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FRNCH/WGS 3000F French Fairy Tale Princesses

A course guide for FRNCH/WGS 3000F: French Fairy Tale Princesses

Using Adobe Express for the First Time

Start at new.express.adobe.com/.

Pick Get Adobe Express Free, Sign in, or Account.

Log in with your ISU credentials.

Create a New Image File

Start a new file with Plus sign in blue circle.  This creates a page that can contain one image, or any mix of images and text.

Pick your page dimensions; basic choices are square, landscape, and portrait.

You'll see your blank page and a menu of options for adding content.

Plan Your Image Layers

Generating an Adobe Express illustration with a single AI prompt can be frustrating! Save time and give yourself more control by planning your image as a combination of several layers.

For example, the complex single prompt

A swordfight between a princess wearing trousers and a baker wielding a baguette; setting is a castle hallway.

gave this as the best result:

sword versus bread fight, AI image not matching its prompt

At least someone is wearing trousers and someone has a baguette, but the details are all wrong.

But I can set the princess, the baker, and the hallway in separate layers and combine them.

For the princess: A princess wearing trousers and brandishing a sword, side view; medieval Europe

AI image of a princess holding a sword

For the baker: A baker holding a baguette like a sword, full length side view; medieval Europe

AI image of a baker holding a huge baguette

And for the castle hallway: A castle hallway

a castle hallway

Then I removed the backgrounds behind the princess and baker, erased a few unwanted sections, flipped the baker image so he faced the other way, combined the layers, and adjusted layer sizes and lighting to get this result:

sword versus bread fight that was AI generated

Still room for improvement, but I have all the key components I wanted showing in the image.