Adobe Firefly / Summer of Boards

Creative direction,
frame by frame.

Adobe Firefly · Visual Communication · 2026

Adobe Firefly Summer of Boards project cover

Project Overview

Project Overview

Commissioned through Adobe’s Creative Apprenticeship program for Summer of Boards, this visual story follows the creative-direction process behind a speculative product photography campaign. The carousel documents how mood, color, light, and composition came together to shape a cohesive final world.

The creative direction carousel

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Finding the atmosphere

A focused palette and direction for light gave the imagined product world its sense of place.

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From experiments to a final frame

The strongest visual decisions were refined into a precise sequence of final compositions.

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