Creating your first vector graphic - Firefly Tutorial

- [Instructor] Let's put this introduction to the text-to-vector-graphic functionality to good use by creating our very first project. Now, imagine this is going to be the introduction to a children's book featuring jungles and wild animals. So I have to create a couple of things, and I'm going to start out here by creating an overall scene from my book. Now, I'm going to click in here inside of this prompt box, and I'm going to click the X to get started. I'm going to start typing in something very, very specific. I'm going to type in a green jungle with trees, comma, space, plants, comma, space, and a river. I'm going to go ahead and hit Enter or Return to confirm, and I will let Firefly do its thing and come up with three individual scene ideas. Let's give it a couple of seconds. It has started out with the outlines, and now it's going to be colorizing everything else. There we go, so this is the first version, I'm going to place this here in the corner of my art board by using the move tool, hold down the Shift key, and then scale this up until it fills the entire scene. So this looks kind of like a fun scene, this is one version, this is the second version, and this is the third version. So again, this looks quite simplistic, I'm quite happy with this, actually, I have a lot of detail, I have multiple colors, this looks pretty good. Now, keep in mind that when you generate new artwork, you have a way to decide how much detail you want to have in the vector graphics themselves. For example, if I were to move this slider here and make this very complex and then click generate again, it's going to generate another iteration of that same prompt, but I'm allowing it to create more complex shapes and just add a lot more details to the iteration that I have here, so let's quickly compare this, I'm going to put this one let's say here on the-left hand side, I'll just snap this to the corner, hold down the Shift key, scale this up. And now you can see here on the left-hand side, there's just a lot more going on on the left-hand side. The foliage is just a lot busier, especially if you look at I think this one here, there's just a lot more detail. So you have to decide how complex you really want to make these designs. And so you can always click this one and then just lower the detail as you see fit and then just recreate one of these prompts here. I have to say, I do kind of like the one on the right a little bit better because this is a children's book after all. I'm going to go ahead and just delete this version that I have here. Now I need to add a subject to my scene. I'm going to go ahead and click the subject option. And now I'm going to go ahead and change the prompt that I have here. I'll just quickly click the X icon and I'll type in something else, I type in a flying exotic bird. I'm going to hit Enter or Return, and I'm going to take a look here and see what I'm getting as a result. I'll give this a couple of seconds, and I'm curious to see what kind of birds I'm going to get from Adobe Firefly. So let's give this a few seconds, there we go, I'll move the bird to the left-hand side just to get started, I'll scale this up. I have to say I do like the design here, so this is one version of this bird. I'll use this arrow, this is the second version, a bit more color, and now I have this third version of the bird. Now, this looks a bit like a hummingbird, which I associate with a bird that is quite static. So I'm going to go for this one. So I'm just going to go ahead here, scale this down a bit, and I'm going to move this bird here directly within the scene. Now, this bird is using its own color palette, and keep in mind that you do have a way of changing color palette based on selections as you are generating more artwork, but we'll keep that for the next video, but for now, just keep in mind that you have control over the individual colors when you are generating assets, so that's really important for you guys to know. Now, there's one last thing I do want to do, and that is I would like to create a pattern that's going to go here on the left-hand side of this book proposition, so just imagine that the left-hand side is part of the inlay of my book and I just want to create a simple pattern on that left-hand side. So I'm going to go ahead here, I'm going to switch to pattern mode. And again, I have a couple of settings here. I can choose from various styles to change what the colors might look like. I can set color limitations to simplify the pattern. But for now, I'm just going to go ahead, click the X, and type in a different prompt. So I'm going to type in monkeys and jungle vines. I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to press Enter or Return to confirm. And now Firefly is going to create three seamless patterns that I can now directly use here inside of Adobe Illustrator. So let's give this a couple of seconds here. Look, there are the three monkey designs already. So I'm getting one, two, three designs, I'm going to try this one here, I'm going to click that. And it says new pattern added to swatches, which is great, so the moment you click that, it's actually adding that to your swatches. I'm going to go ahead and just create a rectangle using the rectangle tool. And as you look at this design, I do have monkeys. Let's go ahead here, let's try this one, let's try this one. Looks quite similar. I like the colors a little bit better. And there's another one here on the left-hand side that looks like this, I think I'm going to go for the last one, I think I'm going to go for this one here. And this is it, this is how simple it is to add these different versions and different types of artwork here directly into Adobe Illustrator. So again, simple example of how to add a scene, how to add a subject, and how to create a seamless pattern.