Adobe Firefly Custom Models: Training AI on My Photography Archive

I trained a custom model on my studio portraits, then generated new images of students.

I’ve struggled with Adobe Firefly’s base model—it doesn’t match my style. Custom models change that. I style trained one on 20 years of studio portraits from my photography archive.

As and Adobe GenAI VIP I have early access to Firefly Custom Models. I used about 30 images from various studio shoots with talent ranging in years, ethnicities and style.

I’ve created firefly models using both just student photographs as well as a mix of student and professionals and I do like the results from the greater mix of people. Interesting.

The images here are all just “out of generation” meaning I haven’t retouched them or any other post. It was fun to play with what words appear on the tee shirts. The process here is different than when I use Midjourney to generate talent as I did in this post. I’m looking forward to everything integrating.

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Okay, Unscripted! is written by Leah Fasten, a photographer and creative director based in San Francisco and New York.

“Okay, Unscripted” is Leah’s GenAI sketchbook and includes technical experiments, visual journal entries, and case studies. Unless named, all visual work on this site is made using GenAI. Words are written by Leah with SEO help from AI.

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