Adobe Releases Firefly 3.0

Firefly 3.0 is Adobe's most capable AI image generation tool.

It’s been half a year since Adobe released Firefly 2.0, its Midjourney and Dall-E 3 competitor. A few days ago, they dropped Firefly 3.0 (currently in beta), their latest text-to-image AI tool, and it’s packed with some pretty cool updates. Before we dive into the details, here’s a quick information on what Firefly is.

What is Firefly?

Firefly is a family of generative AI models that let anyone, even if you’re not an expert, generate high-quality images, stunning text effects, and design templates in seconds with nothing but simple text descriptions.

The best part? Firefly is going to be built into some of your go-to Adobe apps, like Photoshop, Express, and Lightroom. How awesome is that?

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What’s new in Firefly 3.0?

The key new features of Firefly 3.0 are the following:

• Auto-stylization: A new style engine delivers high-quality outputs with diverse styles, colors, backgrounds, and subject poses, enabling users to explore creative ideas more efficiently.

• Structure and Style Reference: Users can generate images that match the structure and style of reference images, providing next-level control and state-of-the-art visual quality.

• Improved image quality: Firefly 3 offers better lighting, positioning, and variety in people rendering, complex structures, and crowds.

• Enhanced prompt accuracy and detail: The model better understands complex prompts, resulting in accurate and detail-rich image generations, including clear text displays.

• Expanded illustration and icon styles: Significant improvements in illustration outputs enable the quick creation of icons, logos, raster images, and line art.

Okay, these all look good on paper, but do they really make a difference? Let’s find out.

How to try Firefly 3.0

Head over to the Adobe Firefly website and sign in with your Adobe account. Under the General settings, make sure to select “Firefly Image 3 (preview)” in the model dropdown.

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You can play around with the customization settings, like aspect ratio, structure, style, and effects. Then, just describe the image you want to create. Here’s an example:

Prompt: A heavenly sky full with etherial, misty fluffy clouds with sparkles. Clear, bright blues, purples, pinks.

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I gave it a shot with a hyperrealistic style, and each generation gave me four different versions to choose from. You can click on them to see an upscaled version and download the ones you like.

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Comparing Firefly 3.0 and Firefly 2.0

Now let’s try to compare the image quality between Firefly 3.0 and Firefly 2.0.