AI tools are built into every Adobe product. Since the integration of Adobe Firefly into Adobe's products, there have been constant questions whether Adobe will train its AI on your contentbut rest assured: When your children use Adobe's AI tools, their content is protected from training, tracking, and explicit AI generation. Creative AI tools can be a fun way to spend time with your children or allow them to play safely and independently with new and upcoming technologies. These 6 Adobe AI projects alone offer great ways to entertain children.
6 Add monsters to photos
Mix childish fantasy with reality
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They don't necessarily have to be monsters, but with Photoshop's great generative fill toolyour children can make their imagination come true. What better way to do this than inserting creatures that don't exist into photos? Your kids can take them for show and tell and convince their friends that they met the Loch Ness Monster while on vacation in Scotland.
Photoshop's desktop app, Photoshop on the weband Adobe Express (the free versions and premium plans) are Adobe apps that offer generative fill options that let you draw a selection and fill it with whatever you want to see. The intelligence of the AI ​​naturally inserts your generated mythical animal into photos. The traditional editing tools in Photoshop or Express can also be used to further blend it into your image.
For even more fun for your kids, print out the photos and frame them to make them look more realistic.
5 Illustrate stories with vector generations
Story creators can add their own images
Many children like to make up their own stories. While neither Adobe's AI nor traditional features focus on writing stories, you can use Illustrator's vector generator or one of the programs' image generators to illustrate your children's stories.
It's difficult to recreate the same character over and over again with AI generators, but in Adobe Illustrator you can generate a vector and then use the AI ​​Puppet Warp tool to edit duplicates of the character in different poses. You can use traditional layout tools to design a storybook using Adobe InDesign or Illustrator. InDesign offers AI tools to do everything in one program, such as: B. Text-to-image generators and content-aware customization to ensure your story's text accurately matches the images you add.
This use of AI is better suited for older children or teens, but it's a great skill to learn for future book publishers in your household.
4 Turn pencil drawings into generated scenes
Sketches as a reference for beautiful pictures
In Adobe Express – and similarly but differently in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator – when using the text-to-image generator, you can also provide reference images to inform your generated results.
The best use for reference images to generate an AI image is when your child has drawn or sketched something from their imagination on paper. This could be an imaginary creature, or it could be a cityscape with skyscrapers and a large tree. A child's sketch often lacks precise detail or perhaps artistic skill, but never imagination.
Take a photo of your child's sketched drawing and then upload it for reference before entering a prompt about what your child's drawing is about. Adobe's AI Composition reference tool uses the shapes found in the original image to guide the AI-generated image. For example, a sketch of a building with a tall steeple and the prompt that it is a church results in a generated church in the shape of the original drawing, but modified for realistic accuracy.
To use this feature in Adobe Express, when generating an image, use the Style option to upload a style reference, such as: E.g. color schemes or art styles. Then, in the composition uploader, upload your child's sketch or drawing and Firefly's AI will reference the structure of the drawing and apply the style along with the text prompt.
3 Create 3D text in any texture
Bubble text of your child's imagination
Many kids enjoy writing bubble text in a 3D style, and with Adobe Express's 3D Text Effects AI tool, they – or you – can transform any text and font into any 3D texture and style.
This tool is great for children as it allows them to increase their creativity in writing. Your child can use text effect generation for many things: greeting card designs to print at home or at a print shop, door signs or text-based posters to personalize their bedroom, or simply as inspiration references from which they can draw to improve their art skills.
2 Animate live moving characters
AI animation tools for kids
Adobe offers some great video and animation tools in both Premiere Pro and After Effects, but these programs are complex to learn and not ideal for children. But Adobe offers two great animation tools with AI features that are easy and fun for kids to learn: Adobe Animate and Adobe Character Animator.
These are some of Adobe's free apps (although there's also a Pro upgrade for more features), so kids can have fun with live motion tracking so their bodies can animate the characters they choose. They can also animate static objects and turn everyday fruits – or anything else they can photograph – into fun animated characters. Kids can choose from existing characters in the library to animate, or use Adobe Animate's Puppet Maker tool to create a puppet character before animating it.
1 Create coloring pages
Personalized coloring pages to print at home
In Adobe Express, you can use the Adobe Firefly text-to-image generator to create line drawings of any illustration your child wants to color. There is also an add-on feature called ColoringBook that delivers the same results but is not a native Adobe AI tool.
You can be as detailed or vague as you like with the text prompt, and once it is generated you can also add and color any other elements such as text or other graphical elements for decoration around the main topic.
This feature is great for kids of all ages – and adults too, given how relaxing coloring can be – to help them get more engaged with what they want to color. You don't have to buy expensive or uninteresting coloring books; Instead, your child can be part of the creative process from start to finish.
Adobe AI tools aren't just for adults
Whether you use Adobe with one of its free tools or a free trial, or you're already subscribed to a Creative Cloud plan, there are many ways to use your Adobe programs to entertain – and educate – your children. With Firefly and Sensei's AI tools built into most Adobe programs, your kids can have a lot of fun while learning new skills and doing something productive that they can share with the whole family. For children in schools, Adobe Express offers a free education license for K-12 school settings, so children can access fun AI tools at home and at school at the same time.
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Adobe Express
Adobe Express is a browser-based tool and mobile app with free and premium features for graphic design, creative AI, and video
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