What it is
Adobe Firefly is Adobe's AI image generation model, integrated directly into Photoshop, Illustrator, and the standalone Firefly web app. Firefly is trained exclusively on licensed and public domain content (Adobe Stock, openly licensed works, and public domain material), making its output commercially safe for business use without copyright concerns. Features include text-to-image generation, generative fill, text effects, and style transfer.
Why we picked this
Commercial safety is Firefly's killer feature. While Midjourney and other generators face ongoing legal uncertainty about training data, Firefly's training provenance means generated images can be used in commercial projects, client work, and products without the copyright risk. For businesses, agencies, and professional creators, this legal clarity is worth the trade-off in raw creative quality. The Photoshop integration (generative fill, expand) is also the most practical AI image tool in daily design workflows.
Key takeaways
- Trained exclusively on licensed Adobe Stock, public domain, and openly licensed content, providing commercial use rights that other generators cannot guarantee.
- Integrated directly into Photoshop (generative fill, expand, remove) and Illustrator (vector generation), making AI a native part of existing design workflows.
- Adobe's Content Credentials system attaches provenance metadata to generated images, supporting transparency about AI involvement in creative work.