Comment by LogicFailsMe
10 days ago
No, but this is the beginning of a new generation of tools to accelerate productivity. What surprises me is that the AI companies are not market savvy enough to build those tools yet. Adobe seems to have gotten the memo though.
In testing some local image gen software, it takes about 10 seconds to generate a high quality image on my relatively old computer. I have no idea the latency on a current high end computer, but I expect it's probably near instantaneous.
Right now though the software for local generation is horrible. It's a mish-mash of open source stuff with varying compatibility loaded with casually excessive use of vernacular and acronyms. To say nothing of the awkwardness of it mostly being done in python scripts.
But once it gets inevitably cleaned up, I expect people in the future are going to take being able to generate unlimited, near instantaneous images, locally, for free, for granted.
Did you test some local image gen software in that you installed the Python code on the github page for a local model, which is clearly a LOT for a normal user... or did you look at ComfyUI, which is how most people are running local video and image models? There are "just install this" versions, which eases the path for users (but it's still, admittedly, chaos beneath the surface).
Interesting you say that. No I've tried out Invoke and AUTOMATIC1111/WebUI. I specifically avoided ComfyUI because of my inexperience in this and the fact that people described it as a much more advanced system with manual wiring of the pipeline and so on.
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> Adobe seems to have gotten the memo though.
So far Adobe AI tools are pretty useless, according to many professional illustrators. With Firefly you can use other (non-Adobe) image generators. The output is usually barely usable at this point in time.
I heard it’s useful for non illustrators? Surely those non professionals will pay for Adobe software.
I've been waiting for solutions that integrate into the artistic process instead of replacing it. Right now a lot of the focus is on generating a complete image, but if I was in photoshop (or another editor) and could use AI tooling to create layers and other modifications that fit into a workflow, that would help with consistency and productivity.
I haven't seen the latest from adobe over the last three months, but last I saw the firefly engine was still focused on "magically" creating complete elements.
DxO PureRaw & Topaz for photography are both "AI" tools that integrate into the workflow. Mostly for denoising & sharpening photographs.