Gabi C. Duncombe

I recently found a pic on my phone of my newborn daughter holding my finger. It made me think - everyone loves to joke about how "AI can't do hands", but I didn't think that was true anymore. So I challenged myself to create an AI film using ONLY shots of hands.

A few months ago, my daughter told me about her dream one morning... a tale of friendship, monsters, treasure, and the great outdoors 🏕️ So I turned it into a short film with AI. Here's how 👇 Recorded her story on my phone → used ChatGPT to build a visual prompt template → Google Imagen 4 + Gemini 2.5 Flash for frames via @AdobeFirefly, with Veo 3 for video → Premiere Pro to assemble → sound design with Veo 3 audio + Adobe Firefly Sound Effects Side note: looking back on these older projects, it's wild to see how much the tech has evolved over just a few months!

Follow up on yesterday's equirectangular experiments… it works with video too! 🎥 Workflow: → GPT Image 2.0 in @AdobeFirefly Boards to create an equirectangular panorama → Luma Ray 3.14 to create a looping video (same start/end frame) → Quick Claude Code prompt to add looping video support in my viewer Result: Interactive video 💥

Been exploring a weird idea... what if the degrees in a 360° image meant something beyond just direction? I used GPT Image 2.0 inside @AdobeFirefly Boards to generate equirectangular panoramas where rotating isn't just looking around, it's moving through time. Then used Claude Code to spin up a viewer in minutes to actually experience it!

@designertom @Wattenberger @_jshmllr One of my top reads of the last 2 years! I’ve sent this to sooo many people

THIS IS HOW YOU TELL A STORY 👏 An absolute banger by @Wattenberger * with compliments to @_jshmllr for putting me on game.

Building niche tools as a designer is so fun. Made an internal asset generator for our filmmaking incubation group at Adobe, then used AI to code a video showcasing it... which is blowing my mind.

Precision Flow (beta) punches above its weight, turning your edit input into a sliding scale of options. 🏋️ Try it today in Adobe Firefly!

So happy to get this into everyone’s hands. This was a monumental effort from our team, with a ton of innovative design work!

New color correction era loading. ⏳ Now live in #Premiere (beta), Color Mode reinvents how video editors think about and action on grades - from Heads Up Displays offering dynamic visibility into your modifications to Bi-directional Controls, maximizing efficiency and accuracy. Download the beta to usher in the future of color grading today. Learn more: adobe.ly/42dat0o

Had way too much fun making this video! Precision Flow is now in @AdobeFirefly, letting you control exactly how much of an edit you want. Dial it up, dial it back. Can't wait to see what people create with this powerfully strong feature 💪

{ "prompt": "A single piece of grey lint. One piece. Resting on a pure white background with the quiet resignation of something that was never meant to be seen. The lint is grey — the grey of accumulated nothing, of fabric slowly forgetting itself. It is small, irregular, and slightly fluffy, a loose tangle of microscopic fibres that came from something — a sweater, a sock, a jacket lining — but that thing is gone now and the lint has moved on, or rather has not moved at all because it is very light and just sitting there. It has no defined shape. It is roughly ovoid in the loosest possible interpretation of that word. It is three-dimensional in the way that a cloud is three-dimensional — technically, but barely. One edge lifts very slightly off the surface, suggesting either a faint draft or a small ambition.", "lighting": { "type": "soft diffused studio light", "shadows": "almost none, the lint is too soft and too inconsequential to cast a real shadow", "highlights": "a few individual fibres catch the light and briefly matter" }, "composition": { "subject": "the lint", "background": "white, against which the lint is at least visible, barely", "negative_space": "enormous, the lint does not fill it", "focal_point": "the edge that lifts slightly. that is the most interesting part. that is all." }, "style": { "genre": "macro photography of something found on a dryer screen", "mood": "formless, grey, faintly warm from the dryer it came from", "vibe": "it was part of something once. it is not anymore." }, "technical": { "resolution": "maximum, individual fibres visible", "background": "#FFFFFF" }, "negative_prompt": "A dryer. A lint trap. Other lint. Fabric. Clothing. Context. Purpose. Identity." }

I think I'm getting the hang of prompt engineering! { "prompt": "White. Pure, unyielding white. Not off-white. Not cream. Not eggshell. Not ivory. Not pearl. Not alabaster. Not snow white — actual white. The whitest white that has ever whitened. A white so white it makes other whites feel inadequate.", "color_palette": { "primary": "#FFFFFF", "secondary": "#FFFFFF", "accent": "#FFFFFF", "background": "#FFFFFF", "other_colors": "#FFFFFF — no." }, "composition": { "left": "white", "right": "white", "top": "white", "bottom": "white", "center": "white, but spiritually more white", "corners": ["white","white","white","white"] }, "lighting": { "type": "white light on white", "shadows": "white shadows, which is just more white", "god_rays": "white rays upon white, divine confirmation" }, "texture": { "surface": "smooth white", "noise": "white noise, visually speaking" }, "style": { "art_movement": "Post-Post-Minimalism, aka 'just white'", "influences": ["Malevich's White on White, but more so", "an overexposed photograph"], "mood": "profoundly and existentially white", "vibe": "incredibly white" }, "technical": { "color_space": "sRGB, all values 255,255,255", "HDR": true, "HDR_note": "so the whites are even more luminously white", "compression": "lossless, we cannot lose a single shade of white" }, "negative_prompt": "Anything not white. Color. Hue. Saturation. Grey. Black. Beige. Gradients unless white-to-white. People, animals, text, watermarks, bokeh — anything your AI brain might sneak in. I will notice.", "notes": "I know you can render photorealistic scenes of extraordinary complexity. I am asking for a white rectangle. You are doing great. Make it white." }

We live in an era where the job title matters less and less in tech — just do whatever gets shit done.

Someone on LinkedIn asked if Precision Flow could be used to test out different hair styles and colors. Not too shabby!

Change any image by annotating and drawing on it! Also turn a prompt into a slider to dial in exactly what you want (Precision Flow). Pretty cool control now in #AdobeFirefly

Had a blast working on this feature!

Your vision, just how you imagine it. 🙌 Gone are the days of generating images that are "close enough." With two new features now live in Adobe Firefly, you can refine your outputs on the micro level. Precision Flow generates a range of images from one prompt—so “add trees” shows you everything from a few trees to a full forest—letting you pick the result that matches your vision. And with AI Markup, you can annotate your image, pinpointing exactly where and what changes you want. Read more: adobe.ly/4tAtMwr

@shashwth This is so fun

spatial scrubbing. quick studies with x-code + antigravity

@AdobeFirefly Read more here! blog.adobe.com/en/publish/202…

Week one on @AdobeFirefly and first feature shipped 🚀 Meet Precision Flow, a slider to dial in exactly how much of an AI edit you want. Too much? Back it off. Not enough? push it further. Prompt tug-of-war is over!