Adobe Firefly Masterclass: Get into Gen AI with Howard Pinsky

Howard Pinsky, a senior design evangelist at Adobe, welcomes the audience to the Firefly Master Class. He discusses the generative AI model, Firefly, and its various tools, some still in beta. Howard shares his personal background, having lived in Toronto and Florida, and invites viewers to explore Firefly at Firefly.adobe.com. He also mentions upcoming features and tools, such as text to image, generative fill, and generative recolor.

The paragraph delves into the text to image feature of Firefly, allowing users to generate images from textual descriptions. Howard demonstrates how to create a marble texture with blue accents and discusses the technology's limitations and potential for improvement. He also shows how to adjust style, movement, theme, material, color, tone, and lighting to refine the generative process, and provides examples of creating whimsical images like a knitted tiger and a gourmet cheeseburger in a photorealistic style.

Howard explores more advanced uses of Firefly's generative models, focusing on refining and controlling the positioning of generated images. He discusses the ability to generate detailed scenes, such as a cheeseburger in a dimly lit restaurant, and the option to switch to widescreen format. He also introduces generative fill, which allows users to remove unwanted elements from an image and replace them with something else, like changing pickles to fries in a burger image.

The speaker showcases the text effects feature in Firefly, which applies various styles to text. He also discusses generative recolor, a tool that allows users to change the color palette of vector images. Howard demonstrates how to use these features with SVG files in Illustrator and mentions the availability of free vectors on Adobe Stock for users to experiment with.

Howard introduces the new beta version of Adobe Express and its integration with the Creative Cloud app. He explains how users can utilize text to image and text effects within the Express workflows, such as creating social media posts. He also demonstrates how to change backgrounds and other elements within an image using Adobe Express.

The paragraph focuses on the generative fill feature in the Photoshop beta, which allows for the removal or replacement of objects in images. Howard explains the process of using the object selection tool and generative fill to remove unwanted elements from a photo and replace them with something else. He also compares generative fill with content-aware fill and shows how generative fill can intelligently recreate the background and maintain consistency within an image.

Howard demonstrates the creative potential of generative fill in Photoshop, showing how it can be used to change the content of an image, such as turning a bowl of fruit into a bowl of ice cream or replacing a cup of coffee with a bowl of fruit. He also discusses the technology's ability to understand and adapt to the context of an image, even when faced with complex scenarios like blurring backgrounds.

The speaker illustrates how generative fill can be used to remove unwanted people or objects from a photo, such as removing tourists from a vacation photo or modifying an old photo to look retouched. He also touches on the ethical considerations when using this technology, especially when it comes to including or excluding individuals in a photo.

Howard provides a pro tip on converting photos into paintings using generative fill. He explains a technique involving creating a new channel in Photoshop and using a selection to generate a painting effect, which retains some of the original image's pixels. The process results in several options for different painting styles, such as oil or watercolor.

The final paragraph covers the ability to extend and crop videos using Photoshop. Howard demonstrates how to take a stationary video and expand it for platforms like Instagram Reels. He emphasizes that the video must be stationary and that generative fill can be used to generate the surrounding areas of the video, resulting in an extended clip suitable for social media.

Howard concludes the Firefly Master Class session, thanking the audience for tuning in. He encourages viewers to explore and provide feedback on the Firefly tools and hints at more content to come.