Canva
Drag-and-drop design suite with AI generation built in
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Adobe Firefly
Adobe's commercially safe generator inside Photoshop and Express
Firefly is trained on licensed and public-domain content, which is why agencies use it when legal sign-off matters. It powers Generative Fill in Photoshop and now offers third-party models in the Firefly app alongside Adobe's own image and video models.
Best for: commercial work needing indemnified output
What works
- Content credentials and commercial indemnity
- Deep Photoshop and Illustrator integration
- Access to partner models in one app
What to know
- Credit limits on heavy video use
- Raw image quality is behind Midjourney
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