Repeatable, step-by-step AI workflows for Brand & Graphic.
12 articles
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Most people use Boards as a place to dump generations. Across Adobe's tutorials and independent write-ups, a better pattern shows up: boards with one job each, references that steer generation, and a clean handoff to Photoshop.
Brand & Graphic, Photo & Imaging
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Firefly 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
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Turntable can spin a flat character or object around and hand you dozens of editable views, but it's picky about what you feed it. Pulling together Adobe's docs, hands-on reviews, and early tester reports, here's how to prep art for it and what to do with the results.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
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Auto Style reads a block of text, works out what's a heading, a list, or body copy, and applies a Style Pack of your own paragraph styles. Set it up carefully and it turns "can we see it in a different font?" into a one-click change.
Brand & Graphic
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More clients show up with a logo they made in an image generator and a request to "just clean it up." Drawing on several designers' write-ups and general vector practice, here's how to scope the job, rebuild the mark properly, and have the ownership conversation before you deliver.
Brand & Graphic
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A client sends a flattened JPEG or a file with every word outlined, and nobody knows the typeface. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's how to get good matches out of Retype, what it no longer does, and how to check a match before you commit to it.
Brand & Graphic
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Illustrator's Mockup feature wraps vector art onto a photo of a real object and keeps it editable. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent write-ups, here's how to set it up, which photos it handles well, and where you'll still need to finish by hand.
Brand & Graphic
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Style references, sref codes, moodboards, and personalization all promise a consistent look, and they behave quite differently. Pulling together Midjourney's docs and several practitioners' write-ups, here's how to build a look that holds across a whole campaign.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
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Text 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
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Most people try Generative Recolor once, get a random palette, and move on. Pulling together several tutorials, here's a fuller workflow: prep the art so the AI can actually see your colors, explore broadly, save what works, then snap it back to a real brand palette.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
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Most 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
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A write-up of Nolen Jonker's XDA walkthrough: connect Claude to Affinity, let it do the tedious layer renaming and color swaps, then keep the good ones as scripts. Updated for Affinity 3.3's new Scripting Studio.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration