Accessing more color variation options

Part 2: Extending your Creative Workflow

Chapter 6: Accessing Adobe Firefly in Photoshop and Illustrator

Using Adobe Firefly within the desktop application

Using Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop

Understanding Generative Layers

Using Generative Expand in Adobe Photoshop

Using Generative Fill and Expand through Photoshop on the web

Using Text to Vector Graphic in Adobe Illustrator

Creating design assets with Text to Vector Graphic

Building advanced Text to Vector Graphic composites

Creating a Subject type vector graphic

Creating an Icon type vector graphic

Adding a vector graphic pattern

Accessing color controls in the Pattern function

Putting it all together

Chapter 7: Accessing Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express and Adobe Stock

Understanding Adobe Express and Firefly integration

Using Text to image in Adobe Express

Editing faster with Generative fill in Adobe Express

Generating designs using the Text to template (Beta) feature

Generating images using Firefly in Adobe Stock

Chapter 8: Beyond Firefly

Firefly-related affiliations and partnership

What is Adobe Substance 3D?

The system requirements for Adobe Substance 3D

Adobe Substance 3D Firefly-enabled features

Upcoming Adobe Firefly features

Reverse engineering prompts - captioning images

Exploring the prompt cheat sheet

Bringing fictional concepts to life

Incorporating photographic techniques

Using art styles to create unique images

Engage and get help with the Adobe Community

Final words

Index

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Notes:

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Understanding Generative Layers

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ISBN:

9781835082591

1835082599

OCLC:

1434171033