After the first day of black hole art with GPT-Image-1.5 (which includes the original image), and the second day with Nano Banana Pro, it was time to try other image generation options in Adobe Firefly.

Firefly 5 Preview

Adobe’s in-house option didn’t change the first image much:

The second round with Firefly 5 Preview resulted in accursed eyes that convinced me to stop:

Flux 2 Pro

Next, I gave Flux a chance, wondering what an image-centered model (besides Adobe, which was revealing, based on the eye ring, that their strength might lie in photography) would look like…

And the first iteration was uniquely beautiful, which is all anyone could really ask for:

The next one didn’t have much deviation though, so that’s where I stopped (also, the signature in the corner is odd?):

Grok Imagine

I love Grok Imagine and have relied on this engine to animate photos.

Yet I had a harder time asking for an image to be remade into another image:

Like Firefly 5 Preview, the eye felt too photographic—although, Grok Imagine did better at blending the eye to the watercolor style.

Since Grok Imagine is one of my favorites for creating images, I don’t need remixing or editing skills to be over-the-top.