Unlocking Creativity and Harness AI for Design, Recolour, and Vector Art in Adobe Firefly

1. Introduction: Hello, fellow creatives, and welcome to this comprehensive course on Adobe Firefly. Now, if you're eager to push the boundaries of creativity using generative AI, you are in the right place. Throughout this course, we'll dive deep into Adobe Firefly, covering a wide spectrum from crafting simple graphics to mastering advanced techniques for creating compelling visuals for your portfolio. This course is designed to cater to all skill levels. So whether you're a beginner looking to quickly generate an eye catching image or an experienced designer aiming to leverage firefly to produce standing artwork and content. So here's what we're going to cover. We're going to touch on text to image. This will essentially let you articulate your visions into descriptions and transform them into images. These foundational skills will set the stage for more complex creations. Then we're going to cover generative feel and generative expand within Firefly and within Adobe Photoshop as well. Here, we're going to learn how to add and remove elements from images seamlessly. Then we're going to touch on generative recolor. We're going to discover how to create and apply color palettes from simple prompts. Use the generative recolor tool to enhance your designs and bring your ideas to life with vibrant colors. Then we're going to also learn how to use text to vectographics, which is another feature of fire fight that will let you create detailed vectographics using simple prompts. You'll learn how to control colors and add elements to your compositions, enhancing the dynamism of your designs. Then we're going to also touch on text effects. We're going to create impressive text effects from simple prompts. We're going to experiment with various styles and integrate them into graphics for posters, flyers, presentations, logos, social media content, and even more to boost your creative output. Hroughou this journey, we will not just use Adobe firefly, we also incorporate elements of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe express to leverage the full spectrum of features offered by Adobe firefly. Each module includes an assignment to apply what you learned, ensuring that you continue to create and innovate why you actually progress through this course. Are you ready to unlock the incredible potential of your artistic talent with Adobe firefly? So let's get started and see where this journey takes us. 2. Class Project: Hello, there. I just wanted to remind you that this course is packed full of information, is quite extensive, and we're going to cover lots of tips and tricks about Adobe firefly. But we're not just covering the web app. We're going to cover also some of the aspect of it within Illustrator, within Photoshop and Adobe Express. My suggestion is, do the assignments when you find them along the class. You should be able to see them at the end of each section. Make sure you publish at least one of them in the project section here in Skills, at least the one that you're most proud of, and I'm really looking forward to see what you do with them. I'll see you in the next class. When we're going to start to learn how to use firefly. Okay. 3. Understanding Adobe FireFly: Hello, and welcome. In this brief presentation, I'm going to answer five main questions. What is Adobe firefly? What is useful, where to find it, if it's free or not, and why Firefly is so unique. Well, the first question is taken from Adobe website. Adobe firefly is a standalone generative AI web app that introduces new methods for ideation, creation, and communication, greatly enhancing creative workflows with generative AI technology. In other words, Adobe Firefly is a web app. The uses AI to help you come up with ideas and create stuff more easily. It's designed to make your creative projects flow better and faster by leveraging the power of AI. What are the uses of a Dobby firefly? Well, one of them would be brainstorming. You can quickly generate up to four ideas or more than four ideas in a matter of seconds or discover new unexpected perspective within firefly, just by typing simple prompts. By creating assets, so you can enter a description of what you want and watch firefly instantly creates digital assets for you that you can use commercially as well. Project updates. For instance, if you want to amend a project or an image for a client, perhaps altering a background or changing a style from a logo, you can simply do that by using firefly and typing simple prompts or anancement and edits. For instance, you want to enhance your editing with firefly in Photoshop or Illustrator, removing unwanted elements or more effectively than content aware fill or perhaps dynamically recolor icons based on feedback in AB illustrator. One of the many features that we can take advantage from Adobe Firefly is removing elements in images. I photos, they have very little source material. What I mean by that is this. Let's say we have a picture of me here with my friends that we took in Shangela China many years ago. We would take a photo with a local person every time we have to commemorate a visit to a, a special place, and this time we couldn't manage to take photos singularly with a local person, only a group follow. Now, if I wanted to remove from the equation, my friends here, not that I don't like them, but let's say I want to try to remove them from the picture, it would have taken me probably 2-3 hours to do that. And the reason is the way you would approach cloning within photoshop, it would have taken me considerably long time. First of all, because I don't have enough material here to clone. Same thing on this area here and the flooring as well. I wouldn't have been a good job either to look at because I don't have enough source material. But now with the Dobby firefly, I could achieve something like this with a single click of a button. This took me literally 1 minute to do. Just the time to highlight the subject within the photo and press generate. And this is absolutely mind boggling. The amount of time that now we save with generative AI is significant, and we cannot underestimate this tool nowadays. Now, where can you find Adobe firefly? You can use it by visiting this website, firefly adobe.com. Or if you are a subscriber, you can go to Adobe Cloud app on your PC or Mac and access to Adobe firefly directly from there, which is going to lead you to the website and you can actually use it directly there. Adobe firefly is web based, so lives on the web and you can only access by going to the browser. But there are also other ways you can access to some of the features in Adobe firefly directly using adobe express. So we have text to image and text effects that we can use directly there. In adobbitop we can create text to image feature. But also we can use this locally. We can use Photoshop, and we can benefit from generative feel and generative expand, which are from Adobe firefly. Also in Illustrator, if you want to use generative recolor feature, we can definitely use it directly on our local computer. Bear in mind, though, if you want to use Photoshop and Illustrator and take advantage of AdobbiFifly features, we need to be connected to the Internet. Now, is Firefly free. Now, WiFirefly is free up to 25 credits a month, so you can create a free account, but this is the limit that you have. Now, if you have any subscriptions with Adobe Cloud, you can have from a few hundred to a few thousand credits a month. Now, I have an Adobe subscription that allows me to access to all the apps within the Adobe ecosystem, and it gives me up to 1,000 credits a month. As you can see here, if I go to Adobe firefly website, on the top right corner, you have an icon. You can click on the icon there. And you can actually see your account name, and down below here, you'll see the monthly generative credits that you have left. Now, how do the credits work? So one prompt is equal to one credit, and each prompt will generate four different variations or four different images with the same prompt. So ear in mind that you have four variations, and it only costs you one credit. Now, if you want to find out more about Adobe Firefly and its features, if you watch this in the future, please visit Adobe Firefly Help page for latest info. Now, why Firefly is so unique. Firefly is unique because it's safe for commercial use. And that means whatever you generate within firefly, whether you create a color palette, whether you recolor an artwork, whether you create an image or a composition or an illustration, it's free for commercial use. And the reason why is that is because Adobe Firefly is trained purely on the Adobe stock archive, which has more than 300 million curated images. Within the Adobe environment is also trained on images with no copyrights and no royalties, but it is also trained on images which copyrights have expired. So you have a plethora of archives of images of illustrations of material and database that you can benefit from, and you can use it for commercial use. Another factor that we need to consider is that Adobe is committed in preventing harm and bias using generative AI tools. And what that means is if you're trying to create an image using a famous character description or using a famous name or a famous brand or a notorious character, a won't know what that character is. For instance, if you're trying to recreate Spider Man into an illustration, Fireflight doesn't know who Spider Man is and what sex is, if it's male, if it's female, what ethnicity is, what color is, it doesn't know anything. It will interpret your prompt according to the description rather than the famous character name. For instance, if you're trying to create a picture of Queen Elsa from Frozen playing a piano, it will actually create Elsa from Frozen, which is Clay referencing from a Disney movie, but it will create something similar. Now, it will grasp some of the elements from my prompt, for instance, the word frozen and the word playing piano and the word queen, and it will try to represent something of that sort. But nothing has to do with frozen and quid Queen Elsa from Disney. Another example would be this Indiana Jones in lost ancient ruins in the middle of a jungle. Now, as you can see, I've got four different jungle ancient ruins with no character whatsoever. So here also gives me this little warning saying one or more words may not meet user guidelines and were removed. So it basically doesn't know about Indiana Jones. It doesn't know about Elsa from frozen. It doesn't know about famous characters as well. It will give you always various diversified solutions for your prompt, which makes it very safe to use with no worries about any copyright infringement. So now that we have a good understanding of what Adobe firefly is, let's get started with the class. 4. Overview of Text to Image: So before we get started, I just want to give you a quick overview of Dobbie firefly website. So the first things we're going to do, we go into firefly dot a dobby.com. And this is how the page looks like at the time of this recording. We have a section on the very top here left, which allows us to browse between home community favorites about and help. On the top right corner, we have the option to log in. So if you have your account already logedin, Please do so by clicking on this icon here, when you click on it, and we'll show you your name and your account. So make sure you are logged in. Then we have this bar here in the center of the page, which allows us to type a prompt to create an image to generate an image. But before we do that, I'm going to just scroll down, show you other features that we have available now in a W firefly. We have the first section here, which is going to show you all new features. At the moment, you have one coming soon, which is a generative audio and video, edit your audio and video content with firefly. Very exciting. I'm looking forward to see that feature coming soon. We have a new feature here and we can try, which is structure reference. I'm going to cover that later on. Then we have these other features that we can use right away with firefly, which is text to image, you can generate images using a prompt text. Then we have generative feel, which is a relatively new feature not just in Adobe firefly, but also in photoshop. But if you don't have a photoshop, you can take advantage of this using Adobe firefly. Then we have also generate templates. You can generate templates using text. This is an amazing feature as well. We can try in a Dobbie express. Then we have generate a vector. This is done within Adobe Illustrator, generative free color, and also we have text effect, which we can try in Adobe express as well. If you scroll down here, you can see all the generated images of the communities or people share and publish their own work here and you can do the same. You can explore any of this if you're curious to know how they actually did it. You just hover the cursor over any of these images and you can see a little prompt how the image is being created, essentially. You can also browse the community gallery by going to view community gallery. Here you can explore all the different the latest artwork as well as some video from social media where people share their experience with Adobe, firefly, and other Adobe products, which is pretty exciting. It gives you some inspiration and some more ideas or creating art. You can actually explore any of these images and you can amend them by using your own prompt. But let's go into our home here on top left. We're going to go down here and I'm going to click on text to image. Now that way here, we can actually explore all the other artwork. And my suggestion is to just use this as a reference. If you like one of this image, you can click on the image and you can see what settings the users have used. So for instance, down here, you can see the prompt, and this is the prompt to generate this image. And you can also see on the side bar here, what model is being used, what aspect ratio, what filters, et cetera, et cetera styles, and all the things that all the effects as well that we're going to cover in this class. My suggestion is, try them out, perhaps change some of the prompts here to experiment different results. But otherwise, you just go back here on the top left under text to image, and we are now ready to generate our own image by just clicking on the prompt area here, and that's what we're going to do in the next video. 5. Create your first image: Okay, now we are ready to type our first prompt. Now we're going to go here, and we're going to type a mag of coffee. Now I'm going to go into generate here and the blue button, bottom corner. And now we're going to see the firefight layout. It's going to generate four images for each of your prompts, but do not worry. It only cost you one credit for each generation. So that is a good news. Now, as you can see, I've got here four images. Let's explore this and choose a one that we like. Quite like the steam here with a little bit of cinnamon on the side, quite like the greenery in the background. So quite nice. But it's a very simple, very simplistic prompt, but we can actually make the prompt a little bit more interesting to get a little bit better results. So let's say I'm going to go down here. And I'm going to use a mac of coffee on a wooden table in a living room. And let's see. And as you can see, when I type my prompt, I've got some suggestions here on top that can give me some ideas, for instance, with an nice cold water, with an empty white wall, with an orange warm plate. I'm going to just leave it as it is and just press generate. By the way, you can remove those suggestions by just switching this little switch off. Next to the generate button. I'm going to leave them on. It's good to have some inspiration from firefly. As you can see now, I've got a wooden table. I've got a living room in the background, quite like the greenery, you've got as well in the background, makes the ambience more cozy, more warm. But let's say I want to even expand this prompt, and let's be even more specific. A mago coffee on a wooden table in the living room with a C with a C view. Through a large window, and I'm going to just press generate. And by the way, when you do these iterations and you want to keep the image, I'll suggest you to save the image, but I'm going to show you how to do that. So for instance, now that I created this image, let's say I'm happy with the image number four, this one here. When I have the curse over the image, I can do a bunch of things. As you can see, I've got this icon popping up, One other thing you can do here down below is to rate the results. If you like the results, you can just give it a us up, so you help Adobe to make firefly even better. Also you can leave some feedback as well. By doing that, you can just specify what things you liked about the prompt. I'm going to just leave it blank for now. Other things you can do, you can of course download the image, and you also can mark that as a favorite. So I can click on the favorite, and it will save it into my favorite section in my Adobe firefly account. I can also do other things. I can edit the image. So if I want to do that, I can do a bunch of things such as generative feel. So this is something that has been implemented also in photoshop and allows you essentially to make the image larger and to basically let the AI build the rest of the image for you. Pretty amazing, we're going to cover that later. Also, we have to generate similar. So if you like this image and you want to generate similar image to this, I can click on generate similar. I can also use a structure reference. So this is a new feature in Adobe firefly that we're going to cover in this class. And we also have other features that we can add into Adobe Express, which is another application. For instance, if you want to apply certain filters and adjustments, we can do that, and also remove background, very useful feature as well. We can do that in Adobe Express and also add some text and more. Now, for instance, if I want to generate similar images, all I need to do is spiclygenerate similar, and it is going to keep the image that I like, and the other three are going to be generated now with this as a reference. As you can see, now I've got more options very similar to my fourth image here, and I quite like this image here. If I like that image, all I need to do is simply just download it. But if I want to create the image, for instance, with a different aspect ratio, I can go to my side bar here. As you can see on the general settings, I've got the option to see the model, at the moment we have firefly image two. As a time of this recording. We also have aspect ratio. We can change the aspect ratio to be one of these four. Let's say I want to have landscape. Four by three. You can even have white screen. This is amazing if you want to create like thumbnails for your content videos or for any other purposes, you can actually change the asper ratio quite easily. I'm going to **** landscape. And nothing happened unless I just go in to generate and it's going to generate essentially other four images for me. When you create these iterations, of course, it's going to generate a completely different image or a similar image. As you can see, I've got still the C view and I've got my g of coffee and also some greenery as well. So the quality is absolutely stunning. I quite like the image number four. Let's download this image. I'm going to go to download button. So when you do that, you have this message from Adobe. It says promoting transparencies in AI. Adobe is committed to promoting transparency around content generated with AI tools like Adobe firefly. When downloading or sharing content generated with a Dobbie firefly. The content credentials will be applied to let people know that you created this using AI. So this content credential is something we're going to cover later on, but essentially is metadata that is going to be attached into your images when you generate them using adobe firefly. So people can actually trace the image changes and all the different parameters that have been used to generate such an image. So this is something that Dobby wants to make sure you are aware of. I'm going to click on Continue. And now the image is being saved into my download folder, if I want to see it, I can click the image and the image it's quite big. So I can go here and I can make it slightly smaller so you can see it. On screen. And if I want to see the size of this, I can go to my tool, I can go to adjust size, as you can see this image is 2304 by 17 92 pixels. So it's quite a big image. So you can actually see them also in centimeters. And if you're thinking to print them out or in millimeters or any other percentages up to you. But this is the pixels, 20300700, almost 800. So the image quality now in Adobe Firefly is definitely improved from a previous version of Model one. And this is how you create and generate images by iterations using the prompt. In the next video, we're going to spend some time talking about prompt engineering and how we can best approach firefly to generate the best images ever. 6. How to talk to Firefly: Let's have a look at some tips and tricks about how we can talk to a Dobbie firefight to get the best content and the best images ever. One of the first rule in basic prompting is to be specific. You're going to hear this word very often during this class because the more specific you are, the better the results would be. An example would be a fluffy cat sitting on a windows hill looking out at the city scape. So this would be descriptive enough to get you a nice image. Be descriptive. Example will be on the right, secret agent seen from the future, backlit in a decadent post apocalyptic cafe, serious face, dark appearance, scrapla the jacket, cinematic lighting, cinematic poster style. Now, I said on the right because I wanted a white asper ratio for this image, and I want to have the secret agent on the right side of the image. Again I was very specific and descriptive. Be empathetic, so you can actually put some feelings into the description, tender moment of a child sharing in heartfelt conversation with the elderly grandparent, love, wisdom. Some keywords at the end as well. Also, trying to be as creative as possible. For instance, studio shot of a futuristic, high heels, warm, red, blue, gel lighting, Boca made out of mechanical materials. So again, you need to be very creative when you write your descriptions to get the best results. And of course, you can iterate that. And the fifth rule here is don't refer to famous characters, films or brands. And the reason why I say that is because I was trying to create an image using the descriptions in point number two to be descriptive. On the right secret agent scene, I wanted to have a secret agent similar to blade runner and I wanted to have him wearing a leather jacket similar to Hang solo from Star Wars. Even though I was writing those prompts couple of times with iterations, I couldn't get anything closer to what I wanted. So Firefly does not know about famous characters and films or brands. So make sure that if you want to have specific objects, for instance, a leather jacket that looks like hung solo in Star Wars. Trying to really be descriptive about the jacket that you want to see and iterate that during your process. And that's the best way to approach adobiFirefly. And that's one of the reasons why Adobe firefly is compliant with copyright. So you're not going to have any issues in terms of copyright infringement, et cetera. An example of bad prompting is the one that we tried in the previous video. A mug of coffee. This is just a very simple prompt that produces actually a picture that you can see here. This is the picture that came out out of this prompt. Even though we're using a firefly, the new model generation, which is amazing and creates amazing pictures such as this. I didn't specify what I wanted if it was a metal mug, a ceramic glass mug, I didn't specify any of that. So this is too short, definitely is too short. It's not specific enough. What sort of environment scenario I want this g to be. It doesn't have any description, so poor descriptions, and it's too objective. So it's just very cold description of what I wanted. So make sure you put your own feeling, your own personality into the description. A good prompting would be a realistic image of a large steamy mug of coffee on a wooden table in a cozy living room, with the sea view through a large window during sunrise wide angle shot. I highlight those keywords in red, steamy, cozy, wide angle shot because I really wanted to convey that into my image and trying to be very very specific and very personal in your description. Again, it describes the image with details. It has subjective interpretations. That's what I want to have when I have a cozy living room. I want to have a steamy cup of coffee. I wanted to have a wide angle shot, describe the background, the objects, if there are people, animals, or any other elements within your image. If you want to refer more into prompt engineering and how to talk best with adobe firefly, again, this is a software that will be updated in the future. And depending on when you're watching this, things might change, but you can refer to the Tips and Tricks website of Adobe through this link or you just search on Google, writing effective prompts in adobiFirefly. Usually, the first and the second search on Google is the Adobe website that you can actually refer to to get the best out of a Dobbie firefly. With that said, I'll see you in the next video. 