Rufus Deuchler

Director, Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelism and Community Advocacy | Adobe - 𝕏s are my own. #adobecadabra! Instagram: rufusd | INFP-A

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

Adobe Illustrator now has an Al assistant!

Designed to handle the tedious tasks and not the creative decisions, with lots of helpful suggested prompts inside to get you started.

Organization has never been a strength of mine, so I am happy to pass these tasks off to the assistant.

Available to test out in the latest beta.

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

Working on new ways of working in Adobe Firefly. This is going to be a smooth experience. Sign up for the private beta.

[Elise ✨ @Swopes]

After 15 years of workarounds, @AdobeFirefly’s new creative AI studio is something different. It’s actually keeping me inside the work.

Image, video, timeline, all in one flow. Finally feels made for creators like me. ❤️

Visit link for waitlist: https://t.co/x7u0XjaDLv

[Elise ✨ @Swopes]

After 15 years of workarounds, @AdobeFirefly’s new creative AI studio is something different. It’s actually keeping me inside the work.

Image, video, timeline, all in one flow. Finally feels made for creators like me. ❤️

Visit link for waitlist: https://t.co/x7u0XjaDLv

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

Working on a helpful resource for the Illustrator community inside Firefly Boards. It will be an ongoing database filled with tips, tricks, news and everything else to help you in your workflow.

It’s great to be able to link out to demo videos and other helpful resources all from the one document available in your browser.

Let me know if there are certain topics, processes etc that you want to see covered.

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

5 images. 2 videos. Every day. Free.

I made a brand new Adobe account today, no subscription, no card, to test what you actually get.

I used Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, Veo 3.1 Fast and Ray 3.14 for free.

That's 16 seconds of video a day. Most viral videos on X are under 15.

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

@velvetspectrum It was a very good sequel. I loved the grit of the original, though.

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

It’s the simple things about Firefly Boards which I enjoy the most. The Arrange features makes it so easy to build out mood boards for my personal artworks

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

People have been asking about the quality of the outputs with Concept-to-Vector in Illustrator. This is a close up look of tests I was running between it and Image Trace.

This is where generative AI pays off and creates clean, closed shapes with sharp lines and minimal points, making it easy for me to customize colors myself.

Curious what you think of this feature, and if you’re thinking of adding it in your workflow?

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

Illustrators Blend Tools gets its own dedicated panel!

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

How are creatives actually using AI in their work? @ericsnowden shares some data we gathered by interviewing thousands of creatives.
How do you use AI in *your* work?

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

The Adobe #99u Conference is about to start. Tune in here: https://t.co/f5v3PRDO2h

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

I played with Aleph 2 in Adobe Firefly. Thoughts:

Everyone is adding AI models. Adobe is building the creative environment around them.

GenFill, Precision Flow, Markup, Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, AI video editing models all in the same workflow.

That's the real advantage.

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

Concept-to-Vector just launched in #adobeillustrator. You can turn a sketch or low res image into clean, editable vector assets.

During the beta stage, most of the comments asked whether this could all be done with Image Trace, so I wanted to break down where I see the difference between the two, and why you might choose this in your workflow.

Image Trace is great when you have a great starting point, but if you want some extra help with rougher assets, then this is worth testing out.

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

Concept to Vector in Adobe Illustrator: a new way to visualize your ideas faster.

[Elise ✨ @Swopes]

The gap between a sketch and a finished piece has killed more ideas than I can count.

Concept to Vector in @Adobe Illustrator reads the structure underneath your sketch, cleans the noise, and hands you back something that actually gets what you were going for.

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

@icreatelife I drove there 😅

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

@TheW3storm There's an open commission on https://t.co/JOyztPZuPQ

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

The Photoshop (beta) splash screen now features art created by a community member. The project was completed as a commission for the Adobe Creative Apprenticeship program. We’ll continue sourcing candidates for future versions of the splash screen later this year. Are you next?

https://t.co/0TKRN2cedr

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

@Jmi3d2d That is great feedback. Thanks. I will share it with team.

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

https://t.co/JEvKI3Om5G

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

@mesh @fortelabs @BearNotesApp This! @BearNotesApp stuck with me as well