Creating your very first text prompt - Firefly Tutorial

- [Instructor] Now let's start by adding something that's very simple. So, make sure you are clicking inside of the prompt command box and let's type in something to start with. I'm going to type in a dog reading a book, I'll hit Enter or Return to confirm, and while the results are loading, let me tell you now that we're getting four results and not just one single result. And that is just Firefly's default behavior. With every prompt that you type in, you're getting four results for the price of one. Now you might remember the generative credit system I explained to you before. Well, this is only consuming a single credit, and while you're still getting four results, which I think is a pretty good deal. Now, let's take a look at some of the results here. There's a couple things I do want to point out. First of all, I'm getting four square results and the reason this is happening is because here on the left-hand side, by default, the aspect ratio is set to square. Now, you have more options available here and we'll change that in just a few minutes. Now if you look at these results you have here, you can actually click the one you like best. Let's click the first one here on the top left, and then you can see a larger version of that result. You can even use the left or right pointing arrows to go through the other results, or press the left or right arrows on the keyboard to navigate through these different results I have here. Now, keep in mind that you will see different results than what I see on my screen, and that's because with every prompt that you type in, there's a certain randomness factor that's being added to the prompt itself, which means that you can not really create the same image twice. Well, in theory it's possible, but you're just as lucky to win the lottery while getting eaten by a shark probably. But, anyway, keep in mind that you have a unique result, which means that if you are fearful of losing that result for whatever reason, for example, you close your browser, you can always just hover over any of these results here and then choose to click the star icon to add that to your personal gallery of favorite images. Or you can down the image by clicking the download option, or you can click the export option here to copy the link to save that as a backup, or share this with other people, or copy the image into Photoshop, save it to a library to bring it into the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. You have a lot of different options. The left-hand side, you can even choose to take this image deeper into Adobe Firefly by choosing any of these options, or take this image out of Firefly and into Adobe Express by adding text, shapes and converting this to a social media post. Now, you can also give Adobe feedback around the results that you see on screen. If you like the results, you can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down, or you can click the report option if you do think that this might be harmful or offensive content to you, add a note to help Adobe understand what is wrong with the result, and then click the Submit Report option to help fine-tune the Adobe Firefly algorithm. I'll choose Cancel for now, and I'm going to go ahead and just click the Close button here to go back to the Main options. Let's make a few changes. First of all, I want to change the aspect ratio. To do this, simply click the Square option we have here under Aspect Ratio, and then switch this to something that you want to change, for example, Landscape. And notice that absolutely nothing happens. So, how this works is the following, you go in and you change your settings on the left-hand side, for example, you can change the Aspect Ratio, or any of these other options you have available on the left-hand side. And then you simply go back and click the Generate option again to have Firefly reinterpret the prompt, together with your updated settings. In this case, I want to create landscape images. Now this also means because of that randomness factor, that I'm getting different results than what I had before. So it's not really expanding the existing images, it is just merely trying to give you a new version of the prompt, but in a landscape orientation. Let's make a few changes to the prompt itself. A dog reading a book is a bit, you know, it's a bit generic, so there's a lot of room for interpretation. I seem to be getting a lot of Christmas-themed images for whatever reason, and I have another versions here where the dog is not, you know, at a table, but it's mainly sitting on the floor, I guess. Let's change a couple things. For example, let's update the prompt to the following, a dog reading a book while sitting at a desk by, let's try this, a desk by candle light, comma space, while wearing glasses comma space with a library of books visible in the background. Now let's hits Enter or Return to confirm, and let's see what we get as a result. Now, what I've done is I have been very specific with Firefly, and that's exactly how you start to build a really good prompt. So, what I've now described is I have a subject, which is a dog, I have an activity, he's reading a book, I have a location, he's sitting on a desk, and I have circumstances because it is by candlelight and he's wearing glasses. And then something that a lot of people seem to forget about, it's the background. Where is this happening? Well, it's happening in a location where there is a library of books visible in the background. Now, I can add additional elements to this prompt. For example, I can say that this should be a a closeup shot, or this should be shot from above, or this should be a wide-angle shot. Or I can add different other themes to the prompt itself. Or you can even add different things, for example, you can say that something is exciting or cozy or mysterious. And so you can add these different aspects to your prompt where you're not really explaining what that is, like, what does mysterious look like? So you're giving Firefly room for interpretation, and that's where things get really, really interesting. But for now, I got to say, I end up here with four very, very smart dogs. I mean, look at these guys. So, these guys have been studying all night by candlelight. They have to go through all these books here, I really feel for them, but I really have the image I'm looking for. And you can always go back and help refine that prompt specifically. So you can kind of call going back to the prompt, something like prompt sculpting or something. It's like, you know, while you're acting like a sculptor, you could basically go back and you change more details until what you think the end result should be is finally revealed. So, these are just a couple of tips on prompting, there are more tips to come in the next couple of videos.