7. Explore content type: Let's explore some effect in adobe firefly, and how can they dramatically change the look of our images and our prompt. So I'm back into text image here, and I'm going to write this prompt. On the right secret agent movie from the future in a post apocalyptic Asian antique shop, a scruffy dark brown leather jacket, thin jacket, lights reflection through his dark glasses. Let me just put this properly. Dark mood, cinematic lighting and cinematic poster style. So it's very specific of what I want to achieve. I'm going to just press and generate. I was going to elaborate that into a square image. I'm going to change the aspect ratio just in a second. But I want to see what sort of effect will apply to this image. So that we go, I've got now my secret agent, and I've got four different style. A quite like the second one and the first one as well. But I'm going to change the aspect ratio. I'm going to go into square, and I'm going to go into landscape. I'm going to choose white screen. This is going to be a film posture I'm going to just click on generate. Now we have our wide screen view of our poster. Quite like this one here, quite nice. The fourth one and this one here is also nice. There also quite nice. Yeah. I think I wanted to have a different look of my leather jacket, but now quite like this one here, I'm going to rate it. And by the way, fire flight will apply a type of settings automatically. And this is determined by the switch here, which says auto. So that will basically determine your prompt, and it will apply either a photo effect or an art effect. So if I click on art and I click on generate. As you can see, when I click on any of these effects, it will add a tug down to my prompt, as you can see, I've got this art tug. And now I'm going to click on generate and see what it does to my image. Okay, so it applies a certain an art filter into my image. In fact, it doesn't look like a photo looks like more artwork. Yeah, I quite like this, but I prefer photo. I'm going to go back to photo. And as you can see, when I switch between art and photo, the label will change here as well, because you can have both. But you can apply many other factors we're going to cover just in a second. Now, I'm going to go back to photo. One of the few features that I really like about firefly. Now, is the fact that you can change the photo settings, if it is a photographic photo realistic image. I'm going to choose this photo here. And I'm going to this photo here. Oh, quite like this one here as well. I'm going to choose this one here just for the sake of this exercise, but I'm going to go here, and then I'm going to go into photo settings, as you can see, is automatically applied. But I can go into this little arrow here, click on it, and I can change the aperture. If you go all the way to the right, it's going to go to focus 1.2, which is basically going to make everything around the subject blurry. If I want everything sharp, I need to go all the way to the other side of the aperture. So when it is under focus 22. As you can see, I've got also a little preview of how the picture is going to look like, and it gives you this nice effect of the subject. I'm going to just stick with 1.4 quite like that. Also, I've got the shutter speed. This is something that you can also move with a slide. If you want to have a longer exposure, you can just change this. I'm going to just leave it as it is. And then we have the field of view, which is going to change essentially the viewable area. Of the image. So if you want to have it like wide angle, if you want to have a more close, and that will change the millimeter here of your lens. I will basically emulate a lens. So this is a 35 millimeter lens equivalent. We also have 40 millimeter, which is a quite wide angle. Otherwise, you can go very close, 300 millimeter. Let's say I want to have a 28 millimeter, and I'm going to just press generate. And as you can see, when I now apply these changes, the auto button will automatically switch off. So it's not automatic anymore. It will basically apply my settings. And this is something that you can change all the time. And as you can see, now, I've got a little bit of why the shot of the image. I'll go a little bit more context in the background. I quite like this image here, quite nice. I'm going to stick with I'm going to stick with this one. Actually I'm going to download this. I'm going to press continue. It's good to have it, and I'm going to just rate it as well. This is just some of the effects that you can apply to your prompt to your images to make dramatic changes. In another video, I'm going to show you some of the effects that you can apply to your image. Okay. 8. Structure Reference: Now let's talk about structure. The structure effect is something you find here on the side bar. Now we're going to use the same prompt image that we used in the previous video. And reference here is something you can apply. You can apply your own images. You can apply an image that comes with a Dobby firefly. So this essentially helps you to change the outline and the depth of your image. So for instance, if I want to change the background perspective, I can use one of these outline example. I can go to even browse gallery here to check all the other effect and the other images that I can use. I go here are three categories. I've got abstract, I've got photography, and I've got also line drawings if I want to have that instead. I'm going to use an effect that is under photography, just to show you what it does. And I'm going to just show you something like with a very wide angle with a very far background like this CD scape. I'm going to click on that. As soon as I click on that, it will apply the structure reference down below here on my prompt, and I'm going to click on generate. Okay. Now, from that image, it would actually tried to put some of the objects and some of the background far away from the subject. So it tried quite hard in some of this. This did quite a good job. This one here quite nice, actually, make the subject a little bit further away from the camera and quite like this photo. And then also this one not much. This one did a good job, but the actual subject looks a little bit distorted. So not sure if this is a desk or is a reflection of him, but it looks like it didn't really come up properly. I think the best image is this, and I'm going to rate this to help firefly to get even better. So I'm going to download this quite like it, and I'm going to also put it into my favorite. So I can actually reference to this later on. So if you like an image, and before you iterate the image, perhaps you want to save it and you want to put it into your favorite, so you can actually bring it back and you retrieve it and then work on it later on. Now, let's try one of other reference. I'm going to just click on this reference photography to remove it. As you can see, when I click on it, it will apply it. When I click on there again, it will remove the tag from my prompt. I'm going to go up here and I'm going to use one of my images. So I'm going to click on upload image, or you can click on this icon here as well. Doesn't matter. And I'm going to just apply one of my image that I did I took a long time ago. In Singapore, and now this image has been applied, and now I'm going to generate and see what effect will reproduce. And as you can see, I've got the image here as you see the image. The image is a building, very colorful building with this perspective. So you've got this angle on this building and I've got other buildings in the background as well. And as you can see, try to actually reproduce that same building here using the same effect for my prompt, which is pretty amazing. Let's try others. This one is also quite nice. Firefly also tried to keep the same sort of Asian shop style to my image, which is also quite remarkable. I would probably say this image is quite nice. So that is a sort of thing that you can try with your own image. I'm going to try in a different image now. This is a completely different image. This is going to remove that one there. This is a temple in Anchor in Cambodia. I'm going to upload that in here. Again, this is something these are just photos that I'm trying to apply to my image. I'm going to press generate. But you can also try illustrations or something that is completely abstract and see what sort of effect you can get out of your image. Now, that one is a temple in Acho but there's no actually reference whatsoever. But the results are also quite interesting. I can actually, I can definitely use one of these images for my content. If I don't like that, I can click on the little x icon next to my image here on the side bar, and I can click on Generate again. And what it does it will go back to the previous prompt, the previous results, the very first one. So I can just experiment here. So just choose any of this ever go and try to upload your own image as well and see what sort of result you get, and I'll see you in the next video and we're going to explore more effect in Adobe firefly. Okay. 9. Exploring Effects: So let's continue to explore our effects area by going to effects. And we have quite a few here, quite a few filters. Some of them are the popular one, as you can see, I've got Bok effect, I've got layered paper, synth wave, go painting, digital art, et cetera. But you can also go to movements, and you have lots of different ones. You go art deco, you go Baroque, Cubism, I've got here fantasy, I've got film noir. These are just some of the effect that you could also find in photoshop as well, glitch graphic. So you can apply some of this. You can go to material effect, techniques as well. You got also concepts. You've got beautiful bohemium. You got divine. You've got nostalgic. So let's try some of the popular. I'm going to go into something like Bouquet effect, and I'm going to just click on generate. You can try one at a time. You can try a couple, if you like or more. You can apply quite a few actually. Okay. This gives me a bouquet effect. Everything in the background is blurred, nice effect here. If I want to remove it, I just click on it again. It's going to remove it from the tag here, and I press generate to go back to the previous effect to the previous image. I'm going to apply something else. I'm going to go into something like synth wave and to painting, for instance, and I'm going to press generate. And this is sort the effect you can get quite like the purple color reflection through his glasses, the reflection through his leather jacket as well. Let's see here. Yeah. So this is definitely one of my favorite. I'm going to just mark as a favorite, and also I'm going to rate it. Okay. Now, you also have the option to explore all of them. I can go to all. And here you can see them all. You can see all the effects you can apply. You can also, for instance, apply cinematic. I'm going to try cinematic and I'm going to press generate. So if I don't like an effect, all I need to do is sprily the x next to the label I don't like, the tag I don't like, and it will remove the effect from my image. So as you can see, I've got a cinematic look now, kind of makes the face and the skin very smooth. But I quite like actually the roughness that I had before. I'm going to just press cinematic to remove it, and I'm going to press generate, to go back to the previous roughy scratchy look quite like this feeling actually on the picture. By the way, if you go all the way on top, and let's go back into our popular to shorten the list. You also have three parameters here. You got color and tone, you've got lighting, and you also have camera angle. Let's try color and tone. I'm going to go here, got some black and white, got golden, cool tone, monochromatic. I'm going to try let's say what What's going to look like with vibrant colors. I'm going to pre press generate. And just by applying the subtle changes to your image, you can really tweak it and really get the right sort feel that you want to get out of your artwork. Okay. This makes it too purplish, in my opinion. Perhaps if I want to convey these two or two washed out, first two are acceptable, but still too much purple in the image. I'm not sure exactly what no I don't really like I'm going to call vibrant color again. Press and generate, and I go back to my previous view my previous image version. I can try another one let's say I'm going to try muted color and fresh generate. Again, as of the time of this recording, you might have different effects, and you might see something different effects. And again, more power to you. You can try more tools and more effects to your image. Okay, this mute the colors. I'm going to just go back to my previous. This one is still my favorite. I'm going to go to lighting. I'm going to try some of the lighting of back lighting dramatic light. I have long time exposure. This is going to be good for let's say for waterfall pictures or nature shots of water falling or a stream of water or a stream of water for instance of river. And you can use long time exposure to have a nice effect. Okay, let's try, for instance, studio light. Generate. The studio it gives me a again, really subtle change to the image. I'm going to stick with what I've got here. So you don't have to necessarily apply lots of effects to your image. If you already got the results that you need. It's fine. Let's go back to camera angle. I'm going to try a couple of this. I was already a close up macro photography, landscape photography, you got also shot from below. Okay, let's try this. If this is already actually from below. I wanted to have a wide angle. Let's see what's going to do to my image. Okay. The first this image, not really wide angle, probably the background, became a little bit wider. The subject is still quite close to the camera. This can be a wide angle of the background, wide angle of not much of a wide angle here. Probably here. You've got a little bit more white angle. It's all about experimenting or just going to go back to my previous image. So you've got plenty here to try on to mix up mix and match. So fun with this, and I'll see you in the next video and we're going to explore more effects in firefly. 10. Matching Reference Images: We are learning so far how to add some effects into our prompt image, whether you want to have a photo realistic image or whether you want to have an artwork style. You can do that here in content type. We also learn about structure, how we can change the outline of our image and even alter the background by applying one of these existing images or even uploading one of our image, and it will change the structure of our image dramatically. We also explore the effects and all the different filters that we can apply to our image. And this is as far as we got. W firefight, we also allow you to change the overall look of your image by uploading your own images or using one of these images here. So this will apply essentially the style of the image and override the effect of your existing image. What I mean by that, if you have an image with four or five colors in it and you aplod this image here, it will apply those five colors to this image. I will lose these colors, and those color will be overridden of it. So for instance, if I choose this image here on the reference, and this is a sort of a neon light purple and blue color, and I apply to my image here and just press generate. Now, it will overwrite the colors of my image, and it will apply this instead. Let's see how it looks now. Okay. Boom. Now you have a completely purpliish bluish color style image. I lost all the details from the other image, but I retain the concept. But as you can see now, I've got a completely different style applied over my image. If I want to apply a different one, all I need to do is simply just click on one of these and press generate, and that will actually replace the one that I just applied now. As you can see, when I see style reference here, I've got that one when I click on another one, it will override that one. You can't have both at the same time. Just press generate. This is sort of like a drawing effect almost to the image. And then we go and now we got a completely different feel to our image. It's completely now changed the aspect. It looks more like a drawing and uses like two or three four colors max. Uh, I can choose a different one here. Again, you can experiment a press generate. Of course, you can even upload your own images as well. It could be just an image, an illustration or anything that you like. This is also kind of similar to the neon one that we had before. I'm going to just remove that press generate and go back to this image, and I'm going to go to Browse gallery. Here, you got quite a few popular ones as well. With just a few colors. You got acrylic and oil. We could try one of this, actually, Acrylic and oil. Let's see, I'm going to try this one here and apply that. I'm not showing you all of the four versions, but again, because I prefer that image in particular, but you never know sometimes you stick with one image and then once you apply an effect, you might like a different version of it. That is now our effect, our acrylic view of our image. Quite fascinating, actually, the fact that you can really dramatically change your initial concept. Your initial prompt can be completely altered by applying these filters. Now, we're applying this one here, like a desertic style. This is a market or farm look. Okay. The secret agents in the farm in this really remote village. We can try some water color as well. We can try this one here, generate. We also have some pencil drawing, some architectural sketches as well, three D. That's it. So this is another style reference. I'm going to try this drawing here. I'm quite curious to know, quite like that one. I can also apply monochromatic if I wanted to. So I can go to something like that, something more minimalistic. I've got some three D effects. I've got some digital illustrations as well. This has certain key colors, and that can be applied to your image. I've got neon, neon effect. Let's try one of these digital illustration. You got plenty. You got photo studio, you have photo manipulation. Okay. This is quite stylish, actually. I quite like it. Yeah. So that you got other colors and other effect. You can apply. You got textures. You have color and lighting. So apply one of these, I'm going to try geometric. Feel free to experiment with the reference effects. You got plenty here to experiment and to try on. Bar in mind, you can also upload your own image as well to apply different effects. Feel free to experiment and be creative with these effects, and in next video, I'm going to show you some other ways to change the intensity and the strength of these effects. 11. Strength Slider: After changing the effects and adding a reference image to match the style of the image into our prompt and into our concept, we can also change the strength of these effects. On the styles, as you can see, I've got visual intensity, which we applied before, but we also have strength. The strength slider will affect the, the matching image that we applied, and also the effects as well that we applied in the previous video. Now, if I go here and I drag the strength all the way up, click congenerate, it's going to give me more accentuated effect on the image. Now if I visit my artwork is still processing number three, but you notice now the image the effect is more applied on the image. You see the texture here, it's more marked into the picture. If I go into the other side, so if I drag the strength all the way down and press now generate, the effect is going to be more subtle, more soft, and less accentuated. Let's see how it looks. It's a bit softer. As you can see the outlines as much softer than before. It's more looks like in a hand painting. But otherwise, you can just go back to strength in the middle and just press generate and it will remember the previous settings, and of course, it won't take any time to process the image. So I can stick with this, but bear in mind, you have the strength slide which will affect the effects that you applied and the filters that you apply to your image. So ever go with that and I'll see you in the next video. 12. Visual intensity slider: Now that we learn how to change the counter type from photo to an art piece, we also can change the intensity of our effect. For instance, in this picture here, I can go down here on the styles and change the intensity by using this light here. So I I drag this slide all the way to the right, I will increase the intensity and the characteristics of my image. Now if I click on generate, I'm going to have a more, you know, marked features on the image of this secret agent and on the background features as well and details. And I've got also other example here to prove the point. Again, I can choose any of this, for instance, for disc sort of intensity I quite like image one. For this image two, I will probably prefer. Number one is probably best for me. I don't know about you. If I instead going to let's go back to this one here, and if I instead now drag the slide visual intensity all the way to the left and press generate, I will get a more kind of soft or softer feeling and effect on the image itself. And every details now are kind of more bit more softer then not accentuated as before. Otherwise, I can just go back to the middle where I was before, and this is my initial image. Or I can go one step a little bit further in terms of intensity to see if I've got some kind of middle ground and see if I can compromise my image characteristics to a new result. Now, I got a similar results from before. It is a subtle change. Again, this is very subjective. I quite like actually, the visual intensity that I've got from here, and I quite like the first image because I got lots of more going on in the background, more objects, and more details also in his jacket and his face features as well. So I quite like this one here. I'm going to just vote as well. I'm a good advocate of firefly. I just want to make sure that they know that I like certain results. But this is how you change the visual intensity using the lider. Now, in the next lessons, I'm going to show you more features and more controls that you can tweak with your image. Okay. 13. Colour, Lighting and Composition: Let's explore now how we can change the look and feel of our composition, our images, or our art piece, by applying some new colors, some lighting, and some compositions. So we explored this before in a previous image, but I'm going to reiterate this by using a different prompt, and I'm going to type something like this. Lady bug resting on a flower, bouquet effect, sunrise, summer day after a rainy night. I'm going to just press generate and see how firefly is going to generate this and interpret this. So we have the leti bug on a flower, quite nice after a rainy night. It gives a little bit of water drop into it, quite nice. I've also wanted to have a photo realistic image. So it's already applied as a photo, brilliant. Now, if I scroll down here, We have our structure, our styles, but we also have these three parameters that we explored before in the previous image, which is color and tone, lighting, and camera angle. This will dramatically change the composition, the coloring and the look and feel of your image. By going to color and tone, we find some of these filters, for instance, black and white, cool tone, golden, monochromatic, and muted color, vibrant color. So I can apply one of these. Let's try a vibrant color. And when I apply that it's going to add that tag down below here on my prompt lighting. Let's go to lighting, or go back lighting, dramatic light, golden hour, harsh light. We got low lighting, multi exposure, studio light, surreal lighting. I'm going to try let's say, we're going to try surreal lighting. On the camera angle, this is going to change our perspective, the perspective of how the image is going to look like. I've got here a close up. I've got landscape photography, macro photography. This is a lady bug, so I can try macro photography. I also have shot from above, shot from below, and wide angle, et cetera. I'm going to try macro photography. I'm going click on generate. As you can see, when I type here on the prompt Boca effect, it will automatically apply bouquet effect on the effect. Pretty clever. Now, the image here looks stunning. I've got here the first interpretation, which is quite nice. The second one here gives me a lot of blurry and bouquet effect on the image. The third one and the fourth. They look a little bit artifact here. But if I want, I can just change the lighting or a different effect. I can go to lighting. I can choose for instance, let's look, dramatic light. We can try that and press generate and see if what gives us. And now we have the dramatic light, which gives us a completely different effect on the image. I quite like this image here, number three. Let's go back to golden hour. As you can see, I've got a brilliant effect here on this blady bag. I can choose actually photo number three. So just by applying vibrant color and golden hour and macro photography, I achieve this sort of effect. If I want to change the camera angle and I want to have something, for instance, like a close or let's say shot from below. Let's see how it looks. It's good to experiment different angles. Even something unusual that you've never done before or goes against the norm is always good to try, especially in firefly. Again, it's very similar to the macro photography, but I still retain the boca effect like this image here, quite nice. But again, feel free to experiment and change the look and feel of your image by applying these three parameters, and you're going to have lots of fun with it and applying the rest of the effect that you learned so far. Me going to explore more tips and tricks about firefly. 14. Deep dive into Photo settings: Let's take a look now at other tools that we have available in firefly that we briefly touched before, but I want to just reiterate on them. I'm going to type the prompt, a photo realistic waterfall in a jungle, Wilderness, wildlife, lens flare effect, pure emerald, and blue water, and nature photography. Go to click on generate and there we have it, we have a beautiful waterfall, quite a few here, quite like the number three and number four. I'm going to just rate the results as usual. Let's take a look at the photo settings here. Now, firefly will automatically apply these effects and the settings if you prompt results into a photo. But if you prompt results into an art piece, it won't apply. In this case, this is a photo, photo settings are applied. But I can as click on this little arrow next to auto to find out what settings we have available. Now, in photography, we have aperture, shutter speed and field of view, but you don't have to necessarily know about this terminology. All you need to do is simply have a cursor over one of the slider, and I will actually tell you what it does. For instance, if you have a cursor over aperture, it says here, adjust the amount of background that is blurred to draw attention to the subject. For instance, in this case, the subject is our waterfall. So what we can do here, we can change the focus to be, for instance, a bit more. On the right side. So if you move the focus all the way on the right side, it will make the subject in focus and the background blurry. This case, it won't really work on this picture, but if we don't know that and you want to just experiment, all you need to do is simply do that, go to the focus all the way up to 1.2, and click on generate and see what sort of effect you can achieve. Sometimes you never know you might get actually in effect quite interesting and can be definitely used if you like it. Let's have a here. It looks like now the waterfall is nice and sharp, and also everything else looks like sharp, some of the water here, it's blurry. An interesting effect. Definitely can be used. It looks like almost a picture from one of those storybook. So it's quite nice to have this sort of effect. But let's go back to focus. For instance, focus eight was in Focus eight. Let's go back all the way to the Focus 22 and see what effect we get out of that. So if the aperture is all the way to 22, let's see what firefly is going to interpret out of this settings. So now we have a well, a more sharp picture. So everything looks like sharper and there's not really anything in a blurred doesn't have any blur feel at all. Okay, that's fine. Let's go back to focus eight que like that effect, and then just prec generate and it's going to go back to the previous settings. And let's explore shutter speed. Shut the speed in this case can be used for movements. So if you have a car speeding up or someone dancing, or in this case, a water streaming through a river or a waterfall, you can actually use this shutter speed for your advantage. So Shutter speed here, if you have a accurse over there, create a blur that includes a streak of light or a moving object across your photo. As you can see from the bridge here from the photo here, there is a bridge. If I move the shutter speed all the way to the right, as you can see the lights now are actually in a longest posh view. Looks like a beam of light moving, which is quite nice effect. I can actually use this effect for my waterfall and see how it looks. I'm going to drag this all the way to 10 seconds, and I'm going to go down to generate and see what effect we can achieve with that. Nature shots usually are quite good, especially when you have some dynamic going on in the image. That long exposure effect is a bit applied, but not as much as I thought it would be. But if we want to apply that into our image, there is another tool that we haven't explored just yet and you scroll down all the way to the lighting on the color tone lighting and camera angle. If you go to lighting, you should be able to see long time exposure. This is an effect that we can use for certain pictures or certain art piece. Now, I'm going to apply that long exposure and applies it on my prompt down below here, and I go can't generate. And let's see if now makes any difference to our image. Now we can definitely see the long exposure effect on our waterfall from the first image all the way to the fourth. And we can definitely choose one of these. Beautiful photos. Let's go back to our photo settings. The last one is our field of view. These function essentially emulate the lens. If you're not a photographer, all you need to do is simply have a cursor here and it says, adjust the maximum viewable area. If I want to make the picture and the area wider, all I need to do is simply just move the slider all the way to the left, and it says wide. Now, if I click on generate. To leave the long exposure effect into the image. Now the field of view says there is 14 millimeter. Now we can definitely see some wide angle effect. We can see that the waterfall is actually closer to us, but it gives us a wider view of the area around it. And if I do the opposite, if I go all the way to 300 millimeters, so it's kind of using a zoom lens, going very close to the subject. In this case, our waterfall, let's see what sort of results we can get. Now, it went closer, but not as closer as you might think. This is a nature shot, of course. But if you use this effect for a portrait, you're definitely going to find some differences. For instance, if I completely change the prompt, I can just delete all of this, go back to the prompt and delete. Another way to rewrite a prompt is just going back to text to image, going back to this page and write a new prompt. I can say, I just wrote a portrait of a young girl dancing in the rain, summer feeling, smiling, city lights reflections. Let's see what we can get. Now we can use some of those photo settings. So we got four results. Now, the image is quite close. But if I go to photo settings now and I click on the arrow next to it. As you can see the field of view it has 80 millimeter, which is quite close. But if I want to make it like a wider view, I can go all the way to wide and click on generate. And now I think you're going to have a better idea, better understanding on how this effect might apply to this particular scenario. Hopefully Firefly will show us a good emulation of that. Yeah, it's going to show us a little bit more on the image, this is definitely a little bit more wide angle than the other ones. Yeah, this one is also as well, a little bit more wide angle. And I will probably vote for this one. It looks like a little bit further away. If I go to photo settings now and I go to the other side and I zoom in with 300 millimeter effect. Now we have definitely a zoomed image, much closer perspective. Again, if you want to accentuate on this close up, one other thing you can do is either amend your prompt and just type close up or you can go down to the settings here on the lighting on the camera angle. And here, we can actually use the close up filter. So that would be part of our prompt. We can try now to go to generate and see if it makes any difference. But of course, the prompt is the one that firefly will prioritize. So in this case, it is a young girl dancing, so I wanted to show you the young girls dancing. And that's it. It still gives you some sort of a dynamic. It's definitely closer than before. And now, if I just show the other images, Definitely the picture is improved by using these filters and in conjunction with the photo settings. Experiment more and more with photo settings. You have lots of controls within firefly, and I'll see you in the next video when I'm going to show you more about Firefly and it's incredible features. 