Adobe Firefly didn't arrive in a vacuum. By the time it showed up inside Photoshop and Illustrator, tools like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion had already proved one thing: you could turn plain text into visuals that were good enough to influence real client work. Firefly's big difference is where it lives. Instead of being "another app," it's baked into the tools many designers already use every day, which makes experimenting feel less like a separate workflow and more like a natural extension of the creative process.

