Adobe Firefly - Great for Concepts
November 22, 2024

Adobe Firefly - Great for Concepts

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Firefly

I use Adobe Firefly to help bring ideas to life. I use it to prove out high-level creative strategies (instead of searching the internet for examples) and bring products to life that currently aren't in market. The scope is usually on the front-end concept stage NOT the final stage. We find that we prove out the concept and then acquire the budget to go out and actually execute the work. (Although, if a client is on a tight budget we may look to Firefly to help with product visualizations.) The business problem it solves: bringing something to life in a high-res way that would normally just be sketched out or using reference imagery from existing work to prove the point. It helps concepts feel more real so that clients can make well-informed decisions. It helps the creative team save time as well which is of huge benefit in the creation process. The tweaking functions that it offers also make it much better than other Ai tools. Being able to tweak the composition or use reference imagery is helpful and being able to change the ranges for each as well is a benefit.

Pros

  • Visualizing New To The World Concepts
  • Taking Composition references for creation
  • Creating life-like (enough) imagery
  • making the Gen Ai experience more user-friendly

Cons

  • Editing on the back-end (it'd be great to have pieces editable in Photoshop or Illustrator)
  • Although life-like, you can still tell it is Ai
  • a more intricate range of photography styles
  • It hasn't been integral or impactful enough to really warrant a super meaningful response here.
  • It has increased our quality on concepts by like 60%, hugely beneficial to our creative team
The UI is wonderful. Simple and easy to use, plenty of suggestions, and I love the composition adjuster. The ease of changing and tweaking and then when you find something 80% there, it gives you the ability to continue to iterate (which is a big deal in Gen Ai). Usually you're not able to revise in a meaningful way once you have a good version but this makes it easy.
MidJourney gives you specificity and real-life but it is really hard to use and you have to invest a lot of time to be effective. Dall-E is pretty shitty and doesn't create anything life-like and it doesn't understand prompts very well.

Firefly is a middle-ground between both and it makes it really usable which is a huge bonus.

Do you think Adobe Firefly delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Firefly's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Firefly live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Adobe Firefly go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Firefly again?

Yes

It has been fantastic in the proof-of-concept stage. Connecting and visualizing something that is not real. It is not helpful when you are going for something very specific or you are aiming to develop a final product for the client.

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