15. Using Prompts as Style reference: Now that we come so far with firefly, and we learned all the different parameters and effects that we can apply to our prompts, there is another tool in our arsenal that we can use to make our photos and our artwork more consistent. For instance, if you want to create a series of images or a series of artwork which have the same sort of effect, look and feel, and you want to keep the consistency of your art. And if you want to retain all the effects that you apply on this image, for instance, the Boca effect, the vibrant colors, the surreal lighting, the micro photography, and all the other changes that you applied in this image, Of course, if we change something in our prompt and we're trying to generate another image. It will completely change the look of it. If we want to keep the look of this and keep consistency in our artwork and in our photos generation, we have a tool, which is actually hidden here under edit. So, for instance, if I choose this image and I like to use this image as my reference, I can go to edit and I can use this as a style reference. So you have the option. You're going to click on it. And that will be applied in our prompt down below. Now, if I want to change something in this image, let's say, for instance, I want to have instead of a ladybug, I want to have a monarch butterfly. I'm going to just do that. A monarch butterfly. And I click on generate. That we go. Now, we have a Monarch butterfly with the same effect that we applied before for our lady bug with now a beautiful butterfly. And I can actually check all the other versions of the photo, and I still like the first image. Beautiful. So this sort of look can be applied with other insect, for instance, if I want to add let's say, I want to add a firefly. I can click and generate amazing image, or if I want to have a dragonfly. So amazing results here. And not just the first one, but as you can see, I've got the second one, even the third one amazing and the fourth one as well. Amazing, amazing results by just using the reference style, and this option will really change the game for your image creation, your art creation, and keep consistency in your series of perhaps collections that you want to create for your portfolio. So I hope you enjoy and I'll see you in the next video with more tips and tricks about Firefly. 16. Saving iterations and favourites: During the process of crafting the right prompt to get the right image and during the iterations as well, if you want to save an image that you really like for later reference or for later retrieval, you can actually save it into your favorites. You have an option here on the top and corner of the image to save it into favorites as I was doing during this class. And I can also download the image. If I want to retain all the settings and the prompts and exactly the same sort of view that I've got here with all these tools. I can actually go into the image itself and I can save it into my favorites so I can later retrieve it, or I can even share this with someone else. So if I click favorite now, I can view the favorite down below here. I've got this little pop up window that comes up. But when that disappeared to locate where your favorites are, you just go into the icon here, the Adobe firefly on a top left corner or you just click the back button. When you do that, it goes back to the main page. Here you have a tab on top for favorites. When I click on favorites, I can see all the favorite images. If I have a curse over this, I can actually see the prompt. I can see the button to download, and I can also see the samples. If I click on view samples, it's going to go back to this view, Is going to retain my my tags, if I have any, my prompts, and all the settings that I actually applied to this image. So I can go back to that stage and I can carry on from there if I wanted to. So very, very important to save your settings by saving the image into your favorites. I encourage you to use this feature to save your different stages of image creation. Okay. 17. Sharing your work with a team: When we create something in a Dobby firefight, we need to be aware of the fact that iterations can actually override your initial image, and perhaps you might lose what you created initially. So if you want to save this image, you can go and save it as a favorite or download it if you want to. When you download something to share with someone else, if you use this download button, it will flatten the image. So they won't be able to actually see all the settings that you applied to the image, and perhaps they won't be able to amend the image in Firefly if they use Firefly like you. If you want to share your work with someone else that uses Firefly, then you would have to share it in another manner. And that is by going to share the share button here that you see on top. Now, when you click on share, you have a bunch of options. You got copy link to image. You also have the option to copy the image and paste into a document if you want to. You can also save it to a library to your library here in adobe, You can also submit to community. If you do that's going to appear in the gallery view, so everyone else can actually see it and can actually see all of your settings and amend it to create other imagery and other art with it. Or you can actually open in a Dobbie press to add perhaps text or to add more effects or to use it for brochures or any other documents that you want to create. In this case here, we want to share with someone else who uses firefly. So we're going to go to copy link to image. That is going to create a link. And then if I want to see this link, I can actually share it by message or via e mail or whatever other tools you have. But if I open a new tab and I just paste that link in what you're going to see or what my friends are going to see is this image. They're not going to be able to see the other three images that you have, but only this one, but they're going to see all the tags that you added into the image, all the settings here on the side bar. Essentially, what you had, in your view, they be able to see it and apply changes if they wanted to. They can also download the image. And you also have the button down below here that says Tripmpt. When they click on Tripmpt, they will be able to then generate other images according to that one. And that is how they're going to collaborate with your art by doing some back and forth and you'll be able to actually work with the team if you are working on a big project using the share option. 18. Where to find Firefly text to image features: Okay. Abi five fly text image technology can be accessed from other applications within the Adobe Cloud ecosystem. One of them is Adobe press. Adobe press essentially is a publisher and also allows you to create social media posts, social media material and content as well as Instagram and also flyers and presentations and much, much more. You can also edit videos, edit photos, and do all sorts of things, creating brochures and much, much more. And this is going to be another video for another course. But you can also access the text to image technology by going down here, and you can see you've got text to image down here, and you also have generative fill, text to template, and text to effect, which we're going to cover later on in this class. But you can actually access to text image, and you can actually type a description of what you want to create. Let's say we want to create a, I just typed a tennis player during a match on a green court. Very, very simple. Press generate. And now it's going to alert me that generative AI in Adobe apps. It's a technology that you can access and you can take advantage of and you need to agree, I'm going to agree to the terms. Now it's going to generate my image. As you notice here on the left hand side, we have similar tools that we saw before in Adobe firefly. You have now the describe prompt area here, the bar. Then you have the content type, so that can be auto photographic, et cetera. This is automatically detect your prompt and create an image, say I want to create a photo, I can click on photo. I can click on generate again. Of course, you can choose the style, popular movement themes, and now it's going to generate a new image, and it's going to give me four results like you see in firefly. I can choose between these results. Let's say I like this image. I can click on load More and it's going to load other four iterations of the image. And I can just simply click on them and it's going to allow me to choose whichever image I want, and I can carry on doing that. I can also have the option to use generative fill, which you're going to cover later on. But this is the other way you can access to these features. Of course, you have limited tools, but this is within a W express, and you can also do much, much more with this. You can also access to this page directly from Firefly. If I go back to my Adobe firefly and I'm going to my favorites and I choose one of my favorite. Let's go back to our firefly here. I want to create a brochure perhaps using this picture using Adobe Express. All I need to do is simply go to share I can go to Adobe express from here. Open in Adobe express. When I do that is going to open the image into Adobes press in the same fashion as we saw before. I've got the image here, and I've got some tools here on the left hand side, and I can do stuff like generative fiel, I can erase things, I can remove backgrounds, I can crop and I can do all other things. I can apply effects adjustment, et cetera. So this is the other way you can access to Adobes press. The third place you can access to this technology is Adobe stocks. Adobe stock is accessible by going to stock adobe.com. So this is the page of Adobe stocks. Of course, you can get ten images when you start your free trial. But if you don't have any subscription with it, you can still access to over 800,000 more than 800,000 images. So don't exclude this done write off from your list of places to access to images. This is a perfect place to go and take advantage of the many, many pictures images and illustrations you can use for your work. But there is a section here on top, where is the last tab actually. It says, generate for click on. I can access to this page, and of course, it's going to alert me again, says generative I in adobe apps I'm going to agree to the terms. After I do that, I've got a prompt bar over here, and I can type the same thing as I typed before, a tennis player on a green court during a match. And I can click on generate. Once you generate your image. In adobe stocks, you have four options for iterations or four versions of your image, which is going to generate now. On the left hand side, you have the usual suspects. Some of these tools are available here, which are from adobe far fly. Aspect ratio, I can change the aspect ratio, I can change the content type, whether I want a photo realistic image or an art piece or a graphic. I've also got the style options. I can choose one of these. Now, I've got these four options. Very different from what we actually had in WS press. But I can choose let's say this image here and I can save it to my library, I can download it if I wanted to. Of course, if I go back here, I can apply a photo effect, I can apply a wide screen if I wanted to, I can use iPerrealistic, and I can just generate and it's going to generate other four images. Now, why you generating your images in Adobe stock, you also have similar images down below here. These are suggestions that you get automatically, why you generate your images. And of course, you can access to this, even if you don't have a subscription. Again, as I said, you can access to more than 800,000 photos without any subscriptions. So if you are subscribed, if you have any sort of plan with Adobe Cloud, you can access to more tools and more images. But D, exclude, as I said, this is a brilliant tool you can access. And as you can see, I've got other four images on top. And again, I can do the same thing here. I can choose the one I want, I can download it. Now, the other place you can access to these image generation technologies is photoshop. So I'm going to just close this and minimize the two windows. I'm going to go into Photoshop in photoshop, I can access to this by creating a simple file. I'm going to go to new file, I'm going to create a custom file. And let's say I'm going to do a 1920 by ten 80 Canvas. And press create. This is just a y Canvas. What I can do I can just select a section. I'm going to select the whole thing here with my selection tool. I've got this little bar that appears right at the bottom. Sometimes at the top, it depends where you left it off. But you can see now I can click congenerat field, which is very similar to text to image. But when I click congenerative field, I can actually type here another prompt. Let's say I want to create a. A house, a beach house with a large window, a surf on the side. Sunrise. Actually, sunset. Okay. And press generate. So he's going to generate something. This is not the text to image. It's more like generative fiel, which is slightly different technology than text to image, but it's something that we can apply in photoshop and we're going to cover a little bit more later on in this class. Now we're going to wait until photoshop creates something. So that is my image. I've got three different versions here. I've got the first one, the second one and the third one here. So I can choose between the three and of course, I've got the option here on the right hand side to kind of delete the one I don't want. If I'm not happy with that, I can click on generate again, is going to generate other three. So that is something you can do, and of course, you can access to this versions here on the right hand side. So this is something you can, of course, tap on if you have an Adobe subscription with photoshop. But bear in mind, there will be other places as well within Adobe Cloud where you can access to text to image generation. So so stay tuned on the Adobe ecosystem, and I'll see you in the next video. Okay 19. Firefly New Image 3 Updates: Welcome back as we speak, Adobe has released a new image model for Adobe firefly, which is image model three. So if you go into the Adobe firefly main page, you're going to scroll down here and you can go to text to image. We're going to generate a new image. I'm going to go to the prompt here. And as you can see, all these galleries here are the new model. The majority of them are. Yes, the new model three, which is amazing. So we're going to go into the prompt and we're going to type a prompt. I already typed a prompt here, as a jungle with leafy plants, tropical birds, and a river. I'm going to click on generate. Okay. And here on the left hand side, you see the model that we have now available is Firefly image three, which is a new model is the preview, probably is under Beta, but they just released it probably today. And as you can see, I've got my jungle and the quality is breathtaking. Amazing illustrations here. And you can also compare from previous image firefly model, which is the Firefly image model two. You can click on that, we can click on generate. Okay. Let's see how the image model two will interpret my prompt. As you can see, the model and the quality is way different from the new model. I'm going to just go back to image three and I'm going to generate again, it's going to generate other four versions of my prompt on my concept, whether it's going to be an illustration or whether it's going to be a realistic. Um, image is up to the model. But in this case, it's going to be an illustration. Very nice. I love the colors. And you can also go down here and experiment with the visual intensity. You can actually make that illustration a little bit more intense and more complex by just moving that slider. Ever go with that. And let's see what are the four versions we get. And it's definitely more complex. You get more details within the photo, it's more complex. And as you can see the line art on the leaves, it's more complex, the mountains in the background and the birds details definitely definitely improved. You can actually now go down here and tyalistic a realistic jungle with leafy plants. Let's have a look what we get with image model three. So again, it interprets as an art, an artwork. I can go to photo and I can go to generate. And you can go here, and now you can see this is the sort of quality, the level of quality you can get with image model three, which is pretty amazing. Standing photos, and you can also change the aspect ratio and all the other things that we covered in this class already. Pretty exciting. Go out there, create amazing graphics and amazing images with firefight model three. 20. Adobe Resources: One of the many resources that you have with Adobe is the livestream and also the discord community. And now I am in the main page of Adobe firefly. And on the top right corner, I've got this button here. It says join the Discord. This will access to the discord community where you can actually share and read about all the different updates or other people's experiences with adobie packages. You also have a button that sometimes appeared when there is someone live in DA Dobe community or DA Dobe company, in this case. There is a live going on at the moment. If I click on Watch Live, I can actually see the live stream that they actually doing at the moment. They're talking about Adobe press mobile App And if you missed out on these streams, you can actually go to YouTube and you can search for the Adobe official channel where you can get all the updates about the Adobe tools. So this is just a coincidence. They have got this livestream going on, but I just wanted to show you that you can access to this, and you can also interact with the members of Adobe directly. Here, you can just activate your profile here and to join the conversation and to ask questions if you have any in regards to whatever they are releasing and they're sharing at that moment. So this is a very beautiful tools and easy to access directly from the main page of the application that you're using. In this case, Adobe firefly. For more tips and more resources, please follow along with this class, and I'll teach you more and I'll share as much as I know about what you can do and what you can learn with Adobe. 21. Overview of Generative Fill: Now is the time to explore another brilliant feature that we have in Adobe firefly, which is generative fill. If you scroll down here on the home page, we notice we have texted image, but next to it, we also have generative fill. When I click on it, you notice you have this other page with a gallery of different images. And these look like more generated images, not real images, but if I have the cursor over any of this, you notice all the different things and elements I can change within that image with this feature generative fiel. I can remove things, I can add things into it. I can completely change the look and feel of an image, if I have a cursor over another one, as you can see all the different possibilities and even more. This is, you know, the sky is the limit here. You can actually, you know, completely change and revolutionize the way a picture look. And again, you just explore all the different things you can do in any of these images. But if I click on this, I can actually see the minimalistic, you know, layout of generative feel within firefly. So on the left hand side, I've got these three tools. I've got insert, remove and pan, just to navigate. And then I've got also the tools down below here, I've got add, subtract, settings, background, and invert. When you have a the cursor over any of this is going to show you a little explanation of what that does. But we're going to cover that in the next video anyway. But again, I've got this little cursor. Now, I've got insert. I can brush in an area, and I can actually type what I want in the area to appear. If I want an object to be there, if I want to have an animal or any other things that you can think of, you can add into the image, which is pretty amazing. This is really free up your imagination and your creativity in ways that wasn't possible before. Before you had to install photoshop or professional software, you would have to have some sort of knowledge about the software in order to do this changes, to create something from scratch. And this is something that is available now in firefly. So we're going to go back here on the generative field on a very top left. And another option that we have here available is to upload our own images. And that's what we're going to do in the next video where we're going to explore this amazing feature and all the different things that we can do with it. 22. Making an image come to life: Before we get started uploading an image, I just wanted to show you what the potentials are by using genogy field. I was like experimenting, trying to add some elements within an image. And as you can see, I've got a good scenario here. I've got a man running on the beach, I've got a woman some buffing, I've got a kid playing with the sand, I've got a dog. So I added a lot of elements within this image. And as you can see, the original image looks like this. If I opened the image, you notice, this is the original image. And this is what I created out of that. Pretty amazing. Out of nothing, I created some life into this image. Now, we're going to get started now. Going to go back here on the genetic field, and I'm going to upload an image. You should be able to see this image in the exercise file. So follow along those folders and you should be able to find this image. When you upload the image, you just bring the image in and we're going to press open. So the image now is in, and now we have these brushes. Of course, you can move with the mouse up and down if you want to draw perhaps here where this bar over imposes your image. And I've got, of course, insert, remove and pan. So let's start by adding some elements. I'm going to click on Insert, and I've got this brush tool, and this will add something in my image. If you want to subtract something in an image, or you need to simpli subtract. But now we're going to focus on Ed first of all. I'm going to here on this part of the house, and I'm going to basically draw a little line around the edges first because I would like to have some sort of gazebo here on this area here. It is quite empty, it's quite sad. So I'm going to highlight everything because I want firefly to have lots of freedom in order to generate a nice gazebo. Once you've done that, as you notice, I've got now a bar down below here which allows me to describe what I want. And I'm going to say I want to have a wooden gazebo with C through curtains and green plants around it. So I'm going to click on generate. So it's going to give me some similar image that I got before. Of course, I haven't saved the one that I just showed you, but as you can see, I've got here, three options down below. I've got the second option. The third option, which kind of kind of trying to create another window here, which doesn't look really realistic. So I'm going to just try the first one here. Of course, if I don't like any of this, I can click on more here down below, and it will generate other three. So we just need to be patient here and it's just a process of iterations until we get the right results. Let's see what sort of gazebo now generates. Got some greenery in around the gazebo, the second one. The third one. I quite like this one here and I'm going to just press keep and I'm going to carry on. So for instance, here, I want to have a nice glass window, and I'm going to just highlight everything here. And I want to have basically, you just need to have a little bit of skills on moving with the mouse. Of course, if you have a pen tool or if you have another like a tablet, you can definitely do a better job, but you don't have to be precise because firefly is clever enough to, you know, generate something around the edges as well. So I'm going to just say here, a glass a glass window. Actually, I want to say a double glass, a double glass window door. That's it. Press generate. So now I've got this first image, second image, third image. Let's say I want to go for actually, I'm going to create another three. As you know this is also it's clever enough to understand where the reflection is coming from. So the sun is here and it's all the reflections as well, and also the same thing for the see curtains here. It kind of follows actually how the image is. So it's very clever. So this is another double door glass door window. This is a second version, a third version. I quite like this one here, actually. I'm going to leave it here and press keep. Then I'm going to add some life into this image. I'm going to just put a little dog over here. And a man. I'm going to make a little bit bigger. So I just need to give a little bit of hint to a Dobby firefly, what I want. So I'm going to say a dog and a man running on the beach. And hopefully he's going to generate them in the order that I drown them with a brush. I want to have the dog here and I want to have the man here. So hopefully he's going to do that. Yeah. Okay, that's fine. The direction, actually, I want to have that direction, see if I've got not quite what I want. I'm going to express more and see if it gives me another solution. Another kind of interpretation of what I want. Okay, let's see. Okay. That one is much better. I would say this one here. Again, you notice the reflection as well, the shadow that it creates as well. It's very, very clever. Now, I'm going to have also something else. I'm going to have a I'm going to keep this, and by the way, I'm going to have someone butting here. So I'm going to create a little bit of perspective a little bit here, and I want to have a girl sing lying down. Relaxing. To like this one here, I'm going to keep it this one, and then I'm going to have I'm going to draw a nice parasol. I'm going to have it like this. I'm going to just give a hint to firefly, to have a nice parasol. I'm going to just make sure I've got enough. Because when I tried before, I try to kind of brush very thin area, and you kind of give hard time to firefly to generate something into it. You've got a restriction, so you don't want something to be too big, but in this case, a para white. Okay. We got that one. We got this one. Uh, let's see, quite like this one. That's fine. And then we're going to create something here. I'm going to have actually I'm going to have a bunch of children playing with the send. I'm going to just give a little bit of space here. I'm going to say two children playing with send. Just press that. Yeah, I like this one here to express. Keep. I love the fact that it actually retain the shadows and the effect that it should retain for a sunset effect sunset image like this. Now, I could carry on, but you got the gist on how to use it. You literally you brush an area and you type description of what you want. Fun with this and feel free to upload your own image if you want to, and I'll see you in the next video, and I'm going to show you other tips and tricks about generative field. 