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Learn how to effortlessly import your Adobe Firefly generated assets straight into your InDesign layouts.

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Bring your AI-generated designs from Adobe Firefly into Adobe InDesign. With direct access to your complete Firefly generation history inside InDesign, you can save time, stay focused, and elevate your creative workflow

Select Firefly history to open the generation history
Select an asset from the Firefly generations history

  1. Open any InDesign document.

  2. Go to File > Place.

  3. Navigate to Firefly history   > Generation History and select any asset.

  4. Select Place. 

    • Click anywhere on the page to place the image in its original size.
    • Click and drag to create a custom-sized frame for the image.

    The Firefly asset is now placed in your InDesign document.

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