Adobe Launches Firefly Image 3 Beta With Auto Stylisation, Structure Reference Capabilities

Adobe officially released the beta version of the Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model during the company’s Creativity Conference on Tuesday.

Firefly Image 3 is the latest addition to Adobe’s creative generative AI models, with several new features added. Most interesting of these is the ability for users to have more power over personalisation with auto stylisation capabilities as well as the ability to reference style and structure.

“Structure Reference enables users to easily apply the structure of an existing image to newly generated images. You can now use an existing image as a structural reference template and generate multiple image variations with the same layout,” the company said.

Similarly, the style reference feature allows users to upload style preferences and generate images based on them. 

Apart from this, Firefly boasts higher quality image generation with more variety, as the newer model relies on a new style engine: “Image outputs include new varieties of styles, colours, backgrounds, subject poses and more.”

With Firefly’s launch early last year, the model was criticised for barely being on par with other generative models on the market like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. However, with the introduction of its structure reference ability, Firefly seems to be fast catching up to its competitors.

This is also compounded by the ease of access afforded to users who use Adobe for work and personal use.

“Firefly has been used to generate over 7 billion images worldwide since its initial debut in March 2023. Adobe built it for direct integration into workflows Adobe customers use every day, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Substance 3D and now Adobe InDesign,” the company said.

Currently, the latest version of Firefly is available for beta testing in Photoshop and the Firefly web app. As is the case with all Firefly models, the company has also ensured that Content Credentials are automatically attached to every image.

Adobe has also stated that the models are trained on only licensed content, including Adobe Stock, to avoid issues surrounding copyright infringement.