23. Removing objects and background: Now that we learn how to add objects into our image. Now we're going to learn how to actually subtract objects, and we're going to basically cover all these tools down here. So we now know how to add. But what about removing? I'm going to go into remove here on the left hand side. And if I want to remove, for instance, something that I added before, for instance, the umbrella, I can just go here and brush off. Completely say, if I don't like this at all, and I want to redraw, or I changed my mind, and I don't want to have anything there. I can do that. And after you brush the area, you have a button downblo It says remove. I'm going to click on remove. Okay. And now firefly is going to kind of analyze the image around it and see if he's going to do the magic for us. And boom is going to basically make everything smootlesss like the parasol was never there and pretty amazing. And I can click on a couple of options here to see how it looks. I would say a quite like this one here and leave it there and a press keep. So another thing you can do with the brush. If you're going in two settings here, you can choose the brush size. Of course, you have the option to move it manually this way, but you also have an option like you have in photo shop with the brackets in your Let me just clear that. With the brackets on your keyboard, you can make the brush bigger and smaller. So if I want to perhaps delete some of the imperfection within the sand, I can do that and I can press remove and that will basically make the sand perhaps further or remove some of the blemishes or some of the imperfection that I want to get rid of, as you can see, it did a pretty good job. Other thing you can do is I'm going to keep that I'm going to go to settings. I can also change the hardness of the brush. So either softer or hard, but just moving the slider. All the way to 100% is hard, so I can actually make brush strokes much more accentuated, much more marked. Otherwise, I can go to here and I can make the brush tools a little bit softer. So the edges are a little bit smoother, but in this case, I'm going to leave it as it is. I can also change the brush opacity if I want to have the brush not to be too abrupt on my image. I can use that. Of course, if I brush that on top of it, it will mark the area even more. So these are the settings. Then we have background. Background allows us to remove background from an image. In this case, if I use background is going to basically remove all the objects and keep all the subject. Not really what I was looking for. So I'm going to click on Clare. Of course, if you want to remove the background and you can invert that back, you can also do that. So it basically removes the subject and keep everything else in it. That is the invert button. I'm going to express cla I'm going to close this. I'm going to go back to generative fill. And we're going to open another image. I'm going to show you another way to remove subject which is very exciting that is going to revolutionize the way you edit your images. 24. Hours of work reduced to seconds: Moving forward from the previous class about removing object within an image. We're going to aplod another image, which is an old image of mine, and I'm going to just drag and drop it into the upload image area here. You find this image also on your exercise files if you want to practice along. I'm going to just drag and drop it into it. And this is me with my friends in Shangri in China. We went there quite a few years ago. And I always wanted to take this photo with a local person, and we never managed to do that. So we were there. I wanted to take a photo with this lady, but eventually we took a photo together, and that probably happened to you as well where you want to kind of mark that moment and you know about that holiday and you want to have a photo with someone local, just you and them. But of course, your friends comes in a way, not that I don't want them to be in the picture, but we didn't have a chance to actually take individual photos. So, this case, I wanted to remove these two people here so I can actually be just me and the person. Now, with this tool now, let's see if it's possible. I'm going to just press remove the remove tool over here, and we're going to by the way, the panning is just to move the picture a little bit higher. I don't have to remove anything above the image. I'm going to go back to remove, and now I'm going to go to settings, and I'm going to make sure that my brush, hardness is hard enough because here, I've got the edges here to be a bit more precise. So I want to have a little bit more control out of that. The brush size is pretty much okay. That's fine. And then I'm going to start to brush away. So I'm going to just do that. And basically, I have to go through the edges first, trying to be as precise as possible. And of course, I can use the brackets to make the brush a little bit bigger. Mol, in this case, closer to my hand. So if I want to now just need to be very precise here when I do this. So be patient when you're trying to do this. Of course, if you made a mistake, if you go all the way there, you can still go back into subtract, and then it just brush that in again. So bear in mind if you made any mistakes, you can go back and go back to subtract. Just go back to add. Again, I'm going to try to brush those genes out of the way. And I'm going to just remove this as well. And here, I'm going to make my brush smaller. Again, I'm using the bracket key to do so. You don't have to be super precise. I guess, because generative AI and especially, you know, this generative feel, it's quite clever to understand the surroundings within an image. And then I'm going to do the same thing on the other side, my friend, sorry. If they see this, hopefully, they're not going to get upset. But of course, if I want to remedy to it, I can actually do the opposite. I can remove myself to the scene, and they can have a picture with the lady instead of having it with me. But it's just an experiment. I'm going to remove a little bit here. I'm going to leave also the area out of the way, and I'm going to make the brush a little bit smaller, again, with the brackets And now we are pretty much ready to see what sort of magic Adobe firefly will achieve and I go to click on remove. So the dream to have a picture with a local person will come to life. So it's pretty amazing how headed this chair. Let's see if face another version of it. It's got a wooden chair here. Oh, I quite like this one here. I can actually try three different versions of it. It's pretty amazing how it kind of understands all the backgrounds, all the surroundings of the image. This would have taken me probably hours in photoshop to achieve. And this did in a matter of seconds, like in 5 seconds, 10 seconds maximum. I will probably choose. Let's see if it's another one with a wooden chair. I think I would probably prefer this wooden chair. And I guess if I press now keep, this is going to be the final image that I can actually print out and perhaps show up on my wall. So pretty amazing. So this is what you can do in a matter of seconds that you wouldn't be able to do before, and it would have taken you probably hours and hours of work to achieve. And sometimes it's even impossible to reproduce some of this, you know, texture, especially in photoshop with cloneing there is not a lot of material that you can use to clone and to kind of achieve this sort of results, even with the shelf here, with the wardrobe at the background, you wouldn't be able to do that because there was enough information for photoshop to clone this. And now we generally feel this is possible, and it's pretty amazing what you can achieve. Experiment with this. Use your own images, F fun, and I'll see you in the next video. 25. Importance of Selections: Let's talk about the shape of selection and the level of control that you have with generative feel within firefly. What I mean by that is when you want to draw an object within an image, it's very important to how you draw the shape. For instance, before you saw me creating different objects in this picture. But if I want to, for instance, create, let's say, a man with a dog running on the beach, like you saw me before doing, if I just draw a square and just say I want to have the picture of this man and the dog here. Let's say I make this shape, and I'm just type running running man with a dog. So I'm going to click Generate. And now firefly will interpret that using the shape that you just drawn on the picture. As you can see, now the dog is on the left, and the man is on the right. I've got here two dogs, and I've got the man on the side, and I've got this one as well. And if I press generate again, This will give firefly complete control on how the picture is going to be, how the composition is going to be as well. Now, if I want to, for instance, to have the man on the left and the dog on the right, at the moment, as you can see, the man is always on the right, and the previous pictures as well, the man is always on the right. Yeah, I've got even two dogs. So in order to get that level of control, I'm going to press cancel, and I'm going to press also clear, is to draw the way the composition that you are actually thinking of. So for instance, if I want to have a man on the left hand side, I'm going to make the shape there a little bit taller, and I can make the shape where I want the dog to be a little bit shorter. Let's say I want to have the man there, and I'm going to keep the same prompt and merci generate. And let's see what happened now. Now, firefly will, of course, trying to understand my shape. And as you can see, now the man is on that side on the left hand side, but it's running opposite to the dog. So I want both of them to run in the same direction. But again, I would have to basically specify that on the prompt. But as you can see, just by doing that by paying a little bit more attention on our brush strokes, firefly will understand better how we want that composition to be. But I wanted to show you something else. If I press cancel, When you're trying to draw something like a shape. You'll notice here next to the prompt. We have this little button here, this little three sort of lines options. So if I click on that, you have these settings. This will allow you to determine how much control you want to give to firefight and how much control you want to have yourself when you draw this brush strokes. You got match shape, so match the image to your selection shape. You got free form and you go conform. So if you leave that as a default in free form, whatever you trying to draw, firefly will determine whatever image and you will basically interpret whatever he wants to interpret. Instead, if you want to have, for instance, a man here and a dog next to it, what you can do, you can actually go to conform, and that will basically constrain Firefly to follow what you want. So for instance, if I want to have a surf wind surf here, I can actually draw a shape, and, you know, leaning on the wall. So he would understand I want to have that sort of, you know, you know, direction. Like, A, I'm going to type a surf board. Surf board and go press generate. And now firefly needs to follow my instructions and my orientation as well of the stroke. Let's see what sort of results we get. And now we got the results. Okay, so we can use any of this quite like this one here. I'm gonna press keep. But as you can see now, it understands how I want that to be. For instance, the man and the dog, same thing. I can actually put here just to prove my point. I'm going to just put one. Two. Three, I'm going to really challenge now firefly to understand what I want. And I'm going to say two men and two dogs running on the beach. Let's see what happened now. Now, as you can see, on the options, if I press on conform and I press on generate, Now, firefly should understand in theory, that these two are the dogs, and these two are the men. Now, I haven't even left a lot of room to draw, but as you can see, Firefly now follows what I want composition to be. I can choose any of this and, I can even draw more by generating more. Let's see if it continues to keep the same composition. And it gives me other three versions of the two men with the dog. I'm going to just keep this one, even though the dog that looks a bit weird, but I can re draw that at any time. But consider this when you try to draw something, try to make sure you draw with the shape and directions that you want, and then click on this little option down below here. To determine if you want to have a free form, if you want to leave firefight to interpret that more or if you want firefight to follow the shape and the direction of your brush strokes. Down below here, you have preserved content. This is choose how much of the original content will be kept in the generated image, so you can actually choose to have to retain more original areas than the shape, and then the actual new object you want to draw in. The guidance strength is determine how closely the generated content keeps to the prompt. So you want firefight to follow exactly what the prompt says, or you want to have a middle ground, so you can actually have a little bit more room for interpretation. You also notice something here. So if I go back to this if you go to settings, you'll notice you have this little tutorial here video on top. It says brush settings. Size changes the size of your brush, hardness adds obstract feathering, Opacity determines how much of the original image is preserved. As you can see that there is a fish, and if you just use a little bit of feathering brush, you can actually add another person or something else there. Have a different composition without compromising, you know, too much about the quality of the image, the blending of a new object into an existing object. And as you can see that one looks like more sort of a dress, almost from a fish with blending in a person and So you can actually have this sort of effect in a generative field, but bear in mind, you have this kind of control the settings about brush opacity, brush hardness, and brush size, as we explored before, but you also have these options down below where you can determine how you want the brush strokes and firefly to control and generate your images. I'll see you in the next video. 26. Replacing background and outfit: Let's take a look of another application of generative field that we can apply to our images, and this will massively change and reduce the time that we spend in editing. I'm going to be using an image of me and you find this image in the exercise files, feel free to use that or use one on your own. This is the image of me. I took this image quite a few years ago. Now we're going to remove the background by clicking on the background button. So when we do that is going to remove everything, including the desk as well. Now, if you want to retain some of the elements within the image, all you need to do is simply go to subtract here and just use your brush here to include whatever element you want to keep. In this case here, I want to keep the desk. Okay. But you can feel free to do whatever you like. You can actually have, you know, a completely different desk by just using the generative fill feature. I'm going to go back to add and I'm going to remove that background there with some children toys. We don't want to have that. Now we go. By the way, with settings, I'm going to be using brush hardness up to 90% because I want to go through the edges of certain of certain objects in this case, and here as well. But you don't have to be necessarily too precise. Just as long as you're happy with that and it's not massively wrong. I mean the selection. Let's say we are happy with this. Now we're going to create a background. I'm going to say a professional studio with C view with the C view. With palm trees with palm trees. That's it. Press generate, let's see what we get. Now, when you do this sort of editing, make sure the image is sharp enough and it is not too blurry. I tried to do this with very old images which weren't really sharp, and the results weren't really good, especially for the lighting and the effect the lighting effect, you know, the positioning of the light on those pictures. So here, I've got three version of that. Quite like this one, actually. It kind of messes up. The first one messes up the background. I'm not sure what this is, but perhaps we can modify there. Let's see the second one. It's okay. The third one has a little bit of sea view, but it looks a little bit weird as well. I think the first one is the one I'm going to choose. This option is quite nice. I'm going to just keep this and let's say I want to remove this from the background. I don't really want to have that because it looks strange. So I'm going to go into remove here on the left hand side. I'm going to make sure that brush strokes are quite big. And also, I'm going to settings, make sure the brush hardness is up to 85. The brush opacity, I leave it as is, and I'm going to just remove this ugly chair from the background. I'm not even sure if it is a chair, but I'm going to just roughly do that. And making sure that I'm not going to compromise the rest of the image. Let's see. And I'm going to just leave it as it is and press remove. So I've got that. I've got this other solution and this one. I think the first one looks the best. I'm going to keep this one. So this is how you can change easily the background of an image. This would have taken me probably longer in photoshop to do that or using any other tool that removes background. But I can remove imperfections like this. If I wanted to, I can go to remove, I can go here, and I can really be I can go here, and I can just fix all these little imperfections to get the right effect, the right results. For what I want to achieve. Okay, that's good enough. I'm going to press keep. I'm not even checking the other ones, the other versions of the generative feel. Now I want to change my outfit. There's nothing wrong with this outfit, but I just wanted to show you how you can go about it. I can go here and press insert in this case. When you want to insert something new in your image, you need to go to insert. I'm going to make sure that my brush is big enough here. I'm going to go to settings. The hardness is 90, which is good enough, and then I'm going to go and I'm going to basically Okay. Go around the My outfit, first of all, around the perimeter of whatever object, whatever, item you want to change. I'm going to keep my arm there to make it more realistic. And you don't be necessarily precise here when you do selection because firefly will be clever enough to fill up those gaps and those imperfections as much as possible. Let's make this brush a little bit bigger. We're going to go here and we're going to get rid of this shirt. And we're going to make this selection. It takes a little bit, of course, it depends on the image you're using. I'm going to try to be as precise as possible. Of course, if you go overboard, you can still subtract and get back what you lost. And we go. Now here as well. Also with the neck when you're trying to do neck selection, make sure you select as much neck as possible because you want to make sure that when you change outfit using generative fill, you want to give firefly as much room as possible to create something believable. Because this is going to be, of course, artificial intelligence, kind of creative touch. But we go. Now we're going to go into the description. I'm going to say a black suit. That's it. Going to make it very easy. Let's see what it does. Of course, the black suit have long sleeves. Here, I've got a little bit of my arm uncovered and let's see what it does. It does quite a good job. I think the second one is quite believable. I'm going to just press more, and let's see if I can change the outfit to be a little bit more suitable for my body shape. I think I think we reached a verdict now. I think we're going to go for this one, because I don't know why we put this microphone in front. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep this. And this is the end results of our image. So this would have taken me quite a few hours to do in photoshop. For the suit, changing the suit in photoshop wouldn't been easy at all, because you have to, you know, find the right suit and the right you know, the right perspective as well. It wouldn't be easier, you know, up until now. So this is what you can achieve using generative field. So ever go with this and with your own images, and I'll see you in the next video. 27. Generative Fill in Photoshop: Okay. Hopefully, you have experimented enough generative field within Dobby firefly. Now is the time to do the same thing in photoshop. We are within a photoshop at the moment, and we're using this image, which is the acoustic guitar image that you find in your exercise file. Feel free to use that or any other images with no background, essentially. So this is the image. Now what we can do to basically create a background would be just by going to a selection tool, here on the left hand side. Just use the rectangular tool. You can highlight the image, and now we are ready to generate something. Now, if I go directly into generative field here, I can type, for instance, something like white sandy white sand. And I'm going to press generate. So this will be quite similar to a Dobby firefly. It's going to generate something, but we're going to notice something completely different in terms of applications. We're going to see now a Sandy sandy beach, like a white sand. You got three different results. Of that. You also see the versions, you see them actually here on the right hand side as well. You can actually click on them and you can also delete them from here if you don't like one of them. But now, if you want to apply the image, the guitar that we just had onto the send, what we can do, we can actually drag this layer that we see here on the right hand side. And we're going to drag it down to make sure that the guitar over impose on top of it. But as you can see, the image, the two images, the guitar and the send are not really embedded together. They are not really blending together. The completely different shadows, different perspective, and doesn't know the picture does not belong to the background. And this is not what we really want to achieve here. We generative feel we can actually make even more improvement to this picture. So in this case here, you notice I've got my generative feel layer here and my white sand, and this is something that we need to scrap to start again. We're going to just select that and press spec space to delete it. But in this case, what we want to do we want to actually select the surrounding of our guitar. In order to do that, we need to go into the layer here and what you need to do we need to just place the cursor on the actual thumbnail here of the guitar. Before we click on it, you hold down the command key or control key in window and click on it. What it does, it will highlight the actual object here. Now, we want to do the opposite. We want to invert that. We want to actually select the background, not the object itself. We want to retain the object. In order to do that, we need to click on the invert pattern that we find down below here and it is actually this one here. So if you have a curse over this icon and you just leave it for a few seconds, it will tell you what it does. Invert selection. We're going to click on that. So it looks like nothing happened by actually happened, something. You have now the background selected, and but the guitar. So the guitar is not selected, just the background. And now we are ready to create a background. And this is very important in order to blend the object that you want to highlight with the background. So we're going to click on generative feel, and we're going to write white sand. Very simple. I'm going to click on generate And let's see what happened now with a W firefly, generating a Sandy background and see if it blends it with the guitar. And as you can see, now we have sort of the layout of the guitar also in the sand. We have three options, and three different versions, got this one here. This one with also the lie shadow on the side, very, very clever, and then we have this one here. So we can choose one of these. We can have different versions of it. Let's go to generate again, and let's give it another go, even though I'm quite happy with the first version here of the guitar. Again, if you keep on generating images within this project, you need to be careful because the project can become quite big. So be aware of that. Now we have these other versions. Not quite this one. This one is okay. It's got the shadow here on the side, which is not really what I want. I think I'm with I quite like this image. So this is the one that I want to keep. And as you can see, when you select the one you want is going to be highlighted here on the right hand side of your sidebar. You can delete the other ones. So if you don't need it, just press the bin, and you can delete the other ones. So the project won't be as big. And this is how you can essentially blend backgrounds with an object in order to promote it or in order to make a nice brochure or nice posture of something. So you can use this in many, many different ways. So ever go with that and I'll see you in the next video. Okay. 28. Multiple prompts: Now we're going to take a slightly different approach with generative feel. We're going to open the same image that we used before acoustic red guitar PNG. You find this file into the exercise files folder. Now, once we're here, we're going to basically apply multiple prompts to create a composition. The first things we're going to do, we're going to rotate this guitar a little bit. We're going to go into the crop tool here on the left hand side. Once you select that, we're going to go and we're going to have a cursor over one of these edges. You see the curved arrow appearing and then we're going to basically Make sure that guitar is slightly more up right. Then we're going to select the guitar and we're going to make sure that The guitar is nice and selected