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)
ChatGPT
Score8.8 out of 10
N/A
OpenAI offers ChatGPT, an advanced general intelligence (AGI) chatbot which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.
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
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Digital Experience Coordinator in Marketing at York St John University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
Chose Adobe Firefly
Honestly it's more to do with specific purpose and my love for the brand. I use a wide range of Adobe products and always have done. Plus comparing ChatGPT against Firefly is a tough ask as ChatGPT is more focused on text based solutions.
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Director | E-Learning Design and Development in Professional Services at 4pt Ltd. (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Chose Adobe Firefly
I found that when using ChatGPT for generating images, the whole end result looked amateurish. Image quality was loose and not at all photo realistic. Although neither engine can generate text on an image to a useable standard, Firefly has far superior image rendering and the …
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Commercial Art Teacher at NDN All-Stars (Sports, 51-200 employees)
Chose Adobe Firefly
While ChatGPT is sort of the leader, in my opinion, Firefly is more accessible and seems a little for user friendly. Particularly if you are at all familiar with any other Adobe design products. I have only used a trial version of kittl so I am not all that familiar with …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
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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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
The best thing about Adobe Firefly is that it is commercially safe. As an artist, knowing the artists whose work been used to train the AI is compensated, is really good. I also know that I’m not misusing other peoples art when I use Adobe Firefly. When using other AIs it’s …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
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.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
Adobe creates more detailed videos and images, but doesn't understand prompts as well as competitors.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
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.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
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. …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
Midjourney's photo capabilities are the best from what i've seen. Chat and Gemini are close behind.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
Firefly is more robust, faster and the gui is far more tailored to a creative person already in the Adobe ecosystem.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
From an image generation perspective, Adobe Firefly probably has the edge when it comes to ethical creation and sourcing, while GPT has a little more of the edge when it comes to final product.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
The quality of output is more consistent with Adobe Firefly and the general direction of the tool is showing a focus on expanding the capabilities with audio and vectors. This gives it an edge over the other visual generators
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
Adobe expertise is reflected on Firefly. There are several tools and options that other AI platforms are unable to provide.
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Senior Art Director at COOLA (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees)
Chose Adobe Firefly
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 …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly is as easy, if not easier to use versus its competitors in the creative space. However, because it is so easy, it lacks the ability to tweak its settings to the degree a creative would expect. The biggest benefits is its integration into Adobe PhotoShop and it's …
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Director | E-Learning Design and Development in Professional Services at 4pt Ltd. (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Chose ChatGPT
We also use Adobe Firefly as an AI assistant. Maybe this should be expected, as Adobe are experts in visual design software, but Adobe Firefly handles AI image generation a lot better than ChatGPT seems to. ChatGPT's images appear to be very loose and untidy, but in comparison, …
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Front End Web Designer in Professional Services at Everyday Health Inc. (Online Media, 51-200 employees)
Chose ChatGPT
In my experience, Claude won't say things it feels is offensive or callous (for instance I asked for themed slogans for a bachelor party where I was the best man), and only provided G and PG related content. ChatGPT was quick to get naughty with puns and slogans, especially …
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Verified User
Chose ChatGPT
I find the images generator much better in getting what you asked for using ChatGPT. When using Firefly or Midjourney I tend to take the prompt that was generated in ChatGPT in order for me to get something more visually stunning. So the visuals could be much better, room for …
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Verified User
Chose ChatGPT
I find most of the pop AI's annoying. When I did a comparison between Chat, and Bard for example, Bard seems more clinical. It's difficult to shut it down thereafter. (I believe I successfully disable it) META is like that too. If you're on Facebook and want to look up …
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While Adobe does and should establish policies with regard to censorship of certain types of images and words used in prompts, the restrictions do at times seem arbitrary and random, with little feedback in such cases as to what issues in particular are causing problems. For example, if using a reference image of a child to produce a video is forbidden, it would seem simple enough from an AI point of view to explain the limitation to the user.
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I’d definitely recommend ChatGPT to anyone as a great introduction to generative AI and as a starting point in research, writing, brainstorming, or general questions or judgement questions. It can be a great tool to use when you don’t necessarily need an accurate answer. For example, I wouldn’t let it calculate my taxes, but I’d use it to ask some general tax questions, then ask for sources and then verify by checking those sources. I also love ChatGPT for writing and questions - it’s great for emails, creating templates and outlines, and for generating spreadsheet formulas.
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In Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Firefly does a great job with the Remix Tool which expands the length of an audio music track while matching notes and adding more beats to its length. The transitions are seamless, and after the generation is completed it is difficult to distinguish the new beats apart from the original composition.
In the Adobe Firefly, I use the standalone app to create graphic variations and visual concepts for quick mockups to streamline design ideas. This process helps me to speed up the creative process and to work more efficiently. It also presents me with additional creative ideas to incorporate in future ideations.
In Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Firefly is wonderful with the 'Generative Fill' which uses prompts to enhance an original image by adding complimentary content, replacing content, or even removing the background or content from an image altogether. The result is extremely realistic and amazing.
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Saves time by generating content about a specific topic very quickly
Allows us to quickly learn information online (from various sources or even a single lengthy article) into more summed up digestible paragraphs (and even bullet points)
Can autogenerate content on a vast amount of topics
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Wish it had support for better slides generation. Sometimes we found ourselves using chatgpt to outline a presentation but build it ourselves or use a tool like Gamma
Maybe a chepear $10 plan. In some countries the US dollar can be expensive and $20 goes a long way.
I wish you could make projects with more files. They limit it. Or make the limit based on the content, not the number of files per se
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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.
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ChatGPT is a powerful assistant. As long as you understand what it is you're looking for in its results, it can save you a lot of time due to its ability to do the heavy lifting for you. This frees your time up to enable you to concentrate on other tasks.
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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.
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It's a potent utility tool, personally and professionally. It’s also very convenient - it can be used for a wide range of things and scenarios, and when used correctly, it usually produces dependable results in seconds. I would give it a full 10 if it didn't hallucinate as much as it does, and the image generator was more accurate.
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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.
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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.
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I find that ChatGPT has the best overall system for user-friendly Ai. I like the customization options of this tool in comparison to others. The ease of setting up a custom GPT with knowledge and resources is great - you don't get that in other tools. I also like the ability to embed the application directly into the browser or computer. This is powerful and opens up addition features or tools
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Firefly has saved us many hours by being able to generate images that were otherwise hard to find, or images that we'd need to request licenses to use. Those time saving equate to money savings as team members can move on to other paid tasks more quickly.
When using the generative fill feature, being able to extend the aspect ratio of images we already have in our library has saved us both time and money.
Using Firefly has been a useful part of our strategy to introduce Generative AI to our clients, which helps us stay on the front foot with new developments.
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I can solve problems quickly. What would take some time, for example, writing an SPF string, ChatGPT can do it correctly in seconds if I it gives the correct information.
The best tool I've ever used for research. For example, I can ask ChatGPT to list all the villages, cities and townships in a specific county. And provide the URL link for each.
Problems that seem unsolvable, i.e. why is Gmal rejecting every message from our list server is answered with a number of suggestions that I can follow up with.
Basically, has elimited a tech support position in our company.
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