8 articles
7 min readFirefly Custom Models can learn your illustration style from 10 to 30 images. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent write-ups, here's how to curate, caption, test, and actually use one.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 7 min read
4 min readAnthropic put Claude Motion into beta for Team and Enterprise plans. It builds short, code-driven animations you can export as MP4 and send on to Adobe and other editors. The same day, Claude Design, Docs, and Slides left beta and came to every plan, Free included.
Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic
· 4 min read
4 min readThe deal closed September 23 with promises that Topaz stays standalone. Across Topaz's own forum and other creative communities, the reaction is less outrage than guarded skepticism about pricing, licenses, and credits.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
· 4 min read
6 min readText to Vector Graphic gives you real paths, but often far more of them than you'd draw yourself. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's a workflow from prompt to a file you'd actually hand off.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
3 min readA mid-September Firefly update adds automatic subject detection to background removal for video, applying it across an entire clip instead of frame by frame.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
5 min readMost people who use Firefly inside Photoshop know two moves: fill a resize, erase an object. A look across Adobe's own documentation and independent tutorials turns up a model picker, a free removal path, and a reference-image workflow most people never open.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic, Web
· 5 min read
3 min readAdobe's new assistant can reorganize messy projects, write expressions from plain-language descriptions, and handle multi-step chores, but for now it only lives in the After Effects beta.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
2 min readA quiet Firefly update triples the crop options for GPT Image 2 on the web and in Boards. Small on paper, useful in practice if you generate assets for more than one placement.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration, Brand & Graphic, Web
· 2 min read