and pressed done. Now the guitar is a bit more upright. We're going to expand here. What we want to create is a window. Basically, the guitar is leaning on the side of a window, and we have a nice beach view with some palm trees as well. So we're going to essentially extend this frame, this Canvas. By going to the crop tool again, we don't click on that again. We're going to now extend our field view, we're going to zoom out command minus to go a bit zoom out. Big smaller in Windows is control minus, I believe. Then we're going to go up here. We're going to extend this image to have a little bit more room for a nice glass window with a beautiful beach view. We're going to make sure that the The floor, got a little bit space for the floor. And let's say we want to have it slightly like this. And then once we ready press done. So this is how you can have a different Canvas for your composition. Now we're going to select our guitar, we're going to go to command. Hold down command or control in window and click on the layer here to select the guitar. And now we're going to invert that by clicking on the invert button here. We're going to click on it to invert, and that will invert the selection for the rest of the image. So it will blend the guitar within our generation. And now we're going to go into generative field and we're going to type a glass window with Beach view and palm trees. Let's click on generate, let's see what sort of image we're going to get out of firefly. See if he understands that I want to have the guitar leaning either on the windows or on the side of the window, and I want to have a beautiful view and see if this composition is going to come out the way I envision it. This will take a little bit of iterations. So this is one way looks like more a balcony than a window. But let's have a look at the second one is this. The third one is this, which is actually not too bad this one. It is just took this in a different perspective. Actually, I'm going to keep this. This wasn't what I actually initially planned, but I'm going to keep this as it is, and now we're going to add another object. Now we're going to go into the selection to here, which is the second icon from the top here on the top left photoshop. We're going to highlight something like a section. Let's say here, and I'm going to just go to generative fill, and I'm going to type a leafy green exotic plant. Okay, and press generate. So now within that selection, We're going to see something appearing. Let's have a look if firefly does the magic for us and makes a plant that blend together with the rest of our image. Okay, we have the first one here, got the second, which looks a little bit fake because of the lighting. Lighting is so important into an image. This is the third one. I would say it's more into, I think it blends better with the rest of the image. This is also quite nice, actually. Uh, I'm going to keep this one here. I quite like this one here. I'm going to just leave it as it is. Now, if I want to extend the view of my image, I'm going to use another tool that we're going to cover in the next video. But practice with this, and as you can see, you can add objects with multiple prompts within the same composition. So ever go with this and I'll see you in the next video, and I'm going to show you generative expand. Okay. 29. Generative Expand: Another technique that we can use in photoshop is generative expand. This is achievable by extending the image, asper ratio and size and essentially let firefly generate something for us or even using a prompt by generating the remaining area that we want to actually create from scratch. Now, we're going to go into our crop tool here and we're going to essentially change the option that we have here on top, as transparent default to generative expand. We're going to click on that. And now we're going to zoom out a little bit because we want to extend the view of our image to be a little bit wider. So we have a perspective that does that. I want to be able to have this sort of image. Now, I'm not going to write anything here. I want to see a firefly does a better job than me by creating something out of nothing. I'm going to generate. And let's see what sort of things is going to create, if he's going to extend that window. If he's going to understand that there is a plant there and he's missing the kind of the vase down below there, the flooring as well. Let's see what results we get. Okay, so this is very good results. The first one. Of course, we have some water here going on, which is not very good. I mean, I thought that was good because of the window and the extension there. But let's have a look at the second version of it. Okay, we have the vase and it's not wet on the floor, which is a good. The good thing not having a flood in the house. And the third one has a different kind of view for the vase, and the guitar looks like it's actually leaning on something else there. But I think this is probably what I would probably go for. Otherwise, you can go to generate and see if we go say if we have an three versions of our generative expand. And by the way, when you do this generations, of course, you have all the variations here, all the versions here on the right hand side. Make sure you don't clutter this with lots of images because it will make your project huge in size. So I'll probably suggest you to delete the images that you don't want. So that's the first option here. The second option is this one, which actually makes the view a little bit better, and this is the third one. I think it changes the perspective of the window just slightly. The vase here is a bit unrealistic. Uh, here, it's better, but the guitar looks like it is fluctuating somewhere. I'm going to create something now, and I'm going to zoom in. I'm going to go into command plus or control plus in window, or you can actually use the space bar, hold down the space bar and then with the mouse, you can actually move in the area you are interested in going. And the guitar here is floating, which is not good. We're going to create something. We're going to go into the selection tool here on the left hand side. And now we're going to highlight an area next to the guitar. And I'm going to create a stool or actually a guitar. Okay. Holder. Let's see what it does. I'm not entirely sure I've never done actually this before, creating a guitar holders and specific objects within Photoshop. Let's see if firefly is clever enough to fix that problem for me. Okay. That one is the first one, the second one and the third one actually did a pretty good job for the second one, and I will probably just keep that as it is. That one is, could be a guitar holder, guitar stand, and I'm going to leave that as it is. The only thing that's missing in this picture is the remaining part here, of the house. It's nice view, but it looks like the guitar, it's kind of left on the side on its own, which is a bit sad, and also the composition doesn't look as clear as I would like that to be. So I'm going to go back to the crop here on the left hand side. And I'm going to use generative expand, so make sure that the top here when it says feel, it says generative expand. And we're going to expand. These are the area of our beach house. And let's see now If let's see now the generative field does a good job in terms of compensating the remaining part of this room. So by using different prompts, process of iterations, experiment with different expands and different perspective, this is a beautiful first version of our image. There's a little bit of artifacts here at the top of this palm. Let's go to the second one, which has a little bit more realistic view and the third one here, which is kind of this fuzzy view of the plants, which I don't really like. Let's have a look at the first. The first one was this, which kind of had a little bit more extension in terms of room. Second one. I quite like the second one, but I don't like that plant. I would have to recreate that. Again, if you like a perspective like this and you want to retain it, you can still go back here, highlight the plant and then create a different plant. In this case, I don't want to touch that too much because I quite like this one. I'm going to keep this, and this is the sort of result you can get Photo command zero or control zero. It will adapt the image to the window that you have in photoshop. And that is a sort of result you can get out of generative expand generative feel and all the different prompts and you can apply on a picture and a composition. Fun with this, and I'll see you in the next video. Okay. 30. Further edit to your composition: While we're working on our composition, creating new prompts, using creating expand and generative feel, we might want to change some of the object that we created with something else in the later stage. In this case here, I want to see if I can find a better guitar holder for my guitar here. So I can go on the layers section here and click on the guitar holder. So when I click on it, it's going to basically apply whatever change I want only on the guitar holder without affecting anything else. I can go down below here and generate other guitar holders. I'm going to just leave it as it is, guitar holder and press generate. Let's see what other versions I get. Okay, so if I zoom in, I can actually see the image slightly bigger, I've got that one. I've got this one. It's kind of making up the guitar holders. I've never seen this ones here, but I think I'm going to stick with this one. So this is going to be my guitar holder. I'm not going to try to do more. This is enough for me. So once you know which one you want, a good practice would be going to the version here, the variations. Select basically the variation you want. You can select different ones and delete the rest. The reason why I say that is because it will take a lot of space in your project. So make sure you only keep the one that you selected. You can find this project in the exercise file, but bear in mind, for each layer, you're only going to find one image because I kept only the image that I wanted for that composition. Otherwise, the file would have been too big to share. Now, we're going to also delete others plans that we don't want to have. And we're going to add another object here. We're going to go into the selection tool again. This is a good practice, and we're going to go here and we're going to highlight a section. And we want to add here a leather armchair. Let's see if it does a good job in creating one armchair. In this case, a leather armchair. We have first one, the second one. Third one, I'm going to generate another three. This one could be acceptable. Can we have this one? This one and this one. Okay. This one can work out. I'm going to generate other three. I give it a last try. This can work but the lighting. The probably from some spotlight on top of the room can work. One of the arm chair here. One of the arm is actually higher than the other one. It doesn't really work for me. This one is too classy. This I will probably stick with This one here. And that's what I'm going to leave it for now. The rest of the images here on the right hand side, I'm going to delete, and I'm going to keep only the one that I want. I'm just going to make sure all my layers has only one image. And that's how you generate multiple prompts and completely revolutionize the way you create images with adobe firefly and photoshop. Okay. 31. Limitation in Generative Fill: Before we carry on with this class, I want to point out the limitations that we have with generative feel and generative expand within Photoshop. As Atmos recording, which is April 2024, the resolution the cap that we have in Photoshop is 1024 pixels. As you can see here on this Google search says understanding the 10204 limitation. When using generative feel photoshop caps, it's rendering resolution at 1024 pixels, and it here says as of November 2023. Even though we are in 2024, we still have this limitation. You might have noticed when you open this file, acoustic red guitar in beachfront house dot PNG, that this file is quite big in size. If you go into the image on top and you click on image size, You might notice that this image is huge. It's actually 12,000 pixels by almost 6,000 pixels. So that is quite big in size. So we have a basic limitation of 1,000 pixels. So with generative feel and generative expand. So you might have noticed some fuzziness, some blurriness in the image. And as you can see here, my plant here, for instance, is fuzzy, quite blurry. And if you look around the image, you might notice that is not as crisp as you might want it to be. So I did a quite a good job on this plant, though, but the guitar is quite sharp, but the rest is not quite sharp as the guitar. To fix this, we would have to basically regenerate these objects one piece at a time. What I mean by that is we need to generate 1024 pixel by 1024, manually. So we're going to go into the selection two here on the left hand side, and on top of it says style, it says normal. We're going to instead use fixed size. And here under width and height, we're going to just put 1024. I put 1,000 just to make it. Easier. So put 1022 by 1024. And when you click anywhere in the image, now you have this little square. Now if I want to regenerate one of these objects, let's say I'm going to go to this vase here and I'm going to zoom in. Now, the plant is not too bad, but the vase looks a little bit blurry. Comparing to our guitar, which is very sharp. Everything else is quite blurry. To fix this, what we can do, just click on that and point at the vase in this case, is within the 21,000 pixel by 1,000 pixels, click on generative fiel, and I go to click generate and see if it's going to create something sharper. So this is kind of the way we need to approach our huge images, in order to fix those blurness, those imperfections, let's see what's happening here. We have now a probably definitely sharper vase, see if we have any other version of it. I'm going to generate more and looks like these vas are not very good in terms of shape, the resolution, though, it's definitely better. One, two, and three. I'm going to probably try another time. We're not very lucky this time in generating vases, but We give it another try. Okay, this looks definitely better, definitely better. I'm going to go for this one here. Okay, this looks definitely sharper than the other vase. And if you can see the composition now, it looks better. Let's go to the other one. Same thing. When I click on it, as you can see, is 1,000 1,000 pixel square. So it just gives you an idea of how big this image is. So we're going to go here and we're going to do the same thing. We're going to congenerative fill and press generate. We're going to zoom in. We're going to wait until Firefly does its magic. And let's see if we have a better fuzz than that one. And let's zoom in, and let's see what other versions we have. Definitely not this one, going to generate another one. Be aware of these limitations. We were working with a very huge image, and that happens, especially when you use generative expand. If you want to expand an existing image to be bigger. Be aware of the fact that you might have blurriness going on when you generate the remaining area, the missing area of an image. So you would have to work 1024 pixels by 1000241 at a time. You definitely going to have better results. Okay, let's stick with this. I'm going to press command zero. Control zero. Definitely our vases now look way better. In terms of the plant itself, we would have to go and in this case, I would have to fix the plantau I have to go into one area of the plant, go to generative field and press generate, and that will make the area of the image sharper. We would have to do the same thing if you want to extend, expand this image to make it wider or to make it deeper. And as you can see, now, the plant area there, it's definitely sharper, and I can do the same thing for the rest. I can just select another area. Let's say I'm going to go to this leaf here. I'm going to just do this one, and I'm going to stop. Otherwise, you know, this video is going to be too long, but I just want to show you what you can do to fix those blurrness, those imperfections. Okay. The third version, it's fine. Come on zero. Now, the picture definitely looks better than what we had before. And if you see comparing to the first image, if I just over impose the first image and put it all the way at the top, you'll notice this is what we had before, and this is what we have now. That's the difference. As you can see, the vases resolution here are blurry and here are much sharper. The leaf as well, actually much better here than they were before. So bear in mind, you have the limitation. If you want to also extend the image and make a bigger, you would have to also select an area. So you would have to go into the crop. We're going to zoom out. You're going to extend the image. And now that we have the transparent area here, we're going to press done. If I want to generate remaining area here, I can go on top under selection, and I can go to fixed size. Now when I click on the image, I've got this little square, and that will allow me to then select an area and press generative field. Make sure you include a little bit of the area that you want to clone or you want firefight to take as a reference and then press generate. And that will generate a sharper rendering of the image of that part, rather than have a fuzzy area. And you would have to go on doing the same sort of thing to extend the rest of the image. This will take, of course, longer to generate your image. But of course, you're going to have also a list of generative field here on your layer side. But again, you're going to have definitely better results if you use this method. In case you want to then expand without having to worry about the fuzziness of the image. What you need to do is simply go to the style, go back to normal. Highlight the entire area here. Let's say I want to highlight that area there only. I can click on generative field and click on generate. And you might notice that is not as sharp as you might think it would be because of these limitations. This is going to basically approximate and it's going to make the pixelation more evident and more visible. Now, it did quite a good job, but if you trying to zoom in, you'll notice it's not as sharp as areas that you have here, see this palm outside the window, it's much sharper. The area here is not as sharp, but in this case, for this sort of image, it might work out. But, for instance, the frame is not as sharp as you might want that to be for, you know, for the rest of the image, just to make sure that everything is consistent. So you would have to basically work out pixel, 10,000 pixel at a time. So as long as you're aware of that, let's make sure that your image is nice and sharp and you're happy with that, and I'll see you in the next video. 32. Generative Fill Automations: With the release of generative fiel. Now we can automate actions within Photoshop. I'm going to show you how to do that with a bunch of images that we have. You should find this image on the exercise files the portraits. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to essentially change the background of this image. And we also happen to have other portraits here. Now, here we have five images, but you can have as many as you want within a folder. And we're going to go back to Photoshop now. Okay, the first thing we're going to do, we're going to go into windows on top, and we're going to enable actions. After we here, we're going to basically create a new default actions. We're going to go into the plus cycon here down below at the bottom. And we're going to call this P ground generator. We're going to just press record. Then we need to record a series of actions in order to change the background. They will have to be repeated automatically by Photoshop for us. I'm going to click on record. The first thing we're going to do, we're going to select the subject. And now we're going to go into select on the top. We're going to go into modify the contract. We wanted to make sure essentially that the silhouette here is a little bit contracted. Let's say five pixel will be enough. So when we do that, now, as you can see the silhouette now, the highlighting area line is actually a little bit inward. This will let the background blend better with the subject. Now what we need to do we need to invert the selection. We're going to make sure that everything else is selected, but the subject. And now we're going to go into generative field and we're going to type a prompt. So the prompt is this, bouquet effects of night lights, sparkling L designs, colorful lens flare. I'm going to click Generate. So this will generate now three different backgrounds that we can choose from. I'm going to just leave the first background for now, and we're going to let now Generative field do its job. As you can see, we have now a different background. Now we want to save this. We're going to go into file. We're going to save A were going to save in the same folder where the other porches are cli cononsave. Press. Okay. Now we need to basically close this, and we're going to b now finish the action. We're going to go into window, and we're going into actions, and we're going to stop the recording by clicking on stop. So now that we recorded this action, we can go into file. And before we do that, shock we're going to go back to the folder. We're going to delete that portrait PSD that is being created. Just to make sure that everything is clean and ready to go. Now we have these five images, we're going to go back to Photoshop, and we're going to perform an automation. We're going to go to file, automate batch, Now, the set should be under default actions, and actions would be now our background generator down below here. We're going to make sure the folder is the same folder where the rest of the portraits are and click on Choose. This is the folder, press choose. On the destination, we're going to make sure that it says save and close, and now we press. Now photoshop is going to perform all these actions for all the images that we have in that folder. To create essentially three different backgrounds for each individual photos, and it's going to save these into each individual photoshop file. So this is very time saving because with one action, we can literally perform lots of different changes on multiple images. Okay, now the work is finished, we're going to close photoshop. We're going to go into our portraits folder. And as you notice, now we have five different photoshop files. So for each of them, we have our subject, and we have the background that we wanted. Now, if you want to amend any of these background, all you need to do is simply double click It's going to open that in photoshop. And down below here, we have the bar where we can choose a different background. So we can go and just decide which one fit best for our subject. If we like the one we want, on need to simply just close that. It's going to ask us to save. I'm going to press save, and now I can close that and now the background is being applied. This is a huge time saver for any one of us that wants to perform automations and repetitive tasks with generative feel within Photoshop. 33. Generative Expand in Firefly Updates: Welcome back. As we speak, Adobe has released another couple of features within Adobe Firefly, and one of them is generative expand within far fly. Before we could only use this within Photoshop, but now we can use it directly in Firefly. If you scroll down here, you see you have new SS generative expand. You can also use generative feel here and then use the expand function there as well. I'm going to click on try it. So we have now the same layout that we saw before. This is just an image from a sample. But as you can see, now we can use the expand by simply just dragging the Canvas to make it larger. We can go here and you can even choose a landscape, we can choose y screen, you can choose portrait. You can do whatever you like. Let's say we want to do a portrait actually, and I'm going like generate. This is pretty exciting now. You can actually do it directly on the browser on firefly. You don't have to necessarily use photoshop. If you don't have photoshop subscription and you want to just use a firefly, you can definitely do that. Pretty amazing. You can actually go back into Expand. You can now choose three different versions of the animal hair, and you can actually click on more if you want to have more options, more generating fills. Otherwise, you just press cancel and you can just make this expand even go bigger and press generate. This is a free form Canvas, and now I'm basically generating well, fireflies generating all the missing parts within this image. So pretty amazing. I just a few seconds, I've got a complete different scenario here. I've got a couple of options here, lying on the grass, lying on this other fields. And you can click on more and you can get you more options, more scenarios. More generative ideas. Amazing. This is probably best than the other one. I think this is my favorite one. So that's what you can do now within a firefly. Generative expand is in F one and I'll see you in the next update. Okay. 34. Assignment with Generative Fill and Expand: The assignment for this module is to apply what we covered so far, which is generative field and generative expand. The first thing I want you to do is to essentially use generative expand to make this image bigger on the left hand side. All you need to do is simply expand this area here where you find the rest of this lake After you expand, you can create something here. I would like you to create something in this area here, whether is a house, whether is a cabin, whether anything that you can think of. Then I would like you to add here something whether it is a boat or anything else. Then I also would like you to try to make this area here a little bit more appealing. Also, I would like you to create a bridge that goes from here perhaps to here, or you can have the freedom to create something different. Also, as the last thing I would like you to do and to try is to perhaps create something here in the middle of the lake, whether it's a floating restaurant or floating platform or an island, whatever you like. Try to add these elements. Just to recap, you need to create generative expand by expanding the left hand side of this image and then use generative feel to create one two, three, four and five elements. If you feel like you want to add more, feel free to do that, and this is the assignment for this module. Okay. 35. Assignment Solution: Okay, welcome back. Hopefully, you have done the assignment. This is the solution or one possible solution for this assignment. The first thing that I ask you to do is to use generative expand, and this is something that we need to do on this area of the image on the left hand side. The first thing we're going to do, we're going to click on the crop tool here on the left hand side, and then you would have to make sure that on the field here on top, you have the generative expand selected. Once you've done that, you can actually drag this area here. Let's say we're going to go up to here. And then we're going to click on Generate down below. We're going to leave this prompt area blank and let far fly do its job. Now we have the rest of the lake here. Now, the second thing that I ask to do is to use generative feel in this area here by creating something. So we're going to go into the selection tool here on the left hand side. We're going to highlight an area. And we're going to just create here something. We're going to have here a wooden cabin, rounded by green, if plants. That's it by leafy glands and press generate. This is the first solution. Then we have the second one and the third one. I'm going to generate again because I actually had a little bit of better results the first time I was trying this. By the way, you find a image of this in the solution folder where you see what I've done in that one. But I'm just trying to doing this along the way with you, so you see how I go about it. Okay. This definitely looks better than the other one. The second one and the third one. I think I'm going to go for the first one here. Now, the other element was a boat here. I'm going to just highlight an area, and I just say boat as simple as that, and press generate. Okay, so this is the first solution, the second variation and the third one quite like this one, but I think I'm going to go for the first one because it's very similar to my cabin here. Then I'm going to make this area here a little bit more appealing. I'm going to just say here. Garden. I'm just going to give Firefly very simple prompts so that has got enough to work around and to elaborate the surrounding of my image. Okay. So that's the first solution for my garden. Second one. Is quite nice and the third one. So it's quite green here and yellow. I quite like actually this contrast with, you know, this tulip, I believe there or some sort of other kind of flowers, red flowers. I'm going to stick with this. Then I'm going to put some lipa. So I'm going to just highlight another area. And I'm going to just say, let's see, three back packers and just press generate. Now, sometimes when you put numbers of elements in this case, three backpackers, may not create exactly three, it might create two, or it might create more, it depends on the area you highlight as well. Let's have a look if we are lucky enough to get exactly what we actually prompt. Okay, we have actually four here, but it's okay. That's fine. This is the first solution. The second one followed my prompt and the third one. Let's see. The one that I think I'm going to try, I think I'm going to try with the second one. That's perfect. Also, proportionally speaking, this looks a little bit taller than this actual hat. So I'm going to just want to make a little bit more proportionate solution here, proportion you know choice. The other thing we wanted to add was a bridge. So I'm going to add a bridge from I'm going to try to do something similar here. Now, something different to the one that I actually saved in the folder and that you have. So I'm going to go back here. I'm going to highlight this time using the rectangular to and go back here and press and just type a bridge. Okay. First solution, nothing, second. Third one, it kind of created something here. I'm going to just press generate and give it another go. Sometimes you have to try probably two, three, four times. It really depends. Or sometimes you have to probably re select an area. It takes a little bit of attempts to get exactly what you want. Okay. It looks like trying to create a platform here, which is not exactly what we want. Okay, so I'm going to try again this time, I'm going to type a wooden bridge. I'm going to try to be a little bit more specific and see if this time we are lucky to get exactly what we want. We have a platform there. This looks like a bridge. The third one is just a platform. I'm going to keep this for now. This is our bridge as the best result so far. The other one, the other element that I ask you to add was some sort of floating element here, which could be an island, it could be a platform, it could be a restaurant or anything. I'm going to just type here, a floating restaurant. Let's see what it does. On the example that you have in the assignment folder, you should be seeing a sort of a little floating house in the middle of the lake. Let's see what we get now. We have something there going on. The second one is a floating looks like more boat. And these are two boats as well. I'm going to just press generate again. I'm going to give it another try. Okay. And bear in mind, this image is quite big. And if you watch the limitation that we have with Ado firefly in terms of resolution, you might notice that there are some pixelation sometimes, or the picture is not exactly as sharp as you might think. Okay. This is the first attempt, second attempt. Third attempt. I think I'm going to go for the first one is a platform here, and that's it for the assignment. So we created some life. We created something here, a garden. We created a boat, a bridge, a platform, and this little cabin as well, and feel free now to take advantage of these tools, and I'll see you in the next video. 