Automating Background Removal with Firefly Services / / No Comments As a quick FYI, if you would rather skip reading my text and jump to a video, I’ve got one at the end of this post. Be my guest to scroll down and watch that instead. One of the most interesting aspects of Adobe Firefly Services is what it enables in the automation space. I think it’s fair to say that these automations will still be followed up by a human checking, tweaking, and adjusting results, but if the APIs can save a significant amount of time, that’s got to be a great benefit. Let me demonstrate one simple example of this – removing background images at scale. The Remove Background API The Remove Background API is part of the Photoshop API family and handles the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, Background, Firefly, removal, Services
Automating Blog Post Headers with Firefly Services / / No Comments Yesterday I introduced you to Adobe’s new offering, Firefly Services, and demonstrated a simple example of how to generate images from prompt using the REST APIs. Today I thought I’d share one of the little demos I’ve made with the API, and one specifically built to help out with my blog – generating headers. My usual process for headers is to go to the Firefly website, enter a prompt, let it load, and then promptly change it to landscape and re-generate my prompt again. I always feel bad that the initial, square, images are essentially trashed. It occurred to me I could build a Node.js utility to generate the images at the exact right size and even quickly display them.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, blog, Firefly, Headers, Post, Services
Adobe Firefly in Beta / / No Comments I’m currently at Adobe Summit and this morning at the keynote we announced the beta of Adobe Firefly. Firefly is a generative AI service, which by itself isn’t new, but Firefly has a strong commitment to being a more responsible AI service. You can read more about that and Adobe Sensei here if you would like. As an Adobe employee, I’m obviously biased, but the focus on having a responsible service that respects creators feels like a pretty important differentiator. While there are a lot of good uses for this, I decided to have some fun with it and see how well it would do something business-critical… with cats. For my test, I looked up a list of Dungeons and Dragons classes... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adobe, Beta, Firefly