Adobe's Firefly models and services power generative AI features in Adobe creative apps, with features that can be used in Photoshop, Premiere Pro (beta), and the Firefly web app.
$9.99
per month (1 user & 2000 generative credits per month)
Both are excellent at image creation and both have put great effort into developing their usability. I personally feel that Adobe Firefly had a more considered approach to launching by looking into the ethical side of what it was trained upon where there is a lot of criticism …
For image editing/creation, Adobe Firefly is a close second to Google Gemini. We use Gemini 2.5/3 Pro exclusively via the Firefly services and Adobe programs. As for analytics, we use other services for conversational AI assistants.
Because Adobe Firefly is a more ethical solution by using Adobe Stock assets, I believe it is better than other services. The quality of the images created in Adobe Firefly are also very high quality.
In general I think they are comparable in some ways. I think the image generation is still a bit more sophisticated for dall-e but the gap continues to be closed. Photorealism seems to be the one area I notice the biggest gap but in my line of work it’s not that big of a …
Adobe Firefly couples well with the other Adobe Apps we use for our organisation, so the overall subscription includes other products we can leverage. We find that FireFly produces the same, if not better results that it's AI competitors such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
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Adobe creates more detailed videos and images, but doesn't understand prompts as well as competitors.
I think the access is a game changer. Especially with working at a larger organization and managing multiple creatives it’s easy to have one place to do it all. Also working together like you can with Adobe Firefly boards is pretty cool and seamless for ideation and production. …
While ChatGPT produces images the visual interface of boards and seeing the progress your query is more engaging. This also allows to see where your query might have gone wrong and move back up the chain to start a different path
I typically upload a test image for reference and then work with the app to generate something that will produce what I need. It has been hit or miss in terms of accuracy. There is a need to create very realistic images. Things that are close to existing products by need to be adapted to different environments.
Generative fill is a real time-saver, enabling us to modify images to suit our needs quickly and easily.
Text to image is an effective and fun tool to use, enabling us to create hard-to-find images for projects, or to create fantasy-like images that would otherwise require lots of manual effort to generate.
Firefly enables non-designers and artists to generate ideas, helping them to brief the design team in more detail.
Image/video gen models are a little bit behind. Third-party models are better but not commercially safe for the enterprise. I would love to see Firefly models at the same level as its competitors.
More features and capabilities in Boards. Love it so far and I want to see more.
Chat functionality with AI. Conversational functionality.
Because while Adobe Firefly is a good tool (and comes integrated to a certain extent with your Adobe CC subscription) there is still a long way to go before it can have the support to be able to use it outside of the same program subscription.
Easy to use on the web application, and its integration into Photoshop is super easy to utilize for my projects. I always get what I am looking for out of Firefly, and it's become an amazing tool to save me time on a heavy workload task.
As I have noted in previous answers, the integration of Adobe Firefly is already done for you. It is part of the Adobe Suite and works seamlessly with all other Adobe products. If you don't happen to use Adobe products, it works just like any other AI image creation tool in that you can save and download your creations to edit in whatever software tools you prefer.
Midjourney was not in this list but that is the most similar to Firefly in my opinion. I find that Adobe Firefly and Midjourney have a lot of overlap. The generative fill options on Photoshop and Illustrator also include very similar use cases with generating photography and extending areas of a photo to imagine outside of the crop.
We have been able to severely reduce the amount of budget we need for our marketing department.
We saw an increase of 10 to 15 in customer conversion ratios from prospects Where this software was used.
We have one in-house AI system, as opposed to using several free options that didn’t really deliver What we needed, but still had paid subscriptions for