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**Adobe Firefly Custom Models: A New Dawn for Creators**
Adobe has unveiled a fresh function in Firefly, termed custom models, which enables creators to train a model to duplicate their distinct aesthetic. This feature, currently in public beta, empowers users to produce images that consistently represent their personal styles, whether in photography or illustration.
### Adobe Firefly Can Now Adapt to Your Style
The custom models function allows creators, brands, and general users to train the Firefly model to conform to their unique illustration and photographic styles. This includes preserving consistent elements such as stroke weight, color schemes, lighting, and character traits across various images. According to Adobe, this upgrade enables creators to generate new concepts that resonate with their aesthetic, reuse the model across multiple projects, and create work at scale while maintaining their unique style.
The beta functionality is accessible only to premium subscribers, with each training session costing 500 credits from the user’s monthly generative balance.
### Training Techniques
Adobe provides three distinct training techniques for custom models:
1. **Photography Style**: Users can educate the model on a particular appearance, concentrating on lighting, color, and mood to produce new shots that retain the same visual atmosphere.
2. **Illustration Style**: This technique permits creators to generate new illustrations that embody their signature look.
3. **Characters**: Users can formulate consistent character portrayals across various scenes and narratives.
To train a model, users must provide between 10 and 30 JPG or PNG images with a minimum resolution of 1024×1024, ensuring a uniform aspect ratio (up to 16:9 landscape or 9:16 portrait). Adobe suggests uploading images with a harmonious style and color palette while avoiding low-resolution or blurry images for the best outcomes.
### Project Moonlight
Alongside custom models, Adobe has launched Project Moonlight, currently in private beta. This feature provides a conversational interface that lets users explain their desired outcomes in a chat format, as opposed to using a conventional prompt box. The AI assistants will be embedded across Adobe products, including Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat, enabling users to realize their vision using Adobe’s tools with real-time modifications.
### Expanded Access to Models
Adobe Firefly now grants access to over 30 leading AI image and video models, including Google’s Nano Banana 2 and Veo 3.1, along with Runway’s Gen-4.5 and Adobe’s Firefly Image Model 5. This expansion comes at an opportune moment, as Adobe continues to offer unlimited video and image generation through April 22.
### Conclusion
With the launch of custom models and the growth of Project Moonlight, Adobe is profoundly enhancing the creative capabilities of its users. These advancements not only streamline the creative journey but also ensure that individual styles are upheld and celebrated in the digital landscape. For those keen on exploring these features, additional information and guides are available on Adobe’s official website.
