This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
About generative credits
Generative AI requires significant computing power. Sometimes it can all be done on your computer. Other times, the fastest way to generate the results is for Photoshop to send the prompt and image to Adobe Firefly on a Creative Cloud server where the results are generated using a much more powerful computer, and then on your computer, Photoshop receives the results and integrates them with your Photoshop document.
It takes a lot of cloud computing power to run generative AI, so Adobe came up with a system to manage server usage called Generative Credits. Creative Cloud members receive a certain number of Generative Credits every month. The number of credits you get depends on the Creative Cloud plan used by you or your school or organization. If you run out of Generative Credits before the end of a month, you can continue to use Generative Fill, but it may run more slowly because your jobs will have a lower priority. If you need to restore performance priority, it’s possible to purchase more credits. For more information, including how to see the number of generative credits you have in the current month, see helpx.adobe.com/firefly/using/generative-credits-faq.html.
Adobe continues to work out how to best provide generative AI services, so Generative Credits policies may change or improve over time.
SAVE TIME WITH GENERATIVE WORKSPACE
Choose Edit > Generative Workspace to open a dialog box that offers a more efficient, streamlined way to create the images you want.
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Check your work. Generative Workspace remembers your prompts and results on a timeline, so if you want to better understand how you created a certain set of images, you can roll back the timeline to take a closer look at what you entered and how you refined it.
Generate in parallel. You can quickly generate different sets of variations in parallel. Instead of waiting for the results of a prompt before trying another prompt, you can apply multiple prompts, and each set of variations appears in the timeline when they’re ready.
Generate specific variations in a single prompt. If you want to see slight variations on a prompt, you can type variables within brackets, separated by commas. For example, you could enter “breakfast [sausage, vegetarian, oatmeal, pancakes]” and Firefly will generate four breakfasts modified by each of the variables.
Easily open variations as documents or add to open documents. If you hover the pointer over a variation, a check box appears. Click the check box to select that variation. When at least one check box is selected, a Contextual Task Bar appears. Click Open to open the variation as a new Photoshop document, or click Add To to add the variation to an open Photoshop document as a layer.
Edit the timeline. Other buttons on the Contextual Task Bar, or that appear on a variation when you hover over it, offer other options such as liking, downloading, or deleting an image. A filter icon at the top lets you constrain the list to certain criteria; for example, you can filter the timeline to show you only images you liked.