36. Introduction to Generative Recolour: Welcome to this section, we're going to talk about another feature within Adobe firefly, which is generative recolor. Now, we are in the main page here in Adobe firefly. We're going to scroll down here, and you should be able to see generative recolor here. Now, this is run within Adbbie Illustrator. So if you click on Learn More, you can actually see a little bit of the features here on the main page. Feel free to ever read here and see if you like it or something that you're interested in. But essentially what Adobe firefly does with this feature is allowing you to generate colors from a prompt to change an artwork. It's a very, very useful feature, and I'm going to show you that just now. We're going to open a Illustrator, and if you open the file fruit composition black and white dot SVG. This is something you're going to find in the folder within the exercise files. This is a fruit composition and is black and white. I'm going to show you how with generative recolor, you can actually recolor and create a palette completely from scratch. Now, to enable this, if you go to edit at the top here on the menu bar, and you go into edit color, you have an option that says generative recolor. Now, the reason why it is graded out is because we need to highlight the artwork first. We're going to go to the selection tool here. Pressing V, and just highlight the artwork. Once it is highlighted, you're going to go to edit, we're going to go into edit colors, and we're going to go to generative recolor. So this will open this palette of different options. And by the way, if you want to open this section here in another way is by just selecting the artwork again and by clicking on the recolor button down below here. Same thing. You're going to have exactly the same options. You just need to go from recolor to generative recolor, and you're going to have exactly the same options. Now, on top, you have an option to create a prompt to actually describe how you want those colors to be. Now, down below, you also have an option to choose one of these samples. We have quite a few here, you've got nine, and you also have advanced options as well. Now, now we're going to explore the prompt, first of all, and then we're going to try one of these samples. So a description would be, for instance, a modern vibe of red and purple. Click on generate can be anything you like. So now, it's going to generate four different variations from that description. As you can see, I've got red and purple in a modern vibe. So if I click on one of these, it's going to apply that to my artwork. So as you can see, I can go to four different variation. And if I want to, I can just use these three dotted icon next to the variation that I want. If I want to mark as a good result, as a bad result, if I want to delete, you can do that as well. Also, you can experiment using sample prompts here. So if I click on a little arrow next to it, I can choose one of these. For instance, if I want to choose yellow submarine, I can go here, and this is going to give me four variations of that sample. Let's have a look at this one here. Quite yellowish. This one's got some fluorescent greens as well. So you can literally try to many variations, and you can also select certain areas within the artwork. You can also regenerate that using the same prompt yellow submarine and see what sort of other variations you get out of that. Let's have a look. And we get other four variations. More interesting. You got an orange, you got more blacks, more yellows, a good contrast and dark contrast as well, which is very nice. You also have an option on top to recolor. So this will allow you to access to these color palettes, and you can actually move this to variate essentially to a variation of colors. Manually, and sometimes you might find very good vibe colors here. Very good combinations. And of course, you have prominent colors down below here, which allows you to drag left and right the color you want to be more prominent within the same image. Down below here, you also have a couple of sliders. The one here on the left allows you to change the brightness of your colors and the hue, and the second one here allows you to change the saturation of that color. So you have plenty of control, and you also have plenty of control on top here, because these, of course move together, but you can also unlink them by clicking on this link. And then you can just move individually all the colors that you would like to add into your artwork. So you have plenty of flexibility here in order to use recolor. But generative recolor is where you can actually get your creative flow by describing whatever you like and create amazing color palettes for your art. I'll see you in the next video for more. 37. Endless colour combinations: So let's just pick up where we left off. And let's try to see and explore as much as possible in terms of how we can create and generate lots of different kind of combinations for our colors. Now, as you can see, I left off with yellow submarine from the previous lesson. Now, I might have changed a little bit because I was tweaking a little bit my prompts and my variations here. But let's say we want to have another element that will alter our prompt. Let's say, now we have yellow submarine. But we also want to use some colors here on the palette. I actually be able to add a color that I like within the same prompt. So if I want to go to plus here and I want to add a palette, all I need to do is simply go to the palette here on the color, and I can just simply select by dragging this lider somewhere in the middle, so I can actually see the spectrum of colors down below here, and I can just color pick whatever I like. Let's say I like this cyan color, sort of turquoise, y and color, And basically, as soon as I pick up the color, it's going to be added to my list here. I can actually go into, for instance, a more on my magenta color. And we go. It's there. Now, if I want to see the combination between yellow submarine and that, actually, I want to change submarine. I don't really need to have that into it. I'm going to put just yellows, leave it like this and press generate, and let's see what sort of combination we're going to get out of this. And then we go now, we have four variations with yellows and my magenta color. And there we go. We got that variation. Now, if you want to change that even more, we can click on generate to create more combinations. We can also have a control over the palette by going to re color here on top. When you do that, have the spectrum here, the color will, and I can actually move this around my spectrum. This looks like sort of a triad combination. Tricmbination looks like uses opposites or in between each other. So if I choose a color here, it's going to choose something on this side and on this side as well as a combination. I'm going to show you this color harmony just in a second. So these are just the way that the color behaves between each other. So I'm just moving my color wheel to experiment different combination quite like this color. And of course, you have the options down below here to change the prominent color. So if I want to have less of a black, I can just move that to the left to the right, actually. Change the color dramatically. If I want to have, for instance, more of this color, I can drag that to the right. I can even go further and even change that color even more. It will change completely the feel of my color palettes. I can do that by clicking on the curved icon here on top to go back a few steps just to retrieve what I had before. And also have got the option here to change the brightness of my colors and the hue, if I want to have the saturation as well, of that to make it very vivid like this. Another option we got to go back to generative y color is by using advanced options. Now, if you go to advanced options, you'll be able to actually use one of the color science, color combination. If I click on this pop up menu here, if acclicon harmony rules, these are all the different ways that you can combine colors. These are basically mathematical equations that can be applied to prompt. So in this case, if I use complementary it's going to basically change the colors here. To complimentary. Or if I want to go to analogs, it's going to change it to analogues. If you're not familiar with these color harmonies, these are basically mathematical equations that will be applied to your prompt. If you want to find out how these colors are basically combined together and what they mean, essentially, you have to go into the website, if you go to Chrome and you can go to your browser and just search color do ab.com. This is going to show you this page, and you just need to go to create color theme and press visit. Here, you can see on the left hand side, we have color harmony. You can see you got all of these terminologies that you actually saw in Adobe Illustrator. For instance, things like complimentary or analogs. If you want to know what analog is, you just need to go in here, click on analogs, and this is what analogues means. For instance, if you pick up a colors that chairs yellow is going to pick up all the adjacent color within yellow. If I move that old way to Magenta, for instance, is going to pick up all the colors adjacent to that. If I want to find out what perhaps complimentary is, I can click on complimentary. And complimentary essentially is the opposite color of what you picked up. For instance, if I picked up something like magenta, the opposite color would be green or bright green. If I want to go for instance to a yellow, the opposite color would be purple, and so on and so forth. If I want to find out other terminology, let's say, try it, like we had before, now we have the sort of combinations, and these are just mathematical equations to see what sort of color combination, it's more suitable for what you want to do. For instance, you also have shades and these are shades of the same color to give you a more different vibe and different character to your color. Monochromatic is within the same range of color. If I choose red, all the different kind of red up to the dark one, if you want to choose, for instance, split complementary, and this will give you sort of a complimentary, but it will split the opposite color in different directions to give you a more variety on your color palette. Now, once you find out and figure out how this color palette works, you can go back to Illustrator. I'm going to just close this for a second. And now you can actually go here and choose one of these. So if you want to experiment, for instance, ponochromatic, I can click on monochromatic there, I can click on, I can go to my recolor here. And now you can see my color wheel, is actually aligned as a monochromatic, like the same sort of shape that we saw before. And we can still tweak these colors directly from here. I can go down here on the adjustment brightness to make that brighter and to have brighter color on my palette and on my design. I can go back to my saturations to have the more saturated. If you want them to be more vivid. Perhaps I can go to something like towards red or magenta, to have a little bit more vivid colors. It really depends what sort of vibe you want from that specific artwork. If I want to, for instance, add a little bit of yellow here, I can unlink that. And that will allow me to actually move any of these dots in whichever direction I want. So for instance, if I want to get some yellow, as you can see, this is what is going to be affected so far. If I started to drag stuff into the yellow, I can actually notice what is going to affect, and I can just go and experiment with different colors. And sometimes it's just a matter of your taste. It doesn't have to be necessarily a mathematical equation that will determine how you're going to choose your palette. Here, creativity is the main word that you need to consider when you create the color palettes. And after you actually find out that this is what you want that we go, you can go back to generative recolor, and you know you can still experiment with other colors. You can even highlight certain section here within the artwork and perhaps only change certain area only if you don't want to affect the entire the entire artwork. Or even go even just smaller or you just select one single individual art there and then just go into recolor and perhaps you want to change that. And, you want to experiment as much as possible, you know, to see how it looks. Okay. Yellow it's quite nice, actually. Go back to generative, recolor. And here, again, now it's all about understanding the terminology and going back to advanced options and choose the color harmony from here. And as you can see now, you understand what they are, if you know the shape of the color harmony you want to apply, you can just simply click on one of these. Let's say I want to click on left complement. Get that you can just press okay. Then if you want to experiment on top of this, you can go to recolor, you can go to generative color, and you can actually type another prompt, or you just co here and tweak your color wheel and to experiment more different combinations. So you can create infinite color palettes and colon combinations within generative recolor. F f with that, and I'll see you in the next video. 38. Generative Recolor in Mockups: One of the many applications where we can actually experiment and use generative recolor would be for mock ups, for products that we want to sell, and we want to perhaps demo to our clients. And one of them would be perhaps showing them our design on a g or on a T shirt or any sort of merchandise that you're thinking to sell or to promote that design to the company, or perhaps you are thinking to sell merchandising using your own design, and this is where recoloring would be amazing to experiment with. Now, I've got this file, which is called T shirt recoloring. You'll find this file in the exercise files. I'm going to basically demonstrate how two designs can look like on a T shirt. Now I'm going to zoom in, and I'm going to go to the first four designs. Now, as you can see, I've got a design that we already know. We worked on this in previous videos. I'm going to select that the first T shirt, and I'm going to zoom in just slightly. Have that a little bit bigger. And then we're going to go into recolor. So make sure when you do that, you highlight the T shirt and the design together. I've done it in such a way that you can actually see both T shirt and design changing at the same time. I'm going to click on recolor, and then we're going to go into generative recolor. Now we can actually use a prompt. I'm going to be very simple here. I'm going to just type orange. And I'm going to click on generate. So now I've got four different designs here. I can click on the first one with the green, and of course, the artwork will change accordingly. I've got the second one, the third and the fourth. Now, I can also change that again. I can click on generate again to give me the four versions. And I'm going to show you also other ways we can change the color, to have more fantasy, to have more styles, and more mood. I quite like this one here, I quite like the black one actually that we have before here this one here. We try some of the harmony colors in the previous videos, and this is accessible by going to advanced options. I'm going to click on that, and I'm going to click on the top here on this pop menu when we have harmony rules. And now we can choose one of these. We can go to complimentary. We can go to something like analogs we can go to, for instance, triad or even shades, as well. Let's see if we get a compound as well, quite like it. Now I can click on. And if I want to further experiment, I can go to recolor. I can go to my color wheel here, and I can just choose a different tone for that pecific T shirt. And I can also unlock that by unlinking it to just have more control on the color within my graphics. I can change the blacks. I can change all the tones to be in adjacent color palettes. In the neighborhood of that color, I can actually change those and make a completely different design, which is amazing. I can also change the prominent color here by going there and change perhaps the T shirt, to be in a different color. If I want to go back, of course, I want to do what I've done. I can just press that a couple of times to just go back where I was. I can go to generative recolor and I can choose one of these as well. I'm going to leave this as it is. I'm going to go to the second Thirt I'm going to highlight the second tshirt I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to go to recolor. Then I'm going to go into let's put this on the other side, so we keep consistency on what we have on screen, and I'm going to go to generative recolor, and I'm going to choose one of these existing one. Lets say I'm going to go to faded emerald. CT, and let's see what sort of effect, what sort of color combination we get. So we get that one, get that one with the greens. We get that one here as well. Now, I can also choose to have perhaps another color, which is going to be prominent within this Al is going to be present with this design. For instance, let's say I want to have yellow. I'm going to go to colors here on the top, press on the plus button, and I got con this color here. And by the way, if you don't see this palette, the watches, you can go to the color here. You can just simply move one of these faders. To have this rainbow of color down below here and you can choose your own color using the color picker. Or you can go to these watches, of course, and choose your own color. Now, as soon as you click on the color is going to be applied here, and now we are ready to click on generate. Let's see what changes we're going to have on our design, keeping the faded emerald city. Now we have these options with yellow tint into it, which are quite like it. Let's try to keep this. Now I'm going to go down below, and I'm going to try the same thing on this design here. And I'm going to go and choose a sample prompt. I'm going to go to Levander Storm. This could be good perhaps for a certain kind of clients that light these warm colors. And these are the colors that we applied. I'll actually apply on that one. I forgot to do something. I actually forgot to highlight my T shirt. I have to highlight the thir first, click on Recolor, and go to generative recolor and click on Lavander. And I think I apply that on top ready. But I can choose a different tonality. Oh, I can choose a different vibe. Let's say yellow submarine let's see what sort of effect do we get. Let's see. Oh, I quite like this one here. Also, this one is very nice. I'm going to highlight the last one, and I'm going to do the same thing, color. I'm going to go here. I'm going to choose a salmon sushi. I think I'm going to apply. This is a T shirt. Let's see. I'm going to try the red, but I'm going to actually choose again, my yellow color. I'm going to click on generate again, and let's see if applying a yellow makes the design completely different or change completely the way It looks. I'm going to just stick with this one here. I'm going to go to the second part of my t shirt. Again, I can just highlight a section. I can press Command plus to go to that section there. I can do the same thing. Now, I can just highlight the T shirt again just to make sure I've got my color wheel here and I can change the design manually as well. This gives me completely different vibe from the T shirt and from my jungle that you probably recognize from previous videos. I can do the same thing for the rest of the T shirt. So this just took me a few minutes just to make this mock up. And this will be perfect to present to our clients, to our customers, and even to promote this as a merchandise product to sell online. So pretty exciting times with generative color. I hope you enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next video. 39. Introduction to text to Vector Graphic: In this section, I'm going to show you text to vectorgraphics. This is a feature in a Dobbie firefly that allows you to create vector vectorgraphics, in this case, just by typing a description of what you want, which is pretty amazing. The sky is the limit. I'm going to show you this starting from Adobe firefly website. As you can see, I'm in main page here. F I scroll down here, you should be able to see all these little features, and one of them is generate vector. And this is run in a Adobe Illustrator. Now, I'm going to click on learn more. This is going to show you all the main features of text to vectographic. What we're going to do, we're going to click on try now, and this will open Adobe Illustrator within our computer. I'm going to click on that to open, and now we are in Adobe Illustrator. Now, if you don't have that facility within Adobe firefly website, do not worry. The next video I'm going to show you how to create a vectographic from scratch. So very me for now. Now, as you can see, I've got this sample image, and I've got this little square here when I can create a vector graphic. But before I generate anything, I just want to show you the layout a little bit. When I click on this square here, by the way, I can just move the square, I can resize it by just moving the dots to make it smaller or bigger, and that is as simple as that. Now, with adobe and with any Adobe package nowadays, you have video tutorials that will pop up whenever you click on any of these icons on the left hand side. Which is very handy, and also you have video tutorials as well, which make your life much, much easier, especially if you want to try something new or some other new apps that you never tried. A Dobbie has done an amazing job in terms of making their apps as user friendly as possible. Now, I'm going to skip this video for now, but you can watch it at your own leisure. I'm going to press G. And I'm going to basically go to properties here on the right hand side, and here, you're going to see all the different options that you have available within text two vectographics. Now, I've got four different types of vectorgraphics. I can click on this little icon here next to the description, just to show you that you have an option to create a subject to create a scene. T that you see here, these little mountains with a river, this is a scene. Then we have icons, and we also have patterns as well. Now, I'm going to create a subject now just to show you what it does. We are ready to square. I'm going to just press there. And if I want to have an idea of what sort of subject I can draw, I can go to this little light bulb here on the right hand side of the prompt before I even type anything. I can click there and it's going to show me what sort of things I can create within this scenario. Okay. Let's say I'm going to go to colorful spaceship here. I'm going to click on that and now he's going to give me the warning that, of course, this is generative I apps, I'm going to have to agree to that thermso conditions. That's fine. I'm going to press agree, and now it's going to generate that spaceship within this little square. Let's see what we get. Again, we're going to get three different versions like we get in photoshop when we're creating something using generative feel. Same thing. Now we have this rocket here. As you can see, I've got three different versions, I can just skim through them by clicking on this button, and I've got three lovely rockets. I also have the versions here on the right hand side down below here. If I want to regenerate them, I click on generate better. Otherwise, I can simply create something different. Now I can simply zoom to make the rockets bigger. I can position it the way I want. And the cool thing is that when you create an object within a scene, firefly will generate that object using the same color palettes as the scene, to make it blend better. In this case here, it looks like quite orange but if I want to change and recolr, I can click on recolor, and that will give me more options to recolry. I'm going to show you this feature later on, so do not worry for now. Now, if I want to create an entire scene, what I can do, click on this object and press pec space to delete. If I want to highlight the whole area here, I can go to the first icon here on top, which has selection or press V. And I'm going to highlight the entire section, and I'm going to click on generate better. But before I do that, I need to make sure that my type is the right one. In this case, if I click on this icon next to the prompt, I'm still on the subject. I need to go under scene and scene will generate an entire scene for my frame for my cavas here. If I click on here on the prompt and I delete a prompt, you'll notice I've got the light bulb again. To give me some idea of what I can create. I'm going to click on that. Now I've got different scenes that I can create. This just gives you an idea of what beautiful vectographic you can create. You can also change the scene here on the right hand side, on the type, and I've got scene, subject icon, and pattern, same thing, essentially. Now, let's say I want to use one of these scenarios, and I want to change this with something else. Let's go to something like vintage car on highway, desert sunset, retroposter design. I love that. I click on that, and it's going to generate essentially three different versions of this scenario. Let's have a what firefight does for us. And now we have three versions. This is the first one. That's the second one and the third one. If you like one of these and you want to adapt it to your Canvas, all you need to do is simply just drag these dots. Stretch and to make it bigger. Of course, it will distort the image. If you want to do that, you can just go to edit undo scale, do scale again, or you can press command Z or control Z if you're in a window, and you can hold down the shift key. When you do that, you can resize that retaining the proportion. Do not worry. I'm going to show you this even more later on. But let's say this is our image, and we want to modify it or if you want to make it more complex or less complex, we also have those controls here on the right hand side. The settings, you have detail in vectographics. What that means is, if I want to make these vtographics a little bit simpler, I can just drag this lider for details, all the way down to minimal, or if I want to make it more complex, I can go all the way on the other side. Let's say I want to make it minimal. So after you do that, nothing happened because you have to press again on the generate better. I can click here down below the picture, or I can click on generate better here. So let's give it a go and see what happened. There we go. We have now a simpler version of that, and we have other three versions. That's the second version, and then the third version. So we have also options to change the coloring, the effect to create icons and patterns, which I'm going to show you in the following videos. So B me and I'll see you in the next video. 40. Create your first Vector Graphic: Let's create our first example in Adobe Illustrator. We're going to basically create a new document, a blank document. We're going to go into a new file here, in Illustrator, and we're going to go into document presets. And we have some example. But we're going to go into the untitled here and we're going to create a 600 by 600 pixel document. We're going to make it simple, 600 by 600. And we're going to leave everything as it is and press Create. Now, by the way, you also find a blank document already in the exercise files. So if you browse within this section, and you go into the folder, you'll find blank AI. That is the same as this. I just wanted to show you how to create one from scratch. I want to create a children's book for my two daughters about animals in different environments. Now I'm going to start here by creating a scene. The first thing we're going to do, we're going to click on the retgle here on the left hand side, and we're going to highlight our Canvas. We're going to in this case, select the whole Canvas, make sure you match the actual square. Now we are ready to create a scene. We're going to go here on the right hand side and make sure that the type we are under scene. After we do that, we're going to zoom out a little bit command minus or control minus if you are in window, we're going to go into the selection tool again, or v if you are in window or Mc now we are ready to generate something. We're going to click con generate. I want to create a leafy green jungle. With tropical trees and a waterfall. I'm going to click on Generate. This will generate three different versions of our vector graphics, like we have in photoshop with generative field. And bear in mind, we also have under settings. The detailed vector graphics is under minimal because we left there in the previous videos. Let's have what sort of graphic we get, having a minimal details. So this is our first version. We have our second version and our third version. Okay, let's say we like the second one, but I want to change the details. Let's go here on to the settings, and we're going to change the minimal. We're going to go in the middle, and we're going to click on generate again. Let's see what sort of complexity we have now on our vector graphics. Now, sometimes it comes up simpler because was already in minimal and sometimes do illustrator and fireflight needs to reset. So for some reason, sometimes you might have simpler graphics, so do not worry if that happened. In this case didn't happen, but that's fine. So as you can see, it's a bit more complex. Now we have other three different versions of our waterfall. And I can just revisit the previous ones as well. Okay, I would probably say I will probably choose the This first version that we have before. I'm going to stick with this. Now, I want to create also an object, an animal in this case. I'm going to go here on the scene. And I have to basically select subject. But before we do that, this is very important. You have to d select this selection. Otherwise, if you do that now and you select a prompt, it will replace our scene, which we don't want. We're going to click away, click again to delect our scene, and now we are ready to create a new object. We're going to go now into the rectangle tool, and we're going to create now a small little square where I'm going to create a little flamingo. We're going to go into the selection tool again. I'm going to move this here. Okay. And now I'm ready to generate something. I'm going to go to generate better. I'm going to delete that prompt. I'm going to make sure that the type, I change it to subject. And now I'm ready to type my prompt. I'm going to delete the old prompt. I'm going to just type flamingo, drinking in the river. Press, generate. Let's see what we get. So it's very important to deselect after your generation, create a new rectangle, a new area where we can actually prompt something new in it, and of course, the type. It's also very important. And now we have our flamingo. We're going to make that a little bit bigger. We have three versions of it. So I can visit the versions here on the right hand side as well. That's the first one. That's the second one. And the third. If you want to zoom in, of course, you can do command plus or control plus to go a little bit further into the picture to see how it looks. That's the first one. That's the second one and the third. Okay, I want something that actually drinks within that. Let's say I want to have actually like this one here. I'm going to just move it on the side. And I'm going to leave it like this. Of course, if you don't like it, you can click on generate again to get other three versions. I'm going to leave it for now like this. Now, if I want to change the color of my flamingo, I can do that by simply clicking on the flamingo. And I can go to recolor. When I do that, I can have now this palette that I can simply just move by holding one of these dots. This will change the tone and the color palette of my flamingo. If I want to keep it let's say on the red or on the pink side, let's say I want to keep it like this. I can also use the presets as well. I've got generative recolor here on top. Let me just move this here because you've got this little tutorial as well. It's going to show you what you can do with it. I'm going to dismiss it from now. And I'm going to go to generative recolor. This will give me some sample prompts. Let's say I want to use one of these. It's a summer by the sea. I'm going to click on agree, and let's see what recoloring does for my flamingo. So this is a very cool feature. Once you create your object or your scene or your pattern, you can change the recolor the color by clicking on recolor. These are the other four versions of my flamingo. I'm going to click on this one here, quite colorful, quite pinky and give me the nice purply and bright colors, quite like it. I'm going to leave it like this. Otherwise, I can go back to recolor and can actually change any of these palettes. Manually. But I'm going to show the recoloring in the next video. At the moment, this is what I want. Now, I also want to create a pattern for my book. I'm going to click away, deselect that. I'm going to zoom out. And I'm going to create a rectangle next to this. By the way, if you want to move your objects around within Illustrator, what you can do is just press the space bar, hold it down and just drag your objects around. Now I can create a pattern. This could be a pattern that you can use for your book, like for the first few pages, the first page on the second page or the end of the book as well as an introduction to the book itself, just to give a little bit of character to your creation. Now we're going to go into type here, and we're going to go into pattern. On the pattern, we have some of the example down below here. I've got a graphic sea waves, I've got tropical forest leaves, and I've got also orographic shapes. Now, I can choose any of this just to have a look of what sort of, you know, pattern we get, and if it's something that can align with our jungle here. Now we have three beautiful pattern. I'm going to go to the select or press V to just select that, and let's see how it looks. If we zoom in, looks pretty beautiful. We're going to go down here, we're going to go into the second version, which is this one and the third one. The third one looks very similar to our pattern. But let's say we want to change that. We want to basically rate our own pattern. Having this selected, I can go down here and I can say jungle with tropical plants and birds, let's say, I'm going to press generate. Now it's going to create three versions of our new prompt, which is going to be probably more aligned with our jungle here. And now we have this beautiful token here. We have also another version here with the parrots and another version here as well. Very, very beautiful, very details as well. I love it. This would be probably one of my patterns, quite like this one as well. But let's stick with this one. This is the thing you can do just in a matter of a few minutes, and this would have taken you and me probably several hours to create before. But now we text the vector graphics functionality, we can definitely speed up our work and make amazing graphics and content. 41. Creative ways controlling colours: So let's take a look now of the level of control that we have with colors within the text two vectographic in illustrator. I opened this file called Artboards AI, which you find in the exercise files under this section. And we have three scenes three scenarios. We have the jungle, we have the Arctic, and we have a desertic scenario as well. Now, when we select objects and when we create some graphics within these three scenarios, we need to make sure we select the right environments. These are three different environments or better called artboards. And in order to find out if we are in the right environment, we need to go into windows on top here. And we're going to go to artboards. This will tell us which artboard, which scenery or which environment we are in. At the moment, we are under artboard one, which is our jungle. If I click on the artic here, scenery, we are under artboard number two, and if I click on the desert, we are under artboard three. This is very important to know where we are because this will determine the colors that are going to be used to generate whatever object or graphic we want to create. We're going to start with the jungle, artboard one, and now I'm going to create an object within this. I'm going to go to my selection tool here and you can just use the as a rectangle. I'm going to just highlight an area. Let's say I want to high the area there, and now I'm ready to create an object. Now, I can use directly the prompt area here. But if you want to use the prompt bar down below here, you would have to go back to the selection tool, or v, and then you're going to have this bar down below, so you can actually start to create something here. Now, before we even start to create our. In this case, I want to create a cactus. We need to make sure that under type, we are under subject. So in this case, we are under subject. And the style, here it says none, even though we have this reference asset, which is turned on. So this reference asset essentially will take the style from whichever artboard is selected. At the moment, we are under artboard one, but it says still none. So what we need to do we need to simply click on artwork here to select it, and as you can see, is now highlighted. And now on top the style, it says, reference asset, means that this style of cactus will take the same style as our jungle. Now I'm going to go down to generate better, and I'm going to type wild cactus. I already done it before, so it's there ready. I'm going to type a wild cactus. Now I'm going to click on generate. This will generate three different cactus design. That we have a style similar or same style as my jungle. Now we have the line work here, and now we're going to wait until it's going to color them. Now we have three cactus styles. Let's say we're going to use I'm going to use the second one here. I'm going to drag it down just so you see it better, and I can actually zoom in to see how this cactus look like. As you can see, it is using the same design as our jungle. I can actually drag it here, and this blends perfectly with my environment here, which is perfect. Now let's try something else. Going to go back here. Now, let's say we want to use this cactus in our glacial background. Now, if I want to, all I need to do is simply just drag this object here. And now, as you can see the reference assets is taking the glacial icon. Now, if I want to generate a cactus as the same style as this, I would have to go to generate better. I'm going to leave the same prompt and click on generate. So this will generate three cactus style. Similar to my arctic circle scenery. As you can see, I've got three beautiful cactus, and in this time, they have the same style as my glacial background. Now, I can do the same thing for my desert, but just going here and moving the object to the desert scenery is going to change that to this artwork. So now I can just go here and generate a new set of cactus, which they're going to take the same asset in the same style as my desert. Now I've got three beautiful wild cactus, which have the same reference as my background. Let's say we like this design of cactus, but we want to basically use the colors from the first scene. In that case, all I need to do is simply go to Picker Here on the right hand side, and I can select the scene I want for that to take the color from. I'm going to go to the jungle in this case. When I click on jungle, it says here, your selected style is being added to the style picker. As you can see here, I've got my jungle here under the picker. Now I can go to generate. I can click on generate better. Now this is going to generate a cactus or three styles or cactus, which they're going to have the same colors as the first jungle. As you can see, now I've got a beautiful cactus, which has the colors from my jungle, using the style of my desert. I can mix and match all of this accordingly. Now, I can also do something else. Let's say I want to go and recolor this cactus. I can go to recolor here having that selected. These are the level of controls I've got over this object. I can change the color by going to color library, and I color library, I've got a plethora of different kind of color styles and color palettes. I can choose any of this For instance, I can go to I don't know, I can go to foods, for instance, beverages, and this will take the colors from food and beverages. Now, I can also choose something else or I can go back to none. And I can also use colors auto. Under auto, you can decide how many colors you want that cactus to have. In this case here, you can go to auto and we'll automatically decide how many colors you want that to have. Or if you want to have up to three colors or two colors, it will automatically pick up three colors. And then it will automatically color for you. This is the level of control you have four or five, or you can go back to automatic, and you can do that as well. Another cool feature you have is color theme picker. This is different from this picker here. This will override whichever you know scene you have on the pica. So, for instance, if I want to have this cactus to have the color of the glacial, keeping the same design, I can go to Clothm pica. I can pick up the second scene here, which is the glacial scene, and it will take the colors from that scene. Other things you can do here, you can actually move the color palette to change the colors manually if you wanted to. Now, if you're not happy with that, you can just go back to undo, which is the little arrow here on top, and it goes back to the previous view, which is this one. The other sort of control you have is prominent colors. Here you can actually go and then select the prominent color that you like. Let's say you want to have this dark blue, and you can drag it to the left to have more of that into your cactus or less of that. As you can see, it will change in real time. Other things you can do, you can change the brightness of your cactus objects and the hue, or you can also change the saturation. You want to have a rich colors, you want to have more washed down colors is up to you. This is the level of control you have within the object. And also, you have a generative recolor on top. This will let you basically experiment different filters that we already have. For instance, if you want to go for something like summer by the sea, you can click there, and that will generate colors for that design, to look like something like this. So if you want to have that, you can just pick up the color you like. Let's say you want to have that one. Or perhaps you want to create a different one. Let's say you want to go to a trip discolts. Let's see how is going to change the colors, something more like psychedelic, and there we go, and then you can just choose the one you like. Or if you just change your mind, you can just go back undo or just go back to color on top, click on Color theme again and select your glacial that will go back to the previous colors. Or if you want to experiment with the desert, you can go to the desertic view or the jungle, and that will change in real time, which is pretty cool. That is a sort of level of control we have within text to vectographic. And it's amazing. Now I can actually select a way to just select everything. And I can decide to have that perhaps in my arctic scene. When I do that, remember when you drag the object within an environment. Now we have the picker, which is still in our jungle. If I want to change there, or It simply go here, deselect it first. Select it again, select your scene, let's say the artic in this case. I would say, your selected style has been added to the style pica. And we go now we have the Pica with the glacial. Now if I want to generate another one, I can just go to generate and click on generate Beta to have a different version of it. So you have infinite ways to change styles and colors on your artboards and your vector graphics within Adobe Illustrator. This is amazing and it gives you endless possibilities to be as creative as you can. As you can see, I've got now a beautiful cactus, which as a glacial vibe. Another level of control that we have through colors is by going to generative recolor. And we saw this before the sample prompts, but we also have an option to create our own prompts based on the description, which gives you endless possibilities. Here it says, describe the color palette, the mood. Let's say I want to say a cold frozen snowy feel and press generate. This will generate four set of colors based on my prompts. Now I've got a more cold frozen and snowy feel to my cactus. I can actually have it like this. I can click on Artboard two, to have a nice zoom in, and this is my design for a cactus living in an arctic circle scenario. F with this and I'll see you in the next video. 42. Assignment: Okay, now is the time to test our knowledge. We text to vetographic within Adobe Illustrator. Now, you can open this document call out of place.ai. You find this document in the exercise files within this section. And what I would like you to do is to create a scene, a landscape or anything that you like, whether it is a landscape or whether it is an interior design of a room or anything that you can think of. And try to add 1-3 objects which are out of place. What that means is you can create perhaps a desertic landscape with a snowman somewhere or something unusual within that landscape. It's a very simple exercise. Just create a scene and create a couple of subjects within the scene. Then I would like you to change the colors as well if you don't like the color that is come out with the prompts. You can use the recolor and the generative color as well to create your own colors and to make something unique and creative. I'm looking forward to see your work and I'll see you in the next video. 43. Assignment Solution: This is just one interpretation of the assignment I just gave you before. What I've done here, essentially, I created a lost city in the middle of the Amazon, and the odd subject that I added the flamingo, the lion, a tiger, and also a sport car in the middle of this jungle. That's what I've done, and I used the same color assets as the artwork itself. I haven't actually changed them much. But this is the assignment, very simple. Help you enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next video. 44. Overview of Text Effects: Another exciting features that we have with a Firefly is text effect. So we are on the firefly do adobe.com website, and we scroll down here and we have these features, and one of them is text effect, which runs within Adobe Express. We're going to click on try in Adobe Express is going to open our website here with a press, and by the way, this is new do express dob.com. And here you can create all sorts of things from presentations to social media posts, graphics, logo, flyers, resume, web page, et cetera et cetera You can do so much here. Now, as you can see, down below here, we have also options to create text to image directly in Adobe Express. We can use generative feel as well for our graphics. The two features we're going to talk about in this class would be text effect and text to template. Now, as you can see, on the text effect, I've got this example here, which is this nice stitchy effect, which is dark blue embroidery stitches. So this is just a prompt that someone created to make this nice font style. Now, I can actually describe my own image here. So the feature here is to describe what kind of effect would you like to have on the text. So, for instance, if I want to have a snaky skin or a crocodile skin on my text, I can just describe that. But before we even type anything here, I want to show you another place where you can actually access text effect. If I scroll down here in the main page, you'll notice, apart from all the templates and all the models and all the different examples that you can actually use, you also have text to image down here with all the different options and all the different samples of other peoples. You also have a generative feel. We also have down below text effect. We have the same boxia where we can describe our text, how we want that to be. We also have some example here with some prompt. Very simple prompt. For instance, this prompt here is just says caramel, or another one is blueberry, or another one is blue three D rendered plastic smooth balloons. Let's explore one of these, for instance, I've got a colorful, dried flowers and berries. I'm going to click on this one. So this is essentially the word flower, and they basically applied this prompt. It says colorful dried flowers and berries. That's what we got here. Now, we have a bunch of options. We're going to cover also in the next class. But just to give you a brief introduction of what you can do. Here you can change the sample effect with the one that we already got here. Of course, we can actually go and view more by clicking on that and you've got a plethora of different kind of effect from reflective natural abstract, animals, texture, et, etcetera You got plenty here to kind of take inspiration from. Let's go back. On top. We also have the style. We can have realistic embellished, so we can cover all of this later on. If I click on realistic, for instance, and I want to press generate, I can click on generate, and that will give me essentially four versions of my that style. As you can see, now I've got a different style. And by the way, this will take one credit out of four variations. So that is stamos recording. If I want to create more results, I can go to load more and that will load other four versions of the same style with different take. And then we go, I've got other four over here then I can choose from. Other thing you can do, you can customize your text. You can change the font with a different font style. You can change that to be thicker, tight, medium, and loose. Perhaps you want to have your flowers to be a little bit loose around the edges. So I can click on loose, I can click on generate, and that will give me hopefully that effect. Let's overlook what it does. Now as you can see, you've got a more loose kind effect on my word. I can click on a different style and different variations. Okay. And in the next video, we're going to explore more in depth about how to change funds, how to actually create our first prompt, and how to create new graphics from all these options that we have available in AW press. Okay. 45. Create your first Text effect: After familiarizing with the layout within Adobe Express, now is the time to create our own prompt and create our own effects for our font. Now we're going to change this to something else. I want to create a tree house. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just like tree house, I'm going to resize this. I'm also going to change the font style. This is quite big. We're going to go into the size here. I'm going to make this let's say 300 to fit the whole word. We're also going to change the font style from here. So when you use W express and you go into the font, family. You have basically access to the Ad adobe fonts family, and you got plenty here to choose from. You literally have hundreds of this, and I can choose something a little bit thick. Let's have a look at this one, tree house. Okay, we can try this, and now we're going to go into text effect down below here. And we're going to type our own prompt, and I want to type a wooden Palettes. Wooden palettes. So I just created a tree house for my children, and now I want to basically make a little brochure or a little posture about that. So now I'm going to go into wooden palettes and I'm going to click on generate We're going to wait a few moments until the Express is going to generate my font. As you can see, I've got this nice palette design, and it's now rendering all the words, and also I can go down here and I can choose a different style. So if I prefer another style of palettes, I can just go here and choose that. I now is rendering all the words. Of course, the longer the word, the longer it's going to be the rendering time. And you can choose between these four, and of course, I can load even more if I wanted to to have more variety. Now I am under realistic under the style. So it's also like all the shadows, it's kind of been very, very precise here. I'm going to go and make this layout to make this layout a little bit bigger. And now I'm going to change the text here. Let's say I want to have a tight style. I'm going to click on generate. This is going to generate some sort of effect around the letters. I can go to medium, and let's have a look what change you get. I believe for this specific style with palettes, we're not going to notice a lot of differences, but just for the sake of the experiment. I just want to see what it does. Yeah, I changed slightly. Now, I can also do something else. I can go into text effect on top here and I can click on the arrow here next to it, and I can change the font as well. While this is actually applied, I can go here and I can choose a different one. Now, I chosen AlfonRgula but I can go to something else. So as you can see, I've got a little preview of what that font style is. This was quite thick. I can choose something a little bit more even thicker, so I can go to something like that, Barber Let's try this one here. So this is a completely different kind of font. I can go and can make this smaller. Let's see. Let's make sure they fit within one line. We're going to wait until firefly, in this case, is going to render our Our material, in this case, our palettes. I think I'm going to stick with what we had before. We have literally hundreds here to choose from. Just for the sake of the time. Just for the sake of time, I'm going to just choose what we have before, and that was Alpha regular, and I'm going to stick with this, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just go back to 300, which is the size that I had before. Actually, I'm going to go a little bit smaller. I'm going to go to 280. To give a litle space, and then we're going to go into shadows. Down below here, you got all these effects. You got tax effects, which we already explored. We can also go into shadows into shapes, into animations. If I go to shadows here, I can have a night shadow just around the edges or just behind my a word here. I can also choose the color of the shadow. Perhaps I want to have a dark brown just to, you know, follow the theme. I can also just choose one of the others watches. I can go to more colors, and here I can choose any of these colors if I wanted to, or I can go to custom and just pick up a color from here and just experiment in real time how that would look like on my word. Let's say I'm going to go to something more yellowish, perhaps or something darker. Let's keep a classic. And then we're going to just close that. And we can choose also one of these, for instance, we can that one is custom, we can go to strong to have a strong. Shadow. I can go lift, classic. Let's see a classic. The color, I'm going to stick with that. I'm going to go back to shadow, and this is applied. As you can see, when it is applied, it becomes highlighted. Shape. I can actually have a shape behind my text at the moment, we have a yellow shape and it's just a rectangle. I can have something like a rounded shape, if I wanted to, I can have something like more decorative, something like that, which is actually, if I go into 50%, you can actually see what it does. If I make this text a little bit smaller. In fact, if I go back to text, and I make this to 150. Now I can move this text to center. As you can see, this is a sort of things you can add into your text. You can have, for instance, another sort of, you know, style, you literally here, you know, 20 or more of this little styles. You can choose whatever you like, or you can just go back here to normal shapes and have that instead of having one of the decorative fantasy. You got plenty to choose from. I'm going to just stick with the normal shadow. I'm going to go back. And also, we have animations. We're not going to cover animation on this, but just briefly, I'm going to show you what it does. Essentially. This will have an animation in entrance and exit if you create some sort of, you know, presentation or like a little clip. If you want to create a clip, you can actually make this. For instance, if I go to, I can choose one of these animations, I can have something like drift in. This is very similar to a keynote or PowerPoint effects, and you can have something that, you know, bungee effect, a grow effect, a shrink effect, tumble effect, et cetera. You can choose any of this and you can create onimation, but we can leave this for another training, another course. Now, we have here the option also to flip the words. Arizontally vertically, this is just to change the opacity of our wording. This is the outline thickness. If you want to have some sort of outline on your words, you can actually use that and you can choose the outline here color. By clicking on that, you have the watches and you can choose a different color for your outline, can be something thicker and can be something a little bit completely contrasty with your palettes. You can make it completely unique, and then you can make it brighter. It can be something like that. Tree house, nice bright red and the thickness. This is going to change the thickness of your letters, and this is things you can do here. Done underestimate Adobe express, you can do a lot of things that you could do also in Adobe photoshop, but in a easier way by just accessing all these tools. Now I can just close this. I'm happy with that with text effect. Other things you can do, you can change the background color of your document. If I go here and I choose one of these watches, let's say I'm going to go to something like green greenish, like that. I can have that effect. Or if I want to have that transparent, I can go here and go back to transparent. If you want to export this and perhaps use any other effect, you can do that. Or you can have one of these watches here. It's really up to you what you want to have. Let's say we're going to go for something dark like this, and we're going to just leave it like this. We can go to theme. And on the theme, you have all different kinds of watches you can choose from. Now, at the moment, we applied the palette effect. So we're going to leave it as it is. We're going to go back by clicking on the X. We're going to click on the word to bring back our side bar. And now we can go back to our outline. Let's say change my mind. I don't want to have any outline quite like the fact that we have our palettes, and I don't want to compromise that effect. So I'm going to leave it as it is. Things you can do is on text layout. You can have the text as a default or as a circle or as an arch, and also the way you align the text as well from the top, let's go back to default. You can also align your text to be aligned to the left to the right to the top. So this is if you have more than one word going on and you want to align it. But again, you have freedom to move this stuff around to centralize it. And on the text effect, of course, you can try one of these sample effects. If you're not happy with that, or if you want to try any sort of different kind of type of palettes, you can go to load More and you have now the full variations of your palettes. So this effect is also quite nice. I'm going to stick with this. So this is the sort of things and the sort of control you have over a text effect. So F with that and I'll see you in the next video. 46. Experiment Text Effects: Now, let's explore some other prompts and some other tax effect. We're going to go into tax effect down below here, and we're going to go and choose a different prompt. In this case, I'm going to try a bare fur keep it very simple. Let's see what it comes up with, and by the way, I can change the type to say B got there. We're also going to get You're going to make our text a little bit bigger as well. So we're going to go into text effect. And while it's rendering, you can actually do these changes. You can go here. You can put that to be 250, or you can just drag the corners to make it bigger. You can make this a little bit smaller and we go to make it a little bit bigger. And you're going to click outside, click inside again, and then you can move the text box around, and then we're going to go into the text effect again. And we're going to try some other effects. So we got the first result as the second results. Perhaps we can change the font style. This looks to, you know, too regular to be adapted for a bear. But it might work, I can go into font, and I can choose one of these fonts here, the default fonts. Let's say we're going to try something like popular or Acumin P, that's the one we had before actually. But no, this is not what we had before it is different. We're going to choose this actually, and then we're going to click away and see how it looks. Let's say I want to have this all capital letters. I can just have that capital letters. Then we can try to load more versions. As you can see, I've got now four more versions of this fur And I can also change the prompt to be perhaps a leopard fair and click con generate. So why you actually make this experiment. You can change the wording, the text effect while this is actually going and rendering your word. Let's go to three 50. And we can also make that a little bit smaller. So here, literally the sky is the limit. You can make all sort of effect. You can go back to tax effect here. You can have also things like customize your text. Let's choose lose and click on generate. Let's see if it does anything on the edges of each letter. So we can make this writing a bit this text a little bit bigger. Just to see what sort of effect we can get. We also have the shadow that we actually had it before. And let's see where we get here. Still rendering. Let's try the second one. As you can see the shape, the contour of each letter is now changing. It's a little bit more lose in a sense, because we chose actually lose. We also have let's say this version here. Let's have a look at this one. Okay. Now we're going to try this one here. And we're going to also try a different prompt. The easier is the prompt. The cooler is going to be your experimentation. Let's say you're going to try Truberres going to click on before clicking on generate, I'm going to let's say you're going to type. And then we're going to press. You're going to try generate. And let's see what effect we get out of strawberries. There we go, you got our strawberries here. Of course, we can change the style as well from realistic to embellished. I'm going to generate that. Let's see what it gives us. Again, you have so many choices here to choose from. That's another way you can represent your strawberries. That could be easily used for one of your brochures. I can go to media here and I can just go actually on the templates, but we're going to cover this in the following videos. But you can see here you can actually choose one of these brochures and actually add that into your brochures, pretty exciting. Let's go back here and let's go into embellished the style. We're going to try neon, neon neon effect. Using strawberries. Let's see what it does. And also, I want to change the text style from Acumin pro to something Let's try something more smoother, in a sense. Let's try this one here. Sweet. This is called eight heavy. That's the font. We're going to wait a couple of seconds. That is the first attempt. We're going to go to text effect down below here, and we're going to choose another style. I quite like this effect, but I don't know if the strawberries are the right fruits for this. We can try something like ice cream. And we're going to just press generate. And we can have different kind of effects here. Or we can actually say here, Strawberry ice cream. Generate. We can have four different versions. We can also, I like this one. Yeah, that's nice. So we can actually use this as a way to represent our flyer. Perhaps you can have a different background. You can have something like in magenta. Let's see, something like that. Wow. Oh. It's actually pretty sweet, not unintended, there we go. You got now a nice view of your strawberry ice cream in this style. Again, go with this, you also have lots of sample effect as well to come and check, you can choose any of this. You can just experiment any that you like, and you can also go into media and you can have one of these for instance for you for your brochure. I can choose for instance, something like let's say, I want to type suite. Suite, and then we're going to delete this image from here. And then we're going to have perhaps this background. So I can double click on that. I can add that in. I can have added more than twice. Okay, we're going to do that, and let's say we're going to have this sort of effect. And now we're going to click and we're going to click on San now we have our text box here, we're going to resize it. That sort of things you can do. You can create and then the next video, I'm going to spend some time talking about media, templates, and elements that you can add in your design using text effect and really unleashing your creativity as much as you can. Okay. 47. Level of versatility in Adobe Express: One of the many things we can do with our text now is for instant change in the background with something more exciting than just a solid color. So we can go to media here on the left hand side. In fact, we can go to templates to media and to all the other things that we have available. So for instance, if we want to create a brochure or a poster, we can actually go to templates. And in templates, we have a myriad of different kind of ideas and layout that we can choose from where we can actually try this word into it. So for instance, if you want to try one of these, let's say I want to try that one here, I can click on it, and this is a gray layout Instagram square post, for instance. I can go to add as a page or start a new file. I'm going to add as a page because I want to still use this text effect that I've got. As you can see, it just created another page next to my style here. Now, if I want to, for instance, try that wording into here, I can simply go into my word here. I can click on it, I can press command C or control C, or just copy, and then I can go to the next document here, and I can just get rid of that, get rid of that text as well, and I can actually paste Command V or control on windows, or you can just resize your text by just dragging the corners of the text box. You can try here on the side. You can even resize this to have a more, you know, a different completely different style of your design, or you can have this completely without any sort of, you know, text box just to have that You can have that a little bit bigger. So you have a plethora of choice here to make your graphics as appealing as possible. Other things you can do, you can also go to something like media. In media, this will access to all the Adobe stock photos that you can choose from, or you can see beauty and fashion, you have abstract. For instance, if you want to try one of these, or you can actually search here under photo, under the Adobe stock. You can actually search for trees, for instance, and press. Turn. And now we have, like, lots of different pictures for trees, and I can just drag and drop them in to see how they look. And I can have something like this, for instance. Now I can have this nice layout, and I can even go and over and pose. I can go and put it in the center of this, I can right click and I can send it backwards. So now we have a word on top. If I don't like it, I can just press the delete. I can press delete on that one as well. And I can even change the layout completely. If I don't like this Instagram post, all I need to do is simply just go into the bin here on the top, right and corner, delete and go back to my previous design. And here, I can actually drag another one. So let's say I want to drag that one in, and I can just simply do that. And I can just, you know, resize it. Over impose it. It doesn't have to be exactly the same aspect ratio. And then I can send this back by right clicking and send back. And now I've got my word on top, tree house. If you can't read it because you need a text box. You can have a text box, you can go to elements, and I can choose one of these even fancier than a text box. You can actually have one of these nice effect. Let's say you want to have the effect here, let's say this one here. That is our brush effect. I can make this bigger, and I can resize it let's make it a little bit smaller actually, let it go. And then we're going to make sure that it fits in the entire screen. We're going to go here, and that we go now, we have our effect. You can have that and you can also have the word here on top and you can just right click and go to Sand bring forward, and you can have that sort. So you have lots of control here to change your design to make your design more appealing. Let's say you want to have it like that. And then we go this is the sort of things you can do, or you can actually create something completely from scratch. So you can experiment with another design. Let's say you want to keep this as it is, and you want to create a new one. Completely from scratch, you can go to add here on the top right corner. That will add another design. It could be the same size as this. Custom size. You can also duplicate that. You want to create a new version. Let's say we want to duplicate this. We're going to have exactly the same. In this case, we're going to leave it as it is. We're going to remove that shape, and we're going to try a different shape. And as you can see, I've got so many choice here to choose from. You can even get rid of the background. You can start from where you were before. You can go to, let's say elements. You can go to something like this to create a nice graphic. Let's say you want to have it here on the side and you want to have that one go on top, bring forward, so you can have a nice you know, a nice logo. Perhaps, you want to have that. Or you can go again to elements and experiment with more. You can even see all of them. You can go to view all and it's going to show you all the different elements. You have three D elements, you got abstract shapes. Literally, we can go on here for hours and hours. So you literally have hundreds of this. So the possibilities and the versatility you have within a W express is endless. The sky is the limit here. You can go to templates, and of course, you can choose one of these templates, whether you want to make a brochure, whether you want to make a flyer, whether you want to create a logo. You can actually go here and really F fun with whatever design you want to try. Let's stick with this one here. And this is what gives you a sort of a presentation slide idea. I can click on start a new file. It is going to start a new file because this is, of course, is a presentation. But again, you can copy and paste your text between your documents. I'm going to copy that. I'm going to go back here, and let's say I want to paste that one there. I'm going to remove there. I'm going to paste my tree house effect, is going to now to render it, and we're going to make it a little bit smaller, and we're going to make it. Let's say that size, and this is going to remove. We're going to remove that as well. As you can see, I can go on and on. This is just as infinite ways. You have infinite ways to create anything here. You can literally use a press for pretty much anything, whether you want to create a document, a presentation, a flyer, a logo, anything that has to be designed, Abi express will cover. Probably 90% of the things you want to do in my case, 90% of the things, I can do it definitely in Adob express. Now, this is what you can do is the level of versatility and creativity that you can unleash within a W express and with text effect. I hope you enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next video. 48. Text to Template: And another great tool that we have on our disposal within Adobe firefly is generate template. And this will allow you essentially to create any sort of graphics, whether you want to create a poster, a brochure, a newsletter, a presentation or anything that you can think of just out of a prompt. So if you scroll down here on the main adobe firefly website, which is firefly adobe.com, you should be able to see generate a template. This is run mainly in Adobe Express. We're going to click on try in Adobe Express. This is going to open another tab with Adobe express main page. And if you scroll down here, you should be able to see the four features that we go available, then you also have text to templates the one we're going to explore now, and were able to text effect. And by the way, you can explore all the way down here, the different examples that we have available to get your creative flow going. So we're going to go back here on the text to template and I'm going to type a prompt. I'm going to type a poster, of a yoga retreat in Sin Tino Sardinia between ten to 17th of August 2024. I specify exactly what I wanted a poster of yoga retreat, Istanino which is a place in Sardinia, and this is a yoga retreat, which is going to be between the tenth and 17 August 2024. So let's over look what it does. You can generate. I'm going to agree with that. It says, text to template. You can create editable templates with generative AI technology. I'm going to agree with the terms and conditions. And now firefly is going to create four different styles for my poster. And there we go, we get four styles. So the first one here it says Yoga BlizRtreat ten 17 of August 2024, mark your calendars, wind your soul with yoga, and then it says standing Sardinian paradise. So, I haven't wrote any of this, but as you can see, it just came out with a nice image with a nice layout. The second one here says, Yoga BlizRtreat, find serenity. Then you got Yoga Blest Sardinia, a serene Oasis, and then you got Yoga Bliz escape and recharge. So you got kind of a sporty style. You got a more relaxed and chilled out style. And so you got four different ones. If I want to generate four more, I can just click on generate more results, and that will, of course, create other four variations of my postures. Let's have a look what we get. And there we go. We have other four different styles, quite like this style here, and also this style. Let's say we want to go for this one, and I want to see some variations within this style. I can click on C variation here just above the poster, and let's see what we get. So it's all about experimenting different styles and getting more variations. And from there, you can actually amend the creation the final creation that Firefly is going to interpret for you. And let's see what we get. Okay, definitely better design. So I think I'm going to go for something like this, Escape to serenity. And that is also yoga retreat instantaneous quite nice, but I like the background here. This is kind of too crowded. I can't even read what's in there, but also this one here. Yeah, there's so much going on here. I think I would go for this clean style. I'm going to just click on it. This is going to open another tab in my browser. And now the template is going to load with all the different layers and all the different options that I can actually take advantage of to make this brochure, actually this poster, much, much more appealing. Now, as you can see, when I click anywhere here, I can click on the background, and then I've got also here the layer for the background. I've got the layer for my text boxes here, for my other subtitle, and for the title here as well. And I can change that by double clicking it and I can just change the phrase, I can change the title. I can do whatever I want with that. I can also go into the recommended here, quite like this feature that will basically give me this different kind of style for this specific text box. So I can click on any different text box that I've got in my posters, and I can actually get the recommended design here. So for instance, if I want to go for something a little bit thicker or something slightly different, I can do that, and that will apply automatically in my brochure here. I can go here, I can resize it, I can make it a little bit shorter. I can go to the the title here, I can double click there, and I can see all the different kind of font. I can go to Vw A, and I can change all this sort of style mode of my poster. I'm going to keep this one for now. I'm going to go back to recommend it here on the left hand side, and things like, for instance, text effect. If I want to go into text effect here and I want to apply a font, I can actually use a font here. I can actually use a prompt to change this brochure. So the sky is the limit here. And as you can see, this is what you can do just from a prompt. You can create posters. Again, you can create presentations, you can create any sort of media you can find in Adobe Express. So this is pretty cool feature within Adobe five fly, and I hope you enjoy and create amazing art and amazing material and content here in Adobe five fly. 49. Assignment: The assignment for this module would be using one of the Adobi stock photos that you find under Adobe Express. And then after you lay that into the Canvas, I would like you to use text effect, type a nice title and a subtitle down below, like a little catchy phrase as well. I would like you to do this, whether you want to use a althy theme or you want to use any other theme or any other niche that you like. Feel free to do that. You have a complete freedom of what you want to use. But I would like to see a nice image, a nice title with a nice text effect, and a nice little slogan down below. So that is the assignment. Good luck, and I'll see you in the next video. 50. Assignment Solution: Welcome back. I hope you've done your assignment. So this is one of the possible solution of this assignment. Now, I've chosen this image as you saw before. So the solution of my assignment is this. So essentially, I created a text effect using tropical plants, and also I used this as my slogan time to relax. So I've created this on the text effect, and this is my prompt fy tropical plants. And then here I've chosen one of these results, and that is a sort effect that I've got. I hope so. Added a little bit of shadow. I can went to shadow and I choose the preset one, which says smooth. And that's pretty much what I did. Then for the text box here, I just type time to relax. And once you type that, you have recommended styles here on the left hand side. If you want to see all the recommended style, you just press view all and you see all sort of fonts and ways different ways you can actually see that slogan in a visual way, which is pretty pretty cool. So that is the assignment. It fun, and I'm looking forward to see yours and I'll see you in the next video. 51. Conclusion and What's next?: So you reached the end of this class. Hope has been useful and has been inspiring to leverage generative AI within Adobe Firefly, but also using the other features within Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Express. Now, Adobe will keep on updating and adding more features, not just in Firefly, but also in the other applications that we cover in this class. So keep up with the updates. I'm also going to keep up with the updates as well within this course. And if you have any questions or if you have any feedback that you want to give me, please leave the feedback down below here. It's very useful and important, not just for me, but also for other students that wants to enroll in this class. I really, really enjoy teaching this class, and I hope you find some sort of inspiration to create even more in your portfolio and expanding your horizons in ways you never thought possible. So thank you so much for enrolling and I'll see you very soon